Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for July 01, 2012
Transcript:
Satchel: Rob, do we have free will? Rob: Oof, who knows? I mean, what is the sound of one hand clapping? Bucky: Pfff. Hey, nerd one: no. Nerd two: Rob: It's an unanswerable question. Like- Bucky: Like when you ask a girl for her phone number? Rob: ...like if a tree falls in the woods. Does it make a sound? Bucky: Irrelevant. It still squishes the chipmunk. Rob: You're missing the larger thing here... Bucky: Yeah, I think the chipmunk got that. Arrg! I'm being crushed by an unknowable crab apple! I'm dying! But at least I'm existentially satisfied! Satchel: Ha ha! I finally get philosophy!
rolleg over 12 years ago
Go for it, Bucky!
Miscella over 12 years ago
ROFL!! Hilarious strip today. I love it! Thanks, Darby. I needed that. :)
revisages over 12 years ago
hey, no kiddin. for real. put your cherries in your sling and face me with mine fulla crabapples. we’ll see
drogers30 over 12 years ago
For once Bucky actually makes sense.
Varnes over 12 years ago
Bucky, Rob wouldn’t know about asking girls for phone numbers….
pathfinder over 12 years ago
I am a consistent liar.
CogentModality over 12 years ago
Place a microphone and a recorder in the forest and see what it picks up. Besides, the same could be said for any sound,any where. ;=)
A much better question would be: How do I know that the color I see as red is the same color that you call red? Maybe what you’re seeing would be blue to me.
derfplik over 12 years ago
Kind of deep for a funny cartoon:-)
Jkiss over 12 years ago
Yes but we never truly know if Fate pushed us in the direction of what we view as a random choice.
Jkiss over 12 years ago
Just because there may not be a human there, the tree falling still makes a sound. Just because I don’t see the bear do his business in the woods, I still watch where I step.
Spamgaard over 12 years ago
How does one define free will? How would you even know if you were or were not exercising your free will? “You” are a prisoner of your brain, a biological computer that is a neural network which can easily be reprogrammed through sensory input, injury, surgery, or defect. Your free will is limited by the constraints, or parameters, that your brain will permit.
PShaw0423 over 12 years ago
Shakespeare: “There’s a destiny that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.” Fate and free will in the same sentence, and both true. And yes, I’m cribbing from Robert A. Heinlein. :).As for that damn tree…is there such a thing as objective reality? If so, then of course the tree makes a sound — whether or not it’s heard is irrelevant. And if not? Then the tree, the world, the keyboard I’m typing this on, and all of you, only exist inside my skull. (Well, actually, no; my physical body would be included in that.) Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream…and it’s All About Me. Pfui! — given a choice between objective reality and infantile solipsism, I choose objective reality. Why? Because, subjectively, it’s less distasteful to me. And yes, I recognize the irony in that..Philosophy is for people who have absolutely nothing else to do with their time that would be beneficial to themselves or to anybody else, so they waste it on meaningless mental games. Take that, Socrates!
Hunter7 over 12 years ago
As Harry Mudd would say: “I never tell the truth. I am lying to you right now.”
lecrenb over 12 years ago
Absolutely hilarious! Next time someone brings up trees falling in the forest I’m going to use that line.
BlitzMcD over 12 years ago
If Bucky’s response to Rob’s “It’s an unanswerable question” observation doesn’t underscore the fact that Bucky was and is the ongoing voice of reason in this strip, then the chipmunk referenced two panels later died in vain.
Ellen Gwynne over 12 years ago
It just means that some things can’t be described but can only be experienced. You can write a book about sound but until you hear, you won’t understand. Ta da !!!
oldone70 over 12 years ago
From now on, when friends wish to engage in political discussions, I shall just say: pu pu pu puAnd for your illumination, my union organizer Manx, Ruti, says “shnur” when he is disgruntled…which is all the time because it is impossible to organize cats.
DrBonehead over 12 years ago
I wonder, how many animals were harmed in making this cartoon? PETA has been alerted. But, the other question is how many humans were harmed. By the comments, I’m thinking a lot!