focus-3
Original: focus-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman, standing, addresses an unseen figure (a seated woman whose head is visible).
Woman 1: God, are you all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good?
Seated woman: Yes, but not at the same time.
Panel 2:
The seated woman lies back on a bed/couch.
Seated woman: You can go all in on being good, but then you lose focus on trying to track every vibration in space-time.
Panel 3:
Seated woman (continuing): So you focus on being all-knowing but then when you weren't looking for a sec some guy punches an old lady in the face then wins the lottery that afternoon.
Panel 4:
Seated woman (continuing): Honestly, I'm looking into crushing this universe down to an infinitely dense singularity just so I can keep track of things.
Panel 5:
The seated woman, in profile.
Seated woman: But there wouldn't be anyone alive to be good or bad.
Panel 6 (final):
A silhouetted figure leans over the reclining figure. The red SMBC votey/hover button hangs down into the frame.
Votey button text: YOU'RE GETTING IT!
Bottom caption (red text):
This is a bonus comic brought to you by early buyers of my new book, A CITY ON MARS. Click to see our new kickstarter where you can get a SIGNED copy!
smbc-comics.com
Votey:
The votey is the red SMBC hover-button embedded in the final panel of the comic, reading: "YOU'RE GETTING IT!" No separate aftercomic image was provided (the supplied votey path was an empty placeholder file).
A woman, standing, addresses an unseen figure (a seated woman whose head is visible).
Woman 1: God, are you all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good?
Seated woman: Yes, but not at the same time.
Panel 2:
The seated woman lies back on a bed/couch.
Seated woman: You can go all in on being good, but then you lose focus on trying to track every vibration in space-time.
Panel 3:
Seated woman (continuing): So you focus on being all-knowing but then when you weren't looking for a sec some guy punches an old lady in the face then wins the lottery that afternoon.
Panel 4:
Seated woman (continuing): Honestly, I'm looking into crushing this universe down to an infinitely dense singularity just so I can keep track of things.
Panel 5:
The seated woman, in profile.
Seated woman: But there wouldn't be anyone alive to be good or bad.
Panel 6 (final):
A silhouetted figure leans over the reclining figure. The red SMBC votey/hover button hangs down into the frame.
Votey button text: YOU'RE GETTING IT!
Bottom caption (red text):
This is a bonus comic brought to you by early buyers of my new book, A CITY ON MARS. Click to see our new kickstarter where you can get a SIGNED copy!
smbc-comics.com
Votey:
The votey is the red SMBC hover-button embedded in the final panel of the comic, reading: "YOU'RE GETTING IT!" No separate aftercomic image was provided (the supplied votey path was an empty placeholder file).
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A standing woman asks a seated woman, "God, are you all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good?" The seated woman (God) replies, "Yes, but not at the same time." Lying back, God explains that going all-in on being good means losing focus on tracking every vibration in space-time; focusing on being all-knowing means that the moment she looks away, "some guy punches an old lady in the face then wins the lottery that afternoon." She admits, "Honestly, I'm looking into crushing this universe down to an infinitely dense singularity just so I can keep track of things" — then concedes, "But there wouldn't be anyone alive to be good or bad." In the final panel a silhouetted figure leans over her, and the red SMBC votey button reads, "YOU'RE GETTING IT!" Red caption text below notes this is a bonus comic for early buyers of the book A City on Mars, plugging a Kickstarter for a signed copy. Joke: God's omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence are framed as a multitasking problem with no winning solution.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.