Joseph Maynor

I'm just saying learning how to talk to real people and practicing that is key. For this we need to get off our technology.

What's missing today is people today are so interested in their technological reality they don't even know how to talk to a real person anymore. It's a problem.

Look in the mirror and find out.

Doesn't what is beautiful hinge on some kind of finite picture of values or perspective? Otherwise, it would seem that Beauty would be immune to judgment, but nobody ever takes this position consistently too. Beauty (and aesthetics more generally) is puzzling for this reason. Good conversation.

How do you know this?

Yes. It is not wrong to not want to be around abusive people, I agree. I feel like I can tolerate unpleasant people to a degree though. I don't want to be too judgmental in that way.

Touché lol.

I might believe you, it depends on what you say.

Who gets to decide what ugliness in myself is? I'll take one for the team here lol.

Respectfully, I'm confused about the focus of there being so much ugliness in reality. I get it that there is, but I'm unsure about the conclusions drawn about it. I get that other people differ in taste. I don't focus on ugliness obsessively when it comes to living my life. Maybe I'm wrong.

I love this quote from the video "there is no spirituality without understanding." This is a key insight.

We are so attached to technology now that we don't socialize as much face to face as much anymore.

For me what happens is I have an intention to create well up after being influenced by other creators. I wouldn't call it a response to ugliness per se (although that could be too) -- but a desire, inspiration, motivation to create something.

I'm curious as to why this doesn't class as a moral judgment.

I like to cook and like food so I'm not the hugest health nut when it comes to cooking. Here's a couple I enjoy. I try to make something like this once a week. Right now I'm exploring soul food. Mostly I eat salads and healthier things.

It's funny that we're mentioning food because there's melody and rhythm in food too. It's analogous. But anyway, this is probably for a different thread. Check out "Sound of the Sea".

Look at the song Happy Birthday and try to find the melody and rhythm. There's a lot of melody in that song with minimal rhythm.

"Row row row your boat" is a great way to see the difference between melody and rhythm.

Just because I disagree with someone doesn't mean I need to carry any comparative animosity.

I feel like there is a lot of closed minded judging happening where you don't really understand someone but you want to put them in a box.