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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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Science doesn't work that way. There's provable and repeatable experiments and proofs that you can independently verify.
Last time I checked most things that aren't metaphysical (like philosophy), have some relationship with science, and therefore, only requires that you go through the motions to prove it yourself by creating your own reproduction of an test/experiment/proof....
Science only works for scientific claims. It cannot prove that my great grandfather was in a prisoner of war camp.
Last time I checked, people didn't found their core belief system around whether prisoners of war existed or not.
Even so, there's tangible proof of him being there, by his physical body being there, when it happened. This can be proven by science. Obviously that's not able to be proven after he was released from the camp, and yes, we have to take the scribbles on a page to know it happened.
I will give you that.
For anything that is a universal truth, like gravity, chemistry, the properties of light, electricity, and all the principles behind electronics engineering, etc.... All of that is provable. Lived experiences, history, sure. We have to accept that what we're reading is true or not. But that's a choice.
Science, which defines pretty much everything that's happening, why is happening, and how it can happen, is immutable.
The idea of "God" has no basis more reliable than someone's report of it happening. For something so universal/omnipotent, the fact that the only "evidence" that it happened is in a book, yet this God has a plan for you right now, but you can't know it because God won't tell you, nor do anything outside of what physics/Science says can/will happen, isn't evidence of the existence of such a deity, regardless of what someone calls "God".
All other things that exist, the forces that act on those things, and all of the possible outcomes of that thing existing can be proven by science. God cannot be proven, by science or otherwise.
Even history, to some extent, can be proven, because the evidence still exists. You can visit auschwitz, and see where history happened from WW2. You can see the damage from bombs and gunfire in structures that were standing when conflicts happened. There's still evidence for a lot of that. And again, the same cannot be said for any book about any deity.