Can you see the beauty of atrocities?

Answer 1

It is when the heavens cry.

Answer 2

Here's how one dictionary defines atrocious:

1. extremely wicked, brutal, or cruel : BARBARIC
2 : APPALLING, HORRIFYING
3 a : utterly revolting : ABOMINABLE

I suppose it could be argues that "beauty" can be found in anything - after all, beauty's allegedly "in the eye of the beholder." And even Yeats once wrote this, in "Easter: 1916":

"He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born"

about the "Easter Uprising"
"In total, the Rising cost 450 persons killed, 2,614 injured, and 9 missing, almost all in Dublin. The only significant action elsewhere was at Ashbourne, 10 miles north of Dublin. Military casualties were 116 dead, 368 wounded and 9 missing, and the Irish and Dublin police forces had 16 killed and 29 wounded. A total of 254 civilians died; the high figures were largely because much of the fighting had occurred in or near densely populated areas. It is widely accepted that 64 rebels lost their lives."

However, I personally can't see any "beauty" in an atrocity, any more than I can see "enjoyment" in "pain and suffering" or "health" in "sickness and disease."
Perhaps some can - the human mind is capable of some amazing feats. But mine is incapable of that.

Answer 3

Atrocities are just one side of the dualistic reality we manifest in. Where there is atrocities, the other side is beauty. The truth lies in both. You can not have one without the other.

Whether you can see the truth is more of an appropriate question.

Yes I can see the truth, in a bias way as I am still manifested in this reality.

Answer 4

Atrocities per se, no.

Answer 5

Absolutely. The terrifying beauty of what must not be, yet is. I even wrote a poem about it.

Answer 6

No. I'm trying but I can't.

Answer 7

No

Answer 8

not all , but most .