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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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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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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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I can tell a lot of effort went into this but the person you are talking to clearly has no ability to recognize empirical evidence. They are utterly guided by their own uneducated feelings and nothing will convince them otherwise. I applaud you on your efforts though. Lot of good information here.
I don't disagree, they're an incredibly propagandized individual, but engaging in discussions like that gives me practice for engaging in discussions with similarly propagandized people I know IRL. It's helped me convert at least one person from an anti-vax conservative into a moderate at least leftist.
I'm too autistic to engage in these discussions with people because I cannot comprehend how they can just completely ignore irrefutable data just because they don't feel that it is correct. It utterly baffled me that people can be so controlled by their emotions to the point of just straight up rejecting reality.
Like, I get it. I understand it on a psychological level and how they are just victims of their own innate human psychology but I for the life of me cannot have a discussion with these people about it because they just do not listen nor care about facts and I have no patience to dance around it for the sake of protecting their fragile egos.
I'm essentially a modern day Ignaz Sammelweis.
Everyone does this. YOU do this. It would behoove you to develop compassion to cope with impatience, autism doesn't prevent it.
Not who you were responding to.
I've given up. I don't have it in me anymore to keep trying. Never was able to get anyone back to reality after they went deep into it. Friends and family. It's a terrible damn problem. Basically a big chunk of society needs to be deprogrammed and I haven't seen anything that will do the trick.
Not that I'm in any way disparaging your efforts. Good luck and god speed. Maybe you'll find some sort of magic that will flip the switch. You'd be a motherfucking hero, no irony.
Yes, you know the truth. And everybody around you knows the truth. And all of the right authorities agree with you. And this is all completely logical, obvious, right and scientific. And anybody who thinks otherwise is wrong, bad and insane.
It's an old story.
Gods, you're boring. Piss off with your utterly fallacious arguments.