A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

The music, lyrics and visuals are so breathtakingly beautiful ...

Oh .. this is just so beautiful ..



Possession

Listen as the wind blows
from across the great divide,
Voices trapped in yearning,
memories trapped in time,
The night is my companion
and solitude my guide,
Would I spend forever here
and not be satisfied,

And I would be the one
to hold you down,
kiss you so hard,
I'll take your breath away
and after I'd wipe away the tears,
Just close your eyes dear

Through this world I've stumbled
so many times betrayed,
Trying to find an honest word,
to find the truth enslaved,
Oh you speak to me in riddles and
you speak to me in rhymes
My body aches to breathe your breath,
your words keep me alive,

And I would be the one
to hold you down,
kiss you so hard,
I'll take your breath away
and after I'd wipe away the tears,
Just close your eyes dear

Into this night I wander,
it's morning that I dread,
Another day of knowing of
the path I fear to tread,
Oh into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride,
Nothing stands between us here
and I won't be denied,

And I would be the one
to hold you down,
kiss you so hard,
I'll take your breath away
and after I'd wipe away the tears,
Just close your eyes dear...

For those of us who put their faith in the fair and beautiful even before their better judgment of the rational and the true, risk recognising truth only as being what beautiful people tell them is true.

But there are worse fates... Like confusing cynicism with truth.

Ohhh ...

fair
beautiful
rational
true

.. hmmm such interesting, subjective and arbitrary constructs these days Helian.

It's ok .. I was just being cynical

It's easy to love the beautiful... And almost as easy to pretend the beautiful is necessarily true.

- Helian


Ahh but beauty is in the eye of the beholder .. so it's all relative my dear friend.

Aesthetic Relativism

Aesthetic relativism is the philosophical view that the judgement of beauty is relative  to individuals, cultures, time periods and contexts, and that there are no universal criteria of beauty. For example, statuettes like the Venus of Willendorf or the women in the paintings of Rubens  would have been considered ideal forms of beauty when painted, but today may be regarded as fat, while contemporary standards of beauty (such as those that feature on the covers of contemporary fashion magazines) may have been considered less than ideal in Rubens's time.

Aesthetic relativism is a variety of the philosophy known generally as relativism, which casts doubt on the possibility of direct epistemic access to the "external world", and which therefore reject the positive claim that statements made about the external world can be known to be objectively true. Other varieties of relativism include cognitive relativism (the general claim that all truth and knowledge is relative) and Ethical Relativism (the claim that moral judgments are relative). Aesthetic and Ethical relativism are sub-categories of Cognitive Relativism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetic_relativism

Hello Stryder .. it's very nice to see you also

Lisa Jones wrote on Oct 12^th, 2010 at 10:30pm:

Ah, relativism! Spawning the likes of "Progressives against Progress" and the pomo generator!

Quote:


"The man who tells you truth does not exist is asking you not to believe him. So don't" Roger Scruton

We're descending into the worship of idiocy.