Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 29, 2012

And yet Calvin does so poorly in school.

Oh Calvin, do use them for a good end!!

You can use things for a good or for a bad end, God gives the decision in our hands!

such ingenuity….

Thats real important to catalogue the rocks,but I wish he would do his missile testing on Moe.Hobbes gets angry and hard to live with when hes mean to Susie.

I like rocks too, Calvin.

“It’s a sedimentary rock”, very likely formed by deposits during the worldwide flood of Noah’s day.

It will make a nice pet.

darn know well…. I love too..

…and they’e FREE!

I know a teacher who had a meeting with a kid’s parents because the kid was failing. He was failing because the kid had never once shown up for class. The parents wanted to know why the teacher “wasn’t meeting his needs.” Pretty hard when the kid skips every class.

Hahahahaaaaaa!! Got it – had to read it twice, but got it. ;-)

Important to know the difference between hard rock and soft rock.

Oh bull. Sadly there just are some kids that are poor students. It happens. And, some people aren’t as smart as others. These things happen in life. Teachers shouldn’t be blamed for every student that fails

Because she usually has it coming.

When was the last time you were in school?

rubble.

Rocks are our friends.

A favorite pastime every little boy must try….to hit cars as they whiz past their house. Can he do it? If not, no harm, no foul. But if he does…look out!

Clever Calvin!

He looks so cute in the last panel.

xxx

HAHAHAHAHA = last panel. calvin sayin ballistic just makes me crack up. :)

To those who believe there are no bad students, only bad teachers, I put the following question: Why does a class taught by a single teacher almost invariable yield a bell-curve distribution of grades from A to F? If there were no bad students, that would mean pretty much every teacher in the world is bad but also lucky enough to have a few good students who learn on their own. While I believe there are plenty of bad teachers out there, there are also plenty of students who would fail even the best teacher’s class.

CAlvin and HObbes is my favorite commic

Calvin is such a rockhead!

I’ve seen children fail because they won’t do their homework, but those same children consistently score near the top on standardized tests.Equal opportunity doesn’t mean equal ability. Each student needs to be taught at his level.

He describes my easy chair, oh, wait that’s sedentary deposits. Nevermind.

But wait. Isn’t the earth only 25.000 years old? That rock must have been ‘intelligently designed’ smooth.

Calvin’s looking for the perfect one to hurl at Susie. That’s why he’s an expert on them.

And buckeyes, too. They’re good weapons.

I wanna hear Calvin’s explanation of Macchu Pichu (sorry I didn’t spell that right – no spellcheck on this site)

Did you know…Calvin & Hobbes are based on the philosophies of John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes, and they symbolize not only the philosophies of the men, but also the satirical demises of society.

You know I’m usually up to biting on this kind of thing…so here goes!-Gen. 1:6, 7 explains a division between waters above and waters below. 2 Peter 3:5, 6 confirms these early tropical conditions and explains that it is the waters above that provided the flood. In other words, early earth was surrounded by a water canopy above, thin enough to see light through, but thick enough to create temperate zone earthwide. When this collapsed, it would have changed surface geology, hollowing out low places and raising up mountains in others (why some mountains have seashells on top, and the desert has crushed flowers underneath the sand); also plunging the polar regions into instant freezing conditions (note the mammoths found frozen whole with green vegetation still inside them). The water would have simply run off to new levels.-Also, I live in Arizona… the native americans have many legends about worldwide floods, which they would have received as oral traditions when their asian forebears crossed over from russia/alaska. See Cree, Montagnais (Canada), Tlingit, Papago, even legend of Nu-u in Hawaii, just for samplers.-Even evolutionists posit a thick early earth atmosphere rich in chemistry.

Total atmosphere/underground water: 365124 trillion gallons at eight pounds a gallon..

@legaleagle48Calvin is a bright student, but the school he attends is a cliched teacher-centered place which relies on rote memorization. As a creative child, Calvin needs to be in an environment which challenges his imagination. Instead, he is given stultifying lessons which make him act out and ignore the material.

The rock might be from God but Calvin’s motivation isn’t.

D’you suppose Calvin knows how to spell “pedantic?” He’s obviously impressed Hobbes.

I used to have a rock collection.

Tread lightly when you mock someone else’s religious beliefs — those beliefs tend to give me a lot more comfort than your cold, sterile, limited “logic” ever could. And you’re just as bigoted as the people you’re mocking, by the way!

if you have interest in a subject you become an expert

@VonneAnton

Thank you so much for explaining Calvin & Hobbes, as I am new, too. Great summary! ;-)

@Pacopuddy & battle of plattsburgh: I have come to view rocks in a whole new light and considering acquiring some for pets! I think I would like Ena!

I see I am going to have to check my online dictionary for meanings of some of the interesting words I see in these comments. Oh, the joys of learning!!! ;-D

The “world” referred to in Genesis (and other places in that book) would more correctly be translated “age”, not “Earth”. Thus the book does not claim that the Earth is just 6,000 years old.

Despite claims that there is evidence of world wide flooding, I believe it was only the “known lands” that were flooded. But bear in mind that if God wanted to flood the planet, and then dry it out again, it would not be a problem. And why would He leave conclusive evidence behind? He wants us to come to Him, not in fear, but in faith, out of love and respect. (Most references to fear in the Bible actually mean something like “awesome respect”)

Further careful study (with correct translations) will reveal that Adam was not the first man. He was simply the first man in the seed line through which the Messiah would come.

And there are other popular misconceptions about God’s word that give rise to other problems in reconciling it to science and natural history. Believe me, they can all be overcome. If you buy the notion that science and “religion” (I hate that word) can’t be reconciled, you haven’t studied enough.

@Sharuniboy@thebird55-Easily the biggest error fundamentalists and creationists have made is to assert that the Bible says the heavens and the earth were created 6,000 years ago. It does not. That is the fanciful misunderstanding of closed minded religionists / atheists.-Gen. 1:1 took place “in the beginning.” When was that? The Bible does not state. Could be 13.7 billion years ago for the “heavens” and 4.5 billion years ago for the “earth” (Calvin’s rocks!).-All six of the creative days take place as seen from earth, events formulating the earth. Even “let there be light” can be understood to mean “let light reach the planet through the dust accretion disc from the star” (or, as seen from earth).-The Hebrew word “day” simply means a specific period of time and is used 3 different ways in Gen. 1 & 2, indicating a narrow definition of 24 hours is inaccurate. Each day could easily have been many thousands of years long.-Also, Noah took two of each “kind” on the ark. Only two dogs. Variety would follow through the genetic code later. Some say just 43 kinds of mammals, 74 kinds of birds, and 10 kinds of reptiles would account for the millions of species we see today.-The ark was three stories tall, tripling the area space to a whopping 1,400,000 cu ft of usable space.-Frankly, the wide range of disparate peoples worldwide that have a flood legend with similar details gives proof that they probably came from the same event, and migratory people took that memory with them. Six continents/islands and hundreds of legends reveal this was an actual event.-If the earth’s surface was smoothed out, it would all be covered with water to a depth of 2,400m (or about 8k ft). So, the waters from that deluge still being here due to geological troughs and mountains is not unreasonable at all.-Am extremely curious about Adam not being the first human, but simply the first in the line of the Seed. Can I hear more about that reasoning? It’s a new one for me.

Oh, come on!! Give me a break!!

calvin is wise, he just needs a different school enviroment.