Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 06, 2025

Ironically, a lot of people do their “not living” in the living room.

Amen, Wise A$$.

The WA is spot on this time!

If he means not living as in enjoying life, he’s right!

Not living? Hey, it’s a living for most folks.

Death is certain. Enjoy being alive.

There are only two kinds of people staying on this beach: Those that are dead and those that are going to die . Get off your butts ! You are the fighting 29th !

Dying is the next great adventure

Dying IS the worst thing to happen to someone who doesn’t know and love Jesus !!!!

The ancients thought philosophy would teach you not to fear death. The Epicureans were sure of it, “Someone threatens you with death? That’s nothing to fear. It is the end of all pain and suffering.” Epictetus was disappointed with some of his followers, “Those d@mn Christians don’t fear death, c’mon guys you got to be smarter than them.”

(In the first few centuries CE Christianity was regarded as a school of philosophy. It considered itself the best, and other kinds considered it the worst.)

This one resonates.

This is really rather good.

I hear a song. Sounds like “Always look on the bright side of life”.

How incredibly odd.A “Christian” comic strip endorsing the philosophy that you should ACTUALLY enjoy your life INSTEAD of “sacrificing” every single joy that you can, just so you can “re-coup” those joys later in the afterlife.Cool!!!!Dan aka….ps thanks, Mr. Stephan Pastis!!!!!

Dying ain’t much of a living….

So true!

Go! (now and) Live your life!

Tomorrow is coming no matter what you do today. You might as well live it up while you can. Age will slow you down and the Scythe-Guy will get you in the end but today will be just fine, great even.

Living isn’t being on GC comments engaged in a flame war?

If you don’t believe the dead come back to life, watch what happens at quitting time

Caution and fear…. Death doesn’t care.

No one’s escaped him yet. (For the most part)

The Great Wise A$$ has a valid point.

I just realized that’s not an actual hill he’s sitting on, it’s just a big pile of… brown stuff.

“And the soul afraid of dying, never learns to live”—The Rose

The Great Wise Åss said something wise! What’s he trying to do, break the comic strip?

omg the great wise a$$ actually said something interesting

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Real wisdom for a change. But interesting coming from a guy who spends his life sitting on a hill.

Sadly, some people have reinterpreted this as ‘move fast and break things.’

Good advise

After all, pigs only have 15 or 20 years.

Brilliant

“Living life to the fullest means taking risks—hold my beer and watch this!”

If living requires artificial life support with total dependence on tubes for feeding, frequent diaper changes and no autonomy whatsoever as an adult, dying would be a welcome release.

my dad owns roblox

That’s 4.

Truth! Dyin’s easy; it’s living that’s hard.

This might be the wisest thing ol’ Wise A$$ has ever said. Or at least the most straightforward in its wisdom.

Living doesn’t necessarily mean you have to do a lot of things. Pig hasn’t wasted his

Is the pile he’s sitting on poop or dirt

huh, good to know

And this is supposed to be a comic strip?

I think those who have had face to face experience with death have a different view than most others. We might not like, but do understand nature’s death. Facing violent death even more different. Choosing to face death in war, again, is different than what others experience. Living is up to the individual, not someone else’s idea of how you should live your life. Active or sedentary in front of a TV, it is your choice. No one else’s.

Pig thinks the worst thing that can happen is running out of cheese.

And he might be right

The Wise Donkey lived up to his name, in the positive sense.

Many of us have…..

Life is just a bowl of cherriesDon’t take it serious; it’s too mysterious

“live free, or die. death is not the worst of evils” General Stark

If WA thinks the worst thing is not living, why does he spend all of his time sitting on a pile of dirt?

Yup, let prime years of my life go to waste, sadly.

And unsurprisingly, Rat has spent a lot of years wasted.

Well said, Stephan ♥

Very, very true

Once in a countless encounters that wise аss is indeed wise and not just an аss.

Amen!

People who want to be happy do not intentionally waste their years. They are hindered by something, someone or a lack of something or possibly someone, I am not sure.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

Im takin’ what their givin’ ‘cause Im workin’ for a livin’

A retirement specialist once explained, "People who say they’ll take up an activity, like golf or travelling, or painting after they retire, don’t. Retirees tend to do the same activities they did when they were younger.

So… are the people on social media living life or not?