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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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What I really dislike is the parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, because big pharma/nature best/other insane arguments, but then take them to an ER when they inevitably get that preventable disease. For fuck's sake, stay consistent. If you don't vaccinate, do not go to the hospital later.
Devil's Advocate: Being sick is an immediately visible problem; vaccinations... viruses are invisible and you don't see symtoms till its too late
Some of us consider a narrative presented by the media to be more substantial than the way we feel. In fact such people might be in the majority.
Which is why we have decades of medical science that has gone to great lengths to discover these things. They can't be seen by the naked eye but they can be seen with a strong enough microscope. We know they exist and we know what they cause. We know how to prevent that from happening.
Yet these mouth breathing troglodytes have been conned into distrusting science on a fundamental level.
Surely we are smart to trust the way we feel more than we trust a talking head on tv.
Says the twit regurgitating Fox News propaganda with absolutely no basis in fact, no sources, no data, nothing. Go find some credible primary sources for your horseshit - you'll see there are none.
I don't watch fox news.
And there's that anger again. It's almost like somebody told you to get angry.
Doesn't mean your talking points aren't the same.
No one is talking about the "talking heads on TV". I'm talking about scientific institutions that have dedicated their entire existence to studying these things.
If you're actually smart, you don't trust the way you feel because human feeling and intuition is heavily flawed and prone to fallacy unless you have extensive education on a specific subject and even then you still don't trust it unless you can back it up with evidence.
You trust institutions of authority that have demonstrably shown themselves to be correct with decades of empirically backed evidence and study.
Also, you remember that scene from 1984 where the hero was being tortured? He was told over and over to never trust himself and to only trust the state.
That's you.
Wow, so not only are you just completely stupid but you also completely lack even a semblance of media literacy.
You do know that scientific institutions and the state are two completely different entities, right? Don't answer, that was rhetorical, we all know you don't know a goddamn thing.
For the purposes of my point the difference doesn't matter. Both are offering themselves as authoritative truth. Both are advising the suppression of personal truth in favor of that authority.
(Now take a breath. Dang!)
Your point is entirely bullshit and unworthy of any respect. Your lack of understanding of their differences is on full display by you attempting to assert that the nuance doesn't matter.
Just because you're to stupid to understand it doesn't mean it doesn't matter. It just means you're fucking dumb.
Now fuck off with your illogical fallacies and faulty rhetoric. Or don't and continue to expose the extent of your ignorance.
Most obvious ragebait account
So you are uncontrollably raging now? All rationality is blotted from your mind? Doesn't that seem bad to you?
The word from the "scientific institutions" arrives at your door in the form of, yes, a talking head. Speaking with great confidence like an AI.
I'll keep trusting myself, thanks. It has served me well so far.
When you find yourself agreeing with the mob, that's a good sign that you're under the influence.
If you only use secondary and tertiary sources and never bother to look into the primary sources of information then you're incredibly ignorant.
Fuck off, delusional moron. You are a walking ball of fallacy and Dunning-Kruger. It is clear how sorely lacking you are in education. Spoiled rotten idiot who has lived a life of relative safety thanks to the very science you try to dismiss.
You're engaging with a ragebait account
I know. It's my time to waste. Not like I got anything better to do than shit on some troglodyte.
There's the anger. That's what we inspire with our propaganda. Stop thinking and raaaaaaage!
No shit, dealing with fucking idiots who are confident in their idiocy is infuriating.
You clearly have never been to college and I doubt you even passed fucking high school.
The only one who has stopped thinking is you. Now piss the fuck off, moron.
I think they programmed you like a gameboy
I think you listen to too much Joe Rogan.
I don't listen to Joe Rogan. I don't listen to any of that stuff, from any tribe
Sure you don't bucko. You just regurgitate their talking points verbatim by mere chance.
You are the poster child of the target demographic for right-wing misinformation grift.
I doubt it. .
How about you, are you suffering from grift or is it truth?
Doubt facts all you want. They still remain facts.
And questions still remain questions. I asked you one.
You asked a bullshit rhetorical "question" that only serves to reinforce your fallacious position. You have no concept of logic or reason.
Believe it or not it's a straight question and it is a subject that we can discuss rationally.
This intense confidence in your own vision of truth is a problem
Facts don't care about your feelings bud. Go back to school.
You have no concept of rationality.
The fucking irony coming from you. My "truth" is backed by decades of scientific, empirical evidence. When you can back up your insane claims with scientific data and study, then you will have a leg to stand on. Until then, all you have is feelings and a complete lack of education.
And yet, instead of simply offering rational arguments, you sling invective and tell me how right you are and how wrong I am, over and over.
It's like talking to a religious zealot.
God the projection is strong with you.
I have not insulted you once. You have insulted me a dozen times. Peruse this thread if you doubt me.
Fuck you and your fallacious appeal to civility.
You're a brick fucking wall and too stupid to understand the point. I have no patience for people like you.
This has been fun insulting dumbasses like you but I grow bored of you.
Thanks