(November 26, 2013 at 6:50 pm)Optimistic Mysanthrope Wrote:(November 26, 2013 at 6:46 pm)FiniteImmortal Wrote: 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.
You clearly have a much higher opinion of yourself than we do
Your opinion of someone who articulates an opposing view is irrelevant. Do you have a counter-point? Or is the laughing emoticon the only easy response? I have given a reasonable response as to why I believe beauty is actually real, and not a mere construct. Just as intelligence is real, not just a construct of over-active brains.
You atheists' continual finger pointing, name calling, vulgarity, and group bulling hold no weight here... It is but merely a distracting technique that only works with your fellow kudos-giving support group.
"When the tide is low, every shrimp has its own puddle." - Vance Havner