From: comet@us.oracle.com
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Hazel (was Re: Eyes (was Re: Chocolate (was Re: "gangway, folx")))
Summary: I have hazel eyes, too!
Keywords: chocolate hazel comet eyes violet
Date: 11 Sep 92 08:14:00 GMT
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In article <2AA3B684.6045@orion.oac.uci.edu>, cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:
> In article <30iFqB3w165w@ailanth.UUCP> ailsa%ailanth.uucp@wang.com (Ailsa N.T. Murphy) writes:

My eyes are also hazel.

>>cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:
>>
>>> Again, if we are going to carry this to its rightful conclusion, which
>>> you have stated above by saying that all true and correct Pagans have
>>> eyes like mine, that means that any Pagans who can see their hands in
>>> front of their face without corrective appliances in anything but strong
>>> sunlight are not real Pagans.  Paganism is blind, and so is love,
>>> therefore love is Paganism.
>>>
>>> Blessings,
>>> Janis the Poorly Sighted but Okay with Corrective Lenses
>>>
>>yay!  i DO have proper pagan eyes after all!  the color may not be correct, but
>>they function the same.  but i wear glasses (i don't trust contacts, and my
>>eyes are sensitive).  read a lot in your youth, janis?  and how FAR in front of
>>your face?

I wear glasses, too, but maybe I'll try contacts again soon.  I'm due for an
eye examination.
>
> I'm one of those people who are called "compulsive readers."  I'm
> berserk about it (or as I spell it when I'm in a fanciful mood byzurka
> bout it).  I think it has something to do with how my mom read to me.  I
> knew how to read before I was in kindergarten, and I have no clear
> memory of learning.  My mom has since told me that she used to plop on
> the couch, sit me in her lap, and hold the book in front of both of us.

I'm a "compulsive reader" too.  (How else can anybody keep up with USEnet?)
My mom read to me before kindergarten, too, and when I was old enough to bring
books home, I brought such wiccan works such as "The Cat in the Hat" and
"Hop on Pop".  English is my mom's second language, and the tongue-twisters
certainly made an impression on her.
>
> Funny, because whenever I open a book, I get this cocoon-like feeling of
> total security; I fall into it and won't even respond if someone calls
> my name.  She told me that one day I just asked her to show me the
> words, and she took my finger like a pencil and did so.  Little did she
> know she was teaching me how to read . . .
>
I've been in love with reading for as long as I can remember.  Unlike
"The Last Wizard" (please e-mail me the author of this short story),
I learned early on how to "make spell" with words in English.

> And as to how far away from my face -- hon, I used to lay my face on one
> side of the book on the table to read the other side.  I'm just pissed
> that now that I know better, my eyes are still deteriorating.  They're
> not overly sensitive, though, and they're healthy as hell -- I just can't
> SEE out of `em.
>
I'm not sure, but I've read from a few sources that it's an "old wive's tale"
that eyestrain causes long-term damage to the eyes.

> Blessings,
> Janis the Myopic
>
I just looked up "myopic" in the dictionary.  We certainly don't qualify under
the 2nd definition:  "lack of foresight".  =)  However, Janis, like yourself,
the natural function of my eyes is to focus on objects close to me.

> P.S.: Thank god/dess for contact lenses, though.  For my entire pre-
> adolescent life, I never really knew what I looked like.  Think about it
> -- if you back up enough from a mirror that you can see yourself, *I*
> couldn't see anything without putting on my glasses.  Those damned
> things hanging off my face had more to do with my poor self-image than I
> care to contemplate; they were coke bottle-bottoms even in grade
> school.

I've worn contacts before, and I like my appearance with them much better.
Makes my ears and nose feel better too.

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New topic:  VIOLET eyes.  Are there any readers here with naturally violet eyes?
I haven't met Elizabeth Taylor, but I've seen a couple people whose natural eye
color is violet, and I feel that they have... interesting power.  Definitely
feels -different- than hazel.  Not stronger/weaker different, but more like a
difference in basic driving source.  I've never spent much time with violet-eyed
people, or I expect I'd be more clear about the differences I feel.

"Eyes are the windows of the soul."  So it makes sense to me that people see
things differently; we have different eyes (I'm including the brain in the
vision system, too).  The chromosomes that determine iris color also have some
basic effect on un-material perception, I think.  Or the spiritual field
attached to the color itself makes this change.  ~shrug~  I dunno the mechanism,
but I FEEL that there is something to what we are saying, that it's not just
chatter but reflecting some kind of truth that people with different eye colors
are necessarily different in other ways not simply related to their appearance.

Where in the world is a high concentration of violet-eyed people?  I know that
red-haired people are presumably more common in Ireland, but where would a
person travel to meet more violet-eyed people?  (And I don't mean colored
contacts, either).
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"Hazel".  What associations do yo have with this word?  "Witch Hazel" comes to
mind.  "Hazel nut" too.  (Covered with Belgian dark chocolate!)

Looking the word up in a dictionary, I see that hazel means "a light
golden-brown".  No mention of our greens, blues, greys and streaks of white
gold.  We are the vari-eyed people.  I can change my eye color at will
(and when I was growing up, I surprised another kid in Sunday School by
changing HER eye color at will--I changed 'em back, though, pretty quick, 'cause
she was uncomfortable with it).  I've even changed my eyes to be different
colors at the same time.  This is done without using colored contacts or
changing my clothing or surroundings.  Magick.  (Or the power of suggestion,
say skepticks).

I say try this yourself.  You can either use a mirror or a friend to tell you if
your eye color changes.  Normally, I let my eyes change by themselves, and I've
noticed that they have a tendency to become similar with whomever I'm with.
My eyes usually look green or brown, rarely blue, and occasionally grey.  I have
pretty good control of getting my eyes to change green or change brown, and
have more limited success with consciously getting them to change other colors.
I think the different color-bearing parts of the iris can expand or contract to
reveal different overall color or something.

Please post a followup to what you know about VIOLET eyes or your success at
changing your eye color.

Blessed be, my friends.
(Hrmph, talking about my old Sunday School experiences makes me want to say:
"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlefriends".)

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