Physical beauty and Eternal Life

[Dravin]

Who's up for a gas fight?

[annamaureen]

But, regardless of what we may think is beautiful, a lot of the "considered ugly ones" by virtue of the arrangement of their body parts (i.e., nose too big, etc.) are married. So, somebody must have thought them beautiful. I believe "love is blind" is not an accurate description of this state. It is more like, "love has an extra sensory perception that sees the good in another and find it beautiful".

Great point. I have a friend who is absolutely gorgeous; she turns heads wherever she goes. However, she has dating troubles because of certain attitudes and behaviors she has. She wonders why the "less attractive" people she knows are all in committed relationships or married, and she isn't.

[FunkyTown]

Who's up for a gas fight?

I had friends that died in a freak gasoline fight accident.

[RanMan]

The definitions of beauty do change with time and culture. I mean didn't it used to be very unfavorable to be thin? A sign you were poor and sickly? If you were fat, it meant you were rich and most likely had status.

On the other hand, I think of the story of Ester. She apparently had physical beauty on her side and it helped with God's purposes.

I honestly think our modern sexualized and airbrushed culture has warped our sense of what is beautiful. And the genuninely and naturally beautiful start thinkin' they have to change themselves to be some narrow definition. It's sad really. In this culture its painful for just about everybody. And we unnecessarily make it so. It's just so stupid.

Excessive weight is a problem. But being a little curvy isn't. And ugly is as ugly does. Beauty comes from the inside out. Sometimes the most favored are really ugly on the inside. ANd it shows.

In many portions of the world this is still true. I had some friends from Columbia that kidded with me that I wasn't over weight, I was "Prosperous." Indicating, that being wealthy enough to eat on a regular basis was very attractive to women in a poor country.

:)

[RanMan]

I had friends that died in a freak gasoline fight accident.

Did you give the U-google-ee for them?

[RanMan]

There have been some really great comments: inner beauty, healthy being attractive, and more. To this I would add, that I find my wife to be the most attractive woman on the planet. I may not find her every feature to be perfect, but that doesn't prevent me from taking a long look at her and appreciating how lucky I am to have married her.

In fact, some of the features that she finds to be flaws, are the ones I like the best. Maybe because they are so uniquely her.

:)

[RanMan]

I don't know about anyone else, but I have often been glad that I am not really, really, ridiculously good looking. So often, I notice that the people who I know that have been blessed with exceptional good looks and wealth from an early age, take a hit on the personal development scale. It seems as if they learn to rely on these blessings to get by on life and it becomes a bit of a crutch for them.

Not that I am putting anyone down or saying that all people blessed in this manner will act this way. I am just glad that I didn't fall into either category. I know that I would not be in the situation that I am now - for which I am very happy to be in.

:)

[Misshalfway]

I had friends that died in a freak gasoline fight accident.

Were they freakishly ugly and fat?

[FunkyTown]

Were they freakishly ugly and fat?

Eww! No way. Why would I be friends with somebody like that?

[PastorBob]

How one looks in life is dependent on how one once treated others, but just because someone is beautiful currently does not mean they will be a good person towards others.

John 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

How could he sin to be born blind? Think about that carefully.

Edited November 19, 2009 by PastorBob
Added a bible verse.

[beefche]

I don't know about anyone else, but I have often been glad that I am not really, really, ridiculously good looking. So often, I notice that the people who I know that have been blessed with exceptional good looks and wealth from an early age, take a hit on the personal development scale. It seems as if they learn to rely on these blessings to get by on life and it becomes a bit of a crutch for them.

Not that I am putting anyone down or saying that all people blessed in this manner will act this way. I am just glad that I didn't fall into either category. I know that I would not be in the situation that I am now - for which I am very happy to be in.

:)

I saw a preview for a cooking challenge on the food network. Real chefs had runway models for assistants for a food competition. I didn't watch the show, only the preview. At one point, one of the models broke something and the chef said, "that's ok, you're pretty." So condescending! I remember thinking if I were that model, I would have walked out at that point. As if being a chef requires so much intellect that someone who makes a mistake cannot have such mental powers.

[Guest]

There have been some really great comments: inner beauty, healthy being attractive, and more. To this I would add, that I find my wife to be the most attractive woman on the planet. I may not find her every feature to be perfect, but that doesn't prevent me from taking a long look at her and appreciating how lucky I am to have married her.

