Is life beautiful?

**froyo** · 10-08-2011, 07:36 PM

Is it?

**Still Standing** · 10-08-2011, 07:42 PM

As beautiful as one wants to see it.

You know, beauty is in the eye of the beer holder, and all that jazz.

**TheStranger** · 10-08-2011, 07:48 PM

Intriguing question, although I would pull that question out a bit. By that I mean, I would ask "are particular views on life more beautiful than others? Beautiful in conception is hard to measure, and perhaps it could be a new form of Art!

To me, the contemplative view on life is the most conceptually pleasing, round and plump with all the metaphysical adornments that organically change, in a patterned and organized structure. Nothing beats the well-trained chill of revelation. False revelations are just as well, but the sudden revelation that comes through subconscious thinking, or by the revealing of a well-hidden secret kept through surreptitious conduct. That feeling you get that you could never possibly know all there is to know in the world, that life will always be interesting for an individually fashioned problem solving processor. For me the perception of revelation is what makes life "beautiful".

**emrah** · 10-08-2011, 08:07 PM

Beauty exists only in thought.

Having said that, I would expect human beings to evolve in a way to perceive life as beautiful, since it increases one's desire for living hence the chances of survival.

Also, one's conception of life can be (and probably is) more beautiful than life itself. This, of course, leads to disappointment. So, we also see life as unpleasant as well.

Hence my explanation for my answer ("other"): life is both wonderful and disgusting for me.

**Megalomania** · 10-08-2011, 08:12 PM

That would depend on the life.

**John01** · 10-08-2011, 08:33 PM

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I interpret certain elements of life to be beautiful. That which is otherwise is mostly what causes pain and suffering. But some things which cause pain are beautiful to me because they, by causing pain, promote life.

Who can say which outweighs the other, whether beauty or ugliness? Each has so many forms and so many eyes beholding them.

**JC22** · 10-08-2011, 09:14 PM

Yes, depending on how you see it and your expectations.

It can also be hell on earth.

**pyramidheadrock** · 10-08-2011, 11:57 PM

Sometimes it is, sometimes it is not.

**CaelestisPeste** · 10-08-2011, 11:58 PM

Depends on my mood. Ask me tomorrow and I'll probably give you a different answer (a straightforward one).

**spect** · 10-09-2011, 12:20 AM

a beautifully savage garden

**Purgatid** · 10-09-2011, 01:28 AM

I answered yes.

MrFreakaficial · 10-09-2011, 02:10 AM

Your responsibility is to make it so.

**Anza** · 10-09-2011, 02:39 AM

"Life" involves bacteria, insects, parasites, all organisms. So no.

**d1st0rt3d** · 10-09-2011, 02:40 AM

Life itself, yes.
Modern society, no.

**Tequila** · 10-09-2011, 03:01 AM

First, if you can you dismantle everything, then reconstruct it to how you think beauty should be. Then yes, life is so beautiful!

**Oblivious** · 10-09-2011, 04:14 AM

Option 2. Then, you die.

**sickchops** · 10-09-2011, 05:03 AM

**Tactical Panda** · 10-09-2011, 05:27 AM

If those truly suffering still produce kindness and sacrifice it breaks my heart and I need to agree "yes".

**Purgatid** · 10-09-2011, 05:57 AM

If beauty demands a beholder to exist, then having no beholder means beauty must be at its minimum. If that is so, then the existance of life in itself automatically makes the universe beautiful, because life (as far as we know) produces individuals who can behold. That is of course if you don't count uglyness as a minus on the scale (from zero, rather than from a median of beauty). I don't.

**Tacitus** · 10-09-2011, 06:52 AM

What definition of life are we using?
Do we mean the existence of organisms or my experience of existing?

I guess either way the answer is 'maybe' though I'd prefer to answer 'occasionally'.

**105095** · 10-09-2011, 07:07 AM

Life is more interesting than beautiful to me. If you have enough curiousity beauty shouldn't be all that difficult to find. However, beautiful aspects of life(for me) are easier to find than ugly ones(that is probably because I can see how that ugliness can turn into beauty*it is just a problem that needs a solution*).
There is more than one way to turn ugliness into beauty and the other way around. One is to change the lenses you see through, another is to do something about it(extroverted/introverted way).

**theiceman** · 10-09-2011, 08:29 AM

Yes, I feel that life is very beautiful but it has been contaminated by those pesky creatures that we call humans. I can interact with every other animal peacefully except for humans. Life within itself is beautiful however, I look at it as an opportunity and I enjoy it everyday (except when that animal species mentioned above annoys me to death). I'm unwilling to let one animal species influence my answer here. I also have religious beliefs that lead me to answer yes to this question.

**LOL WUT** · 10-09-2011, 09:23 PM

Sure it is. Only in small moments though. I think emotion is probably what makes life worth living.

Here's something that helped me defined what is important and what is not:

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered, ‘Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.’

**Plastikcat** · 10-09-2011, 10:15 PM

life is balanced. both beautiful and ugly - simultaneously.

