Hi Girls:
This is almost a philisophical question. If a tree falls in the woods and there is no one present, does the falling of the tree make a sound? Of course, that's physics, but, there is more to this than meets the eye.
With no one there to hear the tree fall, it still has fallen and all the associated physical aspects including the sound waves generated by the falling movement of the tree are created. But at the same time, there was no one present to witness this event through sight or hearing. The event still took place.
Before woman kind (men included
), could communicate that, "no, not now, I have a headache,"
, there needed to be both the ability to make a single sound and an organized means to communicate with sound.
Not retracing history to far back, I will stop with the 26 letters of the alphabet. Before we could use them, there needed to be some rules developed that would define the proper pronnuciation of the letters and characteristics that would become part of our "words," else they would just be letters strung together.
Before the word, "beautiful, beauty, ugly," came about, someone had to "see" a condition that they felt would be best described by these words.
A good example of this is the new word, "phat." It is now accepted and in the newest editions of modern dictionaries. While the pronunciation may imply a physical characteristic of the human anatomy as previously defined by the word "fat," it to the contrary and means "good."
So as with many words in the English dictionary, beautiful and beauty etc are being redefined through cultural changes. A caveman's idea of beauty was most likely radically different that that of today's modern man and woman.
So, if you want to try to "speak" for God, and attempt to define God's meaning of beautiful and beauty and ugly, then you may well have your hands full. We attempt to do this with "God's meanings on many other subjects, all carefully crafted in the "Bible." The trouble is, depending on your point of view as developed over time by your cultural expereince, we cannot always say for certain what is and is not.
There are many religions that support different points of view on the very same subject. I prefer that nothing is written in stone.
I recently wrote about how to define "cute." That there are many photos of young woman that when viewed by men, extract the word "cute." We all have said it before, "isn't she cute," "she looks really cute."
Try that on a woman say 60 - 70 - 80 years old. You will never hear men speaking of a woman of that age as "cute." So "cute" can be said is a physical attribute of young woman. We would then have to define "young." To further this, we would need to define our motive for implying such. Is it sexuality based, is it of another origin. "She's really cute." Said by a teenage boy means one thing, said by a teenage girl, could mean several things. Can a man or "boy" be cute? Definition and those that make the statement define how the term is being used.
You can begin to see the complications for defining what is beautiful. I like the phrase, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Recently quoted by a member of this forum in this thread. An age old definition that recognizes and permits flexibility in the definition process.
Some like "God,", some like "higher power," or "Creator." And there are still more recognized deffinitions that speak of someone or something greater than us. "Powers beyond mere mortal men......," where have I heard that phrase before...... Movies....Super.........!
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Danielle Marie
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