Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph. D. First consider the possible function of physical human beauty. Suppose it is some constellation of characteristics that can arouse attraction in the beholder to the ...

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Why was the kiyor – the basin used by the priest to wash his hands and feet before serving in the Temple – made from the mirrors used by women (Exodus 38:8)? Ibn Ezra notes that mirrors were used by ...

Artemisia Gentileschi painted Mary Magdalene in a sudden swoon -— a tradition of matching physical beauty to spiritual elevation. What if you put down your phone, turned away from your bedroom mirror ...

Brad Pitt looks better than I do. So does Richard Gere, Marlon Brando and Paul Newman. If you put my face next to theirs and asked 500 people to rank our physical attractiveness (leaving my mother out ...