Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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  1. cleokaya

    cleokayaGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    Why the heck are we here?

  2. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    So that C & H can have this debate.

  3. txmystic

    txmysticGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    @cleo: We are here to read Calvin and Hobbes…and other stuff, maybe…

  4. cleokaya

    cleokayaGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    Calvin was put on this earth to create mischief and as a punishment to his parents. Hobbes was put on this earth to aid and abet.

  5. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 6 months ago

    To the above post: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

  6. wolfbyte36

    wolfbyte36 said, 6 months ago

    I’m back! Sorry I Missed you all I was down for the count due to a painful migraine. Calvin in time you will hopefully find your answer until then just do what you do best.

  7. Ivy0730

    Ivy0730 said, 6 months ago

    “Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Why am here?…..” LOLz

  8. LX013

    LX013 said, 6 months ago

    to live a life whitch pleases God and to read Calvin and Hobbes!

  9. wndrwrthg

    wndrwrthgGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    I’m only here for the beer.

  10. ScatteringBliss

    ScatteringBliss said, 6 months ago

    I heard they do a nice fish and chips here, that’s why I came.

  11. Leonardeuler

    Leonardeuler said, 6 months ago

    As Lucy Van Pelt once said: “The answers about life can be found in the stars”.

  12. TapiocaHead

    TapiocaHeadGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    As I told my mate: ‘We are here to eat tortellini and peanut butter sandwiches’

  13. ninmas

    ninmas said, 6 months ago

    i was put here to do absolutly nothing.

  14. Ray C

    Ray CGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    Nothing healthier than a tortellini and peanut butter sandwich. If Elvis had stuck to that, he’d be alive today.

  15. LX013

    LX013 said, 6 months ago

    Simply happy to live and love it!

  16. Ldywldkat

    Ldywldkat said, 6 months ago

    I’m here for the atmosphere…

    Remember that old line?

  17. Richard

    Richard said, 6 months ago

    We are here to eat a lot, drink a lot and not think about nuthin.

  18. txmystic

    txmysticGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    Leonardeuler says:

    As Lucy Van Pelt once said: “The answers about life can be found in the stars”.

    …and when she found the answers weren’t revealing themselves to her taste, she said…”Stupid Stars!”, yuk yuk yuk

  19. cloudcat625

    cloudcat625 said, 6 months ago

    The good ol’ “what is the meaning of life”. I think there are many different answers, depending on the person. One person may think they were put on Earth to serve God or some other religious reason, another would think its to live a day a time and appreciate life. I tend to lean towards the second one. Is Hobbes doing that on purpose?

  20. Spicyjame

    Spicyjame said, 6 months ago

    well, ask a stupid question ecieve a stupid answer!

  21. YukiTyler

    YukiTyler said, 6 months ago

    Hobbes tells it like it is.

  22. bald 716

    bald 716 said, 6 months ago

    calvin and hobbs are here for us to read the comments about the story line

  23. Calvinator

    Calvinator said, 6 months ago

    Ahhh - the budding existentialist philosopher - Calvin.

  24. bleepingdeadalien

    bleepingdeadalien said, 6 months ago

    Ahh yes…Calvin the Existentialist! And Hobbes the Pragmatist!

  25. Radical-Knight

    Radical-KnightGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    To annoy each others and therefore provide comic relief. Works for me.

  26. Richard

    Richard said, 6 months ago

    Hobbes looks terribly cross in panel four.

  27. bmonk

    bmonkGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    Once I had a serious thought…

    So I lay down in a dark room until it went away.

  28. Wildmustang1262

    Wildmustang1262 said, 6 months ago

    Quit beating the bushes and get the right answer after Calvin asks the right question.

  29. ♠Lonewolf♠

    ♠Lonewolf♠Genius_badge said, 6 months ago

    wndrwrthg: I second that! Third it also. Haha!

