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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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The Garden of Eden was based on The Galápagos Islands. (lemmy.world)
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I’m kidding here, but the similarities are odd. The weather is always between 70F and 85F all year round. The biggest threat to you on the island are apples. You shouldn’t eat the apples that grow on the island; the small green ones are poisonous. Oh, and it isn’t easy to immigrate there. It’s a place where only few people are allowed to reside. Oh, and did I mention the abundant variety of plants and animals on the island?

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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is a/the part of the Bible (Genesis 2) people reference to support that belief:

10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel*: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

*Ostensibly Tigris

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, its 4 rivers, and to the best of my knowledge, biblical scholars have basically given up on trying to associate 4 rivers and the place names given with any actual real location.

Either its mythical, or some of the place names just do not linguistically connect with any of the historical record of actual locations.

Same with the 4 rivers. No conclusive evidence of dried up ancient river beds that actually fits.

Basically Eden would have to be... somewhere up river of the Tigris, but the Tigris and Euphrates actually have headwaters in modern day Turkey, and they don't have the same sources.

Most likely the authors went with some kind of local, incorrect lore from Sumer/Akkad/Babylon, or possibly the rivers did at one point actually connect, but no conclusive evidence of that exists.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

One of the most heavily edited books based on old Sumerian fables just happens to base itself around what was ancient Sumer.

Wow.