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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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I guess it depends. If you're eager to get the fuck outta this mortal coil, would having to go through childhood again really be something you'd be eager to do?
Who cares, you won't remember anything.
But that's already the case if you die. What would reincarnation change for the better?
I'm not saying that changes anything for me. Just pointing out that going through childhood again if you truly reincarnated would be a new experience. I was only responding to your comment about childhood.
It depends.
If governments don't restrict this information and you get born in a bad family, then you use knowledge of reincarnation and can just kys and keep doing it till you get a good family and childhood...
Then kys by 18 if you dont got rich parents so you can skip the "wage slavery" phase...
Oh I bet governments will start restricting this information...
Like how they bury history books...
Childhood kinda feels nostalgic ngl...
I mean it felt very fun and intense from memory...
I just didn'y know how to appreciate it back then...
I mean me right now could consciousness transfer to 8 year old me and redo all that and I could make it perfect...
If birth rates decline, you're gonna be stuck in purgatory for a long time
I mean 1000 years would just be a blink of eye since you wouldn't be conscious to be aware of it...
Alternatively, maybe I get born into an advanced post-scarcity alien civilization?