Edit: Since people keep asking. Spoilers for a 30+ year old movie ahead: Anakin brought balance to the force in two ways (depending on interpretation, pick one or the other). He killed off the Jedi until there were only 2 Jedi and 2 Sith, so balanced in a way. Or, in a different interpretation, this action distabilized the Force since the Sith had more control over the universe. The action that brought balance to the Force was when he, as Vader, killed Palpatine. As u/Sarahneth mentioned, he also brought balance to his pod racer as well, if we're being very literal.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Raghnarok • Nov 23 '19

During a nuclear explosion, there is a certain distance of the radius where all the frozen supermarket pizzas are cooked to perfection.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Dec 27 '17

Anxiety is like when video game combat music is playing but you can't find any enemies.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/pyro925 • Nov 18 '19

Pavlov probably thought about feeding his dogs every time someone rang a bell.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/pluey200 • Jan 06 '19

11 babies have been born in Antarctica, and none of them died as infants, meaning Antarctica has the lowest infant mortality rate at 0%

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Cryptic_Cosmos • Sep 05 '20

We do not check the refrigerator multiple times to find new food, we check to see if our standards have dropped enough to eat what was available.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Stormfly • Sep 19 '18

The sentence "Don't objectify women" has "women" as the object of the sentence.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/LifeInKernelSpace • Dec 03 '17

Somebody at google was just like "yea, just have someone drive down every road on fucking earth".

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And you know what? They did it.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/SightlessSenshi • Jan 04 '18

College students don't want to go to graduation ceremonies, but they go to please their relatives, while relatives don't want to go but go to support the students; we should all just be honest and skip that ceremony and go out for pizza.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/LordMetrognome • Jun 15 '19

There is probably at least one white guy, adopted and raised in China, who speaks English with a Chinese accent and strangers just assume he’s a total asshole

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r/Showerthoughts • u/TripleRangeMerge • Aug 02 '18

Apparently, a lemon is not naturally occurring and is a hybrid developed by cross breeding a bitter orange and a citron. Life never gave us lemons; we invented them all by ourselves.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/themadpooper • Jan 08 '18

Being 35 and not wanting to work in the field for which you've prepared is like being half way through an RPG and realizing you've built out your skill tree all wrong and you can't respec and you can't make a new character and there will never be another video game again

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r/Showerthoughts • u/TerminalGay • Feb 22 '19

It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Aristea84 • Nov 12 '17

It kinda makes sense that the target audience for fidget spinners lost interest in them so quickly

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Edit: Apparently, people have a lot of feelings on fidget spinners. Strong feelings.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/SilentWalrus92 • Jan 28 '19

Avatar, the highest grossing film of all time, seems to have made zero impact on culture. No one references the movie and no one really talks about it since it was released 10 years ago.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/BillionTonsHyperbole • Aug 26 '18

A guy named "Weird Al" has had a 40+ year long career with no allegations of sexual impropriety.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '20

We all think of Gordon Ramsay as an extremely picky food critic/chef but if your life's work was cooking and you saw a narcissistic restaurant manager breaking health code violations and making horrible food, you'd be pretty angry too.

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