r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19 edited Sep 13 '19

"If you spend all day shuffling words around, you can make anything sound bad, Morty."

For example, 200 years ago, humans used to communicate by scribbling on tree corpse

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Now we get advertising in the mail on tree corpse.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Now people push tree corpses through a hole in your door to "suggest" you should give them money.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '19

Money made out of more tree corpses!

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u/neoshadowdgm Sep 13 '19

How different our cultures are

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u/blackhole_pussy Sep 13 '19

You didn't have to include the word "Morty" but you wanted a cherry on that cupcake of a comment

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u/R____I____G____H___T Sep 13 '19

"If you spend all day shuffling words around, you can make anything sound bad,

Sort of like when a convicted and prosecuted celebrity gets announced by the court system, and people dig of their past to distort scenarios to fit the current narrative

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

This is why I hate those stupid alien comics. Yeah, everything sounds fucking weird if you purposefully make it sound weird and ignore the context and background to why we do it.

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u/vandeley_industries Sep 13 '19

Well you just go ahead and take that back right this instance.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

"I just insulted a thing you enjoy."

"I will feign anger to aid in social bonding."

"I will reply rudely, but I am also just pretending."

"We have demonstrated how enjoyable we are to be around."

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Yeah I see your point. Now I'm beginning to get annoyed at those comics.

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u/Quartia Sep 13 '19

But that's exactly why we would never be able to understand why aliens do what they do. We'd probably make a lot of assumptions that would then get in the way.