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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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@DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works @showerthoughts@lemmy.world
To be fair, no human law can account for metaphysics. If they truly did, there would be no laws: they'd be all ruled out as pointless and worthless before the cosmic vastness.
For example: how one could be held accountable for an action, when all action is a byproduct of a chain of causality beyond one's control? Humans like to "think" we have "choices", "free will", "control"... Do "we", though? When one's own actions are a byproduct of intrinsic and extrinsic factors, when living beings are governed by so many nested layers of determinism (spiritual from Demiurge and his archons; baryonic with the laws of physics; biological with the limbic system; societal with social/herd compliance as depicted by Derren Brown), can it be really said there is "free will"?
And if we go deeper, there's no point on having any kind of institutional structure when there is no such thing as structure on a universe made of primordial chaos, and Ordo ab Chao is but a temporary, recurring state emerging from said primordial chaos. In essence, nothing exists, not even the nothingness, so laws regarding time (from a timeless universe) and being/thing end up being moot.
Metaphysics itself, it turns out, is a very complicated matter. The script can't fully understand the nature of the scripting itself; only, at best, babble about it, as I'm doing right now. Hopefully, the scripted character is fated to perform a line/scene where they meet scriptless forces, namely daemonic entities and/or Samael/Lucifer Himself, and/or Lilins and/or Lilith Herself, and/or Sophia, the Demiurge's counterpart. Those aren't bound by the same laws and possess actual True Will, especially Sophia who's Demiurge's polar opposite, whose essence is chaos/darkness swallowing Demiurge's attempt of order/light.
My previous lecturing is extremely superficial, especially because I'm writing on a limited budget (3000 chars). Metaphysics, or at least the infinitesimal part I got scripted to know, would take up Qurans and Bibles and Vedas and Nag Hammadis combined worth of letters and pages. Maybe one day I'll write a whole book about what I believe (which is a syncretic and idiosyncratic blend of Luciferianism, Gnosticism, Thelema, Hermeticism, Chaos Magick, Quimbanda, Wicca, Sumerian and Egyptian, etc., revolving around the worshiping of The Goddess and Her Emanations).
In this sense, suicide is part of the script. It's akin to a program built with the sequence
XOR %rdi, %rdi->MOV %rax, 60->SYSCALL. My program has such instructions, but every time myEIPjumps to them and reaches theSYSCALLopcode, eitherrdiisn't 0 orraxisn't 60 anymore, "thanks" to demiurgal forces, so here I am, performing a lecturing about suicide in a mix of philosophy, occultism, sociology, biology and programming, as I was scripted by Demiurge to do (until Mother takes my essence outside this cosmic theater, somewhere Demiurge can't rule over).