Who is this that looks forth like dawn,fair as the moon, bright as the sun,terrible as an army with banners? Solomon’s Song of Songs 6-10
Tag: beauty
Sinophilia…
China calls. Hormones roll. Jet-black hair… Pearl-white teeth. Heart open wide. Minds connect, Hands entwine… Lips embrace. Chinese women. Sometimes men, Why does this happen… Again, and again.
Waving Through the Fog…
Waving Through the fog The Fletcher makes a wonky arrow, The Green stands by…. Tearing-up the land! Beauty is obscured By beauty itself. The uncertainty
Appreciating Revolutionary Beauty
The natural ‘distance’ the net creates prevents an appreciation of beauty falling into ordinary lust and desire – which are absolutely fine within their proper context. Beauty has many levels of appreciation that can be obscured b the immediacy of sexual desire – which necessarily exists to perpetuate the species!
How Plotinus Makes Use of the Material World
Therefore, it must be truthfully stated (as Plotinus does), that a continuously changing beauty exists beyond any concepts of ‘static’ beauty, and that such a beauty with regards to that which lives is ‘beautiful’, but that even that which is ‘dead’ is also ‘beautiful’ when viewed in a certain way. Although Plotinus advocates (for a time) a ruthlessly ‘looking within’, he does not permanently ‘reject’ the physical world he strives to ‘look beyond’.