  30. Zippy007

    Zippy007 said, 6 months ago

    Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

    So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

    God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

    Genesis 1:26-28

  31. TheInquisitor

    TheInquisitor said, 6 months ago

    A why question is a question about intention. It presupposes that an intentional agent must exist. This assumption is unfounded. It’s a bias of our minds because we do things with intentionality. This is the origin of the illusion of a god. For the universe must be like us musn’t it? Such arrogance.

  32. grazer

    grazer said, 6 months ago

    I figure we were put here just to figure out why we were put here.
    I see it’s working.

  33. plus4

    plus4 said, 6 months ago

    Inquisitor - You may want to take a look at the things you yourself are arrogantly presupposing.

  34. Northwoodser

    Northwoodser said, 6 months ago

    Only when we’re here, can we question it.

  35. Shikamoo

    ShikamooGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    Theinquisitor: I’d rather believe that God created the universe than a human. Which is what you are saying. God isn’t like us- we are like God, which presupposes humility for us to accept that.

  36. Shikamoo

    ShikamooGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    Panel four: “Forget it.” “Forget what?”

  37. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 6 months ago

    Oh Calvin, its because the earth has to help the woman. if you are on earth it means you are humble and your head isn’t up in the clouds somewhere floating ‘full of leaven’. Hobbes is right though - where they are actually took walking to a destination, not being born into it.

  38. teaguemj

    teaguemj said, 6 months ago

    “From out my window I see the night,
    And all the stars in their spendoring light,
    Why are we here, Why do we exist, and Who is this in my head talking”?

  39. mrprongs

    mrprongs said, 6 months ago

    I’m here because I took a right turn at Alberquerque

  40. jcfuston3

    jcfuston3 said, 6 months ago

    should’a taken a left!

  41. yyyguy

    yyyguyGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    are you sure you’re not in a bull ring in Spain? or perhaps Ali Baba’s secret cavern? (Hassan CHOP!)

  42. TheInquisitor

    TheInquisitor said, 6 months ago

    “Inquisitor - You may want to take a look at the things you yourself are arrogantly presupposing.”

    Which is what? That human beings are arrogant, biased and self-centered? We used to think the Earth was the centre of the universe until the evidence was forced down our throats. I think I’m justified in that assumption.

    “Theinquisitor: I’d rather believe that God created the universe than a human. Which is what you are saying. God isn’t like us- we are like God, which presupposes humility for us to accept that.”

    Is that what I’m saying? I’m saying that maybe the universe wasn’t created by an intentional agent like a human and you interpret that as me saying that a human made it. Yeah great reading comprehension.

    And saying we are like god isn’t humble in the least. It doesn’t matter which way you order it.

  43. Shikamoo

    ShikamooGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    EMET: What do you mean “earth is here to help the woman?”
    God created us in his own image, male AND female he created us. Let’s all share in some humility in accepting that.

  44. Shikamoo

    ShikamooGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    Inquistiter: Humility is accepting that God created us in his own image. That tells us something about our worth as human beings. Otherwise, we are all just an accidental byproduct of a random big bang or whatever.

    Peace brother.

  45. DadyaDavey

    DadyaDavey said, 6 months ago

    Back near the beginning of 2000 AD I asked God why He made us. He said the most astounding thing! “Because I was bored!”

  46. TheInquisitor

    TheInquisitor said, 6 months ago

    Shikamoo, I don’t mean to be intransigent, but I really don’t get that. How does thinking that we are a special creation of a superbeing more humble than thinking we are just the result of mindless natural processes?

    The former implies that we are much more important in the grand scheme of things than the latter. Just look at the size of the universe and how much of it doesn’t have anything to do with us. Do you really think the billions of galaxies are less important than this tiny rock?

  47. caucel

    caucelGenius_badge said, 6 months ago

    A light between two eternities.

  48. JaneDoe40

    JaneDoe40Genius_badge said, 5 months ago

    I’m here for the chocolate.