littlebee wrote:
btbnnyr wrote:
I am obsessed with my catatar. Sometimes, I look in threads where I posted just to look at her purrrfurrrt face. Other times, I view my profile to do the same.
Yours is definitely a good catatar, maybe the best I have seen...simple, pristine, centered, serene.....
Regarding the perceived value of these various animal pictures, it is interesting that no matter how beautiful or ugly a picture is, if you like the person, it will get more beautiful even if the animal picture is ugly,' or if you come to dislike the person it will become more ugly even if the animal picture is 'beautiful,' as subjective experience and various context will play into the perception. And yet there is some kind of quality of beauty that is beyond this, but hate can tarnish even that. People in general want this ideal of beauty but they are perfectly 'happy' to mar it with hate, all the while accusing other people of hating themselves, so the mirror is tarnished by their own clouded perception. In this sense, 'beauty' can be ugly, so is this real beauty? Or is even any beauty real, since different people are perceiving it differently?
This wasn't really about cat pictures per se but about how subjective context and feelings can color or discolor the picture of anything that is being perceived, be that an actual picture such as of a cat, or whatever a person is seeing with his eyes-- the perceptual field, or even a set of ideas. The associations a person has with this or that can and will stain reality. All that is pretty obvious and clearly stated in the message, so I assume everyone understands it.
The idea in the last sentence that beauty itself, such as the beauty of a spring day when a person is not thinking or feeling anything in a particular moment except joy or when a person is crying tears of joy because someone he loves or even himself is saved from great harm (or even reading in a newspaper about how someone doing a kind deed saved someone from harm---I have cried many times from reading stuff like that)---the question raised if that kind of beauty is even real may be kind of difficult to understand, so disregard it for now. It is real enough, even though a person having this kind of experience may still have wrong ideas about the world and negative feelings that discolor his perception and his actions later in the day will reflect this.
Obviously if we look at the cat pictures (or anything) in a fuller context, it has more of a potential to yield meaning, but again, like the pictures, any pictures, emotions and various ideas will color or discolor it.
This thread has yielded some insight for me about how that works, and I hope for others, too. I think a fitting response to my message might be some kind of cat pictures, and not saying this sarcastically. It can be interesting in certain contexts to experiment with creating various modalities with different shapes, and to see how one modality contrasts against another kind of modality.I am not that good at doing it, but some others are. Different kinds of language can evolve out of this and different areas of the brain that are kind of under the sand can be touched so that some kind of new understanding can be born.
To anyone--I know we all have experienced love, but has anyone ever experienced a great love, meaning a love so great that the realization of it transforms your entire mind directly on the spot, at least for that particular moment....and it leaves a profound trace? When I was around twenty, deeply suffering and already having been through all kinds of trauma, I had such an experience, and nothing was ever the same after that because I realized a different kind of world existed which included me into it by virtue of grace, and after that there was a new possibility. I had a real reason to live.
19 Mar 2014, 7:45 pm
