Since I’m posting just after normal time I’ll leave the post short. Scratched a big chunk of the blue light coating off of my glasses and basically ruined them. Gonna have to go through the whole process of getting a new pair again. >:[ Anyway, Ill catch you guys on Friday and give you a better report if I’m not in a rush again. Stay safe out there.

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I’m always amazed by people who don’t call themselves Christian but still act as if Christianity is truth. Like my mom’s been to church 5 times in her life but felt uncomfortable tossing a hand bible in the garbage. Do you believe or not? ? These two are exhibiting similar behavior for characters that I thought were established atheists/agnostics.

Belief evolves over time for some people. It gets stronger or weaker because of various experiences. A person can also know a belief system without believing it if for no other reason than to help communicate with believers. Locking yourself in to one way of thinking, or not leaving yourself open to the possibility that you might be wrong leads to conflict. Flexibility of thought is easier for change and growth. Intellectual curiosity is better, in my opinion, than intellectual inflexibility.

Thomas is pretty agnostic and has gone into detail on his views as such, yeah. It goes hand-in-hand with his nihilistic outlook.

Carol, on the other hand, is a practicing Christian, though she’s clearly not the stereotypical church-goer.

As I recall, they had a conversation about this on-panel a while back, where Thomas was surprised to find out that she’s a fair bit more pious than he is (though that’s a low bar to clear).

My opinion is that it is very short sighted to assume that no neural activity could exist in ways we do no understand, so a higher being existing seems likely to me. On the other hand the fan clubs explaining things we do not understand feel a little off to me. Does not mean I have not read the holy texts and am rising an eyebrow when they talk their talk but do not walk their walk but none of my business in all honesty.
I personally also keep a bible around. It is not written that much worse than lord of the rings or a song of ice and fire considering it is almost two millennia older.

The Bible is written much worse than either of those series. Read Numbers and tell me it’s an enjoyable narrative. Especially when you consider we’re all reading translations that deliberately try to make it all seem more cohesive than it was with it’s original dozens of authors, references to non-canonical books, etc. Some of the translations are hilarious; one version translates Lilith, Adam’s first wife, is excised from Genesis, but is referenced in later books…and translators have “fixed” this by changing the reference to things like “demon,” which makes a bit of sense, but also “owl,” because surely that’s the same thing as a demon, much less one of the first humans. So we get to read versions that actively try to make the books more enjoyable, and it still has alot of weird stuff like Isaiah’s antics. However, it is a valuable insight into the thinking of the people then, since we have such a limited number of written sources to reference, relatively speaking.

As stated, you need an arbiter otherwise early comic Brooksie would be in the fire place because she said a mean thing in kindergarten, while early comic Reggie would be up in the good place. And then he would accidentally set it on fire.
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But yea, when you die you get your day in court. If you are Abrahamic you are “blessed until proven damned” and given an sexy angel defense lawyer and demon prosecutor. And if you ain’t Abrahiamic you are “damned until proven blessed” with a sexy demon defense lawyer and a Biblically accurate angel prosecutor.
And each judge has a different rule system. Some allow non-canon scripture to count (Dead Sea Scrolls), others adhere to the Bible but if there is a contradiction then earlier parts supersede it, others say later parts supersede it, and others just ignore the Bible completely.

It takes long enough climbing back out of her cleavage each panel that I have no energy left for other deep endeavors. Like thinking about the afterlife. I mostly think when we leave this life behind, all that’s left of us is the impact we’ve had, which is a lot of why I write. And why I draw ample cleavage. .

Not that anyone has asked, but-
[some time back], in the comments- there was a discussion about the rarity of- very muscular men(?), and/or heftier than average men, who are cast as- the stars of Hollywood’s films.

[From what I’ve seen, Hollywood’s current, “big, big, muscular men”, all look like Tom Cruise.

Tom Cruise is about 5 foot 8.., and- if he he doesn’t eat his daily doughnut, he’ll shrink down to the “body building” size of Barney Fife!] :D

Anyway- a film with a, my words, a larger leading man, is the 1982 film-

“Yes, Giorgio”.

I think it is a very good, romantic film.

It stars [the opera singer], Luciano Pavarotti.
When he’s in the film- his huge confidence, + his fantastic singing, really amaze this movie’s audience.

I’ve seen the film several times, when it was shown on TV.
I think it is a gem of a film.
:)

2847 Heaven For Climate, Hell For Company.

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