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Macky
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From the first time I saw this quote, the beauty of the sentiment that it bespoke impressed me. However, I did not take the quote literally. For me, it's a sentiment thing.
Now someone has told me that this is literally true for them. That is, the object of their love looks more physically beautiful to them. So much so, that in a lineup with obviously better looking people, the lover still sees the loved one as the most beautiful.
Now am I weird or is the person who takes the quote literally weird?
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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johnleeb
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You will see beauty that others miss with someone you love. At least, you pay a lot more attention to them, and view them with filters that allow love rather than the filters that add defects that may not be there.
And we all have filters that enable physical properties to be what we are attracted and not attracted to. Those filter can change over time, and/or with our intention to change them.
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ray2x
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Not weird, Macky. I see pictures of my first boyfriend and he's beautiful physically and totally. I see recent pictures and he's still beautiful. He's always going to be beautiful because I will see that in him. If he was a harsh person, I probably would have not found him beautiful. So there is more to the physical aspects of beauty found in everyone.
Plus, I'm also quite biased when discussing him. I can hardly say strong words against him. So also I would be using sunny words to describe him. Other people could have different opinions about it, but I would ignore their words. In a sense, I would be a narrow minded person when discussing him to others.
So...
Raymundo
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Macky
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SO, Raymundo, you are s=aying that your boyfriend actually looks better that guys that you know should look better? I knoe that if we love someone, it doesn't sway our dedication to them, but do they actually look better to our eyes because we love them?
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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Macky
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Location: USA
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True John, But does the person that you love actually look better to you than younger, sexier, more beautiful guys? Someone has told me that it actually changes their physical perception of the person that they love. I have not noticed that in myself maybe i'm just too literal
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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Macky, I've long thought that there was a lot of truth in the phrase that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.
And that there's no accounting for taste.
Your proposition relies on an unspoken theory that some people ARE more beautiful than others (and by implication there is a standard of beauty to judge by). But there isn't.
Love,
Anthony
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ray2x
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In his youth, my boyfriend was truly beautiful. Yet, I wasn't thinking that he alone was beautiful. He acted well with me most of our relationship until it soured later. But even then, he and I would find each other and somehow got our differences amended. And he never lost that beauty. He certainly had other boys with which he had sex yet he still was good to me and remained (to me) beautiful.
I guess I did, and will always see him as a beautiful person, because he was a great friend to me. I would imagine one way or another, we were destined to meet. It just seemed that way.
So, in my eyes, he will always sparkle. And in his most recent pictures, he still sparkles. I take it that I'm still smitten by him.
Raymundo
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