beauty

[skasian]

OK let me put it another way: there is nothingness and there is soul, tell me how you distinguish the one from the other?

Science and technology in collaboration with our senses have helped us determine the existence of radiowaves. What has helped you determine the existence of soul?

Distinguishing nothingness from the soul? Where does this nothingness come from. I believe human are made up by three components, physical, mental, spiritual. Distinguishing these three are simple.

Soul, I believe God helped me to determine this. What comes from the soul and what comes from our mind I experience is completely different. From the three, I believe the soul or spirit is the most powerful, because it is indeed immortal, capable of reuniting with God after life.

[blazeofglory]

Beauty is often times likened to something internal, unseen, spiritual. But in essence it is just in theory. What we call beauty is reralized through our sensory perceptioons. When we hear a melody we hear a beauty. Or when we see a beautiful girl we see a beauty When we touch something soft or soothing there is a beauty in the touch. And if anything go beyond that that is just a conception or idea of beauty only

[k.brignell]

A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.
I believe that beauty and truth are interwined and therefore beauty (and truth) cannot be relative. I do agree that we percieve the world with our sences and therefore I see the view point that some may have, that beauty does in fact lie in the eye of the beholder, however the question must be posed, is beauty merely what is asthetically pleasing and therefore limited to the individual's perception. Or is beauty something more majestic, something which hits us internally and eternally, something beyond us but within our grasp...is beauty the reminder of purpose and a will to live, that this is not all there is?

[blazeofglory]

Beauty is in flowing, thawing ourselves. It is in unfreezes. In the process we kind of be submerging and be at one with others.

Beauty can be realized when oneness is given into to otherness. Beauty is not a thing, but a concept, a propriety, an ideal and of course an idea.

Beauty cannot be measured in terms of anything we come upon. Beauty is there in us,and the few who can see has a mind that is profoundly deep.

For beauty can be found in ugliness if we have an eye to see.

[Judas130]

Beauty is in flowing, thawing ourselves. It is in unfreezes. In the process we kind of be submerging and be at one with others.

Beauty can be realized when oneness is given into to otherness. Beauty is not a thing, but a concept, a propriety, an ideal and of course an idea.

Beauty cannot be measured in terms of anything we come upon. Beauty is there in us,and the few who can see has a mind that is profoundly deep.

For beauty can be found in ugliness if we have an eye to see.

This deals with the common argument that can be staged against Plato's Forms. If we have a Form of beauty that is innately known to us, then how can, in concept, something exist the same in all our minds, if our conceptual perception is all different?

It is because beauty is not a form, but a state of motion and perception, through the term of which mankind can form general attachment, and beauty is therefore indeed a 'property' of an object, yet I would argue that the object does not have beauty until it is perceived or thought about as an abstract. Yet with perception we must tread carefully, as Blaze suggests, we need 'an eye to see' and must not become clouded by initial opinion, but by an innate, non carnal attraction/attachment - untainted beauty is the goal of the profound mind.

peace.