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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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You're actively doing the equivalent of a kid plugging their ears and singing loudly in order to drown out something someone is telling them.
And in doing so, you are by far the worst offender in this thread, when it comes to off-topic nonsense. Your comebacks are genuinely embarrasing, and the attention they have drawn eclipse whatever you wanted the point to be.
Trying to explain that to you, so you might comprehend the parts of what you are being told that are worth hearing, and thereby become capable of choosing to do better, has far more substance than your initial hypothetical.
Your most productive course of action, would be to take what you've been told, and re-posting the thread with better wording.
Something along the lines of "what would happen if a piece of malware used our devices to record what everyone says in private, and made it public".
You started with a premise so far from reality, (that there would be something bad to reveal about everyone) that people ignored your opener in favor of discussing its incongruence with reality.
This is facile drivel. Really. Go back to discussing the substance. How society would react etc.
Unfortunately, we do not have the authority to decide what part of our activity people choose to address in reply to us.
That's up to everyone else. I can only hope you'll actually read what I write. I can't make you.
But the responses and votes you've received, should make it more than clear to you, what you should take home and think about from this post of yours.
My god man, stop inhaling your own farts, it's killing braincells. Ground yourself in the observable.
If this is the kind of stuff you say publicly, no wonder you thought the stuff you say privately would end the world.
Do better, man.
You do better. Return to discussing my point like you did ten replies back. Your shallow hackneyed handwaving just stinks up the thread.
In what way? Stop being one of the people who explains to someone why they're being down-voted instead of piling on with insults?
Why should I engage with your chosen subject? I'm not interested. The only reason I even opened the post was because of the downvotes, not the premise or title.
And when I did, I found you, actively, either accidentally, or intentionally, pissing people off. You're being abrasive and adversarial. You're either trolling, or inadvertently turning everyone away from the thing you actually wanted to discuss.
I don't care whether it's deliberate, the explanation for why you should stop is the same.
Yet, you feel the need to continue to go "nu-uh, everyone else is the problem" even as the number of people telling you otherwise, and just the general disapproval, increases.
"Ground yourself in the observable." How people react when you say and do things, is part of the observable, my friend.
If I succeed, I'll have made you nicer to talk to. I'm a lot more invested in that.
Even as you probably wont be nicer for me. You likely hate my guts about now, and wont admit it to me even if I do make you rethink things.
Remember way back when I suggested that you return to discussing my point?
This is a non-response.
Read and reply to what is said, or don't respond at all.
Anything else is an attempt to feel like you got the last word.
To be clear, your extended tangent into clumsy self-stroking is no fun for me. I want no part of it. My point, otoh, interests me. Therefore...
Stop trying to dictate how people engage. And also, of the two of you, only you appear to be engaging in "self stroking".
You guys need a dictator.
What an asinine response. No, we don't need any form of dictator, certainly not someone literally telling us what to say, when you started this thread ostensibly to have an actual discussion.
Well, you got one. Sorry it's not the one you wanted, but it's the one you deserve.
Then stop replying.
Or derailing your own thread by being an ass, for that matter.
I'm just guiding to you a better conversation. For your own good.
You're either a troll or a genuine egomaniac sophist. You talk like you think you know more than everyone else, or operate on a higher level of thought.
I'm telling you, this isn't the case. You like to play at philosophy but lack the introspection needed to actually gain any insight.
First, learn to question yourself and your assumptions. Then, and only then, can you gain any form of enlightenment.
Buddy. You're on a tantrum. You ain't taking us anywhere except the verbal equivalent of slinging shit at each other.
But I'm not here for conversation. I'm here to show you this ain't productive, and that you need to stop.
You've been set straight on an assumption about people, that might have called into question your own self worth.
If you genuinely thought everyone shit-talks, it follows that it is something you do.
If that's the case, the fact that there are people who don't, might have made you feel like a worse person in contrast.
That's ok. But you need to start thinking about what you're gonna do about it. And doubling down on the stuff that makes you difficult to like, aint it.
Hmm. I thought I explained this 5 times but in case you missed it
It doesn't matter if it's 100%. Or 99%. Or even 90 or 30. It would still be quite the nuke.
That's the point. That it would be a nuke.
I'm confused. What does this have to do with the fact that you're being difficult?
You changed your position. Good. I knew that. See how that last comment of mine was in past tense? But that does not absolve you for the comments you made and continue to make.
Nothing in how you're acting makes me think you'll be nicer about it the next time you get your mind changed. And that's what I'm telling you to change.
It's like teaching a fencepost to play the piano.
Why do you do that?
The only possible interpretation I can make here, is that you just put together a sentence for the sole purpose of trying to upset me.
That is not a nice thing to do. No mature adult should ever need to go there.
Yet you have.
Why can't you just... Not?
Hm. Ask a question, then answer your own question, then enjoy a satisfying climax. Very efficient.
I'm asking why you can't be nice. Or failing that why you don't want to be.
That you aren't, is obvious. And not an answer to anything.
You've now admitted to being intentionally malicious.
That's NOT an improvement.
Scamper along. Seriously.
Is that the meanest "go away" you can manage?
Really?
Just block me. Or stop responding, even.
I keep replying because that's what I do when there's even a fraction of a chance I get through.
I will repeat the same paraphrased ideas at you over and over, so that even if you only read every other sentence, the full idea might make it into your head.
Wtf is wrong with you
No, it wouldn't. That would only be the case if those shit talkers each said truly heinous shit, and those on the receiving end had zero emotional intelligence to deal with it.
Well at least you're consistent.
That's... what everyone's telling you to do...
Your premise is simply incorrect. Can't you accept that?
But, for an example of "huffing one's own farts", may I direct your attention to...
Your behaviour in this thread?
It doesn't matter if it's 100%. Or 99%. Or even 90 or 30. It would still be quite the nuke.
I think this is dead obvious. And I mentioned that.
But you can't get past that can you?
It's like you have your eyeball pressed up against the bark of a tree, insisting that there is no forest.
(That's what we call a "metaphor".)
You said "everybody".
That's right. I did. And people who can't see past that particular bit of treebark for the sake of discussing the forest are what we call... oh, something deeply derogatory. I forget. Use your imagination.
Why should my imagination be making your point for you? Aren't you able to do it yourself? I'm not missing the forest for the trees, I'm pointing out that the trees in the forest are dead
If you say "every X is Y", and there is even a single piece of evidence against that, you are wrong. Thats just how it works.
If you wanted to say, "i wonder what would happen if everything people said about others behind their back was revealed to them," then we'd be talking only about that. But you didn't.
I made a post just for you. Well, and most of the people here actually.
Nah that's definitely still just for you to continue huffing your own farts
Yes. And then when someone said otherwise you just doubled down with absolutely no additional logic.
And when they suggested that your personal experiences might be coloring your views, you accused them of being in denial.
All in all the "I'm an asshole" energy is coming through loud and clear... Not to mention your very premise reveals that you think it's normal to speak ill of people.