All physical states are "consequences of" some metaphysical "causes".

Your perceptive reality tells "you" - a physical state exists. This physical state also consists your body and brain. But what could have caused or created the physical state? Logic tells us - physical events or states take place or happen for some reasons. Though some physical events may happen by chance, but that chance, potentiality, possibility or probability may already in itself qualify as a reason for or cause of the happening. Hence physical events and states are actually physical consequences of some metaphysical cause or combined causes.

Parallax: The physical state which consists the "you" - claiming to be "in existence", actually is an outcome of combined metaphysical causes. Take for instance the causes of and how your biological parents brought about your physical existence. Let these reasons and metaphysical causes produced a physical consequence - your physical body and brain.

By identifying and segregating the metaphysical causes from physical consequences in your perceptive reality, you will be able to dissect the logic or reasons underlying such, thereby enlightening the so many possibilities and options available, which if taken or omitted, could either bring about or prevent, the likelihood of certain eventualities in or from becoming a reality.

How aesthetically appealing are you?

Aesthetics, a branch of philosophy dealing with sensory perceptive valuation of what one may classify as tasteful, artistic and beautiful. Being a perceptive valuation, it would be logical to infer that aesthetics are basically opinions of the mind. Something or someone may be aesthetically appealing to one but totally repugnant to another.

Parallax: To what extent does aesthetics affect our perceptive reality? If you find someone or something aesthetically appealing, the natural tendency you be attracted and biased toward that soever. Conversely, if others find you good looking, they will favor and prioritize you over another, granting other factors remained constant. Above had something to do with the subjective, emotional or urge process of thinking. With aesthetic appeal in favor of someone or something, the tendency to command priority cannot be understated. Though the challenges and complexities in life may require more than aesthetics to resolve, being perceived as tasteful, beautiful or handsome may give someone an upper hand barring other factors. Thus explained - why people go to great extends just to improve their physical outlooks.

On the other hand, aesthetic appeal only affects one's perceptive reality to the extent one allows. For any reason, if in your perceptive reality, you don't think looks are incidental in attracting another, maybe you prefer to capitalize on other aspects of human perception than aesthetics, you never willed to "attract" another, you don't think aesthetics is relevant to any outcome of your perceptive reality. As such, aesthetic appeal will not affect your perceptive reality. If you have seen "bad looking" people whom notwithstanding their appearance, seemed to supersede you in many aspects, this is your perceptive reality telling yourself, some non-aesthetically appealing people simply didn't let other people's perceptions affect their lives.

The following experiment can be performed to determine one's aesthetic appeal over a given time, locality, social strata, age, race, ethnicity etc. Accompany some friends to a chosen locality where you may find people you would like to "attract". Pick a noticeable position where people cannot "miss" you when they pass by. Position your friends to surround you in such varying perspective of views that they may be able to monitor and count everyone who passes you by. You may pretend you are alone. Let your friends score you 2 points for each person (male or female doesn't matter as this is an aesthetic appeal test, which is different from a sex appeal test) who looked at you and kept looking. Score you 1 point for each who looked at you then looked away. Score you 0 point for those who didn't even bother to look. Gather the scores accumulated by your friends and divide the total by the number of passersby. Multiply by 100 to get your percentage score. If you score below 50%, your aesthetic appeal may need improvement. If you score between 50-75%, you may be fairly attractive. If you score above 75%, you may be a looker. Take note, your aesthetic scores may fluctuate at different localities as different types of individuals have varying aesthetic standards of perception. However, it is noted that people with "starlet" or "model" like (as well as unusual or abstracted) aesthetic features most often scored high at any chosen locality. Have fun! Remember, your aesthetic scores only reflect how you perceived others to be perceiving you, how good looking you may perceive yourself to be, NOT how you prefer to be perceived, NEITHER who you are in totality.

Censorship

Censorship (noun), an act to hide, remove, prevent from access or prohibit - whatever in one's perceptive reality, is perceived as being obscene and offensive, including whatever one presumed might be perceived as indecent by another.

Preposterous? or Pro-stupid? The irrationality and fallibility of "censorship" can be attested by defining what the words obscene, obscenity or offensive pertain to. "Obscene" is an adjective describing whatever in one's perceptive reality, is negative, irritating and offensive to thoughts and emotions. It being an adjective, one would be logical to infer that whatever is obscene is only an opinion from one's perception. Hence, to prevent one from accessing such obscenity, it is one's own perceptive reality that must be censored, not another. The presumption of perception by another substantiated the act as being contrary to logic.

Parallax: What is obscene to one's perceptive reality may actually produced the total opposite effect, when perceived by another whom the former had presumably and erroneously concluded to have the same perception. To assume that - whatever one perceives as irritable, negative, offensive or obscene having the same effect over another - is like becoming one-track minded, illogical, fallible, assumptive and egotistical. Kind of role-playing some "God" and forcing one's opinion and subjective moral standard on another. This self-justification or self-righteousness may be more "immoral" beyond any standard of morality. But since those who disseminate media likewise lacked discretion in dissemination, self-justifying censors reacted by imposing their version of self-righteousness.

In the finale, what one is suppose to censure is one's own version of perceptive reality. One must censor or restrain oneself from perceiving - whatever may cause that which one would consider as irritating, negative or obscene to thoughts and emotions. Someone had said, opinions are similar to assholes in that everyone got one and it stinks. Not unless an opinion is specifically requested of, one must refrain from infringing an other's perception. If one thinks something may or not be obscene and offensive, keep to oneself for it may not necessarily be the same perception of another. If one infringe on the perceptive reality of another, the causative effect is that a more influential perception manipulator may likewise take charge either by imposing censorship or causing the censure of the censor. The vicious cycle then, those who disseminate media lacked propriety and discretion which caused the presumptuousness of self-righteous censors, the more censors attempt to censure, the more those who disseminate and peruse media resist. Thus, censuring the attempt to censor now becomes the perceptive reality.

Censorship by law. There may be specific "situations" where censorship may be justified by conduct of law. When the dissemination of media may wreak havoc or become a means of threat to national order, peace and security. In such cases, a governing body institutionalized by people (to protect the state from imminent danger) shall take prerogative to impose a censure of anything that may be deemed as potential threats to another. IF the law is within one's framework of perceptive reality, abiding by or challenging it will bring about certain variations in one's perceptive reality.

"If thy eyes lust, pluck them out, if thy hands steal, cut them off, if thy ears and mouth gossip, glue them shut, if thy mind think evil, pray the Lord takes swiftly".