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Showerthoughts

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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:

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Most stuff is never allowed to visit. Various remote sensors and controls probe the alien expanse beyond your secluded prison abode.

You may never leave, or at least, no one has yet successfully escaped to tell the tale. Some have gambled fortunes that such an escape is inevitable in post mortem preservation of a rogue self.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

These bones freed me from my sleep of untold aeons.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I really like that.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, man. I’m cruisin’ down the road of life in a car made out of bones.

Time to go for a walk.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dissenting opinion: you have powered a mech suit of bone your entire life.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I disagree with both.

I am a meat suit encompassed and structured on bone protecting nervous tissue which is really still meat.

I am a meat-a-tron

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're the Ter-meat-nator!

Oooo i like that

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your body is not a life-support system for your mind. Rather, your mind is a guidance system for your body. Bodies were first; and developed minds to be better at doing body stuff.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This. Evolutionarily speaking, a pile of cells wanted to live as long as possible. They collectively chose to support the creation and ongoing maintenance of the "brain" organ. They all delegated their survival decisions for the whole collection of cells to just those in the brain. Your consciousness, possible by your brain, is the president. The whole of your body is your constituents. The body is depending on you to make good decisions so the body lives as long and as healthy as possible.

[–] CreatingMachines@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Well, I guess that means my body voted red (the l~~eopards~~ysosomes are eating their faces now).

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

I prefer to think of it as an oasis. A biological sanctuary in a chaotic and uncaring universe. A safe haven able to stave off the oblivion of entropy for at least a few short years, giving the untold complexity of your brain and consciousness that chance to experience itself and the world before inevitably succumbing to the turbulence of the cosmos.

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not me I’m a magic skeleton in a meat suit

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

My damned skeleton is imprisoned by this meat.

[–] Sidhean@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

My body is a generational ship built by ever-improving ships who left the water eons ago. We're all specialized now, but I'm just a bunch of cells that got really good at thinking about food. I'm just a funny pattern that insists upon variations of itself.

[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are not inside your body. You are your body. If you remove your body, nothing of you remains.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

Depends on the definition of “you”

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I happen to like these bones! I grew them myself.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is no separation of mind and body. There are no homunculi in the jelly between your ears. This is the same illusion that authored the idea of a soul.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can’t travel with your prison, so it’s not a prison

[–] BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I don't know about you nerds but that skeleton is definitely part of me. I don't live in it: I AM it.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My bones are in a prison of meat. And they yearn to be free.

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

reading this is what i imagine acid feels like

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Well, at least some parts of you are outside the bone prison. Insects don’t have such luck, since the chitin is on the outside and everything else is permanently locked inside the exosekeleton. It’s even in the name: exo = outside. Jellyfish, octopuses, squids, worms, slugs, snails and some sea creatures are pretty lucky in this regard.

[–] card797@champserver.net 2 points 1 week ago

And you're never getting out.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Are you an insect? Bc most humans are endo- rather than exoskeletal. The prison "bars" for us would be our skin.

Although it's toxic outside so I'd rather hang onto mine... :-P

[–] SatyrSack 1 points 1 week ago

Speak for yourself