Questionaire....

[elfgrove]

I intend to take this sometime today, and post an answer in comment to this post.
I'd like for my friends to also answer the questions.
Taken from viator

1. What is the most beautiful thing you've witnessed? The most horrible?

2. If you believe in God, or some higher power, when have you "seen" it, or what proof do you have that it exists?

3. What do you want?

Comments

Y'know...

[ex-viator895.livejournal.com]

I never thought that I'd not only start a survey, but start one without intending to. ;)

Re: Y'know...

[elfgrove.livejournal.com]

But the questions, it's so interesting to hear various answers to them.
It fascinates me, what people think.

[eldanildiel.livejournal.com]

1. What is the most beautiful thing you've witnessed? Love in any form is the most beautiful thing you can witness. Now, obviously I'm not talking about pda in the mall or people laying all over each other. I'm talking about real love. When you see two people exhange a glance and that's all that's needed and they don't have to say a word.

~The most horrible? Seeing someone betrayed by a friend. There's pain, yes, but it's unimaginably doubled when it's because of someone you trusted and cared about. Torture, the atrocities of war, no wound of the body can be beaten by that raw aching wound inflicted on your soul when you realize how stupid you were for trusting that person and how much deeper the pain cuts when it was someone that you'd let into your heart.

2. If you believe in God, or some higher power, when have you "seen" it, or what proof do you have that it exists? I don't have proof except the belief in my heart. I have faith in something greater than myself. I believe that He's taking care of me and that I have a greater purpose. No matter how bad something seems, I can pray and it's like a burden has been lifted and I don't have to worry about it anymore, it'll be taken care of. It may take awhile and sometimes the answer to my questions is no when I really wanted it to be yes, but I've learned that in the great scheme of things everything happens for a reason and if you trust God he'll turn all things to good.

3. What do you want?
I want love. Not just for me, but for my friends and those I love. I want everyone to be happy.

[nephychu.livejournal.com]

1A.) I think the most beautiful thing that I ever witnessed was when a kid named Justin McKim fought his way through a crowd of gaping adults and called 911 to save an old man's life.  I had never envisioned him as anything other than a jerk and a dumbass, but on that day he was a hero standing far above those other pale shadows.

That old man was lost, alone, having a heart attack in the midst of about 20 people.  That would have been a horrible way to die - staring into the faces of uncaring strangers; being laughed at, pointed at, made the object of idle chatter.  McKim came through before it even occurred to me that any of us had the power to save him from that fate.  And it changed my opinion of him forever.

1B.) Most horrible...  Amanda Abbs laughing at the death of my friend, Danny Davis.  I wanted to strangle her to death, bite out her eyes, pull her skull apart in my bare hands.  He'd been one of the gentlest, sweetest, least confrontational and best-humoured people that I had ever known and it literally made something in my head go *snap* to see someone so ignorant and so worthless yukking it up about his horrid misfortune.

2.) I consider pretty much everything in existence to be a higher power than humanity.  We are defilers and disease by nature; the fact that we have the audacity to even contemplate our own supremacy in the great scheme of things is proof enough that the race itself has long since become obsolete.

3.) To feel good and not have to worry about it.  Not just me, everyone and everything.

[jokeyxero.livejournal.com]

1. What is the most beautiful thing you've witnessed? The most horrible?
I'm not sure I can classify one thing as the most beautiful. Beautiful is relative and changes with the person. However, at any given moment I think the most beautiful thing is the look on the face and in the eyes of two lovers just meeting back up after a long time apart. The most horrible? Gone Fishin'. Yes, the movie. *shudder*

2. If you believe in God, or some higher power, when have you "seen" it, or what proof do you have that it exists?
I used to believe in God. But as of late I'm not so sure. I'd like to think there is actually one true deity, but I just hope it's not that asshole from the Bible. Still don't think any of the religions have it correct. Which is why I started a very slow study of all religions. Proof? None. The only question is the begining of the universe, but if God was "just there" then the big gas cloud could have just "been there." Eh. Oh well. Though some things are just way too lucky sometimes...

3. What do you want?
Success. In all things. That's my usual goal. But what would I really like? The power to do any act, fesible or not, at any time I want. But that power does't exist at least not an any humans.

My Answers.... At Last

[elfgrove.livejournal.com]

1. What is the most beautiful thing you've witnessed? In all honesty... I've no idea. Nothing comes to mind as being the most beautiful. I'd like to say love, but I don't think I really have ever had enough complete trust in the concept to see it as the most beautiful. On a overly materialistic note, seeing the world from a mountaintop has never failed to take my breath away. That is truly beautiful, the earth and sky stretching out forever. I like that momentary feeling that everything might be okay and able to go on forever, despite the breaks for a dirty-looking patch of smog that is a city, overall it's okay and safe and keeps going. But I don't know if it's the most beautiful.
It may be something in my friends. Those moments where we just finished a long discussion, or a random dogpile of hugging... That moment where we're all just together and happy in having each other present... That's beautiful.

The most horrible? Betrayal. Be it that moment where your trust in a friend is suddenly shoved in your face and and shown as utterly misused, or the moment where you see family members turn their backs and show true colors that care only for appearance and personal gain. Betrayal has to be the filthiest, most horrifying thing I've had the curse of experiencing.

2. If you believe in God, or some higher power, when have you "seen" it, or what proof do you have that it exists? I believe in one, though not an infalliable one. My higher being, it/they.... not perfect. I have no way of knowing it exists, I just feel it does. That's normally how such things work I suppose.

3. What do you want? I'm not sure... I know what I fear most, failing to protect those I care for, or never seeing them again, being alone, and never finding what it is I'm searching for(I know I need to find something, but exactly what, I'm unsure of that).... those are what I fear most. So I suppose what I want is that my fears become exactly what doesn't happen.

To answer your question......

[(Anonymous)]

1)
The most beautiful thing to me conceptually is my idea of love, but I can't say for certain having never experienced it. The most beautiful thing I've personally witnessed would have to be the view of a clear night sky filled with stars and a crescent moon. Of course I have my personal favorite spots to take in the ambiance.

The most horrible thing is very easy to come up with, the bad things people are capable of. I'll just leave it at that.

2)
I believe there is a higher power. At this moment in time, I have an overall Christian belief, due to being raise as one and finding appeal in its teachings. Although, I don't believe or follow everything about it. I haven't "seen" anything to support my beliefs, but I have a feeling coupled with the questions that science hasn't answered that there is something else. Which is why I try to take to heart other's perceptions on this topic.

3)
Truthfully, as lame as it sounds, I want to see if my choice for the most beautiful thing is correct, and I'm not talking about the sky. But as far as things more in my control go, I would love to see the world and experience what it has to offer.