Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 10, 2023

‘It doesn’t need to be perfect’ = why men have nipples.

That does explain why some of the bugs were never patched

I didn’t realise that was the reason.. I thought it was an excuse.

What is this, a reality TV show? It’ll be rubbish if you only allow 6 days.

Now there’s another reason why there are no unicorns.

I always thought that God just couldn’t manage to pull an EIGHT day all-nighter. Despite being omnipotent and all those other omnis.

Maybe someday I can apply for the Copy Boy position in that office!!!

“High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.”― Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Story of Mankind

I often wondered if God ever said, “I know this isn’t exactly what I’m looking for, but I just can’t figure out how to make it better.”

Actually this one reminds me of ChatGPT and humans trying to compete for writing or editing… Not perfect, but done quickly.

There was a deadline to meet? Hey, who (besides the editor) is going to know the difference if you take a lucky thirteen days to do it?

That just tickles my funny bone!

Fast, cheap and good – you can have any two…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1×3RRrqJWKA&pp=ygUmY2dpIGFuaW1hdGVkIHNob3J0IGZpbG0gcGxhbmV0IHVua25vd24%3D

But the creation was perfect. Man chose to not believe God, and it was spoiled from that time on. But he sent Jesus to make it possible for man to be made right with God, and he will remake a new heaven and a new earth where there will be perfection that Gene Roddenbury has not even imagined.

It’s called תִּיקּוּן עוֹלָם

What did G-d do on the eighth day? He worked for 6 and rested for a day. And then….?

A man got to meet God and asked her how long eternity was to her. She answered “Only a second in time as you know it” The man though for a bit and asked what wealth was to her. She answered that all the wealth in his world was but a penny to her. The man thought for another bit and asked God for a penny. She said “Sure… Just give me a second or 2 to find it”

And humans are arrogant enough to think that the earth is only 6,000 years old. God took more time. She likes to get thinks fairly neat before she lets the humans screw things up and turn the place into a dump bit by bit. Just like children it takes them a long time to realize that things are better if you take care of them well. It takes a lot longer for some folks to realize that it applies to other humans as well. Just treating a few of them very very well will never make all of them lead better lives

And then he wiped out everything (save a pair of every animal) about 3,500 years later (about 1,500 years ago)

If only he had one more day…he could have fixed some mistakes he made….

God’s PM would fit, too

“Man, now I have all these spare parts left over. I guess I’ll throw together a platypus.”

God did indeed make everything perfect. Then he handed it off to users. …sigh. The only thing to do now is reboot.

God’s editor must have gone to the same school as my editor.

He did make avocado pits too big, for a start

Was there a totally made up, useless contest with other gods, like cooking and home building shows?

My mother, bless her soul, went to Heaven and gave GOD a hard time about lack of ambition since He’d been in the current job for a while….. and what was He doing about it… Wagging her finger as she chastised..

Ah…that explains so much.

One of Wiley’s all-time best — made my entire week!

“OK…well, I can get it done in six days, fine, but I won’t have time to filter out the conservatives.” “Eh, whatever…what harm can they do…?”

Just figure out the mass and spin problems and everything else will take care of itself.

There is never time to do it right. There is always time to do it over.

Didja ever wonder what a “day” was before there was an Earth to rotate?

Wait. The Supreme Being is NOT the Supreme Being?An EDITOR is the Supreme Being? I can quit the Zen class. I have achieved enlightenment.

The way I figure it, it was about 8:30 on a Sunday night when God’s mother asked, “God, how is your ‘heaven and earth’ project coming for school? It’s due tomorrow morning.” Of course, God hadn’t even started it yet. Thus….

There’s a truly excellent take on the whole idea of creating universes in today’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:

smbc-comics.com/comic/bang

Ignore him next time and strive for perfect.

The truth is the earth is just half baked. He truly needed to take his time.

After dividing it into light and dark, he decided to call it a day

So “god” isn’t the boss ?? Sort of questions everything about him doesn’t it ?

Well, he could have saved a heap of time by creating several hundred thousand fewer beetle species, thousands of ants, surely 200 kinds of bat would have been enough, and don’t get me started on bacteria!

The bible is full of ridiculous stories.

Definitely not prefect. Seems like even God is only human. ;-)

It’s a real problem getting things done when you have to wait for human beings to evolve enough to imagine you.

I might unlock the ire of many in here GoComicsLand, but I am an " Omninonbeliever "

Deadlines over quality every time. He just xeroxed the beetle design until the paper tray ran dry and called it good.

Looks like there’s going to be some conflict over who gets creative control.

Six Jupiter days? Or tidal-locked Venus?

Which god? Either there’s no god named God, or all gods are, but in the language of the worshippers (eg Jehovah)

I always liked the answer provided in Heinlein’s “Job: A Comedy of Justice”

God and Lucifer are rival Platoon Sergeants in a huge Celestial Army.