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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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The Egg by Andy Weir
A short horror story:
You die.
You meet "god".
God says: "Next life, you're born as one of the victims of Epstein Island"
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So in other words, you're a pretty girl with a rough home life so you end up getting trafficked.
Not to sound like a dick, but most endings to that story wind up far, far worse than winding up on a Caribbean (or wherever TF it is) island with a bunch of rich dudes. I think most wind up strung out, OD'd, battered, on their own with a couple kids and no real means to support themselves and no skills to speak of, aside from turning tricks nobody wants because they're so messed up. Except for more messed up dudes.
Not to minimise anyone's suffering, but I'd say the far more likely outcome of winding up in a crack house is far worse. Most of those women and girls would probably kill to wind up on a billionaire's island. A slave in luxury lives a bit better than a slave in poverty.
Make it the Middle East and it gets far worse. Some time in second or third grade, a bunch of older women grab you, drag you into an abandoned building, strip you, and maim you so you can't ever really experience pleasure, because pleasure is reserved for males. You get an infection and die without ever having really lived, or you don't and you're a sex slave but you don't get anything out of it. Or you get something out of it but it's so hard to reach climax that you do more and more depraved stuff (and with more partners) to get there and some of these people like it rough, so you go through hell chasing that dragon. And most of these guys know it so they're actively working to keep you from getting there.
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Generally speaking, if you're reading this, if you're online, with an electronic device from this decade, and you own it, you're in the 1%, at least worldwide. You're one of the lucky ones. Whatever human you get reincarnated as is likely to be much worse regardless of whether you're a girl, or a Muslim, or in the Middle East, or trafficked by billionaires. You could be starving and malnourished — in Africa, or in Detroit.
If you liked that blurp and want more, Exurb1a wrote several (vaguely connected) books on the matter. I cannot tell you anything more without spoiling it.
The Fifth Science, The Prince of Milk, Geometry for Ocelots, Logic Beach: Part I
Very good story. Actually better than either 'The Martian' or 'Project Hail Mary.'
Awesome. These days I had this thought about what if after we die we experience everything we did to other people out of their perspective. But this is much better.