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Showerthoughts

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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:

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

I was thinking about a character in a TV show. He’s a Christian monk who is captured by Viking raiders and kept as a slave. He’s still quite young though. And while he has no freedom, he isn’t whipped or treated like an animal, he just lives as a very low status person. Eventually, after years, he starts wanting to improve his status with the tribe around him. Maybe he’s tired of being at the bottom. Maybe he’s just starving for some kind of human connection. When they come under threat, he asks to join the Viking fighting force. This seems like pretty clear Stockholm Syndrome to me - fighting for the people who enslaved you.

But is it really that different from waking up as a child in a certain culture and over time, absorbing its ways, and feeling the desire to grow your status in that society? How many people absorb their home culture’s ways because they think about them and deem them best? It’s a process of absorption.

So yes, while there’s always a little sass and irony in showerthoughts, I think there’s a connection here with pondering. You didn’t elaborate on your “yeah no” comment at all. Perhaps now you will?

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Yes, siding with your captors is different from being raised in a culture.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (12 children)

You’re really big on bald assertions.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember when I was 14 and I had everything figured out

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Globulart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Mate.... Read it again. The irony here is almost too strong.

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