because we have nothing else to look at?
2007-03-07 06:29:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are beautiful bits and ugly bits. It's not like I have NO basis for comparison.
2007-03-07 06:32:02 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that beauty can be found where you look for it. If it is there, and we find it, that does not mean we put it there, or that it is only beautiful and amazing to us necessarily. If we look at only one thing, and find the beauty in it, or figure out that some things are amazing about it, then great, why not?
Personally, I have a lot more things to look at than just this world. Some instances: the heavens, the rest of creation (including the microscopic), truth, the mind, discovery, love, God, and so on.
I see a great many people looking for what is wrong in this world too, and that is all too easy to find. I believe that we should see things as they are, and sometimes that means trying to see all sides of everything, but sometimes it means trying to see what they could be.
You can look at a dump and see a dump, or something worse (polution, etc), or you could see what it could be turned into, like a park, landfill, energy, fertilizer, raw and processed materials and so on. Looking at things for what they could be is not pie-in-the-sky thinking either, not if it can be done.
But, if you can think about the beautiful things, the amazing things, and if you can figure out why they are so beautiful and why they are so amazing, it will not be because they are so familiar, or because there is nothing else there, but because there is a quality in beauty that is higher than what we can see, and that is what makes this kind of beauty, true beauty, so amazing.
Think about it, and be happy, if you can be.
2007-03-07 15:14:21 · answer #2 · answered by Shawn D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human nature is to seek happiness and to maintain that happiness, no matter how we perceive it... so we look for things that we perceive as giving us "pleasure" and happiness. When something is remarkable and tends to awe us this can either cause some to be upset and confused and others to be happy and find it beautiful and amazing. It's all in the perception.
A calm mind free of attachments and aversions will look at it as it truly is... arises due to causes and conditions, not inherently "bad" or "good", changing and impermanent. You begin to see things down the "middle"... what's beautiful can also be dangerous, since nothing is inherently "pleasureable" either.
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2007-03-07 14:35:02 · answer #3 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it's because if you look at the world and think about how it came to be it is truly beautiful and amazing
2007-03-07 14:34:48 · answer #4 · answered by unbelievable 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like that Twilight Zone episode with the pig-looking people. The woman we consider beautiful looks malformed to their whole society. Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder, it's also completely dependent on what we're used to.
2007-03-07 14:40:55 · answer #5 · answered by N 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Betti; I really doubt it. Perhaps you do, but I find the beauty and amazing qualities of this world to be one more proof that only God could have created it. This IS what we are to look at...what else would we...I cannot see heaven...I can see into the heavens so to speak...but that is from here. Again, all that does is convince me more strongly that God exists. *WG
2007-03-07 14:34:30 · answer #6 · answered by Wiggles 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Imagine a colour you've never seen before. Hard to imagine right? I mean my computer screen alone does 2 million or so colours, but just imagine there were more colours.
But from what I've seen there is a lot of beauty in this world. I mean from women to beaches to sunsets to forests, sometimes I'm just awestruck.
There is a lot of ugly things in this world too, but they just help us appriciate the beautiful things in this life.
2007-03-07 14:34:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
what makes this world both beautiful and amazing for me is my son. before his birth life was just a series of events i was going through. now i find the world worth saving just to make it better for him.
2007-03-07 14:41:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is why god's promises are so wonderful. This is not our final destination. We will always long for something. Something is missing even in the midst of so called perfectness. We are made for something even better. To me His promises are the answer. This is not my home. : )
2007-03-07 18:01:57 · answer #9 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chah! We have CGI, baby!
2007-03-07 14:32:39 · answer #10 · answered by vehement_chemical 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