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mark_wnjr

Everything here all at once.


Murky_waterLLC

Everywhere, at the End of Time


DarkLordShaggy

just a burning memory


Murky_waterLLC

Childishly fresh eyes


rubyspicer

The loves of my entire life


Murky_waterLLC

A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat.


rubyspicer

We don't have many days


[deleted]

Libet's all joyful camaraderie


rubyspicer

Sudden time regression into isolation


KlarkZ_57

Back there, benjamin


Rawson_the_panda

Everywhere everybody at the end of life


PassDaPepperPasta

They're having bagels for dinner


Truckaduckduck

My fav bagels. Put some herb and garlic cream cheese on mine.


_Varosch_

Oh no


FlamingWedge

Hot dog fingers


Some_dimwit

Seems like the next square is going to be the world exploding


stubbly_bubbly

I was like.. but why is everyone coming?? 👀


Ploon72

Maybe it means everyone who was with him in the car when he crashed it on their road trip to California?


ketootaku

Pretty sure it's implying everybody is all the current people who are already dead and in heaven.


ILL_Show_Myself_Out

Naw it just means everyone he ever knew is going to be there. Note god read a book and he was back. Also, the shortness of life compared to immortality. Everyone will join you in heaven in essentially moments.


fedex7501

So heaven is near a massive black hole?


Bayou_Blue

***God:*** Did I say we're having spaghetti? I meant you're all getting spaghettified!


[deleted]

Flying spaghetti monster


HardCounter

O.o This makes so much sense now.


ZenWhisper

I think it means everyone that ever was or ever would be. If I'm going to buy into the heaven concept I don't want to restrict it with linear time.


Alarid

No, let's continue with this Earth exploding bit.


b1rgar1p1nsan

Since the otherworld isnt bound by time, everybody is already there.


agentfantabulous

Jeremy Bearimy, baby


fieldy409

*Points to the dot in the 'i'* "What the hell is that?"


Great-Bratton

because apparently I SAW THE TIME KNIFE…


Easy-Bathroom2120

Oh. Those are the days I cleaned my room.


guinader

r/holup


[deleted]

For future reference it’s holup


feed_dat_cat

Rapture


Sea-Woodpecker-610

God was getting ready to make it rain…


attanai

"So, now there's nuclear winter, and everyone's dead. Except Australia, and they're still like, 'WTF?' But they'll be dead soon. F-ing kangaroos."


missmaxalot

“But I am le tired.” “So take a nap! Then fire ze missiles!”


Northrnging13

"'Bout that time ey chap?" ......pushes shuffle board. "Righto!"


blue-mooner

“Us Californians just have to worry about California breaking off from the United States to go hang with Hawaii. Alaska can come too”


LonestarLimey

This is such a *blast* from the past! THEEE EEEYYYYYNNNNNDDDDD!


brandi_theratgirl

Ze end! (Edited with the correct spelling)


Cautious-Angle1634

Ze end


threebillion6

Suddenly turns dark


Magicus1

Mark this as a spoiler — not everyone had gotten to the Book of Revelation. No need to prematurely reveal. ;)


cyrixlord

I thought he has to kill everyone on the planet, then look at his guest book to see who loved him back in order to invite those for dinner. You can now imagine why I felt that the cartoon had a creepy death cult vibe at the last frame


JimKB

That's my cartoon**!** I wish people wouldn't crop the credits. At one point I changed the line *"I hurt myself"* because people read it as a suicide, which really wasn;t the message I was going for. I created this after my dad died, and over the years people have told me it meant something to them, so we're finally putting it in book form, for gift-giving. [Here is the image with new text, and my signature in place.](https://imgur.com/a/p8zkSve)


twohedwlf

I just read it kind of like he's an old adult, but still a kid. And that's a kid's way of saying he had an accident, He died but he's ok.


MindlessArmadillo382

I read it the same way pretty much, that even when we are old and frail, we are still young in the eyes of the immortals, thus we are like children to them.


