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by Jeffrey C. Wells on April 10, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Robert Nowall
    April 10, 2020, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Well, God *is* very forgiving…

    • Paul
      April 10, 2020, 1:00 am | # | Reply

      But is God also ticklish?

  2. Towering Barbarian
    April 10, 2020, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    I do admire watching Sane Science at work! ^_^

    • awgiedawgie
      April 10, 2020, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      Still desperately clinging to that belief that she’s sane, are you?

      • David B Huber
        April 10, 2020, 2:33 am | # | Reply

        While Sanity is not a prerequisite for Intelligence, Enthusiasm in the Pursuit of Knowledge is a prime characteristic of Scientists, Mad or Sane. So the jury is still out!

        Never mind that Dr. Lee’s exuberance in panel 3 is terrifying to us Mundanes 😉

      • Thenardyr
        April 11, 2020, 12:39 am | # | Reply

        Forget clinging to the believe she’s saying. I’m still trying to cling to the believe that she’s not fundamentally evil!

        • awgiedawgie
          April 11, 2020, 1:11 am | # | Reply

          Oh, that’s easy. Everyone is fundamentally evil. Some just fight it harder than others.

          • D. Walker
            April 12, 2020, 3:02 pm | #

            That’s a dark philosophical stance to take.

            People aren’t evil, we’re just animals that broke out of the standard evolutionary process a bit too quickly for our own good. Almost all of our “evil” behaviors stem from leftover instincts that made sense when were still living in the wilderness, competing for resources and basic survival with other species.

            Those instincts aren’t evil – they’re just problematic in our current context. We’re hardwired to think and act in ways that were beneficial to our survival in the wild, but that cause serious problems in our current civilized situation.

            Yes, we need to fight against our worst instincts – but not because they are fundamentally “evil”, but rather because they produce results we don’t agree with. Better lternatives exist and we have the power to achieve those alternatives.

            But that requires an awareness and a mastery of our instincts that isn’t always present or even possible. To quote Carl Sagan: “Our thoughts and feelings are not fully under our own control”. Worse than that, we’re often not even fully AWARE of them, particularly in the moment. It’s a skill that requires training to develop, and even the best of us fail sometimes at maintaining our composure.

            Most people aren’t evil, they’re just tripped up by ape instincts that haven’t fully disappeared yet.

            The evil people in the world are those few that willingly choose to behave destructively, rather than being compelled by instinct.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 12, 2020, 3:15 pm | #

            This is not the place to debate the origins of man, so let’s just leave it at “I intensely disagree with you.”

          • David B Huber
            April 14, 2020, 12:51 pm | #

            Doesn’t matter. Soon the Google Good app will implement an Artificial Conscience like the magic ring of legend which pricks your finger should an evil thought or impulse arise.

            After all, their company motto is “Don’t be Evil”! 😉

          • awgiedawgie
            April 14, 2020, 1:59 pm | #

            I thought their company motto was “Don’t get caught being evil”

  3. Pygar
    April 10, 2020, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    This leg sweep is gonna be ginormous!

    • jdreyfuss
      April 10, 2020, 9:51 am | # | Reply

      “Look! A group of Israelites casting an idol because they think you’re neglecting them!”
      Bam! Leg sweep!

      • Darkstarling
        April 10, 2020, 11:41 am | # | Reply

        There we go!

      • awgiedawgie
        April 10, 2020, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

        Wouldn’t work. God’s omnipresent, so you can’t actually distract him.

        • D. Walker
          April 12, 2020, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

          Omnipresence isn’t the same as omniscience.

          That said, most of the “omni” theological qualities are a bunch of hogwash only added in later centuries.

          Omnipotence? Omniscience? Omnipresence? Yeah, none of that is at all consistent with the creation myths of the Abrahamic faiths. Genesis has a god who gets tired and needs rest, who makes mistakes and is surprised by them, and whose presence is often lacking or limited.

          In fact, it’s exceedingly rare to encounter gods in mythology who DON’T have limits to their power, knowledge, and presence – probably because in reality gods are created in man’s image, and not the other way around, and so we project our own natures onto imagined divinity.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 12, 2020, 6:19 pm | #

            My point about omnipresence is that if God can be everywhere, then you can’t distract Him that easily. He can still be there watching you, and also see whatever is (or isn’t) there that you’re trying to use as a distraction.

      • Mister Steel
        August 3, 2020, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

        “Look! Scientists tampering in your domain!”

  4. Dave Van Domelen
    April 10, 2020, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Despite omniscience, God tends to fall for BAM! Legsweep!

    • Pygar
      April 10, 2020, 12:05 am | # | Reply

      Great minds warp alike!

  5. Tiff Hudson
    April 10, 2020, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    And instantly I flash back to Mel Kelly kicking God in the nuts, the original of which is in my office! Wheee!!!

    • Robert Nowall
      April 10, 2020, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      What with that omniscience thing, you’d’ve though he would’ve seen it coming.

      • awgiedawgie
        April 10, 2020, 12:30 am | # | Reply

        Just because He sees something coming doesn’t mean He will choose to prevent it. He knew Mell was needed back on Earth. That was just as good an excuse as any to send her back. And it’s not like the kick really did any harm.

        • Robert Nowall
          April 10, 2020, 8:24 am | # | Reply

          Also, Mell might have been mistaken about just who she kicked in the nuts…God’s got the omniscience thing going, but Mell hasn’t.

