QUOTE(QuamboB @ Apr 18 2006, 05:23 PM)

bullies!
and if your going all philosophical then nipples what is Perfection to you?? in my opinion Perfection is a flaw....an imperfection if you like.
Hmm...have you been listening to me and my many conversations?
Perfection is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp, and I haven't grapsed it fully yet, nothing close to it. There are so many things which need to be understood and which you need to be knowledable about to understand perfection and so many different views on it. I would like to do this sometime in the future, but its very complicated and I'd still probably not come close to getting a truer view of iwhat I percieve it to be.
Perfection, in my eyes, is an impossibility. Perfection is also an imperfection, partly due to it being impossible, thus making anyone who is perfect, or says they are perfect, imperfect. So to be perfect, one has to realise that they never can be.
In fact, when you think about it, perfection can't really exist, for other reasons than the above. There is no such thing as "perfection". If one was to attempt to define it, one would fail. Different people would say that perfection includes different things.
However, if you take the literal meaning of the word "perfect" and its etymology, you will see that it comes from the Latin "perficio" which means finished or finishing (Ok, so it goes to Greek before that, but its the same idea anyway). It could be argued that we don't actually end or simply that we don't know when we will end and therefore don't know what "finished" is or how and when it can be attained. You could howver also argue that death may be attributed to perfection, and that a sudden realisation of what perfection is may cause death, although this is a very abstract idea and can never be proved by anyone currently living. Life after all is often seen as a struggle for perfection and attainment of goals and the realisation may be that perfection is impossible in life, this being the most important realisation and the one which therefore achives perfection, which the person doesn't experience as it is impossible - but they may experience it in some other realm/form/place/state of being etc.
"I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being." ~Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault), The Garden of Epicurus, 1894
Strangely, many religions back this up, although this can't be gone into here.
Random perfection quote - "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing". ~Harriet Braiker
You could also say that just
being is to be "perfectio" (finished, remember?) Perfection could be said to be seen in mere existence. Descartes believed that there were many different levels of perfection and that you can't have perfection unless you exist. However Gassendi argues that if something doesn't exist, then it can't be perfect nor imperfect - existence is simply needed for perfection and not actually a perfection in itself.
Perfection has also been said to be something whoch does its job and fulfils its purpose without flaw. However, things without flaw have also been said to be not beautiful, and should beauty, in whichever form, not merely in a vain sense (as who can say what a beautiful person is - it is undefinable), not be a part of perfection?
However, you could also say that perfection is whatever you desire it to be

After all, who can prove you wrong...