In the eye of the beholder

Onebravegirl wrote:This is going to sound corny to some.
****corny alert!*****

I have seen on this site, some very beautiful posts. Not sappy, sucky, needy, week posts, but sincere posts.
I personally find them profoundly beautiful. Honest stops us. It has a Power on its own. It takes the breathe out of a room and makes it all pause. I think it deserves a moment of appreciation. Things that take a moment of pause are often beautiful I find.
ONe

After typing my reply, then reading this (above), I somehow made my way to your Goodbye thread; after reading Mr. Noone's first reply on that post (and while listening to classical music, thanks to reading a thread on Just for Fun), I'm now in tears. It takes me back to just a little while ago, when I found myself desperately missing a particular member here.... this place is amazing to me. Some of the wonderful things that float around on here can seem so unattainable in real life.

supasta wrote:I feel like to appreciate beauty, there has to be some kind of emotional response going on. Therefore, everyone who answered I think is capable of real, pleasurable emotions.

For me, I tend to appreciate beauty I imagine, or see in the everyday scenery cause it will remeind me of something.

I've often wondered about this myself: whether it is possible to experience beauty without emotion, and if so, whether that means beauty is objective. If a geometer asks me to select the most beautiful rectangle from an array and I don't select the golden rectangle, does that mean my sense of beauty is warped, or just different? And what about beautiful molecules? Chemists say buckminsterfullerene is the most beautiful molecule in the world, but I like the nucleic acids better. Maybe that's because of their role in life. Is my idea of a beautiful molecule as good as the chemists', or is my judgment tainted with sentimentality?





Couldn't find a small picture of RNA.

maddogmaddy wrote:I somehow made my way to your Goodbye thread; after reading Mr. Noone's first reply on that post (and while listening to classical music, thanks to reading a thread on Just for Fun), I'm now in tears.

I hope I'm not the only person of conscience who didn't cry over that.

Funny you mention music now, because I'd been wondering why I didn't think to include music in my examples of beauty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlprozGcs80

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuLYQ1mP9Lw


And since I'm still in the mood, more (simpler) beautiful molecules.







Aaaww, now I'm hungry.

Twinkling_Butterfly wrote:

maddogmaddy wrote:I somehow made my way to your Goodbye thread; after reading Mr. Noone's first reply on that post (and while listening to classical music, thanks to reading a thread on Just for Fun), I'm now in tears.

[color=teal]I hope I'm not the only person of conscience who didn't cry over that.

Oh I'm sure you're not the only one Just sometimes everything hits me in the right way to break me down a little....lol

Twinkling_Butterfly wrote:Funny you mention music now, because I'd been wondering why I didn't think to include music in my examples of beauty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlprozGcs80

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuLYQ1mP9Lw

Haha, that's an odd pair. Not surprisingly, I prefer the second one. Sticking with that genre, this is the most beautiful game track that comes to my mind.
Pachelbel's Canon makes me think of weddings.

yay beautiful music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATbMw6X3 ... feature=iv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7q8t6K5 ... ure=relmfu

A pleasing synergy of symmetry & asymmetry colluding to reveal a quality greater than the sum.

A bald eagle, a snowy owl and a sea hawk. Not my own pictures but nevertheless felt moved to post them!

Platypus wrote:Haha, that's an odd pair. Not surprisingly, I prefer the second one.

If I'd been willing to put more time and effort into it, I could have found a better matched classical/modern pair, but I'm lazy in that way.

Platypus wrote:Pachelbel's Canon makes me think of weddings.

I think this is what Supasta was talking about. My early experience with Canon in D Major was very different from yours, I'm sure. The first time I heard it, there was really no situational context; I was just listening to a classical music compilation. Later I noticed that my teachers (I was in grade school) frequently played it in their classrooms. (Allegedly, it stimulated the brain differently from most classical music—something about matching the frequencies of certain types of brain waves. The idea sounds fringy to me, though I don't know if I was skeptical enough to think that at the time, but I enjoyed the music anyway.) I think of it sometimes when I see a beautiful organic molecule like DNA, which I can only imagine is because that's the sort of thing I usually saw when I heard it.

Jeremy Soule's "King and Country," because if its flow, usually makes me imagine a macrocosm-to-microcosm series of scenes—like the reverse of my first post on this thread, the one opening with the virus. Speaking of which, have you ever wondered what happens when you do a web search for "beautiful virus"? You get this...and this. (I saw a giant crystal virus in a dream once. Yes, really...but mine had colored molecules inside.)

Snowflakes are beautiful. http://www.labgrab.com/files/pictures/u ... akes.jpg?0
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