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They put a pic of Sophia on Racquel's page by mistake.
It's interesting how well or badly time has treated these women (and who has the best plastic surgeons!). Gina L and Sophia L are the least changed, judging by their photos.
I was surprised that some were older than I thought and some younger.
Is there a comparable slide show for the men we have loved?
It's interesting how well or badly time has treated these women (and who has the best plastic surgeons!). Gina L and Sophia L are the least changed, judging by their photos.
I was surprised that some were older than I thought and some younger.
Is there a comparable slide show for the men we have loved?
Are these the women Warren Beaty has "loved"?
QUOTE (IlseM @ Aug 6 2008, 11:16 AM) 
Are these the women Warren Beaty has "loved"?
LOL!
Wow, Lena Horne and Mamie Van Doren both look great!
I wonder what their secret is...
I wonder what their secret is...
I wonder how our adjustment to the passing years would change if we ---western society as a whole, I mean--- forced ourselves to remember to say that time CHANGES our beauty, rather than destroys it. 
I would turn your question around and ask, why we can't accept that time destroys our beauty , we have to accept it the same way that we accept our own mortality.
To force people people to remember to say " that time only changes our beauty not destroying it"? - It reminded me of an Arabic proverb: " By saying Halva, Halva many times, your mouth still won't taste it " , - for those who don't know, - halva is a delicious sweet popular in the Middle east and Greece. We have to have courage to face the truth , not to use euphemisms to cover it.
To force people people to remember to say " that time only changes our beauty not destroying it"? - It reminded me of an Arabic proverb: " By saying Halva, Halva many times, your mouth still won't taste it " , - for those who don't know, - halva is a delicious sweet popular in the Middle east and Greece. We have to have courage to face the truth , not to use euphemisms to cover it.
QUOTE (smelka @ Aug 6 2008, 11:19 PM)
To force people people to remember to say " that time only changes our beauty not destroying it"? - It reminded me of an Arabic proverb: " By saying Halva, Halva many times, your mouth still won't taste it " , - for those who don't know, - halva is a delicious sweet popular in the Middle east and Greece. We have to have courage to face the truth , not to use euphemisms to cover it.
I see where you're coming from with this, but I also think that beauty is all a matter of training the eye and the mind to find worth in things we might not, at least at first sight, understand.
While it may never have happened with halva, we HAVE managed to broaden our aesthetic senses many times with art and music! We have done so with the very food we eat and enjoy. Education and exposure---with an eye to understanding and not being slaves to OUR OWN fear of mortality can do us wonders. Are not human beings worth the thought and time we put into unfeeling paintings, garlic, and symphonies?
Why the mad rush, the almost pathologically cruel and vicious desire to cast people on the trash pile as soon as possible?
IF a person sees the word beauty, or the concept of beauty as being synonymous with the word or concept of YOUTH...then they will consider separating the two things as a lie, or euphemism.
They will not be able to see where one can exist without the other, fair enough. Everyone has "types" to one degree or another.
Perhaps, if we can make the decision to educate our eyes and our souls to see beauty as more than evidence of sexual invitation and a sign of readiness for procreation, or as attached to powerlessness and naivete (both demanding of extreme youth or at least the look of innocent inexperience equated with youth) for women there would be much more hope and happiness for more people for a longer time.
Since I don't see that as a bad thing, I ask why not? Who is hurt by seeking to expand our definition of feminine beauty or educating our eyes?
QUOTE (Little Black Cat @ Aug 7 2008, 09:28 PM)
I see where you're coming from with this, but I also think that beauty is all a matter of training the eye and the mind to find worth in things we might not, at least at first sight, understand.
While it may never have happened with halva, we HAVE managed to broaden our aesthetic senses many times with art and music! We have done so with the very food we eat and enjoy. Education and exposure---with an eye to understanding and not being slaves to OUR OWN fear of mortality can do us wonders. Are not human beings worth the thought and time we put into unfeeling paintings, garlic, and symphonies?
Why the mad rush, the almost pathologically cruel and vicious desire to cast people on the trash pile as soon as possible?
IF a person sees the word beauty, or the concept of beauty as being synonymous with the word or concept of YOUTH...then they will consider separating the two things as a lie, or euphemism.
They will not be able to see where one can exist without the other, fair enough. Everyone has "types" to one degree or another.
Perhaps, if we can make the decision to educate our eyes and our souls to see beauty as more than evidence of sexual invitation and a sign of readiness for procreation, or as attached to powerlessness and naivete (both demanding of extreme youth or at least the look of innocent inexperience equated with youth) for women there would be much more hope and happiness for more people for a longer time.
Since I don't see that as a bad thing, I ask why not? Who is hurt by seeking to expand our definition of feminine beauty or educating our eyes?
While it may never have happened with halva, we HAVE managed to broaden our aesthetic senses many times with art and music! We have done so with the very food we eat and enjoy. Education and exposure---with an eye to understanding and not being slaves to OUR OWN fear of mortality can do us wonders. Are not human beings worth the thought and time we put into unfeeling paintings, garlic, and symphonies?
Why the mad rush, the almost pathologically cruel and vicious desire to cast people on the trash pile as soon as possible?
IF a person sees the word beauty, or the concept of beauty as being synonymous with the word or concept of YOUTH...then they will consider separating the two things as a lie, or euphemism.
They will not be able to see where one can exist without the other, fair enough. Everyone has "types" to one degree or another.
Perhaps, if we can make the decision to educate our eyes and our souls to see beauty as more than evidence of sexual invitation and a sign of readiness for procreation, or as attached to powerlessness and naivete (both demanding of extreme youth or at least the look of innocent inexperience equated with youth) for women there would be much more hope and happiness for more people for a longer time.
Since I don't see that as a bad thing, I ask why not? Who is hurt by seeking to expand our definition of feminine beauty or educating our eyes?
I don't get what garlic has to do with anything. "Unfeeling paintings"???
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