life-philosophy
Original: life-philosophy on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: How do you feel that, for most of human life, mankind by sickness, sorrow, war, and pestilence seems not to care at all about human life?
Panel 2 (man with dark hair):
Man: Are you a diagnostic pediatry?
Panel 3:
Man: In the near future, human life will be guided utterly. We are either killed or assimilated into the machines.
Panel 4:
Woman: I like to think about how most people behave us, and goodness, lives, and the seemingly giant string of human existence, are defined by dread and the farewell, to all that once mattered.
Panel 5:
Man: In short, sucks to be you. Future and party. And thus, the present hour is outstanding.
Panel 6:
Woman: I don't think you can give an entire shakedown of life around schadenfreude.
Panel 7:
Man: Are you familiar with my religion?
Votey:
Woman (leaning in close): We'll see how flippant you are in HELL.
Woman: How do you feel that, for most of human life, mankind by sickness, sorrow, war, and pestilence seems not to care at all about human life?
Panel 2 (man with dark hair):
Man: Are you a diagnostic pediatry?
Panel 3:
Man: In the near future, human life will be guided utterly. We are either killed or assimilated into the machines.
Panel 4:
Woman: I like to think about how most people behave us, and goodness, lives, and the seemingly giant string of human existence, are defined by dread and the farewell, to all that once mattered.
Panel 5:
Man: In short, sucks to be you. Future and party. And thus, the present hour is outstanding.
Panel 6:
Woman: I don't think you can give an entire shakedown of life around schadenfreude.
Panel 7:
Man: Are you familiar with my religion?
Votey:
Woman (leaning in close): We'll see how flippant you are in HELL.
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic showing a conversation between a woman and a dark-haired man. The woman opens by asking, philosophically, how he feels that for most of human history mankind has been ravaged by sickness, sorrow, war, and pestilence, with the cosmos seeming not to care about human life at all. The man deflects with a sarcastic question and then describes a bleak near future in which humanity is either killed or assimilated into machines. The woman muses that existence is defined by dread and farewell to all that once mattered. The man bluntly summarizes: in short, it sucks to be you, so the present hour is outstanding by comparison. She protests that he can't reduce all of life to schadenfreude. He replies by asking if she's familiar with his religion. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the woman's face fills the panel as she leans in and says, with a grin, 'We'll see how flippant you are in HELL.' The joke turns the man's gloating cheerfulness about others' suffering back on him with a threat of eternal punishment.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.