Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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Yukoner said, 9 months ago

Way to go Calvin. Build Dad’s trust!
Margueritem said, 9 months ago

I wouldn’t trust you either, Calvin
si_rat said, 9 months ago

Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man – living in the sky – who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ‘til the end of time! ..But He loves you.
written by George Carlin
wndrwrthg said, 9 months ago

Wise to your ways he is, oh grasshopper.
SaintRCat said, 9 months ago

@si_rat

Yeah, it’s funny what conclusions people can jump to when they only pay attention to 0.1% of the Bible without reading the rest. Can’t be helped that they have no attention span.
Ro said, 9 months ago

i wouldnt trust him either..wonder what it was tho..
JDG said, 9 months ago

Did this suggest a bible lesson?
LX013 said, 9 months ago

Grasshopper, maybug, cockroach or worm.
Cameron1958 said, 9 months ago

maybug’s have more resistance to radiation than cockroaches but look at dad’s face in the last panel!
Doctor Toon said, 9 months ago

si_rat - You’re a day late. The religious discussion was yesterday.
However, Dad doesn’t seem to have much ‘faith’ in Calvin to give him a nice surprise, does he?
Carmy said, 9 months ago

Oh Calvin, you are adorable, but I’m glad I’ve got girls and no boys. My girls are terrified of creepy crawly things. The down side to that is that they make me catch (or kill) the intruders. I once put playtex gloves on to grab a lizard. It was still really nasty.
Calvinator said, 9 months ago

I’m goign to try that on a few folks in the office today… “Open your mouth and close your eyes, and I’ll give you a big surprise!”
DesultoryPhillipic said, 9 months ago

Even money George Carlin changed his mind on the last day of his life. Most sane people do.
LX013 said, 9 months ago

Dad looks a little bit sad in the last picture. He had not expect, his son would do such a joke to him!
Cornelius16 said, 9 months ago

the sad thing with surprises is that, sometime we end up surprising ourselves instead of others.
Stuart Gathman said, 9 months ago

si_rat, at least understand the claims you wish to ridicule. The 10 commandments you refer to were part of a contract between God and Israel. If they kept them (and all the other laws), they would have material prosperity, freedom from disease, and victory over enemies. If they failed to keep them, they would have famine, plague, and subjugation to the surrounding nations. Nothing about hell fire. (and of course, you can guess the outcome given human nature in general.)

For hell-fire, you need to move to the new Testament where Jesus explains that the Law was an introduction to righteousness for beginners. “The law says ‘do not murder’, but I say if you hate your brother, you have committed murder in your heart. The law says ‘do not commit adultery’, but I say if a man looks upon a woman to lust after her, he has committed adultery in his heart.”

Lack of true righteousness is what leads to the misery and despair of “the trash heap out back”. “Except your righteousness exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”
BRPPTZ said, 9 months ago

Uh oh. Sounds like George may have missed the part about the free trip to Heaven even when you don’t deserve it.
Cornelius16 said, 9 months ago

the sad thing with surprises is that, sometime we end up surprising ourselves instead of others.
Coldfusion said, 9 months ago

Lol…trust is not the word dad is looking for…talk about taking risk….lol
BirishB said, 9 months ago

“Don’t you trust your own kid?”

No, Calvin. I do not. You have given no reason to “trust” you.
EMandEM said, 9 months ago

Daddy knows better!….so to ‘peek’ :D
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Wildmustang1262 said, 9 months ago

An invisible flea got away from Calvin.
plus4 said, 9 months ago

Excellent response, Stuart.

It seems that people resort to ridicule when other avenues of criticizing something (such as using facts & sound logic) don’t work. A witty person can describe just about any viewpoint in such a way as to make it sound ridiculous, but their ability to do so proves nothing about that viewpoint.
JonD17 said, 9 months ago

“what’s the matter? Don’t you trust your own kid?” Pretty well says it all Calvin. Dad doesn’t have to close his eyes, in pane 3 they are rolled back to his brain! LOL
si_rat said, 9 months ago

Stuart Gathman says:…

Stuart I am not going ridicule “thou shall not murder” etc. You seems to miss the point.

How come the invisible man “watches everything you do, every minute of every day” fails to stop that !

Still are you justifying “burning and torture” to murder let alone adultery ?
JonD17 said, 9 months ago

Oh Man, is this page going to turn into a B.A.C. battlefield now?
si_rat said, 9 months ago

doctortoon says:
si_rat - You’re a day late. The religious discussion was yesterday.
However, Dad doesn’t seem to have much ‘faith’ in Calvin to give him a nice surprise, does he?

yes doc, I was quite late yesterday.
AndiJ said, 9 months ago

I think Calvin had a frog. I don’t know why I thought that, but it was the first thing in my mind! LOL. Dad almost ate something! Good thing it got away! ;)
geo111 said, 9 months ago

I wish that the Secularists and the Religionists would just shut up.

Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip; why not enjoy it and keep your beliefs to yourselves. There are plenty of other public forums where your arguments would be welcomed.
topaz17 said, 9 months ago

there are some way deep discussions on this page. what the heck happend to good ol calvin and hobbes… and Staurt Gathman dude… woah… just wow. Isnt there another place to discuss all this????
Carmy said, 9 months ago

Calvin’s hands are small so maybe it was a baby frog. I recently saw one in my garage. They are really quick and they jump far. You lucked out Dad!
Coffee-Turtle said, 9 months ago

can’t be any worse than cafeteria food. :-)
Penguin1021 said, 9 months ago

COCKROACH!!!!
grazer said, 9 months ago

I bet it was a tiny toad.
Good thing dad didn’t fall for it or he would have a mouthful of warts, heh.
PaulAtreides said, 9 months ago

why does si-rat read calvin and hobbes just to slam God? its a COMIC STRIP! God isn’t an angry old guy waiting to smite us. murder isn’t wrong because the commandments say so, but they say so because it is wrong. God doesn’t tempt us to break his commandments so we can burn. we weren’t even created with a desire to sin. God sent Christ to the cross becuase his standard for getting into heaven is perfection, which none of us have. That is what christianity is. look up the ‘romans road’ you’ll see what I mean.
TumblingDragonRider said, 9 months ago

Calvin is so micheaveus I love him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
Elwoodman said, 9 months ago

The truly sad thing about all the religious / non religious folks out there is that they all use their so-called ‘beliefs’ as an excuse for their behaviours and blame others beliefs for all their life’s shortfalls. The only entity responsible for what happens in your life is YOU. YOU make good things happen, not some almighty irreverent being. YOU make bad things happen, not some random Omnipotent entity. I find it impossible to comprehend that in this day’s society there are so many people with such weak minds. Your ancestors must have been the ones who believed the sky would fall, the earth was flat and that persecution in the name of religion was justifiable. There is no difference between one fanatic crying “oh Allah” and another crying “lord Jesus”. You’re all gullible fools without the ability to make your own conclusions. Now if you could all please just go away and let the rest of us enjoy the comix in peace it would be much appreciated.
Macushlalondra said, 9 months ago

I see nothing in today’s strip that should have started another argument about matters of faith. But since it was brought up I will say I agree with Stuart Gathman and leave it at that.
PaulAtreides said, 9 months ago

Thank you, Macushlalondra. and Elwoodman, Jesus is not Muhammad. Muhammad was a killer who taught people to convert and kill those who won’t. Jesus never killed anyone but was crucified for teaching the way to heaven, forgiving the people who killed him. Islam is a religion like every other beleif out there saying work to get to heaven.
SamFP said, 9 months ago

Do we need to get a church in here!I think Calvin would say “Tortellini’!
wndrwrthg said, 9 months ago

Man created god in his own image.
nyer73 said, 9 months ago

dad must’ve sat on the mini-toad!! the reaction on his face says so!.. :)
jefzzz said, 9 months ago

God does not persecute in the name of religion, man does. God set man free, free to do all the good things and the bad things, it’s really up to us.
marvee said, 9 months ago

Never mind where I”ll spend eternity - where is Brenda Starr today?
attyush said, 9 months ago

A question for all of you. Which place would you like to go after death (assuming ofcourse that heaven and hell exist)?

Methinks hell would be fun. Imagine sneaking out for a day from hell (past those guards and dogs) and having a great time at heaven. The next day you would get double the fire, but well, you would still be the hero in hell. You will have fun stories to tell. Heaven seems a tad boring that way.
howlindawgs said, 9 months ago

How did ‘Open your mouth and close your eyes, and you will get a big surprise’ turn into a religious discussion???
Anyway since it’s happening already, in answer to attyush, I’d want to go wherever the dogs go when they go to the Big Kennel In The Sky. The afterlife would be miserable without dogs!! Assuming one believes in the afterlife as opposted to, say, reincarnation.
d0e8r said, 9 months ago

@ Si_rat: The idea of a God who tortures people in hell fire for eternity but who is supposedly a God of love is repulsive and disgusting. That’s why I don’t believe it. Hell will not last forever, rather the unholy will be burned as brush is burned, and be gone (see Matt. 3:7-10, 13:24-30. My God IS a god of love, not a bleeep. And the fire that will occur is not “punishment”, death is the natural result of separation from God. Also, a person who follows the “set of ten rules” is not guaranteed to get into heaven. The commandments are designed to make us the healthiest, happiest people we can be, but they are not what counts. What counts is having a personal relationship with Christ, and perhaps obedience to the commandments will follow.

@ Stuart Gathman: I believe your view of God is somewhat distorted. You make him out to be not only a bleeep, but a megalomaniac as well.

@doctortoon, correct, but no matter how out of context, a good debate SHOULD BE FOLLOWED UP.
Mowgli-Chiara said, 9 months ago

I know heavens has everything I like and love, my wife, my dogs, comics, and AW root beer floats sunrises, sunsets, etc :-p
d0e8r said, 9 months ago

back to Calvin, I wonder what “it” was? a fly? a bee? (I know, you say he’d get stung, but small children like Calvin often have a strange ability not to. My little brother routinely handles hornets without harm. Freaks me out), or something worse?