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Beauty or not beauty?

Esther was a beautiful woman of the Bible. She was able to accomplish what no one else had been able to do--get next to the king. As the story goes she had sway with this powerful man because of her extremely good looks. After hearing this story again recently it made me wonder if being beautiful was something that gained that person special access.

Well, history tells us that wars were started over women because of their beauty. Last year I watched an Oprah show and they were talking about the physical traits that makes a person beautiful. There was something about the set of your eyes. The distance between your eyes. The symmetry of your face and how close or far apart your nose is from your upper lip. There is a whole formula that determines if you are beautiful or not. These scientists also studied the reactions, that those who scored higher on the beauty scales, elicited from others.

This report stated that the beautiful people had an edge over those that were not scored as beautiful. The beautiful ones were offered jobs and opportunities above others--even if they were less qualified. One thing they realized was that the person offering the jobs and opportunities didn't make their choices, of choosing the beautiful person, consciously. It was just natural for others to associate themselves with the good looking people.

What I have been wondering is if this is true then do the beautiful people realize this and do they take advantage of it? Beauty comes from the inside and I would like to believe that most beautiful people realize they have an advantage they just don't try to take advantage of this gift from God.
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