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Calvin and Hobbes

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Hello fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.

Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic",[2][3][4] Calvin and Hobbes has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Calvin and Hobbes!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bello Bear [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

What even is all of this? What are we and why do we experience any of this?

Consider the inner workings of a car. Most of the time, it just works. Sometimes it doesn't. But either way, it's just going without any consciousness or direct observer. Why aren't we like that, too, just going about our lives without anyone experiencing or observing any of it, like rocks falling down a slope on a barren planet? Or is there something or someone experiencing and/or observing things we assume nothing or noone is?

Did we come from nothingness? If so, why? If not, has this always been here? Maybe not the universe itself but whatever medium it exists in, if such a thing even makes sense. In the context of the big bang, what was the state of things leading up to it, why did it happen, where did it happen, did it create anything or was it just a rearrangement of something that was already there? Did the big bang even happen or are we misinterpreting various signs?

How much of reality do we see? How much can we see? Is what we know of and what we can interpolate from that a significant portion of reality or just a tiny sliver? Is it even finite or could any portion any being could know tiny compared to the full possibilities?

Is it even good to know the answers to these questions or is this whole thing just illusions created by more complete and eternal versions of ourselves to make an infinite existence bearable and knowing might just break the illusion until we reset and create it again?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why did the big bang even happen? There is no rule of science I am aware of that means it should be that way. Only that it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Because if it didn't, we wouldn't be here having this discussion

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hah. I've never seen this comic before. Love it.

I feel like I have this discussion with my brain way too often. In fact reading this comic started it again. :c

[–] dirtycrow 3 points 2 days ago

I had this thought as a kid about why anything existed at all and ever since have learned to not think too hard.