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Your comment is entirely predictable here. You are focused on *things*. Minimalism is focused on experiencing life’s wonderments with as few accessories and complications as possible.
What is “otherwise called dumb or just plain stupid?” Identifying with baubles and trinkets and material toys (such as macho cars?)? Spending one’s energies acquiring money to gamble away in Vegas? Yes, I agree.
Surely you don’t refer to focusing one’s life mostly on quality of personal experience, right?
What is “otherwise called dumb or just plain stupid?”
Truly one of the dumbest and stupidest things I've read on here - This >>>>> Minimalism is focused on experiencing life’s wonderments with as few accessories and complications as possible.
It is like - why bother existing. Might as well be dead - not much of a difference. It is like live life as dreadfully as possible.
Truly one of the dumbest and stupidest things I've read on here - This >>>>> Minimalism is focused on experiencing life’s wonderments with as few accessories and complications as possible.
It is like - why bother existing. Might as well be dead - not much of a difference. It is like live life as dreadfully as possible.
Well, *whtviper*, we can’t all find the depth that you have in: money, a car, and Vegas trips you know. Some of us just have to make do with family and friends socializations, community and national service, immersion in nature and outdoor activities. Sad eh?
Well, *whtviper*, we can’t all find the depth that you have in: money, a car, and Vegas trips you know. Some of us just have to make do with family and friends socializations, community and national service, immersion in nature and outdoor activities. Sad eh?
I will give your credit - You make a great case for never raising minimum wage - we can always keep creating more minimalists and let these newly minted minimalists know they can just make due "with family and friends socializations, community and national service, immersion in nature and outdoor activities."
I think at my next all hands meeting I'll try that quoted line and let everyone know we are foregoing annual increases and they will - make due.
I will give your credit - You make a great case for never raising minimum wage - we can always keep creating more minimalists and let these newly minted minimalists know they can just make due "with family and friends socializations, community and national service, immersion in nature and outdoor activities."
I think at my next all hands meeting I'll try that quoted line and let everyone know we are foregoing annual increases and they will - make due.
Lol … the world would indeed be a better place if humanity was minimalist. All the garbage, pollution, toxicities, mass violence, overcrowding, resource depletion, global warming … gone. Non-issues.
By the way, it’s not: *make due* … it’s *make do*.
Is it make do or make due?
Due is an adjective meaning owed or having reached a date. The idiom is supposed to signify that you'll manage or get along with whatever you have at hand. Do is a verb meaning to bring about, perform, or execute. Thus, make do is the proper usage.
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Lol … the world would indeed be a better place if humanity was minimalist. All the garbage, pollution, toxicities, mass violence, overcrowding, resource depletion, global warming … gone. Non-issues.
I beg to disagree, there are plenty of minimalists living in their cars, parks and under bridges throughout the West coast, and quite a few leave a pretty heavy footprint.
Being a bit cheeky there, and though I do support a restrained, balanced life of lesser material acquisition, I also think it's a bit disingenuous to espouse a minimalist lifestyle when you have a maxamist bank account.
If I were wealthier, I could pay plenty of people who own "things" to do those chores I need things to do. You live on a boat IIRC, do you have all your own tools and equipment to haul out and defoul your hull every few years or do you pay someone else "with all those trappings" to do it for you?
Not as easy to be a minimalist without a big bank account.
Again, I try to find the middle ground.
I beg to disagree, there are plenty of minimalists living in their cars, parks and under bridges throughout the West coast, and quite a few leave a pretty heavy footprint.
Being a bit cheeky there, and though I do support a restrained, balanced life of lesser material acquisition, I also think it's a bit disingenuous to espouse a minimalist lifestyle when you have a maxamist bank account.
If I were wealthier, I could pay plenty of people who own "things" to do those chores I need things to do. You live on a boat IIRC, do you have all your own tools and equipment to haul out and defoul your hull every few years or do you pay someone else "with all those trappings" to do it for you?
Not as easy to be a minimalist without a big bank account.
Again, I try to find the middle ground.
Those aren’t *minimalists*. Those are homeless people. And, by the way, the “footprint” they leave is almost entirely trash they rummage from the consumer world around us all. They don’t generate hardly any trash of their own purchasing. They don’t create and market and use hardly anything toxic: chemicals, fertilizers, fuels, etc.
Do I do my own work? … why yes, I do . My fat bank account is the result of near blind luck. And I’ve used it frequently to support others less fortunate.
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