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I just took a good long look at myself in the mirror, while naked. (Original Post) LuckyCharms Oct 2021 OP
Mirrors are overrated EYESORE 9001 Oct 2021 #1
100% correct. LuckyCharms Oct 2021 #2
One of these sorts of situations... True Dough Oct 2021 #3
Yes, pretty close... LuckyCharms Oct 2021 #4
Now you're teasing! True Dough Oct 2021 #5
I don't know as there's a medal for THAT kind of bravery. ret5hd Oct 2021 #6
I kind of expected this to end with a joke about getting thrown out of Macy's. Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2021 #7
You need to stress the positive viva la Oct 2021 #8
If I did that I don't know if I would laugh or cry....nt mitch96 Oct 2021 #9
Mirrors are totally useless for knowing the self sanatanadharma Oct 2021 #10
There's a reason we get far sighted as we age. Phoenix61 Oct 2021 #11
I don't even undress in front of the cat because I think she secretly mocks me. Ocelot II Oct 2021 #12
You are a much braver person than I. smirkymonkey Oct 2021 #13
This thread is useless without pictures. NT cinematicdiversions Oct 2021 #14

LuckyCharms

(17,425 posts)
2. 100% correct.
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 12:20 PM
Oct 2021

The way I see it, without mirrors, you can be whoever you want to be!

I picture myself as I looked when i was in my 20's, and that works out good for me.

LuckyCharms

(17,425 posts)
4. Yes, pretty close...
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 12:29 PM
Oct 2021

I can still do that with my pecs, but I look like a hairy-chested 96 year old female stripper.

sanatanadharma

(3,705 posts)
10. Mirrors are totally useless for knowing the self
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 02:37 PM
Oct 2021

Mirrors are totally useless for knowing the self. The best you can get is a flipped view of what others see.
See? Seriously, others see more clearly (for the most part) because they are less invested in that self that you call "I".

So, why should I give any mind to the fun-house-mirror distortions of that which mirrors, others, or "I" see and think is real about the bodily wrapper. One usually wraps-up in the desires, clothes, fashion, fictions, beliefs, ideas, and identities that we call "me."
It is as though an illusion that one is wearing a cloak of many colors.
The reality of self-identity is closer to the Emperor's new clothes.

We need magic mirrors to see that which no one can ever see, my own self, the inside knower of the outside scene (seen).

Ocelot II

(115,690 posts)
12. I don't even undress in front of the cat because I think she secretly mocks me.
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 03:34 PM
Oct 2021

She probably is thinking, The human is a sorry mess with all that bare, wrinkly skin. Too bad she isn't gloriously furry like me...

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