Monday, 13 November 2006
saints and sinners
My friend was sledged in cricket yesterday, and usually this wouldn't be a big thing, but my friend isn't the most handsome guy, and they told him to go back to hell.
Why is it that beauty is prized so highly, and ugliness so little? These days ugliness is not only an unfortunate mingling of distorted attributes, but is also often connotated with evil. Need I mention the hideous beasts in horror movies that are (90% of the time) an evil creature from hell. With this in mind, are modern people attracted to physically attractive people because of a genetic disposition to be drawn towards people with healthy genes and therefore good looking attributes, or is it an attraction to the opposition of the modern "ugly = evil" notion?
Does attractiveness allude to saints, or to sinners?
In the past the devil was not considered to be a hideous creature with knife edge sharp horns and a whip-lash tail, rather he was considered to be, much like God, not only the form of man, but a beautiful man. There's a saying I know that says "the cleverest thing the devil ever did was to convince man that he does not exist." Perhaps this is wrong. Perhaps the cleverest thing the devil did was to convince man that evil comes in an ugly package.
Ask yourself, would Eve have eaten the apple if it looked rotten?
Why is it that beauty is prized so highly, and ugliness so little? These days ugliness is not only an unfortunate mingling of distorted attributes, but is also often connotated with evil. Need I mention the hideous beasts in horror movies that are (90% of the time) an evil creature from hell. With this in mind, are modern people attracted to physically attractive people because of a genetic disposition to be drawn towards people with healthy genes and therefore good looking attributes, or is it an attraction to the opposition of the modern "ugly = evil" notion?
Does attractiveness allude to saints, or to sinners?
In the past the devil was not considered to be a hideous creature with knife edge sharp horns and a whip-lash tail, rather he was considered to be, much like God, not only the form of man, but a beautiful man. There's a saying I know that says "the cleverest thing the devil ever did was to convince man that he does not exist." Perhaps this is wrong. Perhaps the cleverest thing the devil did was to convince man that evil comes in an ugly package.
Ask yourself, would Eve have eaten the apple if it looked rotten?
# posted by Hil : Monday, November 13, 2006
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Natural selection certainly favors strong and attractive people, which is unfortunate considering the saying, "beauty is only skin deep".
Although the devil has taken on an ugly persona for his latest role, I don't think people associate ugly with evil as a rule. Attractiveness certainly isn't synonymous with saintly. If fact, the devil may prefer ugly sometimes because it tends to blend in, rather than stand out.
Would Eve have eaten an apple that appeared rotten? I doubt it. If she had though, Adam would have still followed suit.
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Although the devil has taken on an ugly persona for his latest role, I don't think people associate ugly with evil as a rule. Attractiveness certainly isn't synonymous with saintly. If fact, the devil may prefer ugly sometimes because it tends to blend in, rather than stand out.
Would Eve have eaten an apple that appeared rotten? I doubt it. If she had though, Adam would have still followed suit.
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