emotion-3

An eight-panel SMBC comic. A dark-haired woman prays to God, whose replies appear in yellow speech bubbles. She asks, "God, are you happy?" God answers, "Human, are you stupid? This is just math. Is happiness objective or relative to expectations?" She says "Relative." God reasons that since happiness depends on expectations, which require guessing the future, and since God is all-knowing, there are no surprises and thus "No happiness, no sadness." The woman concludes, "The universe is run by an emotionless being." God objects: "Nah. I can feel all the emotions that are independent of futurecasting. Disgust, anger, fear..." The woman, unsettled, says "Okay, no more prayer. Prayer done," while God keeps listing: "Lust, self-pity, urge to drown..." In the votey, God continues the list: "Urge to burn, urge to plague, urge to... is there a word for summoning up locusts?" The woman replies flatly, "We just say plague." The joke: God's only feelings are the destructive, Old-Testament wrathful ones.