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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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Jesus didn't die to save anyone, he died because the Romans (colluding with corrupt Jewish religious authorities from what I understand, but still mostly due to the Romans) thought he was too dangerous of an element to keep alive. And many prophets and righteous believers have suffered injustice and death at the hands of the powerful. And I'm sure he knew it would end up like this too, which makes his open preaching and "social disruption" (fucking with the money folk at the temple, for instance) even more badass (and many more fitting, positive adjectives I can't think of right now, lol).
Yeah, Roman Catholicism, and any offshoot that follows its tenets, is nonsensical. But Jesus was a "Jew", a monotheist in the vein of Abraham, Moses and Solomon, who didn't come to "change the Law and the prophets but to fulfill it", to embody one that makes IRL change because his faith cannot allow him to do otherwise, to just be inactive. If the world is shit because of our own action and inaction, isn't it time to make the right choices? So he lived that life and walked the walk and talked the talk, so we can still talk about him (his talk and his walk, not his divinity of Roman origin...) two thousand years later, because he was very conscious that, in much the same way that you don't jump off of a roof because you understand gravity and the dangers of falling from high altitude, if he didn't do his best to be okay with the Heavenly Father (of everyone and everything, not an actual anthropomorphic dad, but the Creator on the outside and responsible of spacetime and everything in it; without compare is the Almighty, the Merciful), his soul could fall into Hell. He just, to quote Diogenes, was "singing louder in the choir so everyone else could follow the right tune". Anyways, follow Jesus and you'll be okay with God. For further info, read the Sermon on the Mount. If you wanna deep dive into what happened to actual Abrahamic monotheism after the Romans mutated and exported it, the Qur'an is freely available online (Clear Qur'an is a good translation, so is the Monotheist Qur'an). 👋