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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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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

scientology is also a scam. they are the same. manipulation of people for money and power.

the guy who created scientology was a sci fi writer who actually declared he was going to create a religion for monetary reasons, and then did so.

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So it's not a scam. Scientologists are just idiots.

it can, and is is for all religions, both.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Yes, both are cults.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Credit where credit is due, at least scientologists are the better educated of the bunch. Fuck them both, though.

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes. They at least have an aurora of a scientific organization.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 20 hours ago

They’re exactly as scientific as the Victorian spiritualists who talked about “vibrational energies” and such, which is to say, not at all.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

No, they don't. Just because they have "scient" in the name doesn't mean they have anything to do with science.

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world -1 points 21 hours ago

.... that's the meanung of "aurora of..."

[–] ulkesh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Yes, with more idiots in the congregation.

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago

see also: the 1964 southern strategy

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean it's also pretty damn religious too

[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That's MTG, right? Who's the jumpsuit guy?

[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago

So, Greene hopped herself into the fake cage to fake pray with the fake inmate who committed real crimes in a fake fight against fake voter fraud aimed at discarding real and legitimate votes in order to keep America’s fakest real president in power.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Immigrants being roughly equivalent to thetans in their theology, yeah that checks out

[–] drake@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 22 hours ago

Personally, I don’t really feel that scientology is particularly worse than other religions. So you could just say that Trump supporters are more religious than political, really. Though, I don’t think that’s unique to Trump supporters, really - modern politics really is a lot more like a sort of religious thing rather than about the actual policy for a lot of people.