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Rising Star
I started writing a parody of your first few paragraphs but stopped as I felt it was less meaningful to continue. When you start saying things like "most horrid of personalities" I am less inclined to take your stance seriously as I see beauty as relative, I for one have had my experience of beauty shift plenty. Though saying that I'm sure there is always something that I currently define as horrid so... maybe I have no qualm with the statement after all...
You do make some other points that I agree with though, like to not resist what you find beautiful and that beauty is not "goodness" in all things.
The questions that you raise toward the end are interesting and I feel strongly about this particular one; "Does mutual physical attraction between 2 people mean they would make strong, healthy & happy children?"
And when I read this "When we gaze at eachother in amazement and worship of eachother's beauty, we see in that beauty incredible purity, magic, bliss, happiness or as Tolstoy named it "goodness"", I started to feel dizzy and euphoric as it reminded me of a girl I have recently met
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Here's the parody I started to write (I've changed only a very small amount):
We all experience it sooner or later:
Falling deeply and rapidly in love with someone to whom you're very strongly mentaly attracted. Someone whos mind you find particulairly beautifull.
Looking into their ideas, holding them, involving yourself with them is the ultimate blissfull experience.
No extatic experience I've ever had is better than that. The highest high.
Being attracted to someone's mental capacity is so incredibly powerfull an enchantment,
that even when that beautifull someone turns out to have even the most horrid of appearances,
we'll be tempted to switch off all reason and stay with them for the sake of maintaining that hopelessly addictive state of bliss that their minds charm seems to induce.
Happens to millions of people the world over all the time, yet few dare to admit it.
Maybe I could have carried on, but I'm sure you get the jest. I did it as a reaction against my first impression of your post and because I have recently found a mind that intrigues me. Does it make you reflect on what you have written in any new way? Maybe that physical beauty is not the only object of infatuation, because that's what I get when I compare them.
I didn't really mean to write so much...
You do make some other points that I agree with though, like to not resist what you find beautiful and that beauty is not "goodness" in all things.
The questions that you raise toward the end are interesting and I feel strongly about this particular one; "Does mutual physical attraction between 2 people mean they would make strong, healthy & happy children?"
And when I read this "When we gaze at eachother in amazement and worship of eachother's beauty, we see in that beauty incredible purity, magic, bliss, happiness or as Tolstoy named it "goodness"", I started to feel dizzy and euphoric as it reminded me of a girl I have recently met
.Here's the parody I started to write (I've changed only a very small amount):
We all experience it sooner or later:
Falling deeply and rapidly in love with someone to whom you're very strongly mentaly attracted. Someone whos mind you find particulairly beautifull.
Looking into their ideas, holding them, involving yourself with them is the ultimate blissfull experience.
No extatic experience I've ever had is better than that. The highest high.
Being attracted to someone's mental capacity is so incredibly powerfull an enchantment,
that even when that beautifull someone turns out to have even the most horrid of appearances,
we'll be tempted to switch off all reason and stay with them for the sake of maintaining that hopelessly addictive state of bliss that their minds charm seems to induce.
Happens to millions of people the world over all the time, yet few dare to admit it.
Maybe I could have carried on, but I'm sure you get the jest. I did it as a reaction against my first impression of your post and because I have recently found a mind that intrigues me. Does it make you reflect on what you have written in any new way? Maybe that physical beauty is not the only object of infatuation, because that's what I get when I compare them.
I didn't really mean to write so much...