Talk Cancer

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Our society can be very cruel for the aesthetically-challenged. The answer is not only a need for self-esteem but the courage to tell detractors that you ARE a beautiful person, no matter what they think. Remember; people who matter don’t judge, people who judge don’t matter. You want people to tell detractors that everybody *is* beautiful… but in the first sentence you plainly stated that some are aesthetically challenged. Removing one label and replacing it with another doesn’t solve a thing. The only people who use the term "aesthetically challenged" are disingenuous pieces of trash.  They mean *ugly*, and any ugly person who isn’t also "intellectually challenged" knows that. Being ugly wouldn’t be so bad as long as person is smart enough to know that anyone who tells them they are "aesthetically challenged" is full of shit. — SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.  - Ambrose Bierce Thankfully, not everyone is so shallow that their definition of what is beautiful and what is "ugly" is determined strictly one’s aesthetic qualities. There are many people in this world who may not possess your standards of physical attractiveness but they are still rank amongst the most beautiful people.

I think you missed his point. You would need to get your head around some of the Gestalt thinking but *you* are the one making the definition not him. One’s perception is infinitely definable and holds no truth only opinion. Truth *is* an opinion. If you are worried about beauty and ugliness and wish to define people this way, either inside or outside, then you are perpetuating the pain and suffering people experience by these definitions. "Aesthetically challenged" is disingenuous because it is just another description of ugly. The sooner we as animals get beyond symbols such as personal beauty and ugliness the quicker we will arrive at our destination as humans. Our actions and our aspirations are what make up our value not genetic physicality that nature has bestowed on us with very little choice of our own.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Our society can be very cruel for the aesthetically-challenged. The answer is not only a need for self-esteem but the courage to tell detractors that you ARE a beautiful person, no matter what they think. Remember; people who matter don’t judge, people who judge don’t matter. You want people to tell detractors that everybody *is* beautiful… but in the first sentence you plainly stated that some are aesthetically challenged. Removing one label and replacing it with another doesn’t solve a thing. The only people who use the term "aesthetically challenged" are disingenuous pieces of trash.  They mean *ugly*, and any ugly person who isn’t also "intellectually challenged" knows that. Being ugly wouldn’t be so bad as long as person is smart enough to know that anyone who tells them they are "aesthetically challenged" is full of shit. — SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.   – Ambrose Bierce

Thankfully, not everyone is so shallow that their definition of what is beautiful and what is "ugly" is determined strictly one’s aesthetic qualities. There are many people in this world who may not possess your standards of physical attractiveness but they are still rank amongst the most beautiful people.

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Our society can be very cruel for the aesthetically-challenged. The answer is not only a need for self-esteem but the courage to tell detractors that you ARE a beautiful person, no matter what they think. Remember; people who matter don’t judge, people who judge don’t matter. http://my.webmd.com/content/article/106/108218.htm  Three in four people who are preoccupied with an imagined or slight defect in their appearance have thought about committing suicide. What’s more, about one in four have actually attempted to take their lives, a new study shows. The researchers surveyed people with body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD, a serious illness that causes a person to be preoccupied with minor or imagined flaws.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – x-no-archive: yes Our society can be very cruel for the aesthetically-challenged. The answer is not only a need for self-esteem but the courage to tell detractors that you ARE a beautiful person, no matter what they think. Remember; people who matter don’t judge, people who judge don’t matter. You are clearly stupid.  Everybody judges including you – as evidenced by your ‘aesthetically challenged’ blunder.  Good looking people have it easier than ugly people, and that’s just reality. Finally.  Geez louise.  I had to read about a lot of research to prove this to people.  In the end, no one ever really came out and admitted it this coldly, they mostly just shut up once they realized I had my i’s dotted and my t’s crossed.  The jig was up, there wasn’t much more for them to say.  What a game.  Making someone have to prove self-evident reality.  This is when I began to realize the only person I can fully trust on this planet is me.

You can trust tell it like it is Luna, too. Anyway.  I’ve seen too many uninhibited groups of teenagers say really cruel thing to overweight or different looking people in malls to think that the truth is anything but.  Plus I have vague recollections of being a kid myself. Jean – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –

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I disagree that good people necessarily have it better than ugly… but Oops, Freudian slip? I meant good looking people.

When I saw you’d posted right after as I was reading your previous one, I knew why as soon as I’d read that. Good looking people are generally more positively responded to.  They have more self confidence.  I think life is better for good looking people (generalization)  - I’m not saying that’s a good thing, it just is.  I’d even go so far as saying that extreme ugliness is a valid disability inasmuch as it impedes the progress of one’s life in society. Jean .

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I disagree that good people necessarily have it better than ugly… but

Oops, Freudian slip? I meant good looking people.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Our society can be very cruel for the aesthetically-challenged. The answer is not only a need for self-esteem but the courage to tell detractors that you ARE a beautiful person, no matter what they think. Remember; people who matter don’t judge, people who judge don’t matter. You are clearly stupid.  Everybody judges including you – as evidenced by your ‘aesthetically challenged’ blunder.  Good looking people have it easier than ugly people, and that’s just reality.  Then again, the Elephant Man has a pretty good reputation. What kind of doctor lives in apartment 3157? Jean

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