**garpo** · 10-09-2011, 10:32 PM

Oh its sooo sooo beautiful *takes a long swig of beer then holds in mouth like revolver*

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10-08-2011, 07:36 PM	#1
froyo Member [28%] MBTI: INTj Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,149	Is it?
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10-08-2011, 07:42 PM	#2
Still Standing Core Member [138%] MBTI: Isfp Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 5,543	As beautiful as one wants to see it. You know, beauty is in the eye of the beer holder, and all that jazz.
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10-08-2011, 07:48 PM	#3
TheStranger Core Member [149%] MBTI: intp Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 5,978	Intriguing question, although I would pull that question out a bit. By that I mean, I would ask "are particular views on life more beautiful than others? Beautiful in conception is hard to measure, and perhaps it could be a new form of Art! To me, the contemplative view on life is the most conceptually pleasing, round and plump with all the metaphysical adornments that organically change, in a patterned and organized structure. Nothing beats the well-trained chill of revelation. False revelations are just as well, but the sudden revelation that comes through subconscious thinking, or by the revealing of a well-hidden secret kept through surreptitious conduct. That feeling you get that you could never possibly know all there is to know in the world, that life will always be interesting for an individually fashioned problem solving processor. For me the perception of revelation is what makes life "beautiful".
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10-08-2011, 08:07 PM	#4
emrah Member [03%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 156	Beauty exists only in thought. Having said that, I would expect human beings to evolve in a way to perceive life as beautiful, since it increases one's desire for living hence the chances of survival. Also, one's conception of life can be (and probably is) more beautiful than life itself. This, of course, leads to disappointment. So, we also see life as unpleasant as well. Hence my explanation for my answer ("other"): life is both wonderful and disgusting for me.
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10-08-2011, 08:12 PM	#5
Megalomania Veteran Member [80%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,237	That would depend on the life.
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10-08-2011, 08:33 PM	#6
John01 Core Member [112%] MBTI: INTx Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 4,519	Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I interpret certain elements of life to be beautiful. That which is otherwise is mostly what causes pain and suffering. But some things which cause pain are beautiful to me because they, by causing pain, promote life. Who can say which outweighs the other, whether beauty or ugliness? Each has so many forms and so many eyes beholding them.
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10-08-2011, 09:14 PM	#7
JC22 Core Member [112%] MBTI: xxxx Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 4,509	Yes, depending on how you see it and your expectations. It can also be hell on earth.
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10-08-2011, 11:57 PM	#8
pyramidheadrock Member [07%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 314	Sometimes it is, sometimes it is not.
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10-08-2011, 11:58 PM	#9
CaelestisPeste Core Member [143%] MBTI: INXP Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 5,735	Depends on my mood. Ask me tomorrow and I'll probably give you a different answer (a straightforward one).
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10-09-2011, 12:20 AM	#10
spect Veteran Member [56%] MBTI: inxx Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 2,262	a beautifully savage garden
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10-09-2011, 01:28 AM	#11
Purgatid Veteran Member [63%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 2,558	I answered yes.
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10-09-2011, 02:10 AM	#12
MrFreakaficial Core Member [221%] MBTI: INFJ Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 8,870	Your responsibility is to make it so.
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10-09-2011, 02:39 AM	#13
Anza Member [13%] MBTI: ESFP Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 528	"Life" involves bacteria, insects, parasites, all organisms. So no.
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10-09-2011, 02:40 AM	#14
d1st0rt3d Member [02%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 81	Life itself, yes. Modern society, no.
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10-09-2011, 03:01 AM	#15
Tequila Member [06%] MBTI: xxxx Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 256	First, if you can you dismantle everything, then reconstruct it to how you think beauty should be. Then yes, life is so beautiful!
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10-09-2011, 04:14 AM	#16
Oblivious Member [09%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 383	Option 2. Then, you die.
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10-09-2011, 05:03 AM	#17
sickchops New Member [01%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 10	yes
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10-09-2011, 05:27 AM	#18
Tactical Panda Core Member [133%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 5,328	If those truly suffering still produce kindness and sacrifice it breaks my heart and I need to agree "yes".
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10-09-2011, 05:57 AM	#19
Purgatid Veteran Member [63%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 2,558	If beauty demands a beholder to exist, then having no beholder means beauty must be at its minimum. If that is so, then the existance of life in itself automatically makes the universe beautiful, because life (as far as we know) produces individuals who can behold. That is of course if you don't count uglyness as a minus on the scale (from zero, rather than from a median of beauty). I don't.
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10-09-2011, 06:52 AM	#20
Tacitus New Member [01%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 67	What definition of life are we using? Do we mean the existence of organisms or my experience of existing? I guess either way the answer is 'maybe' though I'd prefer to answer 'occasionally'.
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10-09-2011, 07:07 AM	#21
105095 New Member [01%] MBTI: XXXX Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 72	Life is more interesting than beautiful to me. If you have enough curiousity beauty shouldn't be all that difficult to find. However, beautiful aspects of life(for me) are easier to find than ugly ones(that is probably because I can see how that ugliness can turn into beautyit is just a problem that needs a solution). There is more than one way to turn ugliness into beauty and the other way around. One is to change the lenses you see through, another is to do something about it(extroverted/introverted way).
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10-09-2011, 08:29 AM	#22
theiceman Member [42%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 1,705	Yes, I feel that life is very beautiful but it has been contaminated by those pesky creatures that we call humans. I can interact with every other animal peacefully except for humans. Life within itself is beautiful however, I look at it as an opportunity and I enjoy it everyday (except when that animal species mentioned above annoys me to death). I'm unwilling to let one animal species influence my answer here. I also have religious beliefs that lead me to answer yes to this question.
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10-09-2011, 10:15 PM	#24
Plastikcat Member [12%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 509	life is balanced. both beautiful and ugly - simultaneously.
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10-09-2011, 10:32 PM	#25
garpo New Member [01%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 17	Oh its sooo sooo beautiful takes a long swig of beer then holds in mouth like revolver
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