in the haunted house
dead are living and living are not-quite-dead
and each day is a death of the soul.
in the haunted house
air shatters against the lungs
and water runs down into the basement
to dissolve all inside.
there is memory of the dead
and the death of the memory is desired
but desire is itself expropriated
and the knife cuts into the soul.
all day long the dead haunt the house
and the living
who should by any standard be dead
forges on and delights all who live
with her beauty and tenderness and deliquescence.
come to me haunting beauty
and let us haunt together the house
in which is imprisoned humanity
and all are made ghosts all life long. ...

Beauty, intelligence, personality, strength and any other skill are
similar in nature. They are all partly a function of innate gift, and
partly a function of what one does with it. Thus, all these things are
in part inborn and in part accomplished; and as such therefore exist on
the same moral footing.

To devalue physical beauty, while valuing these other things, is
therefore hypocritical. Physical beauty is a form of achievement, to
the same extent as are intellect, strength, personality and all other
skills. One must either respect all these things; or respect none of
them. And the sane solution is to respect and value them all.

The PC ideology about this issue is therefore hypocritical. To devalue
physical beauty while valuing all other things that, like physical
beauty, are a shared function of innate gift and personal action, is to
apply double standard. If personality and intelligence are
accomplishment, then so is physical beauty; and if physical beauty is
not an accomplishment then neither are personality or intelligence. But
the problem goes beyond hypocrisy; it goes instead to very profound
wrong. The wrong is this:

The separation induced between LIKES and VALUES.

Dennis M. Hammes wrote:

No, you are wrong on that also.

I work in a professional capacity, but I won't say at what.

R.M.

ggamble wrote:

That's your definition of art ?

Photography, video, etc.

R.M.

At an international astromonical convention about the search for alien
life, the theme discussed was the amount of bits of information that
was to be sent through radio telescopes. A curious scientist asked,
"How many bits of information are found in the formula e=mc(squared)?"
The conclusion was that it was not the quantity, but the quality, of
information that mattered. I believe the same is true with regards to
GDP.

I mean as follows: Not all GDP is created equal. GDP grows from
gas-guzzlers and sickness; human benefit does not. GDP is reduced by
living modestly and not needing much product; human benefit does. Thus,
there is quantity of GDP and quality of GDP; and many of the things
that increase GDP decrease human benefit - while many of the things
that result in smaller GDP increase human benefit. Therefore GDP is not
a valid measure of human benefit.

The time was mysterious and incandescent. Everyone was walking
suspended as if by strings of liquid gold from an overarching
sky-dome, speaking to voices arousing and refreshing, each breath
partaking of immortality. "You are a beautiful soul" was often heard
in day to day conversation. The trees in the central park radiated
thin filaments into the eyes and the hearts of runners below, and
light wove a tapestry from the golden skyscrapers that enraptured the
hearts of the cognoscenti in thin and translucent nets.

People came up to him often and asked him if he was OK. "Oh," he said
matter-of-factly, "I'm in Woodstock." Punks hassled him but could not
touch him. He often stared into the eyes of passerby. Their worlds
flashed before him and became part of the entelechy. From which he
drew and on which he sculpted the work.

ggamble wrote:

I turned that job down.

Although I am qualified in the area of NLP, I left the junior position
of therapist to someone who would find it somewhat challenging.

I have moved on, and up, to being an artist.

R.M.

No.

THEY are doing IT.

IT is worthwhile.

You simply don't know about IT, and THEY won't ever tell you.

R.M.

ilya_shambat2004@yahoo.com wrote:

ilya_shambat2004@yahoo.com wrote:

No, no, no, you have it all wrong.

Look into tha mirror, and learn to love what you see.

Learn to love it so much that when you see something very different
from what you see in your mirror, when you stand naked in front of that
mirror,
you dislike what you see.

Now, having achieved that much, you will start to make the psychiatrist
happier.

You will be on the road to recovery from a very serious psychological
illness.

You can see that first you must overcome your love of women.
Then you must overcome your remaining tendencies to love other men.
You know, those who are more similar to you than the women were. You
noticed
that the women are more different from you than the men are. You did
notice that ?
Good. Now you are on the road to mental health.

I'd like a penfriend in this summer.
I am a college boy in China.I am 20 .I like movies,TV,reading,songs .
cause it is summer break I wonder if I can get some penfriend.
Email me .my E-mail address is sunshine_liujun@yahoo.com.cn