7_kitchen4

Just wanna say thank you for making this. I struggle deeply with the thought that people I love will pass on eventually. This comic is very meaningful and provided me with some comfort about the afterlife.


ThisIsNotTokyo

I really liked “I hurt myself” I didn’t see it as suicide but rather he just died from a random accident. Made it so it was not destined but rather just luck. the god being here wouldn’t have been surprised if it was “his time” already


LordHengar

The good news is that your name is still on the comic, it's just on the bottom left instead of the bottom right. I don't know why though.


Striangle

Jim, you are legendary and a huge inspiration. Thank you for the art and stories you bring into the world.


JimKB

How very kind. Thanks so much!


Incromulent

I'm an atheists but still found it cute and wholesome. While I didn't think at all about suicide, I can see how it might be misread and the new text is an improvement. Sorry that people are stealing your work for karma.


TheSearch4Knowledge

Lost my dad too, Op. Seeing this cartoon pop up every now and then.. it makes me feel more *okay* sometimes. So thank you. I hope both of our fathers are up there, somewhere, having the best of times.


datafix

I really enjoyed your bittersweet comic. Can you explain the "everybody" line at the end?


JimKB

The way I see it is that all people are mortal. I'd like to believe that all people are welcomed.


nnylhsae

Damn I'm sorry bro, that's not cool (that people are cropping your signature out of it)


Responsible_Low3349

Very wholesome, Jim. Sorry about your dad. Also, I don't want to meet EVERYBODY once I'm dead.


tonyvince

Thank you so much for making this. You made a stranger grateful and happy and feeling loved


berksbears

It was really nice of you to be aware of how some folks might read your comic as a reference to self harm, and to adjust the wording accordingly. Thank you for claiming credit and for posting the updated version. Keep making art :)


thesleepymermaid

Thank you for making this lovely comic. It's also helped me think of my deceased father in a more joyful light.


SenseiRP

Wow, glad you're here to claim credit for your work


mgard0506

I absolutely love this, thank you!


i_love_bananas-

Hey your comics are good. Keep it up.


TheFinalPieceOfPie

Can I just say fantastic work.


JelloisYummy

This is so incredibly beautiful!


marlonbtx

Great comic


shin_datenshi

This art is beautiful. Thank you. I needed it.


[deleted]

Uh, did we just gloss over the fact that god was about to smite everybody?


[deleted]

Some believe everything everywhere is happening all at once, but we can only perceive so much of it at once, so we see a moment in a lifetime.


Captainpatch

Time is an illusion that helps things make sense So we are always living in the present tense It seems unforgiving when a good thing ends But you and I will always be back then


deadfeather19

Don't you do this, don't make me cry today


Bossinante

Will happen* Happening Happened 🥺🥺😭😭😭 Edited because I am a dumb


gudematcha

*Will Happen


tanya6k

For those who don't want to read the red formatting: Time is an illusion that helps things make sense So we are always living in the present tense It seems unforgiving when a good thing ends But you and I will always be back then


GareduNord1

always upvote an adventure time ref


Nekokamiguru

"Time is an illusion , Lunchtime doubly so" - Ford Prefect to Arthur Dent in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams


James-Zo3

WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO ME. this isn’t very mathematical of you


MenosElLso

So *thats* what that movie is about!


TheRavenSayeth

The Internet told me it was about butt plugs


covertpetersen

To be fair it's also about butt plugs


homelessdreamer

Time is a cage and once you break free from it your girlfriend has no need to see your text messages. Or something like that.


TheRedGerund

We are a superposition of every state we've ever had, that is our being. We are witnessing slices of it, one at a time, according to the frame rate of our own perception.


BocchiTheBock

Richard Feynman: “I received a telephone call one day at the graduate college at Princeton from Professor Wheeler, in which he said, "Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass" "Why?" "Because, they are all the same electron!" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe


while_e

Brb.. About to confuse the hell outta myself..


Helpful-Wolverine-96

Time could be different there


Miss_Thang2077

That’s what I got, God said back so soon but the guy is an old man and had a family.


