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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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Sometimes it is not that they have the knowledge, but that they claim to have the knowledge in order to control people. For example, if I convince you that I know what a god wants you to do, and you believe me, I can control you.
When I was 10, my parents sent me to catholic school. I question everything I ever get told. So when these nuns told me that thunder was the sound of God bowling, and lightning was him taking flash photography of his perfect game, I had questions.
What catholics absolutely HATE is critical thinkers asking questions that expose their bullshit.
So I thought "If god has existed for thousands of years, and he always plays a perfect game of bowling, who is he trying to impress with a photo of a perfect game?"
And when I asked that question, I had to go to the principals office for being disruptive. I didn't mean to be disruptive, and so I asked how I was being disruptive. Which got me in further trouble.
If someone stands up from the crowd and self-identifies as an expert on a specific topic, that person will be listened to as an expert.
Yeah, definitely. Legitimate or not (and probably more likely not), we're going back to: What does god want me to do oh "wise" ~~AI~~ priest? I can't think for myself.