The Greek island of Santorini. Slap-you-in-the-face beautiful.
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More like: "God I'm pretty. Gotta rub it into ugly people's faces!"
But seriously... my girlfriend. Those black eyes, that black hair, that pale skin, that beautiful face. She seriously looks like a way prettier version of Teenage!Alma. I consider myself the luckiest person ever for being able to kiss her.
edited 8th Nov '11 3:07:48 PM by kay4today
Kay's girlfriend is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
Next to that is .........a good view of my city while there was a rainbow very close by. The moon was viewable while it was still light at the same time too. It made me feel like I was on another world.
Next to that would be this gorgeous redhead. I've never seen anyone as beautiful as her.
I was wondering why frisbees got bigger as they got closer then it hit me.Hmm... the time I got to go to Hawaii, I walked off some paths and discovered this little rocky coastal alcove. There was a really tall cliff with an overhang that was all thick moss and rock, and clear, clean water was constantly raining down after filtering through the moss, and on the other side was the ocean. It doesn't sound that beautiful, but I wanted to just live there forever.
Though the most beautiful thing I've observed would have to be something I've heard, but I can't decide what.
First would be If I remember it correctly it was seeing a valley plain like area in new mexico after I climbed a hilly mountain thing and when I saw at a lookout point somewhere near a road that led to a small tourist attraction.
Second would be I guess the Marsh land's in Louisiana which looks like a very nice place to relax at...
Note to self: Check one's pulse more often@Spork-my god, you are right, that IS beautiful. I'm so going there if I can.
Let's see, the most beautiful thing I've seen...
Fictional-Four words. Five Centimeters Per Second. All of it.
Real Life-There was a time when I went to the school community service down at countryside. I had to pick out stones from the field for six hours, which nearly broke my back. When it ended, it was dusk. I don't have the picture, so let me try to describe.
The whole sky was a hue of orange, with some clouds shining in pink from the sunlight. As we left for the hostel, we walked along the field of reeds on one side of the road and a clear stream at the other side. In the reeds, far away, there was a cow eating glass and staring at us. The wind was really cool and refreshing and carried the chirpings of the bugs.
Yeah, it was worth it, all right.
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.Wait, is that too broad? :/
If you ask me, your answer is not too broad; but it is (again, if you ask me,) the only answer that it makes any sense to give if it is not ruled out by the question, which in this case I assume it implicitly is.
There's nothing better than everything that exists; because even things that do not exist outside your imagination are still part of the universe, as they are features (or functions, if you like,) of your mind, which in turn is a feature of your body. The Universe includes all art, philosophy, emotion and other experience or expression thereof, that any living being has ever had.
Outside of any of its internal features, there is a grandeur in the Universe and the laws of which it is the manifestation that to our knowledge is completely without equal. Upon contemplating the nature of our Universe, and some of the known details of that nature (by which I refer to the "laws of nature" as discovered by science,) one is immersed in an overwhelming sense of awe, an overwhelming sense of unity with everything that there is (whether we know of it or not,) and an overwhelming sense of solidarity will all of our fellow living beings, which have the privilege of possessing a nervous system capable of any experience, let alone the variety and glory that we get to witness in every pleasure on which one cares to focus. If the price of all experience is the grand total of all negative experience throughout the history of life, I would say it's easily worth it.
...Now that I'm done writing all that, I'm reminded of the reason why I didn't submit this answer in the first place; namely, as I said at the beginning of this post, that to me it seemed that this answer was implicitly out of the possible set of answers, as this would be the one that (if I'm any judge) most people would give upon considering the question on this level.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.If we're allowing answers of that sort, I'd change my answer to the entirety of mathematics. I don't just mean the small bit that humans comprehend and express through notation; I refer to the fundamental relations and patterns underlying it.
Mathematics is, in essence, pattern and structure in its purest and most universal form. It isn't limited to everything that merely exists — it includes all that could exist, all that can even be thought of, the very concepts of existence and concept itself. Mathematics not only contains every possible universe, but defines what those possibilities are. It is reality in the broadest sense of the word.
Perhaps it's a bit nonstandard to consider mathematics so broadly defined, but if I were to just say "everything", people usually think I'm just talking about one universe or some small collection of universes.
Time to pull out my favorite Bertrand Russell quote!
...and I recognize the irony in writing this post when I should be working on my math homework due tomorrow.
edited 8th Nov '11 10:05:04 PM by Enthryn
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Now that I'm reminded of that quote and the ideas therein, I have to agree.
Still, I'm pretty sure my post came quite close to it and might even have been saying the same thing from a different angle if my post is read from a different angle. To elaborate: when I speak of the nature of the Universe and the laws of which it is the manifestation, I don't mean just the laws of nature as discovered by science, which I did specify as "known details" of the nature of the Universe.
When I wrote it, I was also thinking of concepts like causality and physicalism. In other words, I included the features of our Universe that define the interactions between the other laws, as well as ones that are the basis on which other laws exist. I believe mathematics is included in this definition of the nature of the Universe.
If the Universe follows laws that cannot be expressed without mathematics (as it does*, without fail,) then mathematics is by extension included in the definition of our Universe. Similarly, if causal relations hold true in our Universe (as they do,) then causality is in that regard a feature of our Universe.
*To our knowledge to an extent that is greater than any other human knowledge, with the possible exception, discovered by Descartes among many, of the existence of the entity which is doing the observing, including the observation of its own experiences (in other words, experience of experience.)
...OK, this is off-topic. I'll just stop here.
edited 8th Nov '11 10:33:03 PM by BestOf
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.

The best smile I've ever seen my best friend have.