Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 29, 2013
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Transcript:
Flo: You could avoid gettin' yawr boat stuck at low tide if you'd just check the tide chahts, Eddie... Eddie: That'd be a conflict of interest, Flo. Joe: Um... what? Eddie: I've got my own timetable that suits my agender, and I'm not gonna let some egghead scientists mess with it! Flo: So... reality is subjective? Eddie: A-yeh... It's in the constitution! Look it up. Joe: ... in the cable news section of Wikipedia?
And in Mark Twain!.From “The Mysterious Stranger,” Chapter 11:…“Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you! …“Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago—centuries, ages, eons, ago!—for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities. Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction!…“It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!”…http://www.mtwain.com/The_Mysterious_Stranger/10.html …All well and good, as long as he doesn’t use it as an excuse to not pay for his meal.