Our concept of what is beautiful is in the eye of the beholder, and we all have unique tastes in what we consider to be beautiful. However, our sense of self is an illusion and everything that makes up any of our preferences is simply the outer world reflecting back into us. — MonfortS26
From the perspective of beauty being an illusion, it leaves a opportunity to make money. — MonfortS26
Constantly looking for approval in others would do very little to create any diversity in ones concept of beauty and everyone's ideas of it would grow side by side. — MonfortS26
Any industry of art could capitalize off of that easily by using small variations of very basic ideas repeatedly. To me this is a morally corrupt action because it cripples our sources of individuality and harms our ability to critically think. — MonfortS26
I'm really not sure what you mean by thatLike I said, you don't seem to be feeling well. Take some Pepto Bismol; it has bismuth in it -- it works. — Bitter Crank
What I mean when I say the self is an illusion is that any conception of myself is a product of my imagination. — MonfortS26
I'm really not sure what you mean by that — MonfortS26
our sense of self is an illusion HOW DO YOU KNOW? — Bitter Crank
and everything that makes up any of our preferences is simply the outer world reflecting back into us SO? If we have unique taste, the outer world will reflect back uniqueness, won't it? — Bitter Crank
The majority of people are looking to fit in TRUE WHY WOULD THEY NOT? — Bitter Crank
I was raised in Christianity and I didn't question it until last year. I was afraid of questioning anything because I felt I would go to hell if I were to think critically about my life. I wasn't putting much thought into my life and spent most of my teenage years as an outcast because one of the beliefs I had adopted is that it isn't important to fit in and I didn't put any effort into life whatsoever. I just coasted through everything. If this can be true about me, then it can certainly be true about other people.and don't put a terrible amount of thought into their lives FALSE — Bitter Crank
Yes and morally we should do what we can to enlighten people to that vulnerabilityAny industry of art could capitalize off of that easily by using small variations of very basic ideas repeatedly TRUE BUT HAVEN'T RIP OFF ARTISTS BEEN DOING THAT FOR DECADES? — Bitter Crank
To me this is a morally corrupt action because it cripples our sources of individuality and harms our ability to critically think. TRUE, WHATEVER CRIPPLES OUR INDIVIDUALITY AND HARMS OUR ABILITY TO THINK CRITICALLY IS BAD NEWS. — Bitter Crank
This is circular. In order to imagine a self, you have to be a self, so the self isn't an illusion. The self can certainly imagine itself to be different than it is (actually we do this quite a bit -- we would like to be a different self sometimes). — Bitter Crank
I was raised in Christianity and I didn't question it until last year. I was afraid of questioning anything because I felt I would go to hell if I were to think critically about my life. — MonfortS26
II wasn't putting much thought into my life and spent most of my teenage years as an outcast because one of the beliefs I had adopted is that it isn't important to fit in and I didn't put any effort into life whatsoever. I just coasted through everything. If this can be true about me, then it can certainly be true about other people. — MonfortS26
Everyone has their own idea of truth, beauty, knowledge, love... and
they are nothing more than ideas that are used as a means to an end. They are empty words that can be used to summon people into action. — MonfortS26
I think that any argument involving what defines one as a person is circular. — MonfortS26
If you say "I am an honest man. I am an authentic being. I am proud of my self." you are not speaking circularly -- you, the subject, are speaking about yourself, an object. We can do that. What is circular is saying something like "I don't exist because I am a product of my imagination." It's contradictory — Bitter Crank
Instead of trying to do so, I should stop wasting time thinking about it and just accept that I am nobody. That gives me the freedom to be whoever I want instead of "being myself", whatever that means. — MonfortS26
What I mean when I say the self is an illusion is that any conception of myself is a product of my imagination. — MonfortS26
The "self" is not an illusion as much as the concept of an unchanging, concrete self is. There is clearly something that perceives, senses, imagines, feels, thinks, and decides. Whether this thing persists over time, or whether this thing is capable of being dissolved does not change the fact that it is still there. — darthbarracuda
I've seen things about the fractal being key to our concept of beauty, but I've always thought it was superstition. Do you have any type of source that you could include that would say the same? — MonfortS26
How? — MonfortS26
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