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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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Reincarnation into what?
"Hey, if you die in this life, you can come back as a bug that gets eaten by another bug shortly after hatching. And then you can do this for the next 10,000 years until you get lucky enough to come back as something remotely sentient."
Sounds like that shit sucks, man. You have a real pivotal moment in this life to embrace dharma and appeal to heaven for a higher place in the great pattern. I'll admit, I'm not much of a mystic, but I don't think eating a bullet after a night spent guzzling whiskey is what gets you up the ladder.
Yeah, but I have to go to work, you know?
So time to spin the wheel!
Not if you declare that animals do not have souls, and only people can feel things.
Okay, but then you're not talking about reincarnation in the Hindu/Buddhist sense. You're talking about the kind of Past Lives shit that western spiritualists are into.
It's all made up bullshit anyway, they can declare whatever "rules" they want.
I mean, ok? I'll live as a billion bugs until I come back as a human or something... but I will come back.
But what if all that "bug life" drives people insane and is actually why human beings dont remember past lives.
I ain't appealing for shit. Bugs are awesome. If I get eaten, I'm just coming back again, bitches. I can do this all day.