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 Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:54 pm
Not talking dermatology -- the Skin (capitalized, woo!) is the physical aspect that gives everyone their first impression of a persion. Appearance, of course, but also voice or even smell. From a scientific point of view, you ARE your Skin, or you are your brain, and everything else is your Skin. (However if you had a brain tumour... hm.)
Beneath the Skin is a person -- a soul, a spirit, whatever.
What connectivity does a person have to their Skin, and why? What happens when they separate from it (die)? (Not that I expect anyone to KNOW the answer to that one.) Do you believe a person is their brain, and that all emotion and thought is purely chemical?
I'm not usually NEARLY this abstract, by the way, I've just been thinking about this a lot lately.
What would you do if you had no Skin to help your judgement? It is, sadly, almost impossible to go through life without judging people, whether you'd like to or not. I'm not just talking labels such as "emo", "jock" and "geek".
Say, for instance, that a person has extreme difficulty speaking, does not respond intelligibly to any of your questions, is stirred to violent emotion at very slight provocation, and who you honestly can't understand a syllable of their speech, as it is slurred, piped and grunted. (Yes, I'm talking about a specific, single person, and I'll get very predictable, I'm sure, but it's a good example.)
Wouldn't you think it safe to assume that person is mentally disabled? That's the Skin. The specific person I refer to turns out to be, in your particular scenario, in fact very intelligent, philosophical and poetic.
Do you think it is possible to see past the Skin at first meeting?
Any other thing you can think of on this topic is welcome, I just had those questions to prompt.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:32 pm
People have an extreme connection to their Skin. They often, subconsciously, look for mates that look similar to them due to familarity. It has even be recorded and used in multiple ways from police work to tv shows.
Personally, I don't judge people's mental capacity due to their Skin a lone. It is the way they use their voice and how they carry themselves that gives clues to how that person really is.
And, also, sadly, I do believe that it is difficult to see pass a person's Skin on first meeting. First, some form of a relationship must develop in order to give a reason to see someone else more deeply.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:55 pm
Professor Blue People have an extreme connection to their Skin. They often, subconsciously, look for mates that look similar to them due to familarity. It has even be recorded and used in multiple ways from police work to tv shows.
Personally, I don't judge people's mental capacity due to their Skin a lone. It is the way they use their voice and how they carry themselves that gives clues to how that person really is.
And, also, sadly, I do believe that it is difficult to see pass a person's Skin on first meeting. First, some form of a relationship must develop in order to give a reason to see someone else more deeply. Couldn't have said it better myself.
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:42 pm
Outer appearence is a funny thing. Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and I cant really believe it. I just think like...is this really what I look like? Sometimes I feel different than I look. I'm sure everyone feels that way.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:18 pm
As has already been mentioned, people are very attached to their Skin. It affects how people treat you when you meet them, which can be useful (or not, depending on your particular society's values and your Skin) especially when the majority of people you meet are only in your life very, very briefly (checkout guy, waiter, etc).
On the subject of labels, they are, in a sense, a nessacary component of life. We have to be able to, at the very least, seperate out those who would harm us and assign them a label to identify them ("terrorist") to those who will take care of us ("family"). Of course, this can lead to steryotypes and poorly chosen labels, but I beleive that's just a side-effect of our logical minds. Bad expierience with "X'="X" is bad. You haven't had any other expieriences with "X" so you have to form your opinion off that one, bad, expierience.
As for seeing past the Skin first meeting, I doubt it. You may get a glimpse of who they really are, but we are such complex creatures that it takes many meetings over a long period of time to see who tehy really are (and even then, because there are people who obsses over their Skin out there, they may be entirely proficient at hiding triats they feel you won't like). When we die, I really have no idea what happens to our soul, should we have one. Hopefully, there is an afterlife of some sort. And if there isn't, well, oblivion sucks, but at least I have some idea about what it might be like (go to bed. Wait for a dreamless night. That's probably about as close to oblivion as we can get without dying).
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:22 pm
Maybe a little off-topic???---but it's ok.
Humans have developed and evolved into creatures of survival: the "Skin" is what helps us to label and sort strangers into categories. Labels are not bad things, however, they can get in the way of relationships, friendships, social life, etc, especially when they are abused by people who never care to try and see past them. And I do believe it is possible, with effort, to see beyond these labels that every human uses, and to the real person beneath the Skin.
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:36 pm
The Skin is a Mirror:
...it Reflects what you have on the inside.
As does the eyes.
Beauty is withing the Eye of the Beholder, Physical Beauty is only Skin-deep.
Therefore, what true Beauty lies behind the eyes of the Beholder....?
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