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LOLOL!

You might enjoy reading .30Carbine's post on the subject, which she posted to another thread but is relevant here. An excerpt:

I came across an interesting Web page with information on these things - color and light and the speed and direction of it through gemstones! Among other things I learned that...

Diamond plays this reflecting trick better than any other colorless substance. Light enters a faceted gemstone from all sides, but it may bounce back and forth several times inside before it finds a clean, straight shot out. All this changing direction accomplishes something very dramatic, because so-called white light actually contains all of the rainbow's colors. Each color - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet - bends and reflects inside the diamond slightly differently. The farther the light travels, the more the colors separate, or "disperse." Bounce light inside a diamond just two or three times and the colors disperse spectacularly.

Putting this info together with what the Lord of All has been speaking to me from other sources, His Word mostly, but also with your many musings here, I am beginning to conclude that the time we chosen ones spend receiving/perceiving/listening/observing all that comes into our lives (call it "the light"), and then cogitating or meditating or praying on or about what we have received, and what to do with it, has direct and significant persuasion upon what will then come out of these vessels we call our selves.

"Meditate upon these things," commands the Holy Word, and James exhorts us to be "quick to listen, slow to speak," and these together fit the picture of how the light bouncing all the more times within the gem produces all the more glory when it emerges. I like that.

An uncut diamond (or any of the variety of gemstones) receives and reflects light rays far differently than the polished jewel - could we call one saved and the other as yet unfound, encased as it is within its hard and ugly outer shell? Each uncovered and polished gemstone in their many varieties of color, hue, size, and number of facets will act and react very uniquely to the one source of light shining upon and into the very heart of all.

The Blue Diamond Web site linked above also declared this interesting truth:

Light pokes along inside a diamond at less than 80,000 miles per second. That's more than 100,000 miles per second slower than in air.

Tremendous wisdom in this metaphor, .30Carbine - and on the rest of your post. Would you consider reposting it here?