RE: The Lie of the True Christian™
November 26, 2013 at 6:46 pm
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2013 at 6:48 pm by FiniteImmortal.)
(November 26, 2013 at 5:29 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Beauty isn't an 'invention' - it's a perception. We find things beautiful because they incite a deep wonder and curiosity inside us.A perception of something that isn't there IN REALITY, but exists only in our minds.
"We find things beautiful because they incite a deep wonder and curiosity inside us"
and becuase it suggests there is something more than meets the eye that transcends pure MATERIAL. My happy ass will gladly move along when you can tell me how beauty can exist in the effect, without existing in a first-cause.
God exists as a perception to me, as I see beauty in the universe; it incites wonder and a deeper urning to explore it. The beauty I see in my infant daughter transcends the shallow explaination of evolved instinct, and points in the direction of a transcendent being of infinite beauty in the first-cause, from which beauty in the effect is perceived.
If that is a conversational abomination to you, grow some thicker skin, or get on a forum that will only reinforce the ideas what you want to hear.
"When the tide is low, every shrimp has its own puddle." - Vance Havner
