{"id":200790,"date":"2020-01-01T15:10:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T23:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=200790"},"modified":"2020-01-01T17:56:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T01:56:05","slug":"purchasing-beauty-or-becoming-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/01\/purchasing-beauty-or-becoming-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchasing Beauty or Becoming Beauty?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The goal of our consumerism: to become more beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Why beauty?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Farnese Hercules 1742 by Richard Dalton. My ideal view of male beauty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We love beauty. Beauty augments our feeling of strength, joy, and hope\/optimism in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in modern times, we seem to want to PURCHASE and buy beauty. We seek beauty via the clothes we buy, the watches we buy, the cars we buy, the homes we buy, the devices we buy, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is our ultimate goal?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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However, what is the ultimate goal? It ain’t purchasing beautiful objects for the sake of it. The end goal is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maximize and augment our feeling of beauty, joy, hope, optimism, strength, and to feel beautiful (ourselves).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thus it seems the ultimate aim is augmenting our own beauty. Purchasing things which we feel reflects our own inner-beauty and strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to become maximally beautiful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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How to make yourself beautiful<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Simple ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Subtract adipose tissue (body fat) from your body<\/strong>. Do this through intermittent fasting, abstaining from sugars\/carbs\/fruit\/alcohol\/starch\/high fructose corn syrup, and through training which gets your heart rate up.<\/li>
  2. Add muscle mass to your frame<\/strong>: Easiest is “one rep max” style powerlifting, and eating LOTS of meat, eggs, protein, and green bitter herbs (and fermented foods) at night.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    By adding muscle mass to your body and subtracting body fat from your body (whether women or male), you will look more aesthetically beautiful, strong, attractive, and powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Why it is better to transform your body into a beautiful work of art, than to simply buy it.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    \"Selfie<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    To buy something is a bit basic and boring. More fun and rewarding to transform your own body into something beautiful \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and you can admire it all day long! Better to admire yourself and body than admire even the most beautiful car, home, clothes, accessories, equipment, tools, or gadgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Vanity is good.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    Then from this line of reasoning, perhaps it is a good goal to maximize your physique and personal beauty. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see the need for plastic surgery or none of that stuff \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but simple weightlifting and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ketogenic\u00e2\u20ac\u009ddiet<\/a> seems to work well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What do you do once you consider yourself maximally beautiful?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    Once you get this ripped \u00e2\u20ac\u201d then what?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Is beauty binary (yes\/no), or is beauty a scale? (0-10?). And if beauty is a scale, can you exceed<\/em> 10\/10? Can you turn your beauty into an 11\/10, or a 12\/10?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And let us say you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the most beautiful human being on planet earth. Then what? Do you just keep striving to augment your beauty even more? How could one even do that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Creating externally beautiful things (artwork)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    Kyoto #cindyproject <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    My thought: once you have achieved a certain personal physique and aesthetic<\/a> you love, then perhaps the next goal is to strive to make the most epic and most beautiful art works. For us, this is photography. <\/p>\n\n\n\n