Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 22, 2019

Funny, in my Book of Life some one has torn out the last chapter.

or not so funny

Looks like he got some of his philosophy from his sister…

There’s no Back button on life either.

This was long before the animated movie.

No question about it, CB.

They’re both right.

Or they are in the back, but you cannot get back to your page if you look there.

Charlie’s right, I find more questions than answers in the book of Revelation.

In The Book of Life, the answers are not

Makes me think of “My Back Pages” by Bob Dylan — “Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.”

Charlie has a point. When we study history, we’ve already looked at the back of the book and know how things turned out. Hindsight might be 20/20, but it is distorted, You get no appreciation for why people made the decisions they did or why they acted the way they did.

To truly understand history, you need to transport yourself back in time and see the world the way the people living at that time saw it and “forget” the inevitable conclusion at “the back of the book.”

Then, not only will you understand history, you will also understand the present.

The answers are scattered throughout the book. You need to read all of it.

The answer is 42.

You have to read between the lines

Plus the Cliff Notes version only skims the surface leaving out all of the details.

Depends on the questions.

My philosophy is, “The world doesn’t have enough chocolate.”

Amazingly enough, that’s what I kept telling my students. I wonder if I got it from Peanuts??

Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect, want or even the answers.