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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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    • 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.
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The activity of doing your own mental work is often the worthier part of any intellectual pursuit. It is in this process of doing that we develop our personal abilities and independent insights. For this, there is no possible replacement.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Absolutely agree, but I'm continuously surprised at how many people don't WANT to think for themselves. It's not that they lack the ability or their IQ is too low, they simply have decided to outsource their goddamn morality. That's perhaps worse than simple ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago

Imagine meeting your Creator and when he asks you why you cheated on/abused your wife and destroyed your family and their psyches, or why you supported ideologically and financially the death and destruction of innocents around the world, or why you spread corruption in the land for coin, among other questions and you're just "idk 🤷".

The 'I was just following orders!' folks will burn in Hell forever, and the 'but I didn't know!' when they could've easily known is definitely there in great numbers as well...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

It's really not surprising when you think about it. Evolution favored individuals in our species who worked smarter, not harder. We're the quintessential shortcut pilled species, that's why we made tools and discovered fire. Of course we're going to full send it all the way to outsourcing thinking

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The borg will save us right? They are totalllllly the good guys!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

The borg are just low key nihilists frl frl