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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.
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- 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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So you stand for nothing? You've no values? I mean, I guess one doesn't need to have an ideology to be a hedonistic, consumerist pig, lol, it would get in the way!
Please, go on. You seem to be having a perfectly nice conversation with yourself here.
I mean, I assumed you didn't believe beliefs were fundamental and important since your whole post consists of being shocked by it, lol. Don't retreat now, silly man.
Your thesis so far consists entirely of trite accusations. You got something with more substance?
Thesis? Substance? Do you hold any beliefs, are there any value systems or ideas you appreciate greatly and by which you live by? Or don't you? Cause if you do, then your initial post is either a bad attempt at comedy or, idk, a social faux pas? Regardless, it's false, cause you do understand how beliefs are important. And if you don't, then why do you care? Why did you act out when I said values and ideas get in the way of hedonism and consumerism? It's not your case, right? That would be shameful, but whatever. And if it is, then at least admit to it the same way you 'admitted' not to understand the importance of beliefs, or else it's double shameful and a certain sign of a silly man.
This asshole thinks that religions and beliefs stop people from being hedonistic, consumerist pigs. lololololol.
You brought religion into this, and your sophist insults.
Sounds like someone has a belief and is upset it's being exposed.
Strangely enough, we are often able to see each other's shadow (Jung), and not our own.
How do you think you pass over riches, drugs, sex, etc that you can easily acquire one way or another? You don't cheat on your wife because of your beliefs, you don't do coke because of your beliefs, you don't undercut your employees because of your beliefs, etc etc. There literally isn't any other way to curtail your hedonistic impulses (and other impulses, ofc) but to BELIEVE in something, a sentence or a group of sentences that resound within you at least, that tells you "no, it's okay, I can hold it in cause if not I'll regret it later". It's either that or, idk, locking yourself up in a room? 😅
I dunno, I'd say people do things like coke, cheat, etc, because of beliefs.
They have a belief that "it doesn't matter".
But yea, our beliefs, our paradigms, are what help us be better people to each other.
Hell, science is founded on the belief that the universe is rational, that "God does not play dice with the universe".
Studying quantum mechanics makes me wonder otherwise. Nothing about it is rational. Not to say I don't operate on a day-to-day basis that the underlying framework makes sense, what other choice do we have?
Maybe the belief is that it does matter. Gotta grind beyond what's normal or healthy for too-long-extended periods. Or be homeless.
If we manage to understand pretty much everything about the universe above the quantum level, I'd consider that a great success for some bipedal primates on the 3rd rock from the Sun, looool. 😁
Wait, what?? Are you guys walking around holding back a savage animal through raw force of will?
Like...I've done lots of things I regret, but then later I don't want to do them anymore, because I know it'll feel bad
Why do you feel bad? Are their lives and opinions that important? I know that the human being is kind at his core, of course, but that nature can be easily veiled with enough wrong ideas. The reason for rampant immorality in some places and times is not because the human being is a natural antisocial, solipsistic deviant but because some cultures heavily uphold wrong things and have completely let go of the right ideas.
I feel bad because I've made the world worse, or that I've disappointed myself. But when circumstances force me to act in ways I find immoral, I just feel disgust
I want good things for everyone in general, but I'm not some endlessly patient Buddha.
I just try to understand people through their own eyes... And I try to understand myself too. I feel what they feel, but I can also just walk away
But it's not about them, not really.
It's about me - who am I? Do I make things better or worse? Do I make people better or worse? If you brought me into a perfect world, would I make that world worse?
If there were 5 billion of me, what kind of world would it be?
You seem lovely so probably an okay world at the very least. 👍😁