The Paradox of Minimalism may be summed up in one sentence:
"If less is more, how little is too much?"
There are NIL Google results for that phrase, a quotation now attributable to Possom Cohen, New Zealand.
Time becomes more valuable as one ages. This is a classic example of the Paradox of Minimalism.
The Paradox of Minimalism is related to the passage of time and to The Holiday Paradox.
Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up with Age?
July 1, 2016
Scientific American
Bonnie Raitt addressed the passage of time and the Paradox of Minimalism in her song "Nick Of Time."
Bonnie Raitt - Nick Of Time
"I see my folks are getting on
And I watch their bodies change
I know they see the same in me
And it makes us both feel strange
No matter how you tell yourself
It's what we all go through
Those lines are pretty hard to take
When they're staring back at you
Oh Oh Oh, scared you'll run out of time
When did the choices get so hard
With so much more at stake
Life gets mighty precious
When there's less of it to wa-a-a-aste
Mmm-m-m-m-m-m
Mmmmmmm, scared you'll run out of time"
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There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.”
― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay
"If less is more, how little is too much?"
There are NIL Google results for that phrase, a quotation now attributable to Possom Cohen, New Zealand.
Time becomes more valuable as one ages. This is a classic example of the Paradox of Minimalism.
The Paradox of Minimalism is related to the passage of time and to The Holiday Paradox.
Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up with Age?
July 1, 2016
Scientific American
Bonnie Raitt addressed the passage of time and the Paradox of Minimalism in her song "Nick Of Time."
Bonnie Raitt - Nick Of Time
"I see my folks are getting on
And I watch their bodies change
I know they see the same in me
And it makes us both feel strange
No matter how you tell yourself
It's what we all go through
Those lines are pretty hard to take
When they're staring back at you
Oh Oh Oh, scared you'll run out of time
When did the choices get so hard
With so much more at stake
Life gets mighty precious
When there's less of it to wa-a-a-aste
Mmm-m-m-m-m-m
Mmmmmmm, scared you'll run out of time"
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There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.”
― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay
The Paradox of Minimalism is epitomized in the opening sentence of this 2016 New York Times article:
"It has become an ostentatious ritual of consumerist self-sacrifice; people who have it all now seem to prefer having nothing at all."
The Oppressive Gospel of ‘Minimalism’
By Kyle Chayka
July 26, 2016
NYTimes
The Paradox of Minimalism also describes some very rich people giving away most of their material possessions.
“The richer you are, the less you have.”
Another ironic example of the Paradox of Minimalism is the recent KonMari decluttering craze:
konmari.com
"It has become an ostentatious ritual of consumerist self-sacrifice; people who have it all now seem to prefer having nothing at all."
The Oppressive Gospel of ‘Minimalism’
By Kyle Chayka
July 26, 2016
NYTimes
The Paradox of Minimalism also describes some very rich people giving away most of their material possessions.
“The richer you are, the less you have.”
Another ironic example of the Paradox of Minimalism is the recent KonMari decluttering craze:
konmari.com
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Get the The Paradox of Minimalism mug.When a person talks about a topic a little to much but denies liking the thing they are talking about, thus creating a paradox as it is unknown whether they actually mean what they say.
"Jake talks about liking that one girl a little too much but says he doesn't like her. I think its an "I'm Joking" Paradox"
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Get the "I'm Joking" Paradox mug.A discord server to be active must have its members inherited from a previous community or start out as an already established community. In failure that one of the previous traits is not established the server will ether transition into one of two outcomes:
i. Fade into inactivity
ii. Dissolve into an established community.
When a discord server is nuked a power vacuum is built. Popular associates of the server create their own splinters in an attempt to gain the members of the deceased server. (If successful) the splinters become the new established community so a cycle begins. The community becomes so far distant to its forefathers that the culture of the original server dies and thus the paradox continues.
This paradox in theory would mean that almost all discord servers can traced back to servers created in 2015 when discord first went public.
i. Fade into inactivity
ii. Dissolve into an established community.
When a discord server is nuked a power vacuum is built. Popular associates of the server create their own splinters in an attempt to gain the members of the deceased server. (If successful) the splinters become the new established community so a cycle begins. The community becomes so far distant to its forefathers that the culture of the original server dies and thus the paradox continues.
This paradox in theory would mean that almost all discord servers can traced back to servers created in 2015 when discord first went public.
Person 1: I dont know how to make my server popular, everytime I make one it dies within a few weeks.
Person 2: Have you heard of the Discord Server Paradox?
Person 2: Have you heard of the Discord Server Paradox?
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Get the Discord Server Paradox mug.Schrodinger's brad, its a paradox of every time he tries to get out of a situation by talking, He keeps digging himself away from winning the argument getting more dirt on him in the process
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Get the the brad paradox mug.Campbell's paradox states that the word "dad" is both at the peak of kinky and devoid of kinky connotation simultaneously. Philosophers and ethicists typically use the common term "daddy" as an anchor, since "daddy" is known to have non-zero and non-absolute kinky connotation. Thus, the scale of kinkiness goes dad < daddy < dad.
"On a scale from dad to dad, how bad was that girl you were with last night?"
"Excuse me?"
"Campbell's Paradox, look it up"
"Excuse me?"
"Campbell's Paradox, look it up"
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'para' being slang for "pair of" and 'dox' meaning to have your phone number and address be leaked. so paradox refers to when someone doxes two people at once. It is seen as a flex to those in hacker online chat rooms.
'para' being slang for "pair of" and 'dox' meaning to have your phone number and address be leaked. so paradox refers to when someone doxes two people at once. It is seen as a flex to those in hacker online chat rooms.
Guy 1:His social security number is 5768 and hers is 67049 and his phone number is 50963 while hers is 5067.
Guy 2: bro! no way you just hit a paradox. guy 3 is gonna be so jealous!
Guy 1: hey man, it's just what I do best.
Guy 2: heard guy 3 was too busy having a three-some to hack into their accounts tonight.
Guy 1: that's embarassing.
Guy 2: yeah.
Guy 2: bro! no way you just hit a paradox. guy 3 is gonna be so jealous!
Guy 1: hey man, it's just what I do best.
Guy 2: heard guy 3 was too busy having a three-some to hack into their accounts tonight.
Guy 1: that's embarassing.
Guy 2: yeah.
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