self-3
Original: self-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (praying, kneeling): God, when I die does my self disappear?
Panel 2:
God (a glowing orb): Of course not!
Panel 3:
God: That's like saying the idea of a chair goes away just because you sat on one and it broke.
Panel 4:
God: "Dave" is just a specific set of relationships between fields embedded in spacetime. As a notion, it existed prior to reality itself and will remain eternal, the same as the idea of circles or the quantity 2.
Panel 5:
Dave (looking unconvinced): So "I" will persist, but in a way that is utterly unsatisfactory to the actual living me consigned to a ball of meat that suffers?
Panel 6:
God (depicted as a bolt of lightning): You want lightning up your ass, Dave? You're asking for ass-lightning.
Votey:
Dave (smiling slyly): I didn't know that was an option!
Man (praying, kneeling): God, when I die does my self disappear?
Panel 2:
God (a glowing orb): Of course not!
Panel 3:
God: That's like saying the idea of a chair goes away just because you sat on one and it broke.
Panel 4:
God: "Dave" is just a specific set of relationships between fields embedded in spacetime. As a notion, it existed prior to reality itself and will remain eternal, the same as the idea of circles or the quantity 2.
Panel 5:
Dave (looking unconvinced): So "I" will persist, but in a way that is utterly unsatisfactory to the actual living me consigned to a ball of meat that suffers?
Panel 6:
God (depicted as a bolt of lightning): You want lightning up your ass, Dave? You're asking for ass-lightning.
Votey:
Dave (smiling slyly): I didn't know that was an option!
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A balding man kneels in prayer and asks God, "God, when I die does my self disappear?" God, shown as a glowing orb, replies, "Of course not!" God continues: "That's like saying the idea of a chair goes away just because you sat on one and it broke." Then: "'Dave' is just a specific set of relationships between fields embedded in spacetime. As a notion, it existed prior to reality itself and will remain eternal, the same as the idea of circles or the quantity 2." The man, named Dave, looks unimpressed and says, "So 'I' will persist, but in a way that is utterly unsatisfactory to the actual living me consigned to a ball of meat that suffers?" In the final panel God appears as a jagged bolt of lightning and snaps, "You want lightning up your ass, Dave? You're asking for ass-lightning." Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of Dave's face, now grinning slyly, saying, "I didn't know that was an option!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.