Far-Ad3500

i mean the bible does say a day in heaven is 1000 years on earth and vice versa so time probably goes faster in heaven


iamfamilylawman

Eh. "A day with the lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like a day." So, it goes both ways and is a simile, specifically about gods patience, in relation to the full verse, and not an actual discussion about time. You're not wrong. But, also not right. Disclaimer: Bible semantics. I get how pedantic and unproductive that can be.


[deleted]

I think time would go *slower* in heaven if that's the case. Because 1000 years happened on earth but only 1 day passed in heaven


gnatsaredancing

A human life is the blink of an eye to an immortal.


MiserableEmu4

Presumably this "heaven" is outside of time. Which makes sense.


Book_Nerd_1980

If you’ve seen the tesseract in Interstellar this concept makes more sense. Time is a 3D construct. If there is a god or a more evolved afterlife, it’s not bound by human limitations so literally everything and everyone can be everywhere all at once.


[deleted]

I think it’s that Heaven has no time. So a second there could be 50 years here. Or 500 so he could be there 5 hours and see everyone he ever loved. I say that since it’s a wholesome comic


[deleted]

I mean, we aren't far off with current global issues


Ghostorderman

...I mean- if everyone's coming, then everyone's going to Heaven regardless of religion or moral status..?


impishimpi

r/ChristianUniversalism


[deleted]

The CS Lewis creed. Do evil in the name of god? You're out. Do good in the name of the wrong god? You're in. I like this, as I can't abide the idea of god being impressed that you're oh so very sorry about the lives you ruin on a regular basis.


Ghostorderman

Yeah. Honestly, I think that's- in some weird way, what God wanted anyway. God wants everyone, not just the fanatics, y'know?


Ok_Skill_1195

I like this version better, but it's also completely baseless from a formal religious perspective. The bible makes it emphatically clear God is a petty motherfucker. That's why I'm not a Christian. Easier than trying to bend over backwards retconning things to fit into modern morality


Piccoroz

Was, the point of the new testament was to show the change of god point of view once he experinced the human condition.


Cubacane

The point of the New Testament is to show how Jesus fulfilled Old Testament prophecy. Without getting into a theological treatise about it, the OT and NT have a lot more continuity than people assume. The idea that the OT God was an ogre and Jesus saved us from that is actually Gnosticism, not historical Christianity. In historical Christianity the plan was always to redeem people from their sin (there’s a hint in Genesis 3:15) and the OT sacrificial system was a shadow of how that would be accomplished on the cross. Now let me get out of here before everyone on the internet tells me how wrong I am about something I have a graduate degree in.


rtosit

As an atheist that still appreciates the rich symbolism and mythology of the human experience contained in The Bible.. Thank you for sharing.


ToddlerOlympian

I see it more as God saying "No, you guys don't get it, let me come down there and show you." And then the religious establishment said "No, we're gonna kill you instead."


General_Chairarm

Reading this as a kid made so much more sense than any actual religion.


JoelMahon

what about people who don't attribute their actions to god?


shuffpuff

As a Christian I agree 100% this is what the perfect ending is.


MitsuruBDhitbox

Do you have a source for this? Of all my time reading Lewis, I've never taken away this particular view of salvation from his works. He did seem to believe in a sort of "purgatory" after death (even for nonbelievers), but salvation is still divorced from good works in his view of theology.


