RE: Do you wish there's a god?
April 4, 2019 at 2:48 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2019 at 2:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 4, 2019 at 2:43 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(April 4, 2019 at 12:25 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: The problem is that beauty does not equal truth.
Who says?
Anyone who understands what photoshop is?
We seem to value truth for it's utility more than it's beauty, hence the phrases "cold hard truth" or "ugly truth" or "inconvenient fact", conversely, "pleasant fiction" "seductive lie" or "convenient fantasy".
Either way, you seem to be missing any gods in this explanation. You're not talking to people who don't believe that this or that thing is beautiful. You're talking to people who don't believe in gods.
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