      • jdreyfuss
        April 10, 2020, 9:51 am | # | Reply

        According to Mell He took it pretty well, so He probably did see it coming and just didn’t care.

        • Sheik
          April 10, 2020, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

          And then there is the issue of The Plan.
          What if God actually wanted Mell to kick him in the nuts?

        • Andy4Hire
          April 10, 2020, 5:13 pm | # | Reply

          This is a weirdly appropriate conversation to be having on Good Friday.

          • jdreyfuss
            April 13, 2020, 2:50 pm | #

            I’m Jewish, but it also kind of works for Passover.

  6. Daniel Speyer
    April 10, 2020, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    Hey, look, the entire Egyptian pantheon.

    Then — BAM — leg sweep!

  7. Robert Nowall
    April 10, 2020, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    So Jeff is doing the uploads.

  8. Candace
    April 10, 2020, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    Now you’re getting the idea, Remy!

  9. BMunro
    April 10, 2020, 2:46 am | # | Reply

    If he can sense what’s causing the spirits it’s presumably the _sense_ which has the biological underpinning, not necessarily the spirits. I can sense sunshine, which is a nuclear fusion phenomenon.

  10. Esteis
    April 10, 2020, 7:26 am | # | Reply

    All: Oh! I have slipped the bonds of Annex One

    Nick: Traversed the skies on *laughter-silvered* rotors

    Tip: Basements descended, heard the bariton’
    of silverfish ̣— and done a hundred daughters
    dressed like a daydream.

    Mustachio: Wheeled, restored, and wound
    I run Reception. Contemplating there
    How once I chased the screaming crowd around.

    Dr. Lee: I chased my eager craft, now we’re a pair!!!

    Sweetheart: Why is this form an unnaprovèd blue?
    The rules are clear. This filing’s a disgrace.

    Marcie: Give here, I’ll re-irradiate its hue.

    UNITY: While I, whith nanite-lifted mind have trod
    The unsuspecting sanctity of space,
    Put out my hand, and punched the face of God.

    • Sietse Brouwer
      April 10, 2020, 7:31 am | # | Reply

      Nick: Traversed the skies on *laughter-silvered* wings

      Tip: Basements descended, heard the bariton’
      of silverfish — and had a hundred flings

      —-

      Oh, for an edit button…

      • mickeyjf
        April 10, 2020, 11:41 am | # | Reply

        Prize-winning nevertheless!

      • Darkstarling
        April 10, 2020, 11:43 am | # | Reply

        Epic

      • Doug Relyea
        April 10, 2020, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

        Seriously Cool!

      • Esteis
        April 11, 2020, 2:54 am | # | Reply

        With unreserved apology to John Gillespie Magee Jr. and his poem ʿHigh Flightʾ.

      • Clifton
        April 13, 2020, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

        Bravo! To either version!

    • David B Huber
      April 10, 2020, 3:01 pm | # | Reply

      Applause! (deep bow)

    • Jim Baerg
      April 10, 2020, 4:24 pm | # | Reply

      I want to upvote this, but I don’t see any way to do that.

    • Andy4Hire
      April 10, 2020, 5:14 pm | # | Reply

      Brilliant!

  11. Stephen Granade
    April 10, 2020, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    This week’s set of punchlines has made me so very happy. I both love and fear Dr. Lee.

  12. Darkstarling
    April 10, 2020, 11:43 am | # | Reply

    She DOES have Mel’s brain!

    • awgiedawgie
      April 10, 2020, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

      Well… a carbon copy of it, anyway.

      • Robert Nowall
        April 10, 2020, 6:07 pm | # | Reply

        Does that make her a carbon-based lifeform?

        • awgiedawgie
          April 10, 2020, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

          Naturally.

          Or, as in her case, unnaturally.

  13. Shadowmehr
    April 10, 2020, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

    Tomorrow, based on Remy’s brain scans, Dr. Lee has a breakthrough that allows her to traverse the barriers between here and the other side. She finally admits her Madness after the psychologist kick her out again.

  14. Shadowmehr
    April 10, 2020, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

    I know I typed in psychopomps that time.

    • casimir
      April 10, 2020, 1:54 pm | # | Reply

      Toldja!

      • casimir
        April 10, 2020, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

        …et voila! Hit and miss corruption.

        • awgiedawgie
          April 10, 2020, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

          Or simple oversight, and firm denial.

          A little something I learned back when I was grading English papers: when proofreading for spelling errors, read it backwards. That way your brain isn’t expecting the next word, and you’re less likely to miss errors. When your brain knows what word is supposed to be there, it will very often see it there, even if something else is actually there. It is, in fact, a kind of reality blindness.

          • casimir
            April 10, 2020, 8:25 pm | #

            Sorry, that’s my story and I’m stickngi to it!

          • awgiedawgie
            April 10, 2020, 8:33 pm | #

            Well, that is the meaning of “firm denial”.

  15. Zero
    October 29, 2020, 3:52 am | # | Reply

    She’s making a lot more assumptions than he ever did.

  16. Cass
    September 2, 2021, 3:41 am | # | Reply

    Come on Unity! Just say “Look! A beloved archangel saying it would be better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven!”, and then BAM! lEG SWEEP!

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