I guess hotter is not always beautiful, but maybe?
Jim, on FB, suggested Sarah Palin as the exception to this rule, but I don’t know. I think people who increase their intelligence are pretty “hot,” or beautiful. Yes, even reading Ayn Rand – I think.
But what is beauty? Is it always outward appearances? Inward, a mixture of both? Or is it just attraction?
What attracts us to something? Do we consider it beautiful first or, are we attracted to it and then realize it is beautiful?
What is, in your opinion, beauty?
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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what is beauty I think this is clearly answered in another article I enjoyed
http://www.thechristiannetwork.com/what-is-love/