{"id":49260,"date":"2025-03-13T03:08:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=49260"},"modified":"2025-05-29T05:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:23:19","slug":"the-color-of-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/the-color-of-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Color of Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49261 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chimerical-color-demo.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"206\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a whiteness beyond anything earthly I had ever seen; nor do I believe that any earthly thing could be made to appear so exceedingly white and brilliant.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The visit of Moroni to Joseph Smith provided one of those so-rare glimpses into the aetherial beyond when Joseph Smith tried to describe Moroni with the quote above, and I\u2019ve always been a little curious about what it could have meant exactly. So, for your occasional dose of a harmless but not very useful mystery speculation, two possibilities if we assume the validity of the claim:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was describing something that we\u2019d see today in a special effects studio. The kind of brilliant shiny white we sometimes see in movies isn\u2019t something that would be producible with the resources of 19th century upstate New York farmer, and would fit Joseph Smith\u2019s description.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He experienced what is called an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Impossible_color\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">impossible color<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. These are colors that human beings are not typically capable of seeing and have no first person experience with. There is a history of speculation about this kind of thing, with one of the earliest American science fiction short stories (\u201cThe Damned Thing\u201d) involving a fight with a monster that is an unseeable color. In a sense I suppose anything not on the color spectrum fits this bill (e.g. ultraviolet), but it&#8217;s actually possible to induce eye fatigue in such a way that you can see \u201cimpossible colors,\u201d more specifically self-luminous and \u201chyperbolic colors\u201d that are, for example, more orange than the purest traditional orange. (See link above for details). If God can see across the the entire electromagnetic spectrum (and who knows, maybe into other spectrums, electromagnetism is only one of four known forces in the universe after all) in the same way we have the subjective internal experience of green, then a God\u2019s-eye view is more colorful, beautiful, and dynamic than we can literally comprehend.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note: The name of the blogpost is plagiarized from the title of the moving film by Iranian director <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Majid Majidi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It has little to do with the OP, but IMHO it is one of the greatest religious films ever and you should all go see it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a whiteness beyond anything earthly I had ever seen; nor do I believe that any earthly thing could be made to appear so exceedingly white and brilliant. The visit of Moroni to Joseph Smith provided one of those so-rare glimpses into the aetherial beyond when Joseph Smith tried to describe Moroni with the quote above, and I\u2019ve always been a little curious about what it could have meant exactly. So, for your occasional dose of a harmless but not very useful mystery speculation, two possibilities if we assume the validity of the claim:\u00a0 He was describing something that we\u2019d see today in a special effects studio. The kind of brilliant shiny white we sometimes see in movies isn\u2019t something that would be producible with the resources of 19th century upstate New York farmer, and would fit Joseph Smith\u2019s description.\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; He experienced what is called an impossible color. These are colors that human beings are not typically capable of seeing and have no first person experience with. There is a history of speculation about this kind of thing, with one of the earliest American science fiction short stories (\u201cThe Damned Thing\u201d) involving a fight with a monster that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10403,"featured_media":49261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chimerical-color-demo.svg_.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49260"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49325,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49260\/revisions\/49325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}