Official: Post a Picture of Yourself

Dp

Might add another pictorial likeness of me, later. :laughing:

dude i donā€™t know what you mean by that
but if i want a vid to bee seen instantly by a bunch of people
i put it on istagram

but i mean this is the only place i put that youtube link
20 views would have been reasonable
so which one of yā€™all watched it 40 times?
shā€¦ should i hire security?

:laughing:

I always watch videos a bunch of times, but no security is necessary for me. :smiley:

Yes, hire security!

Urwrong did. And he also downloaded it and watched in on his Media Player maybe even Winamp and also his cell phone.

wait wut?

:laughing:

hey at least we know now that it was pedro watching my vid 80 times
lol

this is my natural hair

No doubt about it: ā€œyoung and beautifulā€ :laughing:

K: as one who is no longer ā€œyoung and beautifulā€ but old
and decrepitā€¦I no longer worship at the house of the
ā€œyoung and beautifulā€ā€¦ but why Kropotkin? jealous much?

no, not at allā€¦ for when I see one who is ā€œyoung and beautifulā€
I also see that one day soon, sooner then one thinks, that
they grow old and decrepitā€¦youth and beauty are just a moment in
timeā€¦ as is old age and middle age and childhoodā€¦ just brief moments
that donā€™t last longā€¦

the truth is that youth and beauty are just fleeting moments
that donā€™t last longā€¦ but seeking, seeking can last a lifetimeā€¦

the truth that one pursues can last an entire lifetimeā€¦

the beauty of the flesh only last a short period but beauty
in form such as paintings and ART and science and philosophy
can last oneā€™s lifetime and beyondā€¦

do I accept the Platonic idea of ā€œTWO WORLDSā€ no, no I donā€™tā€¦

but I do understand even ART and paintings and literature, beauty
of form, can only last so longā€¦ much of what was ā€œbeautifulā€ in the
ancient world is long goneā€¦ grounded into dustā€¦ and much of what
we consider to be beautiful today, will be gone soon, also ground into
dustā€¦

so Kropotkin, what exactly is permanent? nothing as far as I can seeā€¦
but that doesnā€™t stop our search for what it means to be humanā€¦
and that search, for what it means to be human, doesnā€™t end in one or
two lifetimes, but is a search that has lasted since the beginning of human
beingsā€¦ and certainly was an essential part of the ā€œGreekā€ experienceā€¦
to discover that which makes us different then animals or as the ā€œGreeksā€ might
have called them ā€œBarbariansā€ those humans who were ā€œuncivilizedā€ or
ā€œprimitiveā€ā€¦

and what does this have to do with being ā€œyoung and beautifulā€?

why everythingā€¦ you just have to connect the dotsā€¦

Kropotkin

I hear you. But tell that to Pedro, Prom75, Satyr and god knows how many others for whom ā€œyoung and beautifulā€ is ā€œnaturallyā€ where it all begins.

Me? Sure, if I wasnā€™t ā€œold and decrepitā€ myself, I might be in the thick of it. But itā€™s her intrepid intellect and wicked wit that would ever and always be where it must begin for fools like me. :wink:

im vain as fuck
but not because of my looks
i am well on my way to old and decrepit
it doesnā€™t bother me
i never gave too much emphasis to that
if anything looks have always been a hurdle
in the way of being taken seriously
cuz i was a brainy kid
i never even realized boys were a ā€œthingā€ until i was like 20
yet nobody ever thinks iā€™ve earned anything through hard work
people assume that i get stuff handed to me because iā€™m pretty
but iā€™m a badass

Christians debating beauty.

God save us.

Pedro, Prom75, Satyr [for starters]: Youā€™re up. :wink:

What I do know is that she will give you a flawless philosophical genealogy of ā€œbeauty,ā€ while you will have trouble finding your nose if you want to pick it.

Maybe you hold her looks against her because you donā€™t want to admit the above is true?

Iā€™m a little embarrassed that she will feel the need to defend it, but thatā€™s the effect communist propaganda has had on the world.

If anything, it betrays the nobility of beautiful people that they have let you blackmail them like this.

So you say. But she still refuses to take this to the philosophy board and in a civil exchange examine ā€œbeautyā€ as a more or less historical, cultural, circumstantial component of dasein, or, instead, as something that can be more or less pinned down objectively.

For me, ā€œbeautyā€ will always be profoundly, problematically entangled in both genes and memes. An ā€œexistential contraptionā€ embodied in individual lives that can be very, very, very different.

In other words, beyond the consummate reach of philosophers or scientists or artists.

And I donā€™t hold her youth and beauty against her. Any more than I held the youth and beauty of Supannika against her. But I know for certain that Supannika placed it far down on the list of what mattered to her. With phoneutria, Iā€™m considerably less certain of that.

Perhaps because I have, well, never actually met her. :sunglasses:

K: two points, I agree with you up to a point, but that is ā€œbeautyā€
can be examined and understood by philosophers, scientist and Artistā€¦
I believe Artists examine ā€œBEAUTYā€ all the time and make judgments about
it all the timeā€¦their entire ā€œRaison dā€™etreā€ is to search out and judge beautyā€¦

secondly, who the hell is Supannika? never heard of her, him, it? Inquiring minds
want to knowā€¦ or do we?

Kropotkin