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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Jesus could have been an antique meme à la Chuck Norris that got waaaay out of hand (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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All we have are scriptures and texts that could have been a series of meme that built/improved from eachother but lost the common knowledge between the generations that it was fictional.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I always thought of prophets as particularly charismatic mentally ill people. Jesus may not have set out to start a cult, but like, delusions of grandeur and distorted self-image in someone charismatic and intelligent usually ends in a cult. In his lifetime they were basically anarchist hippies (at least as recorded by the bible), but like all cults, today the center has rotted and it's just toxic brainwashing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I see the bible as basically schizophrenic, Bronze Age, fan fiction.

It serves a purpose, but it’s unsuitable as the foundation of one’s world view, or to defer one’s morality to.

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