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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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No one is making you be here. You can click a button and start your own community or even spin up your own server and if your modding policies are that much better people will switch. ...or none or very few of the users like what you say and the mod just happens to be the one responsible for telling you.
Is it frustrating to be part of the outgroup? Sure. Is it frustrating to have an opinion people dislike or don't think is worth leaving their ingroup for? Sure. But that's just called being a weirdo. Lots of people are weirdos. I'm a weirdo. In fact it's often hard for me to get certain things done or find certain products. Bigelow doesn't stock my favorite flavor in most stores because it's not popular enough. That's not oppression that's just being unpopular.
Being a weirdo isn't for the faint of heart. Dialectal behavior therapy changed my life and teaches four ways to approach a problem. 1. Stop seeing it as a problem. 2. Fix the problem (conform). 3. Accept the problem. 4. Stay whiny. I tend to vacillate between 1 and 3 (sigh sadly and order my tea online) but I spend little time engaging in #4 (bitching online about how it's other people's fault).
I'm not even going to look into your specific ideology. With people who say these things I often regret finding out.
what's frustrating the most is how people hate you for factual true opinions, because those truths don't align with their delusional worldview.
true, it's ultimately about popularity. And what's popular... is often stupid, wrong, and cruel. Dialectical behavior won't do anything when you are getting harassed and assaulted, and increasingly we live in a world where people are become not just disagreeing and segregating, but straight up calling violent and bloodthirsty to those they disagree with.
Lemmy is rife with very pro-violence people. Who also claim they are anti-violence. But you know, only anti-violence against the 'good' people. Violence totally col against the 'bad' people.
oh god that's it; you're an utterly insufferable person. And learning how to constructively approach injustice by conserving and directing your energy towards actions that will make the most real difference is a core goal of the therapy. Either put in the effort to become someone people want to be around or accept people don't want to be around you.
right, so if an external reality gets in the way of my feelings, I should simple ignore and or deny that it exists? if someone makes me feel bad they are bad person! such a constructive and mature way to approach other people.
I have no problem being around people who acknowledge there is a world outside of themselves. I don't get along with people who think the world is merely an extension of their feelings, or that any information that doesn't make them feel fuzzy is horrible and evil.
I mean i'm glad you don't think facts exist or reality exists outside of the thoughts in your head, and therefore nobody else is real, but most well-adjusted people don't engage in solipsism. If the acknowledgement of other people existing who are different than you is so painful, the issue isn't them. It's you.
also calling for violence isn't a constructive approach injustice, it's authoritarianism and bullying. just like you resorted to harassment and name calling in reply to my comment, per ad hominem nonsense because I said something you find upsetting and dislike. you can't create 'justice' by perpetuating injustice on other people, but if you live in a world of your own emotions, nothing like justice even exists. because justice isn't a feeling, it's a concept that is suppose to get you outside of your own monkey-brain way of thinking.