I want to apologize to you, Bloom; I realized when I was rereading that I sounded harsh and perhaps critical of you. I didn't mean to word it that way. You can see it as gray, that is how you see it and your choice of perception is not open to criticism or judgement by me, because it's about you. I like your explanation of shades of gray, that is one way I see continuums and I guess I see true to false as a continuum.

I believe opinions, situational things, personal preference, and personal belief are all somewhat the same and equally true/false. If you believe you are underwater, for you, you are underwater and since it's about you, that's all that matters. However, if you think you are underwater and you don't like it there, don't think you can breathe, then those who see something else, hopefully, will try to help you out so you can see things differently. However, if you're swimming through life (sorry, had to do that pun :-) in your underwater self and doing fine by you and not hurting me, then who am I to interfere?

In "truth" the sky is not blue, it is various bends in light, atmosphere, etc. (I learned "why" it looks blue when I took astronomy but have since forgotten :-) that makes it appear blue to most people but it's no different in color than any other part of space (so, "black"), it's just our atmosphere is doing tricks. I think that's most of what we perceive, and why there are so many opinions about everything and no "truth" that everyone accepts; human perception, thought, and even what we're trying to perceive isn't "static" but alive and changing all the time. The minute we say, "this is IT" guess what? It isn't anymore.

I don't believe we can know absolute Truth, we can just know what "works for us" as individuals and various groups we're part of and often, it only works for us for a particular period of time. However, we can believe we can know absolute Truth and guide our lives by that belief and that seems like a good idea to me, as long as we're constantly searching and testing what we believe we believe :-) and don't find "IT" and stop. Can't stop; Life is not controllable in that way.

I have never thought what "color" opinions might be, haven't ever looked at them from that perspective but kind of like Pachy's colors of the rainbow. In that case, I'd like most of my opinions to be colored green please! (My favorite color).