Beauty
"I see skies of blue, clouds of white
The bright blessed days, and dark sacred nights.
And I think to myself, 'What a wonderful
world.'"
— What a Wonderful World
People point to beauty as a sign that this world must be essentially good. Surely, they reason, a world with beautiful multi-hued sunsets, expanses of ocean, and towering peaks cannot be bad. Yes, there is beauty, but it is often uncommon, exploited, or ruined, especially when mankind gets its hands on it. Surely, the "advance" of civilization has not beautified this world, but created the most mind-boggling pollution, toxic waste, industrialization, and rape of the earth and its people. Everything is not beautiful, but beauty is used as an excuse to rationalize or accept what is wrong or evil in the world. We think: "Everything is beautiful in nature," "Look at the sunset. Could there be any such thing as evil under the sun?," "People must be good, because babies are so cute." But we should not allow beauty to distract us from the Truth.
There is true beauty and false beauty. Ask yourself: is it true beauty when people have their faces injected with toxic poisons (Botox, derived from the botulinum pathogen), in order to paralyze certain areas, so they look and act less wrinkled or aged? Has "beauty" come to this? Hundreds of thousands if not millions of women, even young ones, are doing this on a regular basis; they even having "Botox parties" where they all sit around and drink wine and get their injections. It is sad, but women have been so mislabeled, stereotyped, deluded, denigrated, and controlled by their society that they willingly subject themselves to this.
Nearly every image you see of a female in the media focuses on her appearance, or certain parts of her anatomy. The true beauty, inner caring and nurturing — the spiritual nature of women — has been perverted into a physical-sexual focus. All too often, women are treated as sexual objects, as something to be used or abused, and judged entirely on appearance. And, they are so programmed and indoctrinated by their society in this Lie, that they hold that illusion as their own. Beauty pageants, with women parading in scant clothing, as if they were some sort of prize cows, have demeaned women for many decades. Perhaps you can see that "beauty" has been, in many ways, an excuse for what is ultimately the abuse and exploitation of beauty.
It is just amazing what is done to glorify the human body. In the Amazon, there are tens of thousands of Avon Ladies who go upriver, hut to hut, selling expensive cosmetics to poor native peoples who often buy these products in lieu of clothing or other essentials. They are buying the illusion that they are a "success" in the modern world merely by applying treatments to the skin. Truth, like beauty, has become skin deep. Cosmetics, perfumes, and plastic surgery are multi-billion dollar businesses. Age-defying treatments are an eight billion dollar a year business in the US. And, it is all in vain. It is a fantasy that we will not age or lose our outer beauty. So what? read more ...
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