Thought Provokers: 4/17/2024

You’re not “phobic” if your fear is rational.

The modern world needs a secular way for people to withdraw from society, like monks and nuns of tradition.

The disarray of global affairs reveals that the smartest people in the world have not figured out how to outsmart the dumbest people in the world.

Your skin can feel hair that fell on your body, but not hair growing on your body.

Much of the skill in fixing things involves knowing how much force you can use.

It’s a strange miracle that email survived after instant messaging became a thing.

Drinking water through a straw is the opposite of snorkeling.

When you retire there will be people you saw and talked to daily who you’ll never see again.

Convenience stores sell mostly sugar, tobacco, alcohol, and coffee, making them drug stores.

There are too many books teaching preschoolers how to identify tigers, elephants, and giraffes, considering they’ll never encounter one in their neighborhood.

You need to wake up in order to know how good your sleep was.

Bad people only get accepted by other bad people, making it far more difficult for them to become good people.

The majority of people only support others if they think that others are doing what they expect them to do.

Every word you speak was once new.

There’s a chance that for every idea you have, someone else has had it before you without you knowing.

It’s ironic that the areas most impacted by AI are those of human creativity, such as music and art.

It is strange how ghosts only haunt mansions or large homes and never a 400 sqft studio apartment.

Only jeans are sold intentionally broken.

Not all problems have real solutions.

Poor drug addicts tend to be skinny; rich drug addicts tend to be fat.

Humans are the only animal on the planet that deliberately tries to become stronger as a leisure activity.

Our water is billions of years old.

Gingerbread men see Milk the same as we see sulphuric acid.