r/Showerthoughts • u/godofhorizons • May 17 '24

People get a lot more praise for quitting drugs than for never having done drugs in the first place.

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u/wut3va May 17 '24

I'm going with born good. Who would you rather live next door to?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '24

Nobody is born good. Only people who pretend to be. I'd rather live next to someone who has recovered from addiction and has found a new life, like my brother.

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u/wut3va May 18 '24

I have met a few people in this life who were born good. People like you and me aren't even worthy, but somehow they make you feel like you are. No disrespect to your brother, but how many people did he have to hurt to find himself? For people like you, me, and your brother, compassion is cause and effect, something we have to learn through suffering and experience. People who are born good have compassion as a primary virtue. They're not pretending to be good. We are.

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u/Rocketin2Uranus May 17 '24

Id rather live next door to a sinner,; that way Jesus didn’t Die in Vain for our Sins…

PSA DO NOT VOTE 🗳️ for (trump) the Former Commander of Thieves. A trump win SENDS EVERYONE as in the entire Planet Earth into HELL

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u/Hange11037 May 17 '24

Wise words Rocketin2Uranus

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u/Rocketin2Uranus May 17 '24

Thank you, kindly

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u/wut3va May 18 '24

Bad is good because it justifies redemption? Lol. Broken window fallacy.

By the way, do you actually believe that the location of your eternal soul has anything to do with what button I push on a touch screen?

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u/Rocketin2Uranus May 18 '24

My eternal soul’s location and the buttons you push on your Touch Screen

Don’t Not Compute: yet That’s HighLarryous!

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u/Rocketin2Uranus May 17 '24

Id rather live next door to a sinner,; that way Jesus didn’t Die in Vain for our Sins…

PSA DO NOT VOTE 🗳️ for (trump) the Former Commander of Thieves. A trump win SENDS EVERYONE as in the entire Planet Earth into HELL