What if our brains are just eggs, and when you take drugs, its like you fry that egg
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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If you have a car accident, it’s like making an omelette.
What if you're on a motor bike?
Scrambled eggs.
Mine is just scrambled
Pickled checking-in.
Stop I haven't had breakfast yet
Its been 10 hours - how was breakfast?
Scrambled eggs toast bacon and tomatoes
10/10 True shower thought
No, officer, it's "Hi, how ARE you?"
There's a whole community about the body being just a shell and the brain being an egg that needs to crack: EGG IRL
How high are you? And where can I get some?
It's called an existential crisis
Well, they are high in cholesterol...
You'd have to believe in souls
Idk about all of that, chief. Our brains seem to be the machine we use to filter reality after sensory input. But I agree with the sentiment: this life is just a game (that you can win or lose), the afterlife is more real and long-lasting. 👍
Without any transducers for sensory data into the brain would a soul hatchling be eternally trapped with no external interaction?
What if we don't need it like gills in the womb?
You're still getting oxygen through the umbilical blood, so no gills but still something other than lungs. So like instead of a brain the soul hatchling attaches to a clone or a robot brain or something else to haunt
Technically it's still lungs, just not your own.
I don't believe in a soul or an afterlife. And neither do you. The only person I can think of who lived their life like that stuff was true is Andrea Yates. The rest of y'all are just kidding yourselves because you're scared of dying.