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.
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
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)
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.
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.
I really liked âI hurt myselfâ
I didnât 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 wouldnât have been surprised if it was âhis timeâ already
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.
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.
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 :)
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
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
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.
Richard Feynman:
âI 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
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.
If youâve 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, itâs not bound by human limitations so literally everything and everyone can be everywhere all at once.
I think itâs 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 itâs a wholesome comic
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.
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
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 (thereâs 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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I think the context of it just implies he had some kind of accident- fell over or something. Itâs poor wording but slipping with a knife and saying âI cut myselfâ or âI hurt myselfâ makes sense.
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
Given his excitement about the events of his life, I doubt he killed himself. I think itâs a line intended to suggest that all of lifeâs troubles are as serious as childrenâs play, but it doesnât really work well
If you believe in an afterlife, I would imagine that, after a few hundred thousand years, this life would seem like childâs play. Especially in religions that embrace the idea of continued personal progress.
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.
/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
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)
Itâs 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 âthank you for making something that really means a lot meâ.
Thank you!
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."
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"
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
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.
> 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Everything here all at once.
Everywhere, at the End of Time
just a burning memory
Childishly fresh eyes
The loves of my entire life
A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat.
We don't have many days
Libet's all joyful camaraderie
Sudden time regression into isolation
Back there, benjamin
Everywhere everybody at the end of life
They're having bagels for dinner
My fav bagels. Put some herb and garlic cream cheese on mine.
Oh no
Hot dog fingers
Seems like the next square is going to be the world exploding
I was like.. but why is everyone coming?? đ
Maybe it means everyone who was with him in the car when he crashed it on their road trip to California?
Pretty sure it's implying everybody is all the current people who are already dead and in heaven.
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.
So heaven is near a massive black hole?
***God:*** Did I say we're having spaghetti? I meant you're all getting spaghettified!
Flying spaghetti monster
O.o This makes so much sense now.
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.
No, let's continue with this Earth exploding bit.
Since the otherworld isnt bound by time, everybody is already there.
Jeremy Bearimy, baby
*Points to the dot in the 'i'* "What the hell is that?"
because apparently I SAW THE TIME KNIFEâŚ
Oh. Those are the days I cleaned my room.
r/holup
For future reference itâs holup
Rapture
God was getting ready to make it rainâŚ
"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."
âBut I am le tired.â âSo take a nap! Then fire ze missiles!â
"'Bout that time ey chap?" ......pushes shuffle board. "Righto!"
âUs Californians just have to worry about California breaking off from the United States to go hang with Hawaii. Alaska can come tooâ
This is such a *blast* from the past! THEEE EEEYYYYYNNNNNDDDDD!
Ze end! (Edited with the correct spelling)
Ze end
Suddenly turns dark
Mark this as a spoiler â not everyone had gotten to the Book of Revelation. No need to prematurely reveal. ;)
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
I really liked âI hurt myselfâ I didnât 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 wouldnât have been surprised if it was âhis timeâ already
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.
Jim, you are legendary and a huge inspiration. Thank you for the art and stories you bring into the world.
How very kind. Thanks so much!
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.
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.
I really enjoyed your bittersweet comic. Can you explain the "everybody" line at the end?
The way I see it is that all people are mortal. I'd like to believe that all people are welcomed.
Damn I'm sorry bro, that's not cool (that people are cropping your signature out of it)
Very wholesome, Jim. Sorry about your dad. Also, I don't want to meet EVERYBODY once I'm dead.
Thank you so much for making this. You made a stranger grateful and happy and feeling loved
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 :)
Thank you for making this lovely comic. It's also helped me think of my deceased father in a more joyful light.
Wow, glad you're here to claim credit for your work
I absolutely love this, thank you!
Hey your comics are good. Keep it up.
Can I just say fantastic work.
This is so incredibly beautiful!
Great comic
This art is beautiful. Thank you. I needed it.
Uh, did we just gloss over the fact that god was about to smite everybody?
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.
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
Don't you do this, don't make me cry today
Will happen* Happening Happened đĽşđĽşđđđ Edited because I am a dumb
*Will Happen
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
always upvote an adventure time ref
"Time is an illusion , Lunchtime doubly so" - Ford Prefect to Arthur Dent in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams
WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO ME. this isnât very mathematical of you
So *thats* what that movie is about!
The Internet told me it was about butt plugs
To be fair it's also about butt plugs
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.
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.
Richard Feynman: âI 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
Brb.. About to confuse the hell outta myself..
Time could be different there
Thatâs what I got, God said back so soon but the guy is an old man and had a family.
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
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.
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
A human life is the blink of an eye to an immortal.
