Why are people beautiful?

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Emmanuel
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Why are people beautiful?

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Is it safe to say all people are beautiful?

Here are some random thoughts about beauty.

The world is beautiful.
Nature is beautiful.
Life is beautiful.

The world, nature, life is imperfect, yet they are beautiful.

Strong is beautiful.
Big is beautiful.
New life is beautiful, therefore small can be beautiful.
The infinitely big is beautiful.
The infinitely small is beautiful.

Kindness is beautiful.

For something to be beautiful, we must also have a notion of what is ugly.
Therefore, for all these things to be beautiful, there must be some ugly things.
Sadness can be ugly.
Weakness can be ugly.
Stupidity can be ugly.
Vanity can be ugly.
Yes some things can be/are ugly...

...

French proverb "Les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas" : one can not have better tastes or color preferences than someone else...
Someone's taste and preference is ultimately the best choice for that individual. It is for him the prettiest, whatever, whoever thinks.

People are beautiful when you love them.

And when that love is full.
These people are perfect.
Beauty is perfect...
Nothing is perfect,
But
Except
exception
What you love fully is perfect.

How do you love someone fully?
- Free of fault/ or entirely forgiven.
- You are used to each other.
- You love their qualities and accept /and work with their imperfections.
- You understand them.
...

Can you love something/ or someone fully?

...

There is no such thing as perfect and yet..,

What you love fully is necessary and sufficient, it is whole, it is beautiful, it is perfect...

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Re: Why are people beautiful?

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Dopamine, a neurotransmitter, is released by neurons when something good happens. Evolution determines what is good: Food for survival, a female body with ample breasts for producing children, a wooded area where one can hide from predators, etcetera. Beauty is basically about recognition of something good, but the brain creates tons of associations and analogies, so that much dopamine producing recognition comes by way of that, and what is recognized isn’t really directly helpful.

I have narcissistic tendencies, although I am not a DSM narcissist like Trump. Nevertheless I am prideful and boastful. My girlfriend, who is 55 years my junior, has the best figure I have ever seen, and the best golden color skin emanating from mixed race parents. And I think most people would rate her face between 9 and 10. Mostly to delight her, to create dopamine in her, which she would associate with me, to make me look good, and beautiful, I bought a beautiful metallic grey with blue hue new Jaguar two-seater convertible with 550 V8 horsepower, and a button you can push to bypass the mufflers for the sexiest sound ever. The girl loves speed, and showing off, so with all-wheel-drive, she can deliver 550 hp to all four wheels from a dead stop producing a jolting thrill for her and spectators alike.

I took her to get the coolest manicure two days ago, which included intricate designs on extended shiny green nails. Outside of the shop she placed a hand (and she could be a hand model) on the car’s fender, and the other one insouciantly on a jutted hip, in short shorts. Her bare midriff placed her belly button perfectly in relation to everything. Taken from the front, the car’s hood looks extra long, more like the 1962 XKE than the F-Type successor.

In my opinion, the picture displays the most beautiful examples of youth, wealth, design and power, weighted toward people, not natural wonders and such. So with pride in my heart, I sent it without gratuitous explanation to a few people, later in the evening when I was compromised by prescription drugs that lower inhibition, and accretive alcohol. Several responded angrily and accusingly – especially regarding the age discrepancy. But with the purpose of dopamine to recognize what’s good, much of which is naturally described as beautiful, the image certainly is beautiful to me, and to anyone who is not invidious of me.
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Re: Why are people beautiful?

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Emmanuel wrote: May 22nd, 2020, 8:33 pm Is it safe to say all people are beautiful?

Here are some random thoughts about beauty.

The world is beautiful.
Nature is beautiful.
Life is beautiful.

The world, nature, life is imperfect, yet they are beautiful.

Strong is beautiful.
Big is beautiful.
New life is beautiful, therefore small can be beautiful.
The infinitely big is beautiful.
The infinitely small is beautiful.

Kindness is beautiful.

For something to be beautiful, we must also have a notion of what is ugly.
Therefore, for all these things to be beautiful, there must be some ugly things.
Sadness can be ugly.
Weakness can be ugly.
Stupidity can be ugly.
Vanity can be ugly.
Yes some things can be/are ugly...

...

French proverb "Les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas" : one can not have better tastes or color preferences than someone else...
Someone's taste and preference is ultimately the best choice for that individual. It is for him the prettiest, whatever, whoever thinks.

People are beautiful when you love them.

And when that love is full.
These people are perfect.
Beauty is perfect...
Nothing is perfect,
But
Except
exception
What you love fully is perfect.

How do you love someone fully?
- Free of fault/ or entirely forgiven.
- You are used to each other.
- You love their qualities and accept /and work with their imperfections.
- You understand them.
...

Can you love something/ or someone fully?

...

There is no such thing as perfect and yet..,

What you love fully is necessary and sufficient, it is whole, it is beautiful, it is perfect...

E.d'A.
Website: InMandala
Nothing is beautiful lest some people think so.
it is not an inherent quality, but a perceived one.
This should answer your question.
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Re: Why are people beautiful?

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"Hell is other people."
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