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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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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I highly doubt it. Believers say that when a person dies, their memories are pretty much obliterated. So even if someone is going to be reborn, who they were no longer exists.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In some of the beliefs, your soul maintains the memory, but it’s blocked off by your body. Essentially, when you die, you’ll get your memory back, but you’ll forget it again when you’re doing another cycle.

So the main goal is to get enlightened so that you escape this cycle and graduate to a higher level of existence.

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Werent there some book or story where everything on earth is just single being reincarnating endesly in to different points in time.

[–] NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Kurtzgesagt team made a video based on this. I think it's called the egg?

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you. It was The Egg by Andy Weir

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A writer which is super prominent nowadays with the recent adaptation of his book into a movie, Project Hail Mary. Also the author of The Martian.

His website is also pretty cool. This page is just raw HTML, forget "no Javascript", this page has no CSS. And the main page is straight out of the 90s, chef's kiss.

Edit: leave it to me to forget to mention the entire reason I started talking about his website in the first place... Here is The Egg, the short story.

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure that is the point when people commit suicide.