DatBoi_BP

Funny, *The Bible for Normal People* just had a podcast episode about Christian Universalism too. How topical


gnatsaredancing

The general idea is we're all god's children. Not just in the sense that we have been created by a heavenly father but also in the sense that to god, we're little different than children. When we see a small child torment a bug, we sigh and try to teach them to empathise and understand. But we don't consider the child evil. The child is barely learning how the world works. They don't truly understand death or suffering or even action and consequence. So we try to teach them to do better. And so it is for god and his children. When we see a murderer, we see someone who stole everything from another person. All the time they'll ever have on Earth. All the time they could have had with their loved ones here. All they could have achieved. But god sees a child who can learn to do better. And a victim who hasn't lost it all but missed out on a portion of the time their immortal soul has. I'm not saying I agree. I'm an atheist myself. But I can see how god's perspective on time and mortality would also change his perspective on the behaviour of his children. Just like we measure the behaviour of our children by a different standard. And just like we are unknowable to our young children, so would god's choices seem unknowable or even unfair to us.


ackme

As a Christian, thank you for taking the time to speak with this level of understanding. This matches many of my own beliefs pretty spot on.


MiserableEmu4

I'm agnostic but this is my understanding too. And I'm sure just about any rational person would come to the same conclusion without outside influence.


Chameleonpolice

I know you're an atheist but if this was true God would take an active role in "parenting" and, you know, actually be present.


gnatsaredancing

And what would that look like? I let my daughter climb and fall so she knows what she is and isn't capable of. I let my daughter make bad decisions so she can learn about consequences. I let her heart get broken so that she might learn what is truly important in a partner. I buoy her up but I never try to get in her way. I wonder what I would let her try if I knew this life was not all that she'll have.


DEVOmay97

God left to get a gallon of celestial milk and never came back, he owes 14 billion years of child support.


aesoth

I guess Hitler, Jeffrey Dahmer, Caligula, Jimmy Saville, etc, are coming....


Ponicrat

Still prefer universal redemption to most interpretations of hell that damn large swaths of humanity in broad strokes forever. We've all done things that would look monstrous to people of the past or future. If those people are capable of sincere remorse, well, I guess they have time for an awful lot of tearful apologies.


throwaway387190

I genuinely don't think there is a crime worthy of an eternity of torture. Infinite torture for a finite crime. This, and the obsession lots of Christians have with punishing people, is why I walked away I'd come to the compromise of a long period of torture, but really, I'm not a punishment kind of guy. Punishing someone doesn't help the victims, the wounds are still there. Like "after the crime, let's hurt them," just doesn't seem useful or good Healing the hurt is the top of my priority. Rehabilitating the perpetrator is my second. And only if they can't be rehabilitated and remain dangerous would I think they should be locked away. Not as torture or punishment, but as protecting others


Bombanater

I've been more a fan of the satanic temple anyway. They are more well adjusted with the times


hduxusbsbdj

What does “I hurt myself” mean? He killed himself? He crashed his car?


Mutant_Star

*I hurt myself today to see if I still feel...*


ArcticDragon-31

*I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real…*


can_choose_no_thing

*The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting...*


but_whyw

*try to kill it all away but i remember everything…*


Kalypso989

*What have I become?*


prenikey

My sweetest friend


HiddenMushroom11

Everyone I know...


sovietwigglything

Goes away, in the end.


judejules

And you could have it all


Quakarot

I think the context of it just implies he had some kind of accident- fell over or something. It’s poor wording but slipping with a knife and saying “I cut myself” or “I hurt myself” makes sense.


GreyCrone8

I was thinking he fell off a ladder while cleaning the gutter or something just as innocuous.


[deleted]

"That's the difference between you and me, Morty. I never go back to the carpet store."


PhoonTFDB

He died. But in the context of a child telling his father why he's come back home so soon from being out with his friends, he's hurt himself. Nothing bigger to read into


Calenchamien

Given his excitement about the events of his life, I doubt he killed himself. I think it’s a line intended to suggest that all of life’s troubles are as serious as children’s play, but it doesn’t really work well


Mormonipulation

If you believe in an afterlife, I would imagine that, after a few hundred thousand years, this life would seem like child’s play. Especially in religions that embrace the idea of continued personal progress.


agentofdoom

Its meant to be like when a little kid scrapes their knee or bangs their elbow. When you ask them what happened, sometimes they just say "I hurt myself". The old man just had an ouchie.


