Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 26, 2024

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.

Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

Best advice, don’t over think it!

Joe had better not overthink it or he may realize when his mother keeps calling him “deah”, he’s a “t” away from death!

What good is walking past a graveyard if you have nowhere to go?

Sometimes you just have to take it one day (or one moment) at a time.

I will say Amen to that

Actually, back in the day going to the graveyard was a nice family outing. Public parks were rare, so it was the only place with grass and trees.

If A then B?

As Leslie Sarony sang in 1933, Why Build a Wall Round a Graveyard? (No one wants in, and no one wants out.)

Any day you don’t wake up dead is a good day!!

Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think

Enjoy yourself, while you’re still in the pink

The years go by, as quickly as you wink

Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think

A song covered by everyone from Doris Day to The Specials

A once popular gravestone inscription:

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“Remember me as you pass by

As you are now, so once was I

As I am now, so you must be

Therefore prepare fo follow me”

I think it was Marcus Aurelias who said to the effect, do not waste time arguing what it means to be a good man, simple be one.

Very, very few people make the last trip to the graveyard on foot. Or is that overthinking it?

People are dying to get in, but I’d still rather be 6 feet above ground than 6 feet under.

What dies first? My body or my IRA?

Death can’t be that bad because no body has complained yet. That’s why they’re saving it for the end. Dilly! Dilly!

I taught my kids to just do the right thing. Sometimes it’s easy and sometimes it’s hard. No religion necessary.

As my mother-in-law once said, “Every day you wake up above the grass is a good day.”

Each one there,has one thing shared, they have sweated beneath the same sun, looked up in wonder at the same moon,and wept when it was all done, for being done too soon…………..-Neil Diamond

On the other hand, if you whistle while walking past a graveyard, you may have religious scrupulosity, a type of philosophical dysfunction that causes anxiety and may lead to obsessive-compulsive behavior, such as counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike.

reading a lot of confusion between theology and philosophy.

my philosophy is simple… life is but a dream. (I cribbed it from a song)

Famous Irving Berlin song—-“When I Leave The World Behind”

Hey Wiley, make a beary good Thanksgiving strip for us!

If you’re happy and you know it, overthink. If you’re happy and you know it, give your mind a chance to blow it. If you’re happy and you know it, overthink.

Seems like you’re already on a steady course. Maybe you have a philosophy and you haven’t noticed it.

Philosophies come and go, but graveyards are consistent

ANOESIS!

If I could afford it, I would like to be cast in resin and buried. At some point, I’ll be dug up and everyone would think I must have been someone important. Papers will be written, stories told.

And, no, it is NOT a philosophy, just an attitude.

If they don’t overthink it do we still have a comic strip??? ;-)

Is this where “Eat, drink and be merry” comes in? Or is it “live hard, die young and leave a good looking corpse”? I think the second one is too late for me.

I’m with Captain Eddie on this one.

There was another old saying . . . “If I wake up and read the obituaries and my name’s not in there, it’s a good day”.

But that’s obsolete. Obituary notices used to be printed for free. Now, (unless you’re a celebrity of some sort) someone has to PAY the paper to print the obituary.

And no one I know would pay a dime to advertise my passing.

So, no obituary, and I live forever. :-)

Life is an obituary and then you die. Or something like that.

Joe Walsh doesn’t need one: I keep on goin’, guess I’ll never know why…

’Tis much better to been SEEN, than Viewed!