Monday, October 11, 2010

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
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26 comments:

  1. Daliana PacuraruOctober 11, 2010 at 8:53 AM

    Well, half of the world is blind, a quarter does not want to see ...the rest is beauty itself...

    Hmmm...
    The whole world to be blind???
    I think that the rest of a quarter can find something beautiful inside! or...?

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  2. timethiefOctober 11, 2010 at 9:05 AM

    G'day Marty,
    In a world of darkness light would be beauty.

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  3. Corinne RodriguesOctober 11, 2010 at 9:21 AM

    Beauty would be a truly a light in the heart (Kahlil Gibran)

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  4. AlanOctober 11, 2010 at 9:47 AM

    Words! If I were blind, the only beauty I could know would come from words, arranged by me or by someone into lovely sights.

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  5. timethiefOctober 11, 2010 at 10:07 AM

    I am visually impaired and the more I think about this the more I have to say.

    Humans rely on data derived from their senses and when one or more of our senses is or becomes compromised we rely more strongly on the others.

    Without doubt vision and hearing the two primary senses that provide the data we rely on most of all but they are not the only ones we have. We have taste, smell, touch and inutition.

    Although those who cannot see and cannot hear cannot experience beauty in the visual and the audible, the most important sense the one we languish without and can even die without is the sense of touch and our intuitive response to tender and caring touch.

    So if we dwelled in darkness then sound, taste, smell, touch and intuition would be the senses we would rely upon to define beauty.

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  6. UnknownOctober 11, 2010 at 11:09 AM

    Beauty is beauty whether we can see it...or not.

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  7. AnonymousOctober 11, 2010 at 11:24 AM

    Modern-day pop music :D

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  8. Emme RogersOctober 11, 2010 at 2:24 PM

    Hopefully the same as it is now, as the true beauties within.

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  9. Robin EastonOctober 11, 2010 at 2:48 PM

    Love!

    And for those who are starving, being tortured, freezing, homeless, and ill, it would be food, safety, freedom and peace, warmth, shelter, health, connection with kindred souls, and LOVE.

    Thank you for you beautiful wisdom.
    Hugs, Robin

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  10. DanWinsOctober 11, 2010 at 5:46 PM

    what would beauty be?

    Personally, I think it would be sound and imagination.

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  11. mysticdaveOctober 11, 2010 at 6:12 PM

    Awww...i think the beauty of the imagination and the soul....that inner beauty would reign... :)

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  12. Jimmy NgOctober 11, 2010 at 6:34 PM

    I feel the inner beauty of a person outshines his/her external beauty. It's the inter beauty that's reflects the true beauty of any person. It's indeed sad if the world cannot appreciates your true beauty.

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  13. Nice VelosoOctober 11, 2010 at 7:11 PM

    To me, the most important thing is inner beauty, For it is through her that we could see and appreciate the beautiful things of life!

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  14. stevmapOctober 12, 2010 at 1:29 AM

    The world is blind

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  15. fazrul arhanOctober 12, 2010 at 2:55 AM

    Just to realize how grateful we are to have an opportunity to see..to listening and to sense the beauty! Thanks to God. D

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  16. David of QuillcardsOctober 12, 2010 at 7:56 AM

    I can't comment on this one after reading Timethief's comment - so moving.

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  17. Cat Wisdom 101October 12, 2010 at 9:36 AM

    Inner and outer beauty would be one?

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  18. Thought Bubble TenOctober 12, 2010 at 3:12 PM

    Beauty is felt. The senses only direct (some) attention and (some) information.

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  19. Kenia SantosOctober 12, 2010 at 8:30 PM

    If the whole world were blind, I'm afraid people would still develop a way to classify and segregate other people. I love to think of Saramago saying of human beings, "We are no good" in the occasion of the release of his book Blindness.

    I really wish I could believe all the amazing things said about beauty above, but just today, I'm kind of disappointed with the human race and I'll sound this much pessimistic about people.

    Still I love coming here, taking part in the dialogue and reading you, my friend.

    Take care and keep smiling.

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  20. LizOctober 13, 2010 at 7:54 AM

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  21. LizOctober 13, 2010 at 8:04 AM

    What do you mean by 'If' ?
    If anything?
    If only?
    If so?
    That is the case.

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  22. COUNT SNEAKYOctober 13, 2010 at 3:55 PM

    What would be beauty if we were all blind?... Easy one. Music! The human voice! The song of birds! The wind! All the sounds of nature that we sighted ones don't pay enough attention to.

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  23. mtyler77October 14, 2010 at 8:10 AM

    There would be the kind of beauty that should truly exist for all of us anyway--true beauty. One of the wonderful things about teaching classes online, is that my students don't judge each other on superficial qualities, such as what race they are, whether they are overweight, their looks. It truly evens the playing field--and how wonderful would the world be if that's how it really were. We should all have blinders on when judging who we want in our lives.

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  24. The Guy's PerspectiveOctober 14, 2010 at 11:08 AM

    Certainly beauty would be redefined by our other senses. It's an intriguing idea.

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  25. Janey BOctober 14, 2010 at 5:29 PM

    Beauty would be sound, touch, scent, all stirring the imagination if not the eyes, and still moving the heart.

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  26. C. JoyBell C.October 17, 2010 at 9:32 AM

    And that is why it is good that the whole world is not blind...

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