One Above All

Morrigoon · 10-14-2008, 09:52 AM

I don't think I ever saw this thread the first time around, thanks for dredging it up!

Here's something to chew on: most of the people who are "est"s experience great pain and/or anguish as a result of their "est"ness. Take the world's tallest woman, Yao Defen, for example. However much we might like being tall, would we trade places with her? Probably not. How about world's fattest man? Nope, lot of pain there too. In fact, I daresay even if we found world's most beautiful woman, we'd find a hoard of suffering attached to that title, either as a result of the effort required to maintain such beauty, or a result of the inappropriate behavior of others towards her, who fail to see her for anything other than her physical appearance.

Superlatives are cool, when you aren't it.

10-14-2008, 09:52 AM	#33
Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	I don't think I ever saw this thread the first time around, thanks for dredging it up! Here's something to chew on: most of the people who are "est"s experience great pain and/or anguish as a result of their "est"ness. Take the world's tallest woman, Yao Defen, for example. However much we might like being tall, would we trade places with her? Probably not. How about world's fattest man? Nope, lot of pain there too. In fact, I daresay even if we found world's most beautiful woman, we'd find a hoard of suffering attached to that title, either as a result of the effort required to maintain such beauty, or a result of the inappropriate behavior of others towards her, who fail to see her for anything other than her physical appearance. Superlatives are cool, when you aren't it. __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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