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Showerthoughts

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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:

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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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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[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Whether or not you're "really" a real person, or a brain in a jar, or a butterfly dreaming you're Zhuangzi, you and me and everyone else are still "people" we should respect.

Wrestling with the unfalsifiable nature of reality is something all thought traditions have dealt with, and I'd argue that you're not really an adult in 2025 if you haven't contemplated that all you know could be a hallucination.

The screwier question always becomes "if this is a dream , what if you're not the dreamer?"

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I just watched Distant Lands last night so Prismo was my immediate first thought.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"We on an ultralight beam, we on an ultralight beam

This is a God dream, this is a God dream

This is everything" 🎶

I see your based Chinese man reference and raise you a Ye one! 😁

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He's just mentally broken (and was always a bit frail, but his experience with Hollywood finally destroyed him) and hates the Ashkenazi lawyers that messed with his money, from what I understand, so he said some stupid and obviously morally wrong things because he is and always has been childish as well ("a 38 8-year-old with rich n* problems"). He's not out there actually promoting/having a hand the death of a whole innocent community like Bibi, lol.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude literally made a song called "Heil Hitler," not to mention his "HH88" shirt he sold on his site.

The guy's a fucking Nazi, stop apologizing for him.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh, I wasn't up to date with all of that, my bad. He's been off his rocker for a second, but this is a more financially motivated move which makes it all planned and really yucky and immoral. I miss the old Kanye. 😒

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Good ending

If you can hear me out there, please pull the plug.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More importantly, what if it isn't?

[–] zorflieg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

But.. then I'd be compelled to concern myself with those who are getting bombed into the dirt for being born on the wrong side of a DMZ..

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even worse what if this is all cold reality and when we die that's it and one day the universe stops and none of this mattered at all except for the capitalism?

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why is that worse? And why would capitalism still have mattered if nothing else did?

Besides those things, this is basically what I believe and where I find comfort when the world is infuriatingly nonsensical. You mean all the times I fuck up and looked like a fool literally could not matter less? And all the shitheads out there will eventually be eaten and erased by worms along with everyone else? That's a whole lot of weight off my shoulders' what that sounds like to me.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

The capitalism bit was a joke.

I'm glad you find comfort in the erasure time passing offers.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, this is some weird shit, but nowhere near wacky enough to be one of my dreams.

[–] TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

No such luck, I'm afraid

Please wake up. I'm rather tired of existing on the bubble-film of your consciousness.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] DampSquid@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dream because of the necessary "lower plane of existence", less 'solid' than God, but I'd specify it's a lucid dream (also due to my beliefs, as it is impossible to have any 'hard evidence' about this subject, hehe).

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your phone wouldn’t work correctly.

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Me reading this on my piece of shit phone: uh oh

[–] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Then your post and everyone else's in it are a fabrication of my mind and no one else's.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago

I should be so lucky.

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

I'd give my liiiiiife, not for honor, but for youuuu

[–] ethaver@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

been thinking a lot about this lately. especially Plato's allegory of the cave. pretty sure when you go around that corner it's just another cave but with it's own little fire in it. there's no actual way out. they're all just more caves. that's all you get.