Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 03, 2013

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    ratlum  about 11 years ago

    I am with Hobbes on this one.

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    rentier  about 11 years ago

    I think, God let a small crack, were that can go in who havn’t been always good, but are not bad through and through, normal people, for God is good, and he has a heart for them!!!

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    JoeyCooler777  about 11 years ago

    Nah Calvin. Because you’re not REALLY bad,just mischievous. You can go to heaven. And you’ll enjoy it.

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    Phapada  about 11 years ago

    but I feel Bad because it’s raining all day and night..in Thailand…

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 11 years ago

    Sounds like Calvin needs to switch to a different denomination. He should study the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther, and the apostle Paul of the Bible, taught that one cannot earn eternal life by doing good works, and that it is impossible for one to live a blameless life. Heaven can only be attained as a free gift from God to those who believe.We now return you to your regularly-scheduled comic strip.

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 11 years ago

    Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (November 24, 1990)Click here: Peanuts (September 10, 1989)Click here: Frank and Earnest (September 3, 2009)Click here: Pearls Before Swine (November 5, 2011)Click here: Ziggy (July 6, 2010)Click here: Peanuts (December 30, 1959)

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    rentier  about 11 years ago

    Yes, we all need grace!!

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    cloudy now  about 11 years ago

    You will be able to beat the hell out of Moe, and know what? It will be good!

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    arye uygur  about 11 years ago

    @DHA DHA: 18 years ago in May I was staying at a guesthouse in Bangcock. It was broiling hot. I just walked into a luxury hotel as if I owned it. No one was using the pool and I swam in it until I felt more refreshed.

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    christoph  about 11 years ago

    Calvin’s version of Pascal’s wager.

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    rpp  about 11 years ago

    Calvin asked a good question. Many believe that good works alone will somehow grant them access into heaven and that bad people will not be allowed in. How many good works is enough? As much as or more than your neighbor or some famous person? Who is the scorekeeper? Who sets the standard? It is not by works that we are granted eternal life, but it is by faith in God and embracing the atoning sacrifice of Christ. I can’t prove there is a heaven, nor can anyone on earth prove there is not a heaven, so I’d rather err on the side of faith in God.

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    rentier  about 11 years ago

    This has some logic, Calvin!!

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    jessegooddoggy  about 11 years ago

    The only heaven for me would already be populated with all the dogs and cats I have known.

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 11 years ago

    @moronbis: Charlie Brown and Lucy had differing opinions regarding whether or not it is possible for one to live a blameless life:Click here: Peanuts (January 13, 1971)Click here: Peanuts (September 24, 1967)

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    moronbis  about 11 years ago

    @HobbesHow can you say that it is impossible for one to live a blameless life?I can already think of many blameless lives.And of what use is an eternal life?

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 11 years ago

    @Thirdguy: Actually, Hobbes and I are “cut from the same cloth.”

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    Ivan Araque  about 11 years ago

    I always thought Watterson’s training must’ve been in metaphysics, but this is too much. ;)

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    Packratjohn Premium Member about 11 years ago

    “We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life.”The 14th Dalai Lama

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    Nortley  about 11 years ago

    A place where you’re allowed to be bad? No wonder religion is such a biggie among the right wing.

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    Aaron Saltzer  about 11 years ago

    Calvin’s parents need to start taking Calvin to church.

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    stinky_harriet  about 11 years ago

    That’s exactly what I was thinking!

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    Hoodude  about 11 years ago

    See Breaking Bad..notice Walter White.And does anybody watch The Bridge?…cos I know where the money is..

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    JanLC  about 11 years ago

    I don’t think Calvin has to worry about life in Heaven…….

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    JoeyCooler777  about 11 years ago

    Dude stop. You obviously have no understanding of it.

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    JoeyCooler777  about 11 years ago

    It’s not obey parents. It’s honor. There’s a difference. If your parent told you to murder, you wouldn’t have to do it. And as for the bible being contradictory, only for those who don’t understand. In the New Testament a new covenant was born. The old ways changed, not completely, but mostly.

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    rentier  about 11 years ago

    Will Calvin have a bath in Purgatory?

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    androscoggin  about 11 years ago

    If evil is in the world because God wanted us to be able to CHOOSE to be good, then did He decide that free will was overrated when He created Heaven?

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    Puddleglum2  about 11 years ago

    EARTH is the place where you’re “allowed” to be bad.

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    Puddleglum2  about 11 years ago

    Everyone in heaven willingly will worship, praise and obey God.

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    Number Three  about 11 years ago

    Be yourself, Calvin.But just be prepared to pay the ultimate price for it.LOL xxx

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 11 years ago

    @Thirdguy: Come to think of it, Firstguy and Secondguy had a similar misconception about me. At least I haven’t had to debunk the “I am Bill Watterson” myth recently. (I hope Mythreesons is still out there somewhere and doing well.) Hobbes and I have some things in common, but one major difference is that he lives with a Calvinist.

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    paytonb  about 11 years ago

    “How else would you honor your parents than to obey them?”No offense Night, but your statement here pretty much shows your self-supporting interpretation with a blindness to it’s reality. You can most certainly honor someone without obeying them. I love and honor my parents but if they told me to quit my job because they felt it was too dangerous, how exactly would I be dishonoring them by not quitting? The two terms are not synonomous no matter how much you would like them to be in order to elevate your point.

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 11 years ago

    “I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places. "- Mark Twain

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    dflak  about 11 years ago

    I love today’s strip.

    I can’t believe that nobody has commented on Calvinism yet! Personally, I believe in the Gospel according to Snoopy.

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    Tanner Selinger  about 11 years ago

    I’m with you dflak. Nothing says being good will get you in Heaven.

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    tigerchik32  about 11 years ago

    Try reading Blake for more ideas.

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    bmonk  about 11 years ago

    “Being in a heaven with a bunch of goody-goods would be pure hell. Being in hell with a bunch of uncritical bros would be heaven.”

    Which is one reason that Jesus has such harsh words about the hypocrites who are goody-goods who judge others.

    The ideal of Jesus is that we become actually good by learning to love as Jesus does.

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    JoeyCooler777  about 11 years ago

    I know that. I didn’t say the Old Testament is suppose to be ignored now, merely that some things have changed, such as, you no longer need to make a sacrifice to be forgiven or that you can’t do any kind of work on the sabbath. Also by honor I believe it means, do nothing to bring dishonor unto them.

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 11 years ago

    @Thirdguy: Well, I do read the comics religiously….

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    Snoopy_Fan  about 11 years ago

    Jesus indeed affirms that the Old Testament Law is holy in all its intended purposes of marking the Jewish people as God’s unique people and pointing to the God-image originally planted within us. The PENALTY (stonings, etc.) was paid by Christ on the Cross. THAT is grace.

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    ootey  over 7 years ago

    Paschal’s Wager:“Pascal argues that a rational person should live as though God exists and seek to believe in God. If God does actually exist, such a person will have only a finite loss (some pleasures, luxury, etc.), whereas they stand to receive infinite gains (as represented by eternity in Heaven) and avoid infinite losses (eternity in Hell).”Seems reasonable to me…

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