Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 13, 2023

The dead can’t be miffed.

Too bad the universe doesn’t write IOUs, so we’d have something to take to court.

interesting

Hey, Rat. You die, it’s all over.

If there is an afterlife in the conventional spiritual sense, I suspect Rat will be taking the elevator down to the basement and he will not be met by St Peter! Time to start shoveling coal 24-7 to feed that furnace which keeps he!! uncomfortably hot Rat!

Is this a weird instance of the sunk cost fallacy?

Why atheists don’t like the idea of no afterlife? The atheist cannot tell you “I told you so” :)

I think a lot of us feel this way…

That’s why I could never believe in reincarnation, Rat. If they think I’m coming back here, they’re crazy!

Afterlife, the ultimate delusion.

No, Rat, you won’t. You’ll be dead. So you’ll be nothing at all.

So many people spend their lives preparing for the “after life.”

Rat , life is only ##&@ if you live it that way!

The “something better after this life” is that there WON’T be a Rat in it!

He will be miffed, but he will not know it.

You won’t exist. Be mad or glad now.

Rat has a point.

I have a feeling that in the afterlife, Rat will be wishing for this life back compared to… the alternative.

I always figured I’d get reincarnated as a light skinned Latino boy with a mop top.

Disappointment is eternal.

The closer we get to the final curtain call, and leave this stage for good, the more we seem to think about an afterlife. It’s a concept that I neither accept nor reject. I’ll find out in the end.

Personally, my life has had its share of surprises. Death holds the final surprise … but one that I’m in no big hurry to receive!

The funny thing is, is that there is only one true answer that anyone living on earth can honestly give to what happens after death, and it is….drum roll………I don’t know.

Rat was an evil human in a previous life and was reincarnated as, well, a rat

It all depends. Go talk to a pastor.

That’s not spiritual assurance. That’s wishful thinking assurance.

I’m not sure I can spend eternity with Rat. I’ll be really miffed if I do

For most, it’s going to get a lot worse.

Pretty much hits the nail on the head when you’re 80 and most everyone is gone.

Seems to me that not existing is a reward.

I always wonder if near-death experience is the mind doing it’s thing, or the real deal.

You’re really miffed already

If Rat can’t handle this life, it’s a good thing he wasn’t born in any previous era, anywhere, to any station.

Dr. Cameron: You find it more comforting to believe that this is it?

Dr. Gregory House: I find it more comforting to believe that this isn’t simply a test.

House “Three Stories” (2005)

Pun Alert! Important notice. One of the most beautiful puns made an appearance today in Calvin and Hobbes. If you haven’t seen it I recommend you take a peek. (And nobody noticed!)

Stephan, you would be proud.

Sorry Rat. You’re coming back until you do it right.

Yeah, Rat doesn’t have high expectations.

Betting there is no afterlife is like betting the hurricane will miss you. If you prepare for it and it doesn’t hit you, you have lost nothing, but if you don’t prepare and it hits you, you may loose everything.

Rat and spirituality do not have a close relationship. In fact, I’m not sure they’re even acquainted!

I admire Rat’s optimism. Unfortunately I am a pessimist.