To me, red-tinted glass in the book refers to a specific way of vision, one's perspective, and a separate way of imagination and thinking between different aspects. Red tinted glass has the effect of red shades on the object, when viewed through the glass. For a way of imagination to be tinted, it could mean our imagination has changed because of our surroundings and our experiences. Moreover, we now have a different objective to the object, now that the vision is different.
This is certainly how I think it is meant in the book, and this is also how my imagination has drastically changed in the past few years of my life.
Everything in life can mean very different once you have experience. By this, I mean when one have seen what matter in our lives can bring, then you start to look at matters in a different perspective. This is because after the experience, you would want it to come over and again or never again.
This is a view, more likely to have come from an empiricist then a rationalist. This is because IT IS TRUE. One would believe in their experience more than a theory behind something, as they would be more certain what would happen, because they have experienced it, not from science or a theory, or one’s wonder.
3 comments:
You have made a good point there when you say that the red tinted glasses change your imagination. But you didn’t say how you imagination has drastically changed in the past. What do you mean by that? I also agree with your last paragraph where you said that people would believe inexperience rather than theory or opinions, because they will really know if the theory was true or false.
Your idea on how your own personal experiences are something you would much more believe in compared to theories. But sometimes, it's just equally as hard to disapprove of a theory after all, there's alot of scientific research behind it. So how has your imagination changed with the red-tinted glasses? Did it make you visualize two cows sitting in a bird nest or dinosaurs roaming around the face of the earth?
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Vicki
I liked the way you have described the red-tinted glass in the book and how it relates to imaginations. You said that your "imagination has drastically changed in the past" but you haven't given enough detail on that. At the end you have made a nice point that the view comes from an empiricist rather than a rationalist.
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