I agree urbanmonk... there is a book that I read... did I mention it? Called Adam?
I think you can look at human beings as animals, and in that sense look at the breeding aspect and healthy gene attraction aspect... but I suppose that has always been God's challenge to us, to be more that just our fleshy bodies more than animals.
I can say that lots of people are quite happy to just be animals. That is untill they are taken out of the "game" either by age or accident... I have never felt a part of that "game", so I suppose I've thought about these things for most my life, and it sounds like you have too... not sure why you don't feel part of the "game", you're a good looking snag!
I think true beauty for me has to strike a very deep cord. There's something more there than asthetics. I suppose the reflection of God has to be there for me to be really impressed... and the asthetics don't even matter then... it's hard living in the world, and not being part of it... it's easier when you know there are other people out there who are doing the same thing... and have a very different mesuring stick...
sorry if I'm being too vague this morning... it's early
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I am familiar with Nouwen. I read "Adam" before I gave it to someone as a gift a few years ago.. They read it in two days, then, proceeded to pass it on to people they knew who had a child with a disability. Obviously they catch on to deep and unseen realities quicker than I do, or, they are just consumers and excreters of truth, like most other Christians.. Please forgive my cynicism.. Alcohol and church does that to you..
"not sure why you don't feel part of the "game", you're a good looking snag!"
Isnt that the point? the assumption is that those that appear to be without deformities must be winners?
Isnt it strange that a man with no outward deformities identifies so strongly with the elephant man?
Yes, its hard to live in the world when your not part of it.. but the hardest things in life often turn out to be graces, as i suspect you may be aware.
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