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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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Which religion has the assumption that we are the only intelligent life? The ones I have studied didn't seem to believe that only human intelligence is around. They had demons and angles and gods.
It's at least heavily implied in many. It implies that he created everything and all living things on it only talks about creatures being created on earth. If the book is accurate (it's clearly not, but let's assume) and if it's divinely inspired, it should be aware of cresting life elsewhere also. It also calls stars/glalaxies/nebulas/whatever "lights in the dome of the sky" so not exactly a great start for it.
It being weird or wrong hasn't stopped it really before though, but it would probably create some kind of shift, especially if it's intelligent. In that case, are they deserving the same status as man? Are they children of God also? Why do they look different?
Christians don't even care what the Bible says let alone what it implies.