Is beauty REALLY subjective?
I don't think beauty is subjective, men and women generally agree on who is and who isn't attractive. "Beauty is subjective" and "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" are both sayings that we want to hear, but I don't think it's entirely true. There was a study done in the UK years ago, and newborn infants were shown two pictures, one of an attractive woman and one of an unattractive woman. Almost all of the babies significantly looked at the attractive woman for a longer time. Attractiveness is not in the eye of the beholder, it's innate to a newborn infant! Here is the study (and by the way, I don't think you can argue that beauty IS subjective when it is scientifically proven to be objective): http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6355-babies-prefer-to-gaze-upon-beautiful-faces.html#.UzgVVq1dWJx Everyone talks about how there is always that "prettiest girl in the school" and how all the boys like her, so obviously beauty is not all that subjective. I think that the only point beauty becomes subjective is when people start comparing two beautiful woman, for example Megan Fox or Jessica Alba. People will have an opinion on who is more beautiful. However, it is not subjective when we were to compare two women such as Halle Berry and Whoopi Goldberg. Most people would choose Halle Berry.
Do you think everyone looks extremely attractive to at least one person?
No.Not objectively and not if real life statistics have something to say about it.There is an intellectual and moral fallacy when people say things like “everyone is beautiful,” or that “there is someone out there for you/everyone,” those are not objective truths.Those are statistically wrong, not to mention objectively wrong. Sure, beauty can be subjective when measured in cultural terms and the like.But the reality is that we are all attracted to healthy, reasonably good people. And there are a ton of ugly, horrible excuses for human beings out there. Maybe you just have not met them. But trust me, they exists.Those quotes I stated above as just lines people tell each other in order to disguise the unfair truth that life is well, unfair. Before we made civilization and monogamy a thing, for example, the anthropological record seems to indicate that almost 70%+ of all women only mated with about 20%+ of all men. Since well, women only went for the hottest/most powerful/strongest (contextually speaking) partners. This sort of species behaviour is nothing strange and occurs often in many species in the natural world.And even now, as we try to balance the relationship/sex game by pushing people into monogamous relationships, the reality is that not everyone will find a happy relationship. Not everyone will find the partner they find the most attractive (or even attractive, and thus, you can’t assume their partner might be *IT* for them really) or the one they are the happiest with. Or marry out of love — I a m looking at you, India and middle east.There are ton of people in the world who are alone. Not to mention a lot of people who do not deserve to be in a relationship and a ton of people who are almost un-date-able for a multitude of reasons. I mean, how much do you want to lower your bar?The point is life is not fair. We might not want to live like it is, but it is. Not everyone get the same or best hand. Regardless of gender.Therefore, not everyone is “attractive.” Period. Therefore there are individuals out there who no one will see as a catch.
What does it mean if i have excessive dreams of torture and physical harm? help!!!!?
Basically there are two schools of thought, the one discards dreams as an excercise for the vacant mind, the other teaches that certain elements can have meaning. If we were to reason after the second one and analyse this dream, a couple of things become apparent: 1. Your dreams are dark and aggressive 2. This frightens you intensely 3. This dream focusses on others, not on yourself From that information we can deduct that you are at least not a sociopath (the suffering of others would not scare you) and that you have been through some troubling experience that makes you subconsciously see others as animals. The second part of that deduction is however nothing more than an educated guess. If these dreams don't influence your daily life, I'd advise ignoring them. However, recurring dreams of a dark nature can indicate depression, only if you are sure that no such pattern of constant feelings of depression is going on in your life, you can put this dream completely aside. Caution: It's also perfectly well possible that the information you process during the day seeps through to your subconscious, stop cultivating your fears for a couple of weeks and see what happens. (That means: no horrifying or violent films, no dark music, no intense confrontations with others if they can be avoided.)