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Rigby5 said:
"I suppose blue is already sort of the associated color?" R5 #2,640
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English is an idiomatic mine-field.

"Blue" can have connotations including:
- "blue" as in Democrat dominant as in "blue State" vs "red State", Republican dominant.
- despondent
- low temperature.

I try where possible to avoid ambiguity. I call the season "autumn" rather than "fall", to exclude the unintended meaning / suggestion of plummet. many etc.

However:
Shiftless2 said:
"We need a color - what's the opposite of gold?" S2 #2,638
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"In the black" implies deficit avoided, whereas
"in the red" implies deficit / debt incurred.

By that standard we could go with "black", but that also implies grim.
"English is an idiomatic mine-field." s #2,641
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sear said:
English is an idiomatic mine-field.

"Blue" can have connotations including:
- "blue" as in Democrat dominant as in "blue State" vs "red State", Republican dominant.
- despondent
- low temperature.

I try where possible to avoid ambiguity. I call the season "autumn" rather than "fall", to exclude the unintended meaning / suggestion of plummet. many etc.

However:

"In the black" implies deficit avoided, whereas
"in the red" implies deficit / debt incurred.

By that standard we could go with "black", but that also implies grim.
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Back to Black

 
Rigby5 said:
"I tend to be agnostic, but that does not mean that everybody really is totally wrong about religion.
Multiple planes of existence may be possible?" R5 #2,645
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There's an argument that for each human need there is a satisfaction.
- For hunger there is food.
- For thirst, water.
- For drowsiness, sleep.
- And for spiritual vacuum, god? Or at least, that is how some believers have framed it. BUT !
Agnostics might instead observe: for spiritual vacuum, religion (not the same as god), or perhaps wonder, or curiosity.
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." Gerry Spence, Attorney at Law
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Rigby5 said:
"But our ability to understand, describe, or imagine them could never be accurate." R5 #2,645
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Even those few exceedingly talented, skilled, & articulate observers whose assessment is unusually accurate,
their ability to share their insights with others can be limited by the language used to communicate with others.
English is a monumentally powerful tool. But it has its limitations.

Atheists self-define in terms of belief.
Agnostics self-define in terms of knowledge. Agnosticism is merely a confession of ignorance.
 
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