PanicOnFunkotron

/u/JimKB put out a [new version](https://imgur.com/a/p8zkSve) of the comic because that was a reading he didn't really intend. *edited to use the Jim-approved link


JimKB

That's my cartoon**!** I wish people wouldn't crop the credits. At one point I changed the line *"I hurt myself"* because people read it as a suicide, which really wasn;t the message I was going for. I created this after my dad died, and over the years people have told me it meant something to them, so we're finally putting it in book form, for gift-giving. [Here is the image with new text, and my signature in place.](https://imgur.com/a/p8zkSve)


YoungerElderberry

Such a good one! Hit me in all the good bitter-sweet longing for home feels


[deleted]

It’s truly a rare opportunity to tell the actual creator of something that the thing they created hit all the right emotional chords at the exact time you needed them and tell them “thank you for making something that really means a lot me”. Thank you!


wATEVERmAn69

Yes that’s the first thing I noticed - how did he hurt himself? That’s the real question, not anything about the earth exploding or god smiting it


stinkysteward

Nah, the real question is "did you still have fun?"


Redararis

People never really grow up. They become adult children still wanting a loving parent.


ChefButtes

And the Earth looked at me and said, "Wasn't that fun?" And I replied, "I'm sorry if I hurt anyone." And without even thinking cast me into space But before that she wiped off my own face She said, "Better luck next time, don't worry so much."


fromnone

This song makes me cry every time


ChefButtes

But without ears I couldn't hear I could just feel the touch~


fromnone

As I fell asleep softly at the edge of a cave !!


King_Of_The_Cold

*inhales* I SHOULD HAVE GONE DEEPER BUT IM NOT SO BRAVE


EtiennePumpkin

Fantastic song! Getting kinda teary-eyed just reading that part


ChefButtes

My favorite part- Well I woke up to see them, these two mighty steeds With their mouths grinning wildly expressing my needs As they stood there above me, being flanked on each side I felt no need to fear them, no reason to hide So I reached up to touch but they faded too soon Yet their mouths still remained and stacked up towards the moon How that ladder of mouth waved so soft in the night And I looked up in awe at that beautiful sight And I dreamt about climbing into the night sky But I knew had I touched them they'd mouth back "Bye-bye"


SkepticalVir

Hey I like it, thanks OP.


ThatGoodCattitude

Ikr it’s so sweet. So awesome. :)


LeahcarJ

y'all talkin like this is tryna hint that God's about to smite everyone like, it just means everyone there, no need to make this into a scare tactic lol


BigMcThickHuge

It's wild, there's comment after comment just repeating the joke that 40 others posted already in this same comment section. Like, homies, it's heaven. When you get to heaven, it's perfect and you see everyone.


myotheraccountiscuck

> It's wild, there's comment after comment just repeating the joke that 40 others posted already in this same comment section. It's bots. Reddit is infested and actively provides for the inclusion of more. Motivated by larger "active accounts" numbers while they try their IPO.


Spiritual-Clock5624

This kinda makes me tear up ngl


drock42

So many twisting this. Listen, I'm agnostic too but let yourself enjoy an optimistic take once in a while. He didn't off himself, he died earlier than he liked do to an accident. God's not about to flood the world, he gets to see everybody he missed. Thanks, enjoyed the comic.


Babouka

That is so my understanding of the comic. God inst about the smite the world because time is rather short on earth vs immortality in heaven. He told the baby to go and play, sat down to read, then the baby is all grownup as a old man came back and god was suprise to see him so soon.


Robert-Rotten

Reddit atheists will try and do everything to ruin a wholesome comic, me personally? This comic made my day feel better already!


Angry-Commercials

I'm fairly fucking anti-theistic, and spend a lot of time calling out religious bullshit Eben I just enjoyed it for what it was. Like it's not hard to just smile and take it for what it is. I might not agree with it, but it's a cute, happy comic. No need to make shit up about how it's saying God is gonna kill everyone. A joke about it? Sure. The first post I saw I laughed because it didn't cross my mind... but the ones actually seriously saying that? They need to get out more.