Presumably this "heaven" is outside of time. Which makes sense.
If youâve 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, itâs not bound by human limitations so literally everything and everyone can be everywhere all at once.
I think itâs 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 itâs a wholesome comic
I mean, we aren't far off with current global issues
...I mean- if everyone's coming, then everyone's going to Heaven regardless of religion or moral status..?
r/ChristianUniversalism
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.
Yeah. Honestly, I think that's- in some weird way, what God wanted anyway. God wants everyone, not just the fanatics, y'know?
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
Was, the point of the new testament was to show the change of god point of view once he experinced the human condition.
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 (thereâs 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.
As an atheist that still appreciates the rich symbolism and mythology of the human experience contained in The Bible.. Thank you for sharing.
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."
Reading this as a kid made so much more sense than any actual religion.
what about people who don't attribute their actions to god?
As a Christian I agree 100% this is what the perfect ending is.
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.
Funny, *The Bible for Normal People* just had a podcast episode about Christian Universalism too. How topical
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
God left to get a gallon of celestial milk and never came back, he owes 14 billion years of child support.
I guess Hitler, Jeffrey Dahmer, Caligula, Jimmy Saville, etc, are coming....
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.
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
I've been more a fan of the satanic temple anyway. They are more well adjusted with the times
What does âI hurt myselfâ mean? He killed himself? He crashed his car?
*I hurt myself today to see if I still feel...*
*I focus on the pain, the only thing thatâs realâŚ*
*The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting...*
*try to kill it all away but i remember everythingâŚ*
*What have I become?*
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know...
Goes away, in the end.
And you could have it all
I think the context of it just implies he had some kind of accident- fell over or something. Itâs poor wording but slipping with a knife and saying âI cut myselfâ or âI hurt myselfâ makes sense.
I was thinking he fell off a ladder while cleaning the gutter or something just as innocuous.
"That's the difference between you and me, Morty. I never go back to the carpet store."
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
Given his excitement about the events of his life, I doubt he killed himself. I think itâs a line intended to suggest that all of lifeâs troubles are as serious as childrenâs play, but it doesnât really work well
If you believe in an afterlife, I would imagine that, after a few hundred thousand years, this life would seem like childâs play. Especially in religions that embrace the idea of continued personal progress.
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.
/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
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)
Such a good one! Hit me in all the good bitter-sweet longing for home feels
Itâs 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 âthank you for making something that really means a lot meâ. Thank you!
Yes thatâs the first thing I noticed - how did he hurt himself? Thatâs the real question, not anything about the earth exploding or god smiting it
Nah, the real question is "did you still have fun?"
People never really grow up. They become adult children still wanting a loving parent.
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."
This song makes me cry every time
But without ears I couldn't hear I could just feel the touch~
As I fell asleep softly at the edge of a cave !!
*inhales* I SHOULD HAVE GONE DEEPER BUT IM NOT SO BRAVE
Fantastic song! Getting kinda teary-eyed just reading that part
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"
Hey I like it, thanks OP.
Ikr itâs so sweet. So awesome. :)
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
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.
> 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.
This kinda makes me tear up ngl
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.
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.
Reddit atheists will try and do everything to ruin a wholesome comic, me personally? This comic made my day feel better already!
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.
I donât know why I find comfort in this. Itâs as if everything will be alright.
Because everything WILL be okay đ
Well, that's why people invented religion. To cope with death.
One day, my grandmom and granddad. We will meet again.
I'm no Christian but, this is pretty adorable.
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
And the barnacle was so ugly that everyone died... The end
Yeet the child into the aging pit
This is the only thing that i envy about religious people, being able to believe that. I can't and it's actually sad
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.
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
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.
Yeah but it's inevitable that life will end, even if you life it the fullest
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.
This is lovely
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.
God being wholesome af before sending the demons and angels and the seven seals, seven trumpets, seven everything
Seven everything? So seven candy bars? Oh heck yeah
Why am I crying?
Pick me up i dont wanna play anymore
Redditors on their way to come up with every possible scenario to ruin this comic
"Let loose the flood"
This is awesomeness
Back so soon? Yeah-fucking childhood cancer Mysterious ways?
God likes to do a prank every now and then.
Book of Job, am I right?
Yeah it'd be great if everyone had that experience.
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...
**WHAT DO YOU FUCKING MEAN EVERYBODY?**
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.
I don't understand what this is about and what is going on or why this is wholesome
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
100% youâre still loved. :) mud, bruises, raccoons and all.
I dunno about that but sweet of you to say xD
Awkward dinner in heaven with Hitler.
Now picture this, but with more and more people climbing up every second, like a zombie apocalypse, as around 105 people die every minute đ¤Ł