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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: 1

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Socrates bemoaned those young'ns who had the audacity to read their Homer, instead of memorizing it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and now they're able to memorize all the dances/emotes from a specific influencer/streamer. Almost the same, no?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No.

Like not even close. Even if we aren't judging each on the difficulty of memorizing a two second emote or dance versus an entire novel, things that are physical are more easily learned.

Ask yourself this, did they have to commit themselves to memorizing all of if? No, they casually memorized them all through watching it. No one has ever casually memorized a novel on accident.

Plus memorizing literature is unquestionably more valuable than learning what some micro-celebrity that doesn't fucking matter is making faces about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was being sarcastic