Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 14, 2014

Well! That was certainly uplifting. At least for the beer mugs.

Hey Rat – It may not be unexpected or necessarily tragic, however it will be into utter nothingness so to speak, and no, it does not have to last forever. You can come back to an earthly existence that you will understand, but also one that will not end. And it will be peaceful! And all you have to do to get this is blow the dust off your Bible and actually read it. [now, for those of you about to go on the attack and accuse moi of believing in fairy tales, ask yourself…what has any human ever done to assure the above to anyone? Yet each year or so people rush to the polls hoping for a miracle, or pop a pill hoping for extended life. Maybe…, just maybe there is an answer in “the Book”. What have you got to lose by looking into it?]

I don’t drink anymore. Not that much less, either.

In international news, Paris is consuming huge amounts of beer.

Remember when comics used to be aimed at kids?

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According to today’s Calvin & Hobbes, our purpose is to be tiger food.

Funny, I drink to forget how much people suck, and by extension, how much I suck as a person. Death never crosses my mind except when I wake up the next morning with a hangover.

Here’s to brother Stephan, brother Stephan, brother Stephan , Here’s to brother Stephan who’s with us tonight ! So drink MFer,drink Mfer…………..old drinking song from the days of my youth.

I follow Stephan and Bill Amend from “Foxtrot” on Twitter. Yesterday Bill tweeted that he was in Ireland with Stephan. He asked us to wish his liver luck! LOL I would love to be in whatever pub those 2 walked.

I think I’d rather have a frontal lobotomy.

Where’s SusanSunshine when we need her? :)

no, Rat is just an alcoholic

It’s the bar scene from “Fight Club” all over again.

Humans are just evolution gone way out of control. Enjoy your life while you’re here.

Two old stand-bys: I drink, therefore I am. (In Rat’s case: I am, therefore I drink.)-Descartes walks into a bar and orders beer after beer, till finally the bartender says to him, “You’re drunk. I think you’ve had enough.” Descartes says, “I think not!”, and immediately disappears.

Maybe Rat will be reincarnated and come back as his alter ego?!

I ask you, do you remember what you were doing before you got borned…Ha! I do.

Have any of the atheists who comment here ever turned down USofA currency because it says IN GOD WE TRUST on it?!?

For once, I agree with Rat. (Scary!)

We will keep living in one form or dimension because we will be taught never ending things of the entire never ending Universe, Evidence of this is not hidden from us, only in the minds of those that already know-it-all

To think I sat through hours of college Philosophy when all I really needed to do was read Pearls.

Nothingness sounds ok to me. It’s certainly a step up from any place designed by the Biblical Skygod Creator. That Old Fool botched this place up so badly that I wouldn’t want to go near another one of his unintelligent designs.

The rapture is not biblical.

As an atheist, I believe I will cease to exist as a person when I die. I also believe it is my duty to live, laugh, and love, to the best of my ability while I am alive. There I people I do not like, so I try to spend more time with the people I like.

sigh.

I drink to forget. Forget what?Forget that I drink.From Le Petit Prince.

If an atheist is a vegan, which one will he/she bring up the most into any conversation?

ANd most f the religious POV expressed are similarly tirades against non-believers, so thank you for acknowledging the right of each individual to have beliefs differing from another’s. Tolerance is one of the fundamentals we pretend our country, US, was/is based upon, unless of course we don’t agree, right? Then my opinion/belief is, of course, the correct one. Don’t think your condescending words make your belief into more than a belief.

So sad to see Goat descending into the drunken way of life along with the vile Rat….

I really like, and appreciate, all of your replies. I live alone, and it is great to have this type of discourse with people from all over the country, if not the world!.My mother put it to me bluntly. She asked, simply, “You don’t believe in a higher power, do you.” It wasn’t my best bonding moment, but I had to be honest. She hasn’t mentioned it since, but we can talk about her religion openly and honestly.I’m 63, she’s 82.

Yes, Rat, some day your existence will end. No comic strip character is eternal. Calvin and Hobbes’ existence ended in 1995. Charlie Brown and Snoopy’s existence ended five years later, and old-timers Maggie and Jiggs ended five months after that..Some day, even Dagwood and Dick Tracy will be no more.

‘For God has set eternity in the hearts of mankind’ ~ Self evident truth by the comments I am reading.

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Pretty depressing thoughts from someone who’s probably richer and happier overall than 99.9999% of the human race. However, I wouldn’t disagree with this strip, except for the drinking part. Hey Stephan, ever read Mark Twain’s “The Five Boons of Life”?

Seems to me that we live on after we die. In the memories of those who knew us and perhaps in the memories of those who knew those who knew us. If we are kind to others, that will be remembered and perhaps will be passed on to others who knew us and were kind because we influenced them.

I know I drink too much. Last time I did a urine test there was an olive in it…..(Rodney Dangerfield).

Drinking clearly leads to a five o’clock shadow.

I like how alcohol caused goat to grow stubble

You know things are bad when Rat shows vulnerability

goat has been sucked into the vortex of rat.