2010-12-05
Original: 2010-12-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A person stands on a cloudscape, looking up at the sky. Floating in the clouds is a large glowing yellow oval shape (representing God / a divine being), with small triangular eyes around its edge.
Person: "GOD, COULD YOU MAKE A STONE SO HEAVY, EVEN YOU COULDN'T LIFT IT?"
God (the yellow oval): "HMM... LET'S SEE..."
Caption below the panel:
Fun fact:
The universe always collapses for the same reason.
Votey:
The yellow oval (God), now drawn in rough black-and-white sketch style, panics.
God: "OH NO... I CAN'T... NO ONE MUST EVER KNOW!!"
A person stands on a cloudscape, looking up at the sky. Floating in the clouds is a large glowing yellow oval shape (representing God / a divine being), with small triangular eyes around its edge.
Person: "GOD, COULD YOU MAKE A STONE SO HEAVY, EVEN YOU COULDN'T LIFT IT?"
God (the yellow oval): "HMM... LET'S SEE..."
Caption below the panel:
Fun fact:
The universe always collapses for the same reason.
Votey:
The yellow oval (God), now drawn in rough black-and-white sketch style, panics.
God: "OH NO... I CAN'T... NO ONE MUST EVER KNOW!!"
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic. A person stands on a field of clouds, looking up at a large glowing yellow oval floating in the blue sky, which represents God and has small triangular eyes around its rim. The person asks, "God, could you make a stone so heavy, even you couldn't lift it?" God replies, "Hmm... let's see..." A caption beneath reads: "Fun fact: The universe always collapses for the same reason." The joke is that the classic omnipotence paradox is what destroys the universe. The votey (bonus panel) shows the same oval God, now rendered in a frantic rough sketch, exclaiming, "Oh no... I can't... no one must ever know!!" — revealing God secretly failed the test and is desperate to hide it.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.