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L'autista
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What I enjoyed most reading that article was the mediating role of beauty which exactly implies the opposite of what you say. Bodily appetite and kindness of good will are two opposite ends of the continuum and seem incompatible because while the former only cares about satisfying the appetite the latter lacks passion and cannot satisfy the need so beauty comes in between and reconciles the two. This is not about beautiful or ugly people but about your perception of beauty which helps you find the balance between the two extremes.

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Alright Deneb said it more eloquently and with fewer words :D
Actually, Hoori, I think you've done the best job yet I've read of trying to lose the extraneous code words and to put those thoughts into more layman's English. :D (Yes, I love philosophy. But I hate it when people can't write properly and make it more complicated than necessary.)

Still, I ain't buying the concept of said "beauty" (as a conceptual appreciation, no less) as mediating between those two polar ideas. Humans are capable of carrying thousands of conflicting thoughts and impulses in their heads on a daily basis, so to suggest that some kind of mediator therefore exists and must be necessary ranks up there with saying that "we don't know how the universe came to be, therefore God must exist".

It's a nice try, but I ain't buying what Hume is selling.

Man, talk about zero tolerance. You'd think someone had shown an image of Mohammed.

Everyone deserves a menage.
Perhaps. But I was just thinking about that for some odd reason. Never been in one, and partly that might have been by choice. Sounds intriguing in concept, but the thought gets too complicated too fast. Like what would a guy do if he had two decks or a woman had two clitori. I'm not sure I'd want to be a one-man band either, trying to play all those instruments at once half as well as anything I could focus on.
 

Kate

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Feb 7, 2011
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Perhaps. But I was just thinking about that for some odd reason. Never been in one, and partly that might have been by choice. Sounds intriguing in concept, but the thought gets too complicated too fast. Like what would a guy do if he had two decks or a woman had two clitori. I'm not sure I'd want to be a one-man band either, trying to play all those instruments at once half as well as anything I could focus on.
It's a difficult situation, as it's never going to work out as easily as it might in your head. Still, I'd like to prove that. I don't think I'd want to be one of two ladies, as clunge doesn't do it for me.
 

Nzoric

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Jan 16, 2011
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Perhaps. But I was just thinking about that for some odd reason. Never been in one, and partly that might have been by choice. Sounds intriguing in concept, but the thought gets too complicated too fast. Like what would a guy do if he had two decks or a woman had two clitori. I'm not sure I'd want to be a one-man band either, trying to play all those instruments at once half as well as anything I could focus on.
I've never been able to carry through with one. Even though the thought appeals to me, when the situation presents itself my instinct has always been to head home.

This sounds like it happens every weekend for me, it doesn't :p
 

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L'autista
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Sure, there's an older lady fondling a cucumber next to you in a produce market and a mom of three asking for top choice meat at the butcher counter. We know how that goes.
 

Nzoric

Grazie Mirko
Jan 16, 2011
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Like we all haven't been in that situation. :stuckup:

You take things too personally, mate. :D
My mood has been terrible the past few days. This exam period, the bureaucracy at the university and dead end friends who turned out to be half the people I thought they were really did me in. At the same time I've got this great thing going on with the company ink, but now that she is getting a promotion it looks like a lot of drama ahead.

Just hold me.
 

Kate

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Feb 7, 2011
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My mood has been terrible the past few days. This exam period, the bureaucracy at the university and dead end friends who turned out to be half the people I thought they were really did me in. At the same time I've got this great thing going on with the company ink, but now that she is getting a promotion it looks like a lot of drama ahead.

Just hold me.
Can I hold you too?
 

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