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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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Bingo! ... that is why Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol as a series of ghosts that visit Scrooge ... it was a tradition of story telling of retelling scary ghost stories during the longest day of the year ... the moment in the year known in pagan religion as the moment in the year when the dark forces are at their strongest and highest ... the winter solstice, the longest night of the year when the darkness is at its strongest ... but also a moment of hope, as the light has started to return and the days grow longer.
this is some form of cultural tending to fires of knowledge in eachother right here
never forgetting where things came from