Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 20, 2016

No more stupid than chess, with a bishop that can only move diagonally.

Yes, war is a stupid game.

Very stupid game, Calvin.

I’m sure that if Hobbes put down his gun then Calvin would do the same.

“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?”

Yeah, you give us all your land, all your wheat, all your rice, all your diamonds, all your gold, all your oil, and we won’t attack you. Oh, and all your people will be our slaves (if we let them live).

Playing Peace is no fun. Where’s the action? The adventure? The drama? The contest?

Global Thermonuclear Warfare

Is there a real winner…any time?

Peace? "Gentlemen may cry “Peace, Peace” but there is no peace." People live in a perpetual state of war. If it is not a war with external enemies, someone will declare war on internal opposition, make them enemies and declare war.

This thread is lacking the two pre-requites for a meaningful dialogue.Religion and Politics. So there. Somebody had to say them.

Calvin should try playing Go. Until they get bored and start making up their own rules.

“This is not the way we put the end to war.” Donovan, via Buffy St. Marie; Universal Soldier.

WAR, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

That’s what Viet Nam was, a chess game played with human pawns between Russia and the U.S.

No one noticed the great scientific advance in dart technology!A dart that sticks to fur!

If only the adults could learn from these two

When Dennis Kucinich ran for president, he advocated for a “Department of Peace” in the federal gummint. Like that’ll ever happen!

Well, apparently we’ve all got Lightman on the brain this morning. The ending surprised me; I didn’t think that Joshua would evolve past his “Human” (Cough! Cough!) masters.

Play war and everyone loses. Play peace and everyone wins.

They can live together in paradise now for ever and ever…..

C & H will never die, it runs on and on and on….

When it is said “Peace and Security”, then sudden destruction will happen. The Bible. Then the world will have unending peace but not by human hands. Fast fact, in last 2000 years of human recorded history only 134 years of peace.

War does not determine who is right. Only who is left.

I wasn’t going to post this here; but it might appropriate, so here goes…

Psychology 101 – Behavior modification

You start with a cage containing four monkeys, and inside the cage you hang a banana on a string, and then you place a set of stairs under the banana. Before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.

You then spray ALL the monkeys with cold water.

After a while, another monkey makes an attempt. As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray ALL the monkeys with cold water again. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put away the cold water, remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new monkey. The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, ALL of the other monkeys beat the stuffing out of him.After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original four monkeys, replacing it with a new monkey. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm — because he is now part of the “team.”

Then, replace a third original monkey with a new monkey, followed by a fourth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.

Now, the monkeys who are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. Having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.

Why, you ask? Because in their minds, that is the way it has always been!

This is how today’s House and Senate operates, and this is why, from time to time, ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME!

DISCLAIMER: This is meant as no disrespect to monkeys.

Those first two dialog balloons are the greatest in comics history, IMO.

All is fair in love and war.

It’s too bad that somehow a Kobayashi Maru test was set up somewhere at the beginning of our ability to think, and we’ve been failing it ever since.

Yep. It is.

Peace and Freedom are mutually exclusive. If you choose “Freedom,” someone will always try to steal it. You can keep “Peace” only if you are willing to surrender “Freedom.”

Thank you!

xxx

Always has been, Calvin.Always has been.

Belief and Religion: Belief is your personal outlook; Religion is the manufacturing of herd mentality. Religion s the corrupt evil behind all war.

time to invent some calvinball then?

I have many Calvin and Hobbes favorites but this one is truly special at least for me..

Why can’t more kids think like this? War games are indeed pointless.

Well said Calvin.

@leftwingpatriot comments every single day. It’s kinda pathetic.