This wasn't without a certain kind of beauty. Also, beagles are amazing and I want one.

My mother makes fairy houses.

End confession.

She travels a lot to national parks and when she stops on a trail, she makes a hidden fairy house. Silly, of course. But what I've always found interesting about what she does is the idea of hidden, impermanent art that will probably never be seen. But if one person ever discovers one of her creations...the transcendent moment. That's beautiful to me. If she took a picture it would diminish what she does.

I'd appreciate this snow art more if there were no video. If it were unclaimed. Well, I'd appreciate the IDEA of this art, because I'd likely never actually know about it. And that's a kind of beauty.

Sweet, let's keep telling women how beautiful they are, how many kinds of beauty there are, how important it is for them to find their own beauty and how important it is for them to focus on their attractiveness and how they're perceived by others. That way they won't have incentives to aspire to political, economical or technological power in society. Classy stuff.

Thanks Dude!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
That was nine kinds of beautiful. *promote

That was nine kinds of beautiful. *promote

LA sunsets with or without smog/smoke are very different things with different kinds of beauty.

When the 07 OC fires happened, the LA sky was apocalyptic awesomeness. Super dense orange haze blowing fast across the sky from the heat of the fires meeting the colder stormfront off the ocean.

But even without the smog or fires, the natural beauty and diverse climates of the surrounding SoCal areas creates amazing mornings and sunsets almost daily.


http://www.videosift.com/video/As-Sure-As-The-Sun-Awesome-LA-Sunset-Video

Um, listened to the Scarecrow single, think I have some of their actual albums floating around but can't seem to find them at the moment ... <_<
In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Which album are you trying? the pillows have changed their sound a lot over the years (I mean, they've been together for nearly 20 years, so it's pretty much inevitable, haha).

In reply to this comment by RedSky:
Could not agree more, but I still applaud them for trying new things. Listening to the Pillows, not bad but not my style to be honest

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Aw man, yeah, that song was sweet. The dynamics and mood changes in the song really sold it for me. For Miles was artistic genius as well. I dunno, I feel like Vheissu was just a DAMN good release. The Alchemy Index hasn't really grabbed me like the previous albums have, but there are sparks of genius in them too.

In reply to this comment by RedSky:
Yeah, Atlantic was great. Stand And Feel Your Worth also grew on me massively over time, there's a kind of beauty to its subtlety.

Which album are you trying? the pillows have changed their sound a lot over the years (I mean, they've been together for nearly 20 years, so it's pretty much inevitable, haha).

In reply to this comment by RedSky:
Could not agree more, but I still applaud them for trying new things. Listening to the Pillows, not bad but not my style to be honest

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Aw man, yeah, that song was sweet. The dynamics and mood changes in the song really sold it for me. For Miles was artistic genius as well. I dunno, I feel like Vheissu was just a DAMN good release. The Alchemy Index hasn't really grabbed me like the previous albums have, but there are sparks of genius in them too.

In reply to this comment by RedSky:
Yeah, Atlantic was great. Stand And Feel Your Worth also grew on me massively over time, there's a kind of beauty to its subtlety.

Could not agree more, but I still applaud them for trying new things. Listening to the Pillows, not bad but not my style to be honest

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Aw man, yeah, that song was sweet. The dynamics and mood changes in the song really sold it for me. For Miles was artistic genius as well. I dunno, I feel like Vheissu was just a DAMN good release. The Alchemy Index hasn't really grabbed me like the previous albums have, but there are sparks of genius in them too.

In reply to this comment by RedSky:
Yeah, Atlantic was great. Stand And Feel Your Worth also grew on me massively over time, there's a kind of beauty to its subtlety.

Aw man, yeah, that song was sweet. The dynamics and mood changes in the song really sold it for me. For Miles was artistic genius as well. I dunno, I feel like Vheissu was just a DAMN good release. The Alchemy Index hasn't really grabbed me like the previous albums have, but there are sparks of genius in them too.

In reply to this comment by RedSky:
Yeah, Atlantic was great. Stand And Feel Your Worth also grew on me massively over time, there's a kind of beauty to its subtlety.

Yeah, Atlantic was great. Stand And Feel Your Worth also grew on me massively over time, there's a kind of beauty to its subtlety.

This video is so many kind of beautiful!

Humans believe a lot of crazy sh*t. (Alien abductions, ghosts, the yeti, the Loch-Ness Monster, Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, The Secret, Amway, and countless absurd 911 conspiracies to name a few.) I don't think that a natural desire to believe in any of these things provides any evidence that these things exist. (IMO) The same goes for God.


Why do humans want to believe in the supernatural? Because the supernatural is exiting, mysterious, different and most of all AWESOME, but that doesn't make it real. We are imaginative creatures.

I think your animosity towards science in misguided. Religion and science aren't mutually exclusive, in fact, if religion is to be believe, they are one in the same.

