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I find it interesting how often the most poignent thoughts are expressed in very few words. The most powerful parables are not pages long. The most heartfelt praises do not ...

Well you get what I mean.
 
Our father who art in Heaven,
Hollowed by thy name ...


Hare Krishna!









Get it yet?
 
In orthodox Hindu schools of metaphysical analysis of Yoga and the Field of Material energy and the goal of moksha ---there are two schools of thought:

the Sunyavadi path, ergo, AUM
and
the Personalist path, ergo, I AM

I just noticed the parallels
 
wil said:
I find it interesting how often the most poignent thoughts are expressed in very few words. The most powerful parables are not pages long. The most heartfelt praises do not ...
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Wisdom, then, loves Twitter, I suppose.:p
 
I didn't say that all short phrases contained poignant thoughts...

More like at times the length of the explanation is due to not having a concise answer and contains superfluousness or actual intentional disinformation due to ...

Isn't there some law thatbsays often the less.complicated answer...
 
wil said:
I didn't say that all short phrases contained poignant thoughts...
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Neither did I say you did . . .

I was personifying Wisdom as an individual. As an individual, she would love Twitter . . . for "the most poignant thoughts are expressed in very few words."

More like at times the length of the explanation is due to not having a concise answer and contains superfluousness or actual intentional disinformation due to ...
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True. I agree. Brevity has been praised century after century.
 
"Nuts."
Response of General Anthony Clement McAuliffe, acting CO, 101 Airborne Division holding Bastogne, Dec 1944, to the invitation to surrender to the surrounding German army.
 
Perhaps concise wording leaves things unspecified and allows the reader to insert their own meaning into things.
 
wil said:
I didn't say that all short phrases contained poignant thoughts...

More like at times the length of the explanation is due to not having a concise answer and contains superfluousness or actual intentional disinformation due to ...

Isn't there some law thatbsays often the less.complicated answer...
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Occam's Razor
 
A Cup Of Tea said:
Perhaps concise wording leaves things unspecified and allows the reader to insert their own meaning into things.
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That's not a bad thing, in say a fictional novel or such...I think it would be an occupational hazard among religious disciplines however to have "commoners" supplying their own meanings to divine texts, heaven forbid!

Then too...concise (which I understand to be synonymous with "precise") words would seem to me to leave little or no room for misunderstanding, which in practice in living languages doesn't really exist.

My favorite example was the King (England, forget now which one) who was praising a new cathedral (again, don't recall which) when he said it was "Awful" and "Artificial." Those two words had entirely different meanings then than they do today.
 
wil said:
More like at times the length of the explanation is due to not having a concise answer and contains superfluousness or actual intentional disinformation due to ...
Isn't there some law thatbsays often the less.complicated answer...
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reminds of of U.S. Tax "codes"
 
A Cup Of Tea said:
Well in that case I used the wrong word, I thought it just meant the opposite of 'wordy'.
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con·cise
kənˈsīs/
adjective
adjective: concise; comparative adjective: conciser; superlative adjective: concisest
  1. giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive.
You are closer to correct than I.
 
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