Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 12, 2023

I close my eyes

Only for a moment, and the moment’s gone

All my dreams

Pass before my eyes, a curiosity

Dust in the wind

All they are is dust in the wind

You’ll need to prove yourself, Calvin.

Not even that, Calvin, when you consider that there are far more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches in the world.

Typical Watterson misanthropy. Based on his logic, everything he’s done has no significance.

Just as i finally was starting to realise that everyone dies.. i started to notice that i am becoming more in tune with the whole shebang.. like sort of psychic. ..getting more wordle words on fewer tries.. thinking about some obscure celebrity and they show up on tv a day later.. moving my cursor ahead in a video to see if i can find the info i am looking for and it is just right where i stop ? lol and its not even weird.

A dust speck created by a star.

The louder you say it, the less confident you are…

There was a rabbi who kept two scraps of paper. One read “For me the world was created.” and the other read “I am but dust and ashes.”

Lol

It’s a big universe.

Calvin is significant. He’s been a 6 year-old for about 28 years.

It’s us GoComic readers living vicariously through him that have a problem.

We are stars…

When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the small space which I fill, or even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified, and wonder that I am here rather than there, for there is no reason why here rather than there, or now rather than then. – Pascal

Calvin discovers the fun and reality of astronomy.

If all we do is so insignificant, why does it seem so important?

Just existing is significant. To someone. I can’t be bothered trying to be significant to the entire universe.

Way to Build up your self-esteem !

Or… diamond in the ruff…

There is nothing insignificant about a single, individual life. WE are all amazing creatures, made Imago Dei – in the Image of God. Each of us has amazing potential that produces, that loves, that aspires and that inspires. In the history of the Universe, we have been here but a small sliver of time but we have done so much…..reaching to the stars themselves.

NE\ever all for the “I am an insignificant” trope. We are blessed and each of us is fearfully and wonderfully made.

We’re small, but that doesn’t mean we’re insignificant. Humans account for only about 0.01% of the biomass in the world, but we have had a bigger effect on the planet than any other species that has ever lived.

Yop!

A man said to the universe, Sir, I exist….The universe replied: So what!!!!???!!! With apologies to Stephen Crane

If you went away Calvin, there are people that would miss you. There is no greater significance.

Everyone on twitter/X.

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” – Albert Einstein

_I Am…I Said _ by Neil Diamond.

“I am”… I said

To no one there

And no one heard at all

Not even the chair

“I am”… I cried

“I am”… said I

And I am lost and I can’t

Even say why

Welcome to reality.

Time stretches to infinity while we are young, each day is such a large part of the life. As we age time compresses, each day is such an insignificant part of our life. (That is unless you are like me and recently snapped your fascia tendon. PAIN!!!!) That is a significant day.

Hello cruel world… or something equally insignificant for this particular moment.

If more people understood just how insignificant we are in the cosmos, there’d be a lot less war.

God loves you, Calvin.

It reminds me of when I was really young and my parents would pack us into the car, go out into the country (now unfortunately, suburbs), and see the stars at night…

That must mean all politicians and most “news” anchors are hairballs.

Seems crazy, doesn’t it? To be so small in an infinite universe, and yet, still be noticed and loved. Calvin, you’re a player in this universal schema we call life!

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world;

indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

We are here! We are here! We are here!

A man said to the universe:

“Sir, I exist!”

“However,” replied the universe,

“The fact has not created in me

A sense of obligation.”

War Is Kind, Stanza 96 – [Stephen Crane (1871-1900)]

Horton hears a Who….

Dust Speck’s Significance Matters! Just yesterday The Count had The Help put a new filter in Chateau Count’s HVAC. Last one, had to order four more on Amazon. $71!!! Now tell The Count there’s no such thing as Inflation when they were about $40-50 last time The Count ordered.

Every dust speck is significant because it is part of the whole. Cosmically, we all do our part. If you need a specific reason or purpose for your existence, find it.

A little speck of dust taking up space that if gone would mean a hole, and holes in space turn black and could suck in the entire galaxy so Hold the Line!

If you’re going to be a dust speck, be an annoying one. Get in the universes eye.

“We are but a moment’s sunlight/fading in the grass. . . .”

Thank you, Calvin, for speaking for all of us who reside on this speck of dust.

We will obliterate ourselves and the universe will not do us the favor of ceasing to exist out of respect.

When I was a kid I believed in reincarnation because otherwise life would be "stupid"… later I realized life is “stupid” and got over it.

Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales — Isaiah 40:15

We are all StarDust !

One of the strip’s best. Simple, powerful and still hilarious.

Calvin didn’t have a Tik Tok account

" … ificant … ificant …ific .. as if."

Two dust specks collide and create a mini-vortex which builds into a massive storm system. C’est la vie.

“Yakko’s Universe” by Randy Rogel.

This gets at the core of why some people want to believe the earth is flat.

The Infinite cannot feel infinitisemal without finitude

Like Carl Sagan said, “We all are of Star dust.”…

Our whole solar system can be described as an ordinary middle-aged yellow dwarf star on the outskirts of the galaxy containing four major planets plus debris.

That’s profound.

ALL humans are significant, Calvin. Sickening that some in the world see it differently :-(

Calvin, if you listened to Carl Sagan, you would know that we’re all “made of star stuff.”

Pretty significant, if you ask me…

Calvin, read Psalm 8.

Cosmic Horror: The comic strip

Everything pales in size when compared to the infinite. Hilbert’s hotel, where there’s always room for one more, is a good introduction.

On the scale of the universe, you don’t even amount to a dust speck.

so sad if you really think this way….

you are loved by Jesus who is God in the flesh, who went through the whole death thing just to prove it; especially to those that follows rituals and believe only in what they see in front of their eyes

sad if you think this way, you are loved so much. I love you and I don’t even see you. The person reading this: I love you and I don’t even know you. I treasure you and think you have worth. Seek God, who does not force Himself upon you, but ‘stands at the door and knocks’

Peace to you all

You think you are, therefore you am (important, that is). That counts for something’.

still…a person’s a person, no matter how small (h/t Horton and the Whos)