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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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- 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
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If you've never spent time with conspiracy folks or looked at /r/conspiracy, take this and extrapolate into infinity.
Nothing good or bad can happen without it being "THEY" that did it. Nothing is real, everything is staged and manipulated. It really doesn't help that plenty of real life bad things happen all the time, and it's just that the world is fucking bonkers. Some people can't accept that and feel better blaming someone else so they feel more secure in bad random things being "caused" by people so that someone else's agency and not their bad decisions or bad luck are possibly a cause of bad things.
Same with overly religous people. "God works in mysterious ways". No, Karen, disease is a terrible thing and your kid got the Measles, got encephalitis, and now has brain damage. Good job.