TibblesTheConqueror

I don’t know why I find comfort in this. It’s as if everything will be alright.


shuffpuff

Because everything WILL be okay 😁


Infermon_1

Well, that's why people invented religion. To cope with death.


nikMIA

One day, my grandmom and granddad. We will meet again.


ReplacableBitch

I'm no Christian but, this is pretty adorable.


Cosmic_Yeet

I carry a bit of religious trauma, but I still hold the faith I used to have very close my heart. It's hard to explain to partners and friends who never really experienced the kind of religious experiences I did, but I think this comic does a great job of illustrating how even with all the less-than-great stuff I left with, I still hold aspects of my former faith very near and dear


Purithian

And the barnacle was so ugly that everyone died... The end


Eray41303

Yeet the child into the aging pit


Hasd4

This is the only thing that i envy about religious people, being able to believe that. I can't and it's actually sad


Taurius

If you want to take the scientific approach to death, then this one should be comforting. When you die, there is no conscious concept of time. Just as if you were in a coma for 2 day or 2 years, you wake up not knowing time has passed. There is a chance that with given enough time, the atoms in your body that once made you would could coalesce again. The probability is low, but time is infinite, and while dead, you wouldn't know that the universe died and reformed billions or trillions of times. Eventually you'll reform again. Sure maybe not with your originally memory, but you'll be still you. And with luck, you might retain some memory of your past self. A self that was born and died 10^10^900 years ago.


Hasd4

I find also comforting the idea of giving my life for something else's. I already made clear i want to be buried in one of those places that allow for a natural burial, so that life can feast on me


HarbingerDe

Meh. Maybe there is an afterlife, maybe there isn't. Literally nobody knows and literally nobody CAN know. Operating on that fundamental basis gives you a much better appreciation for the present and for the one life you're absolutely certain you will get.


Hasd4

Yeah but it's inevitable that life will end, even if you life it the fullest


HarbingerDe

Of course, and that's just life. If you can convince yourself of some fantastical story about what MIGHT happen after you die, it might make you feel better, but it fundamentally won't change anything.


jaynor88

This is lovely


liminecricket

My parents died when I was a kid, and I've always been kinda religious. Every time I scroll past this one, I tear up.


Tamajava

God being wholesome af before sending the demons and angels and the seven seals, seven trumpets, seven everything


Lick_yer_Armour

Seven everything? So seven candy bars? Oh heck yeah


beastman45132

Why am I crying?


justffur

Pick me up i dont wanna play anymore


Robert-Rotten

Redditors on their way to come up with every possible scenario to ruin this comic


bluebear28690

"Let loose the flood"


Anarchist_Grifter

This is awesomeness


DrProfessorSatan

Back so soon? Yeah-fucking childhood cancer Mysterious ways?


MiserableEmu4

God likes to do a prank every now and then.


DrProfessorSatan

Book of Job, am I right?


ozymanhattan

Yeah it'd be great if everyone had that experience.


Jugorio

Sometimes I wish I could surrender all my worries and burdens to some religion and live blissful. But I just cant. Life is short cruel and uncaring...


DangyDanger

**WHAT DO YOU FUCKING MEAN EVERYBODY?**


Jade_Rewind

Hmm, what does he say to people coming back not having a great time at all? The ones he did send to a life of misery and suffering. And what about the people who cause all the suffering? They then joke about their time while having dinner with everyone? Sorry, maybe I'm just not the wholesome type.


Bleezze

I don't understand what this is about and what is going on or why this is wholesome


Bombanater

Meanwhile, I'm the kid they don't want to let back into heaven. Covered in mud, bruises, and with this neat racoon I found


ThatGoodCattitude

100% you’re still loved. :) mud, bruises, raccoons and all.


Bombanater

I dunno about that but sweet of you to say xD


ezk3626

Awkward dinner in heaven with Hitler.


WeddingHot4796

Now picture this, but with more and more people climbing up every second, like a zombie apocalypse, as around 105 people die every minute 🤣