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Originally Posted by Cynosure
If a beautiful flower exists in a post-apocalyptic world, but there is no one around to appreciate it, is that flower still beautiful? No, because beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder, and thus it cannot really exist if there is absolutely no beholders whatsoever capable of making the judgment.
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This is true. It would be like asking the question "How delicious does the centre of the sun taste?"
Actually, this would be more along the lines of the sublime.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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