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1. 7 days ago on Luann

   Well, TJ’s a better chef than her as well, and she’ll be able to read the room. “He tried to make me something, it didn’t work out, TJ stepped in, and what matters is he remembered.”

2. 8 days ago on Luann

   The Book of Job is a profound work about suffering, but Job is a mythical person, and that is a teaching story. Whoever wrote it did not mean for it to be taken literally, and to take any biblical story literally is a bad idea. The translation you are using of that particular line is not accurate. It’s a Christian translator trying to make Job speak about Jesus, but the person or persons who created that story had no such idea. The Jewish idea of the afterlife is different, and it means that someday God will bring the just back to life on this physical planet, and Job will get everything back that he lost. And in fact he does. It’s not about going to a ghostly afterlife, because Jews never believed in that. Neither did Jesus of Nazareth. He wanted this world to change—all the self-centered people removed from it, including many who thought of themselves as godly. Heaven would be a world with only good people in it. So try harder to be good, and stop worrying about who believes what. Faith without works is dead.

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3. 9 days ago on Luann

   I know I didn’t! And honestly, I think this is about you realizing, down deep, you made a terrible mistake, that the entire human race is going to spend years paying for. Responsible adult replaced by demented senescent child. Honestly, I take back him being five years old, mentally. He never left his terrible twos. You know I’m right. So why keep digging? See you at midterms. :D

4. 10 days ago on Luann

   Trump’s mental/emotional age is about five, but whatever, man. We’re discussing a comic strip here. :D

5. 10 days ago on Luann

   Anyone who is offended by a scientific term referring to his/her own species needs some fixing as well. There are slurs to refer to same-sex oriented people, which I never use—but that isn’t one. This excessive sensitivity discourages honest conversation, which just keeps the prejudices alive.

6. 11 days ago on Luann

   PS: I typed the latin name of our species into my response, and found out the first part of it is a banned word here. I understand why. It’s still pretty stupid—stupidity provoked by stupidity. Honestly, much of this world I will miss. But that window starts to look better when I contemplate how so many of us think. Or fail to. And you seriously think ours is the only form of consciousness that could exist? When it does? ;)

7. 11 days ago on Luann

   There’s a lot of different ways to be an atheist, but vastly more ways to be spiritual. Atheists in general have a tendency to assume religion is whatever they experienced growing up, but it’s existed basically as long as humans have (possibly predates modern humans), and in an entire lifetime, you’d never get through all the versions of life after death we’ve envisioned.

   Just a few: The Dreamtime of the Austalian Aborigines. Ancestor worship, found in many cultures, means that our forebears live on, watch over us. Reincarnation was something many besides Hindus believed in. Buddhists added an interesting wrinkle, in saying the point of living was to escape the endless cycle of rebirth. Did you know Greco-Roman pagans invented our concept of heaven and hell? The Elysian Fields and Hades. When what we now call Christianity began, it was still a sect of Judaism, and Jews didn’t believe we went to some otherworldly realm when we died. They believed that someday all who had earned it (views differed as to how) would be reborn on earth in an immortal physical body—they found the pagan idea of being a ghost forever disturbing. But probably nothing is as disturbing as what the Sumerians believed—I won’t even say it here. Read Gilgamesh. ::shudders::

   Scotus Erigena, a Celtic Christian theologian, living in the time of the Carolingian Empire, saw a bird fly through a window—flutter around confused, in a realm that made no sense to it. Finally found a way out. “That’s what happens to us when we die.” Not so different from Mrs.Horner’s idea. Euro-Disney wasn’t a thing yet. Let’s just say, whatever you think it is—even if you think it’s nothing—you’re still thinking about it, and it almost certainly won’t be what you think. Because you’re still trapped in human conceptions of the world. We know when we go. ;)

8. 13 days ago on Luann

   Kip’s nice as well. Honestly, the only Luann character at present who isn’t basically a decent person is Stefani. As she is evidencing in today’s strip. Les is kvetchy, but kind to animals. Tiff still has some of her old attitude, but she’s a good friend. Ann Eiffel hasn’t been seen in some time.

   While I’d agree nice guys shouldn’t finish last, that doesn’t mean if a guy does you favors, you have to date him, even if you don’t find him attractive. I wasn’t too bad looking in my youth, and guess what? I many times liked girls who did not like me that way.

   I have this distinct feeling that some people here don’t like Tiff, and think she should be humbled by dating Ox. That’s being mean to both of them.

9. 15 days ago on Luann

   Brad was in very early adolescence when he first appeared. You expect a lot of change with maturation, both outward and inward. Ox was always a nice guy, not terribly bright, and sure, he could drop some weight, but he still wouldn’t be handsome—or all that interesting a character. Because he’s so nice—so he’d have to develop more of a spine, be more self-centered, out for himself all the time, like a normal guy—and all the things that make you sympathetic to him would be gone.

   It’s easy to develop an affinity for undeveloped side-characters, but never, and I mean EVER, do we want to read stories about them.

   Ox clearly isn’t jealous, and even if he had some fantasies about him and Tiff, he’s never believed anything would happen, and she has treated him as a friend—like friendship is an insult. And yes, she asks him for favors, but this is a pretty small one.

   Also, Ox is a fictional character, and he can’t hear your advice. Which he’d ignore if he did. You realize, you’re basically saying he’s too stupid to understand what’s going on, even though he seems to understand better than you? ;)

10. 16 days ago on Luann

    Seriously. You know none of you (female or not) would date Ox. Zero. He’s a nice guy, but you know what Leo Durocher said about nice guys. If not, Google. This is so hypocritical.

    Ox wants to be useful, he knows on some level Tiff can’t be with him, and Tiff does need to see this thing with Kip through, wherever it leads her. If she can’t get time off, fine. Comedy is the mission statement here.

    Ox wants to moon over somebody out of his league, that’s on him. But being a good friend in a pinch is valuable in itself. She can make it up to him later—but the misogyny I see here truly bothers me.