2014-02-28
Original: 2014-02-28 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: EXISTENCE: A GUIDE
The comic is a 3x3 grid (a matrix/chart). The top row and left column act as headers, leaving a 2x2 grid of labeled cells.
Column headers (top row):
- Top-left header cell: blank
- Middle header cell: a smiling face (happy)
- Right header cell: a frowning face (sad)
Row headers (left column) and cells:
Row 1 (middle row):
- Left header: IT'S ALL MEANINGLESS
- Middle cell (meaningless + happy): Existentialism
- Right cell (meaningless + sad): Nihilism
Row 2 (bottom row):
- Left header: IT'S ALL MEANINGFUL
- Middle cell (meaningful + happy): Religion
- Right cell (meaningful + sad): oh shit, worshipped the wrong God
Votey:
Panel shows two people. One person says: "I THINK THE NIHILISTS MIGHT COMPLAIN."
The other person replies: "YEAH, BUT THERE'LL BE NO POINT."
The comic is a 3x3 grid (a matrix/chart). The top row and left column act as headers, leaving a 2x2 grid of labeled cells.
Column headers (top row):
- Top-left header cell: blank
- Middle header cell: a smiling face (happy)
- Right header cell: a frowning face (sad)
Row headers (left column) and cells:
Row 1 (middle row):
- Left header: IT'S ALL MEANINGLESS
- Middle cell (meaningless + happy): Existentialism
- Right cell (meaningless + sad): Nihilism
Row 2 (bottom row):
- Left header: IT'S ALL MEANINGFUL
- Middle cell (meaningful + happy): Religion
- Right cell (meaningful + sad): oh shit, worshipped the wrong God
Votey:
Panel shows two people. One person says: "I THINK THE NIHILISTS MIGHT COMPLAIN."
The other person replies: "YEAH, BUT THERE'LL BE NO POINT."
Alt text
A hand-drawn 2x2 chart titled "EXISTENCE: A GUIDE." The columns are headed by a smiling happy face (left) and a frowning sad face (right); the rows are labeled "IT'S ALL MEANINGLESS" (top) and "IT'S ALL MEANINGFUL" (bottom). The four combinations are filled in: meaningless + happy = "Existentialism," meaningless + sad = "Nihilism," meaningful + happy = "Religion," and meaningful + sad = "oh shit, worshipped the wrong God." Votey aftercomic: two people talk; one says "I think the nihilists might complain," and the other answers "Yeah, but there'll be no point" — a joke that nihilists, believing in no meaning, would have no point in complaining.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.