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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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Now then, you're only upset about this because you were programmed to be. Those people calling other aren't bad for calling someone stupid or lazy if they don't have free will.
If you assume free will doesn't exist, evil or good doesn't either. Murder or curing cancer, it's like the sun shining, and inavoidable, neutral fact. Of course you may dismiss this as rambling idiocy, but I won't hold it against a clockwork automaton.
You have grasped it.
Correct.
Correct.
No, you have grasped exactly what I said, at least on the level of the intellect. I realize of course you resist as it goes against what you merely WISH to be true. This I cannot do anything about, as you said. But you have understood perfectly. Well done!
Well, this conversation is really pointless then. Kind of embarrassing that the universe compelled you to post this drivel regarding a fight against nothing, but it can't be helped.
I wonder why you insist on a language of agency if it isn't what you believe.
Oh if only humanity did have an universally agreed upon meaning and point, so much strife could be avoided. Alas, such a thing does not exist in reality, but only in the minds of people. Those ever malleable and shifting minds.
I do as I do because because I am compelled, indeed! Because I wish to see less cruelty in the world. It is simplicity itself. And if I spoke in full truth, I would never say anything at all.
Cruelty implies a choice. It doesn't exist in a world without free will. So you've succeeded, seeing the world is free of cruelty. What is next for you?
Cruelty is merely a label we put upon an action we find harmful. Like every word, it is made up.
No word is the thing it points to. Except perhaps the word, "word" itself. Every word I have written is a small lie.
One does not go around licking recipes in order to taste the dish.
Well, then use the words you mean. Cruelty was clearly an incorrect one. We can't exchange ideas effectively of you refuse to use words with their assigned meaning.
Please feel free to get familiar with semantics.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/semantics
Now if you have an actual argument for why free will exists, please do argue that. Else, I have said as much as needed.
I didn't ever claim free will existed. Just congratulated you on your success.
Now if you want a world free of strife, that's more of a task even in a pre-determined universe.