The beauty of simplicity

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Do you agree with this statement?

"The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts."
- Tom Robbins

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  • squeallikeasacofpigs
    11 years ago

    Oh wow you are so cool, omg you're so profound, like dude, like that's amazing man, that's so cool.

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  • dom180
    11 years ago

    I've not heard it before, but I love it. I really do love it.

    To me it means that what makes things beautiful is not that they are complex, because the beauty in things is not always in unraveling what is already there. The beauty is not in peeling the skin off the onion. Instead, the beauty is in the myriad of feelings and emotions we can project onto things and people we love. I could go on more, but I won't. What makes things beautiful is the associations we build around them, not that they are inherently beautiful.

    To go further, simple things allow us to build meaningful connotations more than complex things; because there is less to observe ourselves we are forced to create meaning inside ourselves to attach to what we see, or hear. Beauty is not inherent; we create it within ourselves to explain what we cannot explain otherwise.

    Does that make sense?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Thank you! I think I understand what you're saying. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One can't always explain why something is beautiful because the meaning is often personal and subjective. Explaining that meaning can become very complex. But that, right there, is part of the beauty.

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      • dom180
        11 years ago

        That right there is exactly what I am trying to say :)

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  • dirtybirdy
    11 years ago

    I'd like a manky old boot with a flower growing out of it. Ok.

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  • [email protected]
    11 years ago

    'Just keep it simple,stupid'-is a much better way of putting it.

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  • bananaface
    11 years ago

    That makes absolutely no sense to me. Hmm. This is going to take me ages to work out. Can anybody dumb this down so my brain can actually comprehend it?

    Argh, this is going to be in my head all night now! What does it even mean? How does simplicity attract complexity?:S

    My brain is melting:(.

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    • wannarocktheworld
      11 years ago

      i'd say that people thinking up of all the stupid complex things to render exactly the simple thing, which ironically was simple to implement.

      Like say a topper in a class in a school. Most of the students think its so fuckin' complex to get top marks. I thought so too, till 12th grade in school. Then I realized, what have i been doing? The simple thing to top is: study. No bullshit complexity wrapped around it. No BS excuses not to study. It was as fuckin' simple as that.

      And I put it to test in my 3rd sem of college (first year was wasted in partying, roaming around, doing fucked up things and trying to pick up chicks from my and other sections and other programmes (mine was engineering)). And i studied, simply, studied. So what is "simply studied" you might ask? Well, I lay down the syllabus, marked important topics, gathered all the possible questions that could be asked, made up some of my own. And then I learned. And it fuckin' happened man, I fuckin' topped.
      Bitches were like, thinking, "damn, this fucker never studied, probably fuckin' cheated with some cool James Bond gadgetry shit and all" lmao.
      My own fuckin' friends were surprised. I got kicked in the ass by them.

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      • bananaface
        11 years ago

        Hehehe, you make me laugh:D!

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        • wannarocktheworld
          11 years ago

          the story or the way i told it?
          hehe

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          • bananaface
            11 years ago

            The way you told it.

            "And i studied, simply, studied. So what is "simply studied" you might ask? Well, I lay down the syllabus, marked important topics, gathered all the possible questions that could be asked, made up some of my own. And then I learned. And it fuckin' happened man, I fuckin' topped.
            Bitches were like, thinking, "damn, this fucker never studied, probably fuckin' cheated with some cool James Bond gadgetry shit and all" lmao.
            My own fuckin' friends were surprised. I got kicked in the ass by them."

            ^This was the bit that cracked me up:D.

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    • IrishPotato
      11 years ago

      I wish I knew how I'd explain it to you, but I've never been a master of explaining such things. .-.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    11 years ago

    It's like looking into a mirror but not.

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  • Shackleford96
    11 years ago

    That's almost an oxymoron isn't it. I'm not quite sure what to make of it really.

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  • Devyn
    11 years ago

    I disagree; the beauty of simplicity is the complexity which it comes from.

    For example e^(i pi) = -1 is beautiful because e,i,pi and -1 are very important numbers, derived completely separately in different parts of maths. They have hundreds of different applications and special properties and this one identity links them all so simply. That is beauty.

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