[Jewelry making - Article 00841] - Re: [Orchid] Gemesis laboratory grown diamonds

[richard hart]

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>         I never much cared for diamonds anyway. They're strictly
>     overrated as a gemstone. Lots of industrial uses, though. 

    When someone makes a statement like the one above, I wonder what they
    see when looking a diamond. There are few gemstones that have the
    ability to reflect and refract light as diamonds do. When of good
    quality, and well cut, the dispersion, the breaking up of white light
    into spectral colors is a joy to behold. 

    I have come to believe, above the marketing, there is a true
    appreciation by people that are not educated as to the nomenclature
    of what they are seeing, and my opinion is that they respond to a
    visual reality of the beauty that diamond has as a result of the
    quality of the white light and the rainbow-like colors returning to
    the eye of the viewer. 

    As it is that quite a few of the diamonds are bought by men for
    women, either they are  beautiful, or a lot of men are spending a
    lot of money for something that they see no value in other that
    pleasing a woman. And the woman sees no value in the diamond, other
    than it costs a lot of money, and is a gift. So the woman who
    receives a diamond and wear it constantly is just doing it for
    symbolic reasons, and not really enjoying it. 

    As with many things, it might not be what is being perceived, but
    the perspective of the perceiver. 

    My sister has a pug, and she thinks it is cute. I can acknowledge
    that it is a sweet dog, however I cannot wrap my brain around anyway
    to perceive it as cute, although I treat it as if it is cute..
    because I can recognize it as the joyful expression of life that it
    inherently is. 

Richard Hart

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