If religion is to be believed, then science would be the best way to understand how God put this universe together. Rather than judge science by intangible assumptions about God, perhaps it would be better to use science as a way to better understand God.

I like and agree with your 'fuck it' definition of faith, but most people who share that definition don't bother to argue about science, because it is irrelevant to their world view. You, on the other hand, seem to be genuinely bothered by the fact that science contradicts some of your personal beliefs. I think you have an internal conflict to work out here. (IMO) This inner conflict means you are a thoughtful person.

Minor distinction. You see God as time/space/etc.; I see God as a euphemism for time/space/etc..

FWIW, I was baptized Catholic and believed in God until I was 12 or 13 years old.

In reply to this comment by MINK:
i just wonder why we naturally want to assume there is a reason for everything. why would that basic urge be so deep in us? why would it emerge in the first place? I don't think that "survival instinct" line explains eveything, we do plenty of stuff that's not for survival, we even die for that stuff. I don't think a concept called the "selfish gene" can be the answer. I just don't think like that.

so in a way, the instinct to think about God is my proof of God (in a wordy twisted logic way, not a lab experiment).

I think, therefore He is, I might say.

but that doesn't impress people in an age of lab experiments and petri dishes and electron microscopes. i guess you want to detect the God particle before you'll believe.

Fine. As long as you are looking for it (because as any scientist can tell you, observation affects things), not just waiting for it to hit you in the face without asking.

And, fine, as long as you understand that my "faith" is kinda like "fuck it, i'm pretty damn sure this feeling comes from God, I don't need to wait for someone to find the God particle, I'm already convinced, and I don't care if that isn't scientific by todays standards, it's cool."

And fine, if you don't call me stupid for going on this hunch.

Thanks for forcing me to think about that.

btw god IS infinity, time, space, death etc. we totally agree. but maybe you're more optimistic about todays understanding of the scientific method being the ideal way to find the answers. and i am pretty sure the answer we find will look pretty much like God. some kind of beautifully simple mathematical formula that can unfold into an entire universe. Then, accept that the formula wanted to become a universe so that's God.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
(I believe) Religion is a all-purpose placeholder for things that are beyond our comprehension (infinity, time, space, death, existence, etc.....) As humans we want to believe there is some grand overarching reason for our existence, but my gut tells me that the only meaning in our lives is the meaning we create for ourselves, which is pretty fucking cool, actually.

If God wants to prove me wrong, I'm open to that.

In reply to this comment by MINK:
following is for sheep. but jesus wasn't far wrong. i just know that there's a reason. I don't know how i know, but i don't try to ignore the gut feeling just because it isn't verifiable in a laboratory (yet).

you?

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Fair enough. If not the big C, then what faith do you follow?

i just wonder why we naturally want to assume there is a reason for everything. why would that basic urge be so deep in us? why would it emerge in the first place? I don't think that "survival instinct" line explains eveything, we do plenty of stuff that's not for survival, we even die for that stuff. I don't think a concept called the "selfish gene" can be the answer. I just don't think like that.

so in a way, the instinct to think about God is my proof of God (in a wordy twisted logic way, not a lab experiment).

I think, therefore He is, I might say.

but that doesn't impress people in an age of lab experiments and petri dishes and electron microscopes. i guess you want to detect the God particle before you'll believe.

Fine. As long as you are looking for it (because as any scientist can tell you, observation affects things), not just waiting for it to hit you in the face without asking.

And, fine, as long as you understand that my "faith" is kinda like "fuck it, i'm pretty damn sure this feeling comes from God, I don't need to wait for someone to find the God particle, I'm already convinced, and I don't care if that isn't scientific by todays standards, it's cool."

And fine, if you don't call me stupid for going on this hunch.

Thanks for forcing me to think about that.

btw god IS infinity, time, space, death etc. we totally agree. but maybe you're more optimistic about todays understanding of the scientific method being the ideal way to find the answers. and i am pretty sure the answer we find will look pretty much like God. some kind of beautifully simple mathematical formula that can unfold into an entire universe. Then, accept that the formula wanted to become a universe so that's God.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
(I believe) Religion is a all-purpose placeholder for things that are beyond our comprehension (infinity, time, space, death, existence, etc.....) As humans we want to believe there is some grand overarching reason for our existence, but my gut tells me that the only meaning in our lives is the meaning we create for ourselves, which is pretty fucking cool, actually.

If God wants to prove me wrong, I'm open to that.

In reply to this comment by MINK:
following is for sheep. but jesus wasn't far wrong. i just know that there's a reason. I don't know how i know, but i don't try to ignore the gut feeling just because it isn't verifiable in a laboratory (yet).

you?

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Fair enough. If not the big C, then what faith do you follow?

A "deep voice" on a singer is a baritone. FYI.

I happen to like this song a lot. It's kind of beautiful in its own way.

Go figure, a band called The Crash Test Dummies don't take themselves too seriously - and thus, made for a pretty forgettable parody by Al.