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Sat 4 Oct, 2003 11:12 pm
What is simplicity?
Is it a lack of possessions, a lack of money, a lack of education, a lack of knowledge, a lack of subtlety, a lack of sensitivity? Obviously, this is not simplicity. This is poverty, deprivation, bluntness, coarseness and ignorance but certainly not simplicity.
So, What is simplicity?
Examples of simplicity:
When something does not have to be multicolor in order to be beautiful.
When one sentence is enough to convey the mesage.
When a machine can be operated safely while half awake.
When an invention does not need an owner's manual.
When a mathematical problem can be solved without using pens and paper or calculator.
I can go on and on but let the members answer for themselves.
simplicity is essence, without 'baggage'.
simplicity is lack of unnecessary complication.
Simplicity is singleness of purpose
When I take things as they come, Do I play Lame or Simple... ?
nah, you're just trying to be complicated raising a nonsensical question, pseudo-zen-like.
when you take things as they come, you don't plan ahead, that's all.
Never gave it thought ...
Like what I have said earlier when one sentence is enough to convey the message.
I agree with nemesis.
"lame" is a judgement
"simplicity" is void of judgements.
twyvel wrote:I agree with nemesis.
"lame" is a judgement
"simplicity" is void of judgements.
Please elaborate on this judgement ...
Emerson and Thoreau come to mind.
tryth
What is simplicity? What about "no more than necessary."
But I think I is very difficult to define What is Necessary... our one desire is fulfilled... another one arises. Suppose you are earning 1000 buckz a month and still able to run your family and you spend only as much as are your resources allow... but now suppose your income is 2000 bucks, even then we tend to increase our desires accordingly and we begin to spend more even though we were very happy in what we were able to do when earning 1000...
So, Can we term this as Simplicity ?
truth
When a person knows what is necessary for any particular situation, THEN he is able, if he is willing, to practice simplicity.
One cannot generalize, I would image, about necessity. The simplicity is in the details of each concerete moment.
Simplicity is very simply: appreciation.
Pure, delectable, in the moment.
Like ketchup.
Simplicity is simply anything without unnessecary complication.
There appear to be at least five senses of "simplicity."
1. simpleness;
2. simplemindedness;
3. (absence of affectation or pretense);
4. (freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort);
5. chasteness, restraint.
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