In fact, some of the features that she finds to be flaws, are the ones I like the best. Maybe because they are so uniquely her.

:)

Okay RanMan's wife... stop hacking lds.net!

:D:D

[candyprpl]

I was thinking of this quote I jotted down in my scriptures by Parley P Pratt. He talks about how the spirit affects a person and among lots of other great effects, he says the spirit...."develops the beauty of the person; form & features."

I was also reminded of what my MTC Elders said about being in the temple with all the sisters. They said that everyone became beautiful and that the attitudes of the world inside of them kinda faded away. So Bytor, maybe there is hope for all shallowness in all of us.

This made me think of a time I went to the temple with several sisters. I was exiting the Celestial room and returning to the dressing room and as I opened the door there stood a sister from my ward, who wouldn't be considered beautiful or even attractive in the 'world's eye', she was standing in front of the mirror in her temple clothes just staring at herself. I said, Hi _________. She looked at me and said, "I love looking at myself here, because I'm never more beautiful." I looked at her and agreed with her, she knew what she was saying, she was beautiful. We hugged and cried!!!

[Dravin]

I saw a preview for a cooking challenge on the food network. Real chefs had runway models for assistants for a food competition. I didn't watch the show, only the preview. At one point, one of the models broke something and the chef said, "that's ok, you're pretty." So condescending! I remember thinking if I were that model, I would have walked out at that point. As if being a chef requires so much intellect that someone who makes a mistake cannot have such mental powers.

I probably would have said something like, "And for that, you're tasting the cream sauce... all of it." Depending on mood a maniacal laugh may or may not have followed.

Edited November 19, 2009 by Dravin

[RanMan]

This made me think of a time I went to the temple with several sisters. I was exiting the Celestial room and returning to the dressing room and as I opened the door there stood a sister from my ward, who wouldn't be considered beautiful or even attractive in the 'world's eye', she was standing in front of the mirror in her temple clothes just staring at herself. I said, Hi _________. She looked at me and said, "I love looking at myself here, because I'm never more beautiful." I looked at her and agreed with her, she knew what she was saying, she was beautiful. We hugged and cried!!!

That is a beautiful story, no pun intended.

:)

[RanMan]

I saw a preview for a cooking challenge on the food network. Real chefs had runway models for assistants for a food competition. I didn't watch the show, only the preview. At one point, one of the models broke something and the chef said, "that's ok, you're pretty." So condescending! I remember thinking if I were that model, I would have walked out at that point. As if being a chef requires so much intellect that someone who makes a mistake cannot have such mental powers.

I have two reactions to that.

The first being that it supports the notion that there drawbacks to being beautiful. Although, I am not about to feel sorry for them for it.

The second is that I find that in many cases this would be accurate. There are certainly many attractive people who have gotten by on their looks and are sorely lacking in other areas.

:)

[Misshalfway]

I would also guess that maybe people miss the depth of a person as they are distracted by all the beautifulness.

You'll have to ask Funkytown about how embarrassing it must be to have lines of passed out women behind him on the street.

[FunkyTown]

I would also guess that maybe people miss the depth of a person as they are distracted by all the beautifulness.

You'll have to ask Funkytown about how embarrassing it must be to have lines of passed out women behind him on the street.

We say they are 'Women who have swooned', halfers. SWOONED!

[Bini]

Maybe the idea of "perfect bodies" just means perfectly healthy and functional - no disabilities, vision impairment, etc - not perfectly beautiful? Because, after all, who decides what's beautiful? I think we'll all be pretty much the same as far as appearance goes, we'll just look at each other differently.

I agree with this and believe that we will be ourselves for the most part, minus the ailments that were dealt to us during our mortal existence.

[Moksha]

I think our perceptions of beauty will change. But I also think our perfected bodies will be as beautiful as we want them to be.

I would like to look like the Silver Surfer. :)

[Snow]

The artwork the Church publishes always shows a handsome Christ... same for JS.

[Pegasus]

There's a place for physical beauty and for inner beauty. You can have one and not the other, both, or neither of the two.

I would dare to say that someone who is physically and spritually beautiful would be quite a catch. One that has one and not the other would be able to find a suitor. While someone who is ugly physically and spiritually would not be well accepted.

[john doe]

The artwork the Church publishes always shows a handsome Christ... same for JS.

Same for me. Must be a conspiracy.