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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • 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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
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The ideal patient will die with an estate that is worth exactly what it says on the final bill 😊😊

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When you stop to think about it, puns are actually pretty neat.

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What is this recurring connection between big missiles sending men to the moon and the military industrial complex sending expeditionary forces overseas?

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I mean really, maybe "getting stuck in time loops" is actually a problem of the modern era, so some nice people decided to create these media as an instruction manual in case we do get stuck in time loops... or sent back through time, or parallel timelines, alt-universes, or some other space-time shenanigans, etc...

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Not saying it is happening, it just occurred to me that it could

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Because it was the Last Thursday BCE.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

Damnatio memoriae is a modern Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory" or "damnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts, or remembered after death in a way contrary to what that person may have desired. There are and have been many routes to damnatio memoriae including the destruction of depictions, the removal of names from inscriptions and documents, and even large-scale rewritings of history.

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Saw an old lady getting out of a BMW X7 M60i (the high performance version). I asked her what made her choose the M60i and she just said “I dunno, the salesman said it was the best one they had”.

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No one knows the worth of selling their body like they do.

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Pretty sure we are the only animals with pink rings around our mouth. It's flipping weird.

It probably helps with verbal language understanding as humans often use mouth movements to interpret words (see McGurk effect). But I still think it's weird.

Big pink rings.

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Abraham and his wife Sarah are promised a son. It's taking a long time so she has Abraham impregnate her handmaid, Hagar. Hagar has a son called Ishmael. But eventually Sarah has her own son, Isaac, and casts Hagar and Ishmael out into the wilderness.

Isaac, the favoured younger son, marries Rebekkah, and has two sons. He favours the older son, Essau. Rebekah favours the younger son, Jacob. She tricks Isaac into making Jacob his heir instead of his favourite son.

Jacob falls in love with a woman but is tricked into marrying her older sister first. He ends up marrying both of them and having 12 sons with 4 women (his wives and their handmaids) and he favours the youngest two because they're the sons of the wife he loves. The older sons sell the second youngest into slavery because they're mad dad favours him.

I guess the moral is parents shouldn't play favourites

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