Landscapes

[AnthroHeart]

What is so appealing about landscapes to the human?

Especially remote landscapes?

https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&s...MTo9rWqeQ4


I am very fond of landscapes. Especially those that are remote and your voice echoes. Something deep.

[Lighthead]

Where is this one from?



That can't be real. That was in the link you provided.

[AnthroHeart]

That's one for the psychonaut.

Could easily be an astral landscape.

[Minyatur]

Ah the glory of nature!

[anagogy]

What is so appealing about landscapes to the human?

Especially remote landscapes?

Because the grass is always greener in the other dimension. Even if it actually isn't.

It is the nature of the human. We always want what we think we don't have.

[Minyatur]

What is so appealing about landscapes to the human?

Especially remote landscapes?

Because the grass is always greener in the other dimension.  Even if it actually isn't.

It is the nature of the human.  We always want what we think we don't have.

What about earthly landscapes?

[AnthroHeart]

What is so appealing about landscapes to the human?

Especially remote landscapes?

Because the grass is always greener in the other dimension.  Even if it actually isn't.

It is the nature of the human.  We always want what we think we don't have.

What about earthly landscapes?

Yeah, what about them?

I wouldn't want to think that I'm trying avoidance.

[anagogy]

Yeah, what about them?

I wouldn't want to think that I'm trying avoidance.

Usually the earthly landscapes we find attractive are not ones we are currently enjoying in our immediate environment.  So rather than the grass being greener in the other dimension, it is grass being greener on the other side of the fence, or world, or wherever we are looking at that is no in our immediate viscinity.

Ra: We may suggest that in order to progress, a state of some dissatisfaction will be present, thus giving the entity the stimulus for further seeking. This dissatisfaction, nervousness, or angst, if you will, is not of itself useful. Thus its use is indirect.

[Minyatur]

Yeah, what about them?

I wouldn't want to think that I'm trying avoidance.

Usually the earthly landscapes we find attractive are not ones we are currently enjoying in our immediate environment.  So rather than the grass being greener in the other dimension, it is grass being greener on the other side of the fence, or world, or wherever we are looking at that is no in our immediate viscinity.

Ra: We may suggest that in order to progress, a state of some dissatisfaction will be present, thus giving the entity the stimulus for further seeking. This dissatisfaction, nervousness, or angst, if you will, is not of itself useful. Thus its use is indirect.

I'm not sure how you interpreted GW's post. By remote I do think he meant that they extend far away in the field of view.

Does enjoying viewing a full moon implies you cannot enjoy immediate days in which they are no full moon? Enjoying the daylight implying not being able to enjoy the immediate night time? Enjoying a car ride implying you cannot enjoy any immediate moment in which you are not in a car.

My point is that you can generalize this for anything anyone can be enjoying.

Sorry if I have a hard time understanding what you find wrong in contemplating nature's beauty. I do enjoy and appreciate the glory of every landscape I have gazed upon, whether far from my current location or just in the golf 5 mimutes away from it.

[AnthroHeart]

By remote I meant far away and also expansive.

[Lighthead]

I think that it's actually rare for someone to live in an environment that is absolutely pristine, beautiful and fit for a postcard. I pretty much live on a street that's full of apartment buildings. There's nothing beautiful about that. I don't see anything unnatural, wrong or weird about falling in love with a scene like the ones in that link. I'd like for someone to walk down the street I live on and try to appreciate that "beauty." Lol. And if I walk to the main street that's by my house you see so many mentally ill homeless people walking around. It's absolutely depressing. My mom and I walked to the Denny's that is by our house one time and this drunk homeless guy was being really rude to her. I was even scared for her. Lord knows what I would have done if he would have hit her. I probably would have beat the s*** out of him. I know that that's not too spiritual sounding for this board, but so be it. That's real life.

[anagogy]

I'm not sure how you interpreted GW's post. By remote I do think he meant that they extend far away in the field of view.

Does enjoying viewing a full moon implies you cannot enjoy immediate days in which they are no full moon? Enjoying the daylight implying not being able to enjoy the immediate night time? Enjoying a car ride implying you cannot enjoy any immediate moment in which you are not in a car.

My point is that you can generalize this for anything anyone can be enjoying.

Sorry if I have a hard time understanding what you find wrong in contemplating nature's beauty. I do enjoy and appreciate the glory of every landscape I have gazed upon, whether far from my current location or just in the golf 5 mimutes away from it.

I didn't find anything wrong with contemplating natures beauty.  I was just responding to his question of why we like landscapes.  

There are exceptions to every rule, be they generalization or not.  That doesn't make the generalization untrue, just untrue in a specific circumstance.

[Minyatur]

I'm not sure how you interpreted GW's post. By remote I do think he meant that they extend far away in the field of view.

Does enjoying viewing a full moon implies you cannot enjoy immediate days in which they are no full moon? Enjoying the daylight implying not being able to enjoy the immediate night time? Enjoying a car ride implying you cannot enjoy any immediate moment in which you are not in a car.

My point is that you can generalize this for anything anyone can be enjoying.

Sorry if I have a hard time understanding what you find wrong in contemplating nature's beauty. I do enjoy and appreciate the glory of every landscape I have gazed upon, whether far from my current location or just in the golf 5 mimutes away from it.

I didn't find anything wrong with contemplating natures beauty.  I was just responding to his question of why we like landscapes.  

There are exceptions to every rule, be they generalization or not.  That doesn't make the generalization untrue, just untrue in a specific circumstance.

Ok, but I don't understand how contemplating something implies trying to escape from the immediate moment. 

Perhaps I simply don't relate myself to what you viewed in others.

[anagogy]

Ok, but I don't understand how contemplating something implies trying to escape from the immediate moment. 

Perhaps I simply don't relate myself to what you viewed in others.

I don't recall saying that contemplating something implied one was trying to escape the immediate moment.

It was more: people find different attractive.  It is the nature of consciousness to seek newness.  In fact, "newness" is the reason for consciousness.  In the absence of "newness" or, at least, "perceived newness", consciousness goes unconscious.  Not really unconscious.  But no longer a subject/object relationship type consciousness.  It is the same phenomenon that occurs when catalyst has been fully utilized.  It fades into the background, and elicits no reaction anymore.

In IGW's original post, he specifically asked about remote landscapes, which is what solicited my particular answer.  Sorry for the confusion.