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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.

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There are a lot of bad countries to be born into, I mean just look up the countries with the top number of births.

Also, reincarnation might not be limited to humans... lots of factory farm animals out there for you to be reincarnated as... 👀

Honestly its one of the reasons I wanna live this life as long as I can, I wanna delay being in Afganistan, or North Korea, or a mouse that gets killed by the housecat, or being a damn cockroach.

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[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Some teachings say that being born as a human is as random as a blind sea turtle swimming from the ocean bottom to the top and hitting his head against a floating cork.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Why the fuck is my life so weird.

Like what are the odds I'm a second child born during One Child Policy... and managed to survive till birth? (cuz forced abortions were a thing)

So bizzare... so unreal...

What are the chance to having been emigrated?

60 Million Chinese moved overseas out of 1.4 Billion... 4.28% chance?

Having legal status is another subsection of that population, a lot of people allegedly migrate without official permission and is undocumented, I know a lot of classmates that supposedly have parents that migrated without permission.

Okay maybe it's not that rare, the "good" parts is isbalanced out by the fact that I'm a pleb... with shitty parents... yay god trolled me. Can't have too many good thing in life. Think you're safe?

bad thing happens

Citizenship Status? Think you have freedom now?

Heheheh 2024 US election happens

what the fuck

this universe is just trolling me

haha heres a good thing...

SIKE

mom: "Hey I love you very much do you know that?"

5 minutes later

mother: "YOU LITTLE SHIT"

... 🙃 what the fuck...

I wonder where my sould would be if CCP just aborted me...

fuck this shit... GIMME NORWAY PLS