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Re: Modern Minimalism

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Post by vibragiel »

> You don’t need any of those soapy substances. It’s all a big lie perpetrated by people who want your money. If you eat/sleep/exercise properly, you will almost never get sick and your body will never smell bad. You won’t need to overcompensate by wasting money on soapy substances.

[citation needed]

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Post by adamnemecek »

vibragiel wrote: post #4

> You don’t need any of those soapy substances. It’s all a big lie perpetrated by people who want your money. If you eat/sleep/exercise properly, you will almost never get sick and your body will never smell bad. You won’t need to overcompensate by wasting money on soapy substances. [citation needed]

Citations are a big lie perpetrated by 'big soap' as well.

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Post by bnegreve »

> I have an 11-inch Macbook Air and an iPhone 5. No other devices.

For some reason, I knew this was going to pop up somewhere in the list.

Smartphones are arguably one of the biggest gadget of the century. And they can be used to watch TV, movies, read news, books, as GPS, as game device and so on.

So why iPhone and no soap?

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Post by LaGrange »

bnegreve wrote: post #7

> I have an 11-inch Macbook Air and an iPhone 5. No other devices. For some reason, I knew this was going to pop up somewhere in the list. Smartphones are arguably one of the biggest gadget of the century. And they can be used to watch TV, movies, read news, books, as GPS, as game device and so on. So why iPhone and no soap?

Because this is the kind of minimalism only quite rich people can afford. I once met a girl, who said "when I travel, I only need my hang-glider. Everything else I can buy when I'm there". It was a refreshingly honest expression.
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