meaning-6
Original: meaning-6 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
God (voice from above): How do I live a life of meaning?
God (offering a choice in a box): Become a serial killer
Woman (seated at a table): Seems like a no-no?
Panel 2:
God: You didn't ask for a life of virtue or goodness or service. You asked for MEANING. Well, the Zodiac Killer woke up each morning with a zest to murder people so they could serve him in the afterlife.
Panel 3:
Woman: Isn't are you going to give me meaning or virtue?
God (offering a box): Read your Bible
Votey:
Woman: It's not unethical because later you'll be punished in hell, so it balances out.
(A man rests his head on his hand, looking unimpressed.)
God (voice from above): How do I live a life of meaning?
God (offering a choice in a box): Become a serial killer
Woman (seated at a table): Seems like a no-no?
Panel 2:
God: You didn't ask for a life of virtue or goodness or service. You asked for MEANING. Well, the Zodiac Killer woke up each morning with a zest to murder people so they could serve him in the afterlife.
Panel 3:
Woman: Isn't are you going to give me meaning or virtue?
God (offering a box): Read your Bible
Votey:
Woman: It's not unethical because later you'll be punished in hell, so it balances out.
(A man rests his head on his hand, looking unimpressed.)
Alt text
A four-panel black-and-white comic. A woman sits at a table conversing with God, whose dialogue comes from offscreen along with floating choice-boxes. She asks, 'How do I live a life of meaning?' God offers the box 'Become a serial killer.' She replies, 'Seems like a no-no?' God argues that she asked for MEANING, not virtue or goodness or service, and points out that the Zodiac Killer woke each morning with a zest to murder people so they could serve him in the afterlife. The woman asks whether God will give her meaning or virtue, and God simply offers the box 'Read your Bible.' Votey (bonus panel): The woman declares, 'It's not unethical because later you'll be punished in hell, so it balances out,' while a man rests his head on his hand looking unimpressed.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.