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:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
You are your memories and your choices.
... What would it matter if you do not remember being the previous you?
For all intents and purposes... those are two different people.
Just as you at 10 is a somewhat to significantly different person than you at 30, 50, 80, etc.
Please no thank you just the one time is enough
Yeah, maybe. But I'd also get to watch Firefly again for the first time.
lol try my trick and just age 5 to 10 years such that you genuinely forget a good deal of it hahaha
The Four Noble Truths, or the truths of the Noble Ones,[66] express the basic orientation of Buddhism: everything is impermanent, yet we crave and cling to impermanent states and things, which is dukkha, "incapable of satisfying" and painful.[67][68] This keeps us caught in saṃsāra, metaphysicallty interpreted as the endless cycle of repeated rebirth, dukkha and dying again;[note 5] also interpreted as a psychological cycle of repetitious rebirth of the ego.
But there is a way to liberation from this endless cycle[74] to the state of nirvana, namely following the Noble Eightfold Path.[note 6]
Isn't that more like if you're stuck in a time loop?
My understanding is that if you're reincarnated you're still in the current timeline (ie time has continued to pass), you're just now in a different body.
And if it's not a dharmic path-style of reincarnation and you're just reincarnated into whatever living creature needs a soul, you'd probably come back as some kind of bacterium for the next 200 trillion times before -- if you're reeeeallly lucky -- then reincarnating as a tardigrade.
If it is, then it already is, so your experience wouldn't change from how it already is, which you've already been through... So the concept that it's worse (or any different) to go through again ends up being moot.