What do YOU think of when.......

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   gmwilliamsposted 8 years ago

   
   you hear the phrase blacker than the blackest black beyond infinity and imagination?  What images COME to mind?

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      goatfuryposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Well, there's no such thing as "beyond infinity", but I might think of the deep voids between galaxy clusters.  That's certainly beyond our imagination as humans.

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         gmwilliamsposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         Beyond infinity was used metaphorically and figuratively.  I meant to the most extreme degree.  By the way, your response is good.

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            goatfuryposted 8 years agoin reply to this

            Yeah, I know.  I guess it's like a pet peeve, like when people say "literally" when they really don't mean it.  Is this for a writing project, or just for fun?

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               gmwilliamsposted 8 years agoin reply to this

               For fun, it's just a word game.  I LOVE word games.

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      kenneth averyposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Tranquility

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      Sed-meposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      I think to myself, I must surely be on one of GM's threads.

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      Deborah Sextonposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Ain Soph-Nothingness

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   Revanth E Rposted 8 years ago

   Black

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   colorfuloneposted 8 years ago

   I think of the black hole where things must be put for safe keeping, never to be found again. I know the black hole exists, but it cannot be seen. Perhaps this one I speak of is in a wall?

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   firstdayposted 8 years ago

   Infinity and beyond, in that order, makes me think of "Toy Story", such a cute movie.

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   gmwilliamsposted 8 years ago

   Negative-A hell beyond imagining.  Unredeemable and unforgivable evil.  Total abject despair and hopelessness.  Excruciating agony beyond imagination and description.  The 10th circle of hell. Utter desolation and bleakness.
   
   Positive-The beginning of the beginning. Dark sumptuousness. Soft, delicious cotton velvet. Luxuriant mink. African beauty/ handsomeness. The Mother/Father of all cultures and civilizations.  Sensuousness beyond compare.  Dark, moonless nights.

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   handymanbillposted 8 years ago

   I think of the movie Toy Story "Infinity and Beyond"

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   jansharesposted 8 years ago

   Outer space.

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   amiebutchkoposted 8 years ago

   I simply think, blackest black mascara.

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      gmwilliamsposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      A black so black that one cannot see his/her shadow............very PITCH black............

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   Kylyssaposted 8 years ago

   I think of Attack the Block, carbon nanotubes, and Buckyballs.
   
   Actually, I went into my bathroom (an interior room without windows) and closed my eyes a few weeks ago.  Then I pulled out my phone and drew an image on its tiny screen based on shapes my mind's eye saw in the pitch blackness.
   
   I overlaid about a hundred images drawn lightly with my pinky fingernail and added in some random scribbles in black on top of them.  I think it turned out kind of interesting.  It reminds me of seeing shapes and faces in cracks in the wall.  Rotate the image to see more things popping out of the darkness in it.
   
   
   
   
   Yes, there are some outlines of nude women in there but they have no real details to them, they are just full of squiggly lines inside partial outlines, mostly just bits of other images.  There are only actual details of some of the faces and those are still incredibly vague. There are a lot of faces and hands in it but I won't bother listing what else I put in there.  The things people think they see are far more interesting, anyway.
   
   Please be forgiving of the quality of the drawings inside the image.  The screen I drew it on was only 1.5" by 2.5" and not the best touchscreen in the world.

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      Sed-meposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      How dare you! There are children on this site! Disgusting!

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      Deborah Sextonposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      My eyesight must be failing me, I don't see the nude people !

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         gmwilliamsposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         I see DEATH, bodies decomposing.  What do YOU see?

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            Deborah Sextonposted 8 years agoin reply to this

            A neighborhood map ???

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            Kylyssaposted 8 years agoin reply to this

            Exactly.
            
            I was going for disturbing imagery, like the shapes one might imagine in the cracks on a wall if one could see cracks in the wall in absolute darkness and one were utterly live-wire terrified. So, darker than merely just black, the stuff of nothingness, fear, and mortality.

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         Sed-meposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         Don't squint... it's filthy!

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    Deborah Sextonposted 8 years ago

    What do you see here?
    

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       Sed-meposted 8 years agoin reply to this

       old woman/young woman

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    Deborah Sextonposted 8 years ago

    And Here:
    

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       Sed-meposted 8 years agoin reply to this

       angels/demons

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          Deborah Sextonposted 8 years agoin reply to this

          Yes, supposedly you'll see more devils when you are feeling devilish

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             Sed-meposted 8 years agoin reply to this

             I saw the angels first... (choirs of angels sing in the background.)

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                Deborah Sextonposted 8 years agoin reply to this

                And the devils just had to take you over, you angel

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       gmwilliamsposted 8 years agoin reply to this

       A group of beautiful bats!

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          Deborah Sextonposted 8 years agoin reply to this

          They look more like bats than devils/angels to me too

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    Deborah Sextonposted 8 years ago

    

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       gmwilliamsposted 8 years agoin reply to this

       Exquisite beauty there.  Such beautiful blackness, so sublime!

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          Deborah Sextonposted 8 years agoin reply to this

          Notice they're blinking?
          When you are stressed, they blink faster (supposedly)

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    Deborah Sextonposted 8 years ago

    I like your/ this thread gmwilliams

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    Sherry Hewinsposted 8 years ago

    A really dark place in my mind. Like a hole I cannot crawl out of. The harder I kick, the deeper I sink.

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    Kalafinaposted 8 years ago

    Hei and Yin from Darker Than Black

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    gmwilliamsposted 8 years ago

    The MOST BEAUTIFUL jet black beyond description.

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