Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 01, 2015

OMG, Captain Eddie is making sense in that last frame! What’s next – stuffed Wileybears for sale on the author’s website?

This is definitely going to go up on a lot of church bulletin boards.

“And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made…”

Trust technology, Eddie, but don’t have faith in it. Technology wants users, not disciples.

@Gaijinrabbit

Science, first it was the coming ice age (but it didn’t come), then it was global warming and the seas were going to rise (but they didn’t), now it is climate change (but the facts don’t support it). Science: come up with a hypothesis, test it, test it again, have someone else test it. If it doesn’t pan out, change the name of the hypothesis and fudge the facts to fit your hypothesis. Dogma rules, Distrust anyone who doesn’t believe exactly as you do and call the deniers.

Scientism: an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities).

http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/gengloss/sciism-body.html

Scientism

Unlike the use of the scientific method as only one mode of reaching knowledge, scientism claims that science alone can render truth about the world and reality. Scientism’s single-minded adherence to only the empirical, or testable, makes it a strictly scientifc worldview, in much the same way that a Protestant fundamentalism that rejects science can be seen as a strictly religious worldview. Scientism sees it necessary to do away with most, if not all, metaphysical, philosophical, and religious claims, as the truths they proclaim cannot be apprehended by the scientific method. In essence, scientism sees science as the absolute and only justifiable access to the truth.

What would a Non Sequitur comments section be without an argument that has nothing to do with the comic? Wouldn’t really be my chosen forum to spread enlightenment, assuming I though I could do so, but have fun.In the mean time, I think anyone who has relied on a GPS too many times to get them where they needed to be can relate to this one. The last time I used my phone for directions, I ended up about a mile from where needed to be. When I finally found the place, they said they heard that all the time.

Can someone please tell me what accent this is written.

Gee, did y’all forget that science used to be the study of God’s Creation? Then, some “scientist” decided that God is dead…

How many drinks are we up to? :-)

MS72But ‘God’ was never alive to begin with.

my god is better than your god

Reference the Teapot cult in Malasia. But the government has demolished the commune and declared the true believers apostates to Islam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Kingdom.The name is perfect. Sky Kingdom. My Teapot is better than your Teapot.Ye must believe on my teapot or be cast into a lake of stale tea, to weep and gnash your teeth at tea leaves in your shorts forever.I once heard a Hindu, very emotionally, witness for Hamanun. Now there was a god. He carved Madagascar out of the Himalayas and carried it to it’s present location.Millions of people saw the mountains passing in the night.The witnessess could see cooking fires burning in the villages in the sky. The only person able to make up a religion was L. Ron Hubbard. Except for…oh, wait, I better not go there. There may be Teapartiers about. (Sarcasm, I’ll admit, the Devil made me do it.)

@Kind&Kinder Thank You! One of my all-time fav songs.

Ok. That’s 2 in a row about GPS screwing someone up. I wonder where Wiley’s GPS sent him? He obviously hates them.

Just remember that scene in “Star Wars” between Darth Vader and the rest of the Death Star leadership in Episode IV, when Admiral Motti, the commander of the Death Star, taunts Lord Vader and Vader responds by choking him with The Force and utters probably one of the best lines Vader has ever said—“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnNSnJbjdws

Judging from Eddie’s colossal strength, Flo must be packing lots of steroids into the food she serves……..

Yeah Eddie, dats IT! Now we know da truth an low down. More to dem phones that just communicating. It takes an ol salt to discover what’s in plain sight.

ENOUGH already……it’s just a cartoon, folks. Save the diatribes for your next political debate!!!

You may have to get an injection. I seem to recall that in one of the prequels, the Force was explained to be something like microbes inhabiting the Jedi’s body, which did not make a lot of sense. As for that guy who said we might be headed for another ice age, I’m sure he’s eternally grateful to republicans for immortalizing him. As I always say, let’s put on our bell bottoms and head for th disco in my Gremlin. I have the latest Elvis item on 8-track.

Since nothing ever changes.

Album, not item. I don’t get delete buttons any more.

And faith (in its religious sense) is another word for wishful thinking or fantasy, right?

Good point, Eddy. Yesterday I saw three people standing, heads bowed, in the Rotunda and thought “How cool, their ability to openly practice their faith like that.” *You know the punch line.

GaijinrabbitThey consider Micronesians Untermenchen, same as those other humans in Arctic Ocean Alaska who have moved their towns inland twice already because the ocean rose. If you are self-centered enough, you will deny anything that challenges your humanity.

“then why does everyone seem to be praying to their smartphone”

..while they are driving

The Big Difference between Science and Religion is that Science doesn’t Care if you Believe in it or Not..Science just goes on being True..