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Original: series on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
GOD (voice from above): Dear God! May I ask a few unhappy questions now?
MAN: Like... what do you mean "right now"?
Panel 2:
GOD: Like, what's our current moment?
MAN: Wait, wait. You're living in eight dimensions, knowing every secret, yet in parallel...?
Panel 3:
GOD: Holy shit. So you're just there, being 2D and single with a job you hate, and you have no simultaneous experience of a future with more respect or pay? And this may ask you... ?
MAN: Uh...
Panel 4:
GOD: Wait, wait, you're going to have single years, many years, old man years, with no simultaneous experience of those years, where you may ask each other things out a little.
Panel 5:
GOD: You're going to do all of this in a 1D-passing way, consecutively?
Panel 6:
GOD: In retrospect it was a mistake to pray for everyday to an all-powerful, immortal.
Votey:
GOD (in a speech bubble, with a small figure below): Man, you guys' prayers are just comedy gold!
GOD (voice from above): Dear God! May I ask a few unhappy questions now?
MAN: Like... what do you mean "right now"?
Panel 2:
GOD: Like, what's our current moment?
MAN: Wait, wait. You're living in eight dimensions, knowing every secret, yet in parallel...?
Panel 3:
GOD: Holy shit. So you're just there, being 2D and single with a job you hate, and you have no simultaneous experience of a future with more respect or pay? And this may ask you... ?
MAN: Uh...
Panel 4:
GOD: Wait, wait, you're going to have single years, many years, old man years, with no simultaneous experience of those years, where you may ask each other things out a little.
Panel 5:
GOD: You're going to do all of this in a 1D-passing way, consecutively?
Panel 6:
GOD: In retrospect it was a mistake to pray for everyday to an all-powerful, immortal.
Votey:
GOD (in a speech bubble, with a small figure below): Man, you guys' prayers are just comedy gold!
Alt text
A six-panel black-and-white comic. A man sits at a table talking upward to God, who is an unseen voice from above. The man asks God an unhappy question and asks what "right now" means to God. God, baffled, slowly realizes that the man experiences life consecutively, one dimension and one moment at a time: being single, stuck in a job he hates, with no simultaneous awareness of his future. While God exists across many dimensions knowing every secret, the man must live through his years one after another, in a linear, 1D-passing way. In the final panel God concludes that, in retrospect, it was a mistake to pray for an everyday human to an all-powerful, immortal being. Votey aftercomic: a single panel showing a tiny figure at the bottom with a large speech bubble above reading "MAN, YOU GUYS' PRAYERS ARE JUST COMEDY GOLD!" — God finding mortal prayers hilarious.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.