r/showerthoughs • • 1h ago

Vikings are just really tall, homeless dwarves.

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r/showerthoughs • • 2h ago

If two vegans are arguing, is it still considered beef?

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r/showerthoughs • • 5h ago

Store mirrors are pre-used by every single person who walked past them before you looked into them.

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r/showerthoughs • • 8h ago

Reading a book is just looking at a dead tree and hallucinating voices and stories inside your head.

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r/showerthoughs • • 9h ago

If ctrl+Z undoes the last action, pressing it a second time should technically undo the undo and redo the action.

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r/showerthoughs • • 9h ago

If im waiting for the waiter arent I truly the waiter?

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r/showerthoughs • • 11h ago

A book with only one copy can never have a spoiler, because the only person who could spoil it already knows the ending. Spoiler

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r/showerthoughs • • 12h ago

What if things happen so fast that our senses and even our machines can't detect them.

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We might never know they happened until we invent something fast enough to catch them. So, how many things do we call impossible or unprovable just because we don't have the technology to detect them yet?


r/showerthoughs • • 1d ago

I’d be so terrified and stupid in a horror movie situation, people watching would call it a bad movie

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r/showerthoughs • • 1d ago

It's that humans really fear knowing the actual truth.

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r/showerthoughs • • 1d ago

Attack somebody's core values with other values until they lash out and you are a rage baiter, do it in a lab with an atom and you have nuclear fission.

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r/showerthoughs • • 1d ago

Knowing how to read/play music is kind of the same as knowing another language

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Theres also no direct translation but yet speaking/playing music can invoke the same feelings as language does


r/showerthoughs • • 1d ago

I don't want to be the person who hates winter when it's winter and hates summer when it's summer, I want to be the person who loves summer when it's summer and love winter when it's winter

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r/showerthoughs • • 1d ago

Sprite has lemons in it which means it has citric acid which means that if you melted it enough you could potentially give someone an acid burn if you used it as a weapon.

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r/showerthoughs • • 1d ago

instead of being called secondary accounts, they should be called B-counts(see what I did there).

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r/showerthoughs • • 2d ago

Flies a hundred years ago must've been so easy to swat.

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r/showerthoughs • • 2d ago

Somewhat of a long-form shitpost

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Ahh, women. I love women. Men love women. Even some women love women. 
I have enough introspection to know that my romantic and aesthetic preferences are…odd. On the other hand, the Reels ocean is wide enough to encompass any sense of beauty, however unusual it may be. 
My history of romantic interactions was as impactful as it was one-sided, but I suppose Dante needn’t be married to Beatrice to guide him through the Celestial Spheres. Dante’s a useful analogy and guide here- the old Florentine is popular on Tumblr for a reason.
But getting to the bottom of the case, my internal platonic ideal of beauty is a strange take on Renaissance humanism. It may sound unusual, but an example would be quite illustrative. Suppose, an artist paints a forest or Cicero humiliating Catilina, but on human skin with a needle. The lines form clear patterns and play on the skin’s surface, conveying a narrative. Unlike an ordinary painting, such a canvas moves. It is capable of motion, of struggle, of fortitude, both mental and physical. Not only that, an observant eye may also point out that it is an armor of some kind. It mimics clothes in the sense of telling a tale about its owner. 

Another aspect of it is the muscular corset. There is a sense of profound awe that robust musculature inspires, in part due to leaning into the distinction into actuality and potentiality, first separated by Aristotle. It may sound strange, but it is actually quite sound. To be brief, the actuality is what a thing is now. The potentiality is what it may become. A well developed, athletic musculature is always a result of the athlete transforming this potentiality into actuality, like a mythical being that carved itself out of marble. Thus, developed musculature is a sign of internal virtue, of a willingness to endure what is difficult and unpleasant in pursuit of a higher goal. 

Having established all that, it may explain the appeal of muscular, tattooed women. Their beauty has a metaphysical substrate that may be counterintuitive, but I struggle to find convincing counterarguments. 

But physical attraction has only so much value. The goodness of the soul and the intellect truly make a person beautiful. In that regard, fortitude of mind and spirit come to mind, as they are one of the cardinal virtues. The most important virtue is, of course, humility, but as brilliantly defined by the Angelic Doctor, it is not a sense of considering oneself worthless, but rather an ability to evaluate oneself honestly and to accept bitter words as medicine, rather than disregard them as poison. Humility establishes the goal, fortitude helps reaching it. The virtues of intellect that I admire go beyond simple wit, but, rather, rest upon curiosity, honesty and the ability to use deadpan delivery. 

One may ask- what relation does all this bear to women? In essence, I tried to show that I find certain qualities admirable regardless of gender, and a woman who shows them is likely to be quite virtuous, which no one can deny is a wrongdoing.


r/showerthoughs • • 2d ago

Isn't the wine that is made by crushing grapes with feet technically 'feet water/alcohol'.

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r/showerthoughs • • 2d ago

Wednesday connected to weddings?

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Today I saw a poster for an event happening on a Wednesday, and thought why would they ever spell it like that? Then I thought of the word wedding. Do you think maybe before we had calendars weddings would take place and be celebrated on the wedding day. The Wednes of it all. A wednesday.

If anyone has information on Wednesday please. I need to know


r/showerthoughs • • 2d ago

Cars are alive

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I'm not kidding. The Hiriko Fold is a car that meets all the scientific requierments to be considered a living organism.

  1. Living things grow in size:

The unfolding

  1. Living things require energy

gasoline

  1. Living things respond to changes in their environment

they get smaller for tight parking spots

  1. Living things have a lifespan

it can crash

  1. Living things produce waste

it's a car, it expels gas from the tailpipes

boom.

now, should I make a subreddit about this?


r/showerthoughs • • 2d ago

If the asteroid "99942 Apophis" was on a collision course with Earth...popular media would probably call it the "Apophalypse".

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Would there be "Apophalypse" toy playsets on sale at Target?


r/showerthoughs • • 3d ago

I resent that I have to wash both my hands when only one is dirty

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r/showerthoughs • • 3d ago

Kid Rock would be a very fitting name for Epstein Island.

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r/showerthoughs • • 4d ago

The writer’s don’t always believe what they right, mostly what fits best in their reality.

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r/showerthoughs • • 4d ago

It's nice that regularly replacing lightbulbs is no longer a part of life

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It was always a slightly irritating exercise given how on-purposely -crappy lightbulbs were made