BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 19 May 10 - 05:02 AM

Kittens

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 May 10 - 12:19 AM

I agree with Bill D. The most satisfying, deeply meaningful experience I have had has been in wilderness and/or nature related.   But what I've been looking for in this question is a bare bones (big bottomed? ha) flat out image that is it.

I hadn't thought of blind or color blind people but I am sure they have opinions as to beauty in the world. And it may well be the sense of touch.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 May 10 - 10:25 PM

well... being a philosopher (of sorts)...my picky mind says 'color' and 'music' and 'love' are not the sort of nouns I'd call beautiful "things".

I see the virtues of all of those, but to pick one, I'd have to rephrase the question to something like "What is the most 'satisfying' or 'deeply meaningful'...or..."*shrug*
....and I'm sure folks who are partly or totally color-blind would have an opinion.

But is we're gonna have categories like color & music, I'd have to say something like 'wilderness' or 'nature', which can be appreciated by the blind or color-blind.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Ed T
Date: 18 May 10 - 10:08 PM

Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it. Confucius

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Janie
Date: 18 May 10 - 10:04 PM

When I had that big Victorian cottage garden in Hillsborough, I loved going out into it at different times of day because it changed so much, depending on the light.

I don't think of well-done black and white photography as artsy. I think of it as stripping down the subject matter to what is essential or elemental - of helping the eye beyond the extraneous. There are some photographic subjects to which color is essential (gardens for instance!).

Thinking....some blind people can not perceive light. Some people are deaf and can't hear music. I have no doubt, though, that any human is able to experience something through at least one of their senses that they experience as the most beautiful thing in the world.

Ain't it grand, our diversity?

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Ed T
Date: 18 May 10 - 10:03 PM

Sex with a big bottomed Mudwomenz

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 May 10 - 09:52 PM

Newborn kids.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Bobert
Date: 18 May 10 - 09:44 PM

Big bottomed Mudwomenz, by far!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Ed T
Date: 18 May 10 - 09:43 PM

To ananyse one has to think and reason.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Janie
Date: 18 May 10 - 09:40 PM

In truth, I pondered saying color. Then I thought about being in the woods or the garden at different times of day, the play of light and shadow, and what the quality or angle of light does to color, or what light at particular angle, and the attendant shadows do to bring out the beauty of bark on a tree - or of being mesmerized by the geometry of a white paneled door, opened against a white or light wall and the line of the shadow of the door on the wall in the light coming in from a window at certain times of day or year, or from a lamp placed just so....or of the crisp black shadow of ivy trailing from a pot cast against the white clapboard of the porch by the streetlight. Then I remembered that color is reflected light.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 May 10 - 09:33 PM

Marvelous and essential as it is, with the sense of touch comes the necessity of analysis, so I'd say it is not complete in itself.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Ed T
Date: 18 May 10 - 09:27 PM

the sense of touch

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 May 10 - 09:15 PM

Well, yes, Sins. I couldn't argue with that. However, music in a dark world would not be a full answer. (Think 'The Road'. brrrrrr)

But if music had not been invented, the first time the world burst into color, voila! music was born.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 May 10 - 09:11 PM

That's what I was thinking, Jennie. I know black and white photography is artsy and all but add colo(u)r and it comes to life.

Light and shadow, Janie, aren't shabby either. I love the long shadows of late afternoon. Or in early morning when there is still that magical shimmer to the air.

But colour? Oh, yeah.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 May 10 - 09:09 PM

Music

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: JennieG
Date: 18 May 10 - 09:03 PM

Definitely colour! Rich emerald green......the golden colour of a deep yellow rose.....the clear blue of a cloudless sky, even the pale grey-green of winter-dry grass. I could go on for a long time.....

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Janie
Date: 18 May 10 - 09:00 PM

light/shadow

Subject: BS: Most Beautiful Thing in the World?
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 May 10 - 07:56 PM

I got to thinking about this last night - What is the MOST beautiful thing in the world? - and it took me awhile to come up with an answer that works for me.

Mind you, I know what devout fundamentalists (is there any other kind?) would say. I have an idea what the scientist would say. I have a pretty good idea of how the hedonist would respond.

My first inclination was to say "Love"- and I could still be persuaded in that direction. But my final answer: COLOR

But what say you?