The Duplex by Glenn McCoy
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About The Duplex
Once upon a time there was a duplex where a young bachelor named Eno and his dog, Fang, shared an ultra-macho haven of beer snacks and male-bonding. Suddenly, their lives turned co-ed when Gina and her poodle, Mitzi, moved into the other half of their building... the question is, who will come out on top in Glenn McCoy’s, The Duplex?
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prasrinivara said, 5 months ago
The simple answer: so long as schools hold exams, there will be prayers (ok, lotsa them presumptuously hoping to pass without studying, but….).
Doctor Toon
said,
5 months ago
Separation of Church and State is good for both Religion and Government.
james.wolff said, 5 months ago
to truly separate church and state wouldn’t you have to rewrite most of the documents written by those who fought and died for our freedom? I mean heck if you feel that strongly about you might want to burn all your money.
bald 716 said, 5 months ago
but eno, you can always sleep through the math test
Bennn said, 5 months ago
Here’s a thought: Science test in church. What better way to separate superstition and governance, and avoid inquisitions.
pierreandnicole said, 5 months ago
amen
comicgos said, 5 months ago
For all the guilt religion loads on otherwise - a math test would be easy!
Rmom said, 5 months ago
What happened to the color?
Rmom said, 5 months ago
“Separation of Church and State” is not found anywhere in the U.S. Constitution. I believe the founding fathers did not want a state-run church like the Church of England, because they wanted everyone to be able to worship according to their own beliefs. That said, they did not want to remove Christianity from goverment, on the contrary, there are many documents/events where they insisted it be included.
D-i-c-e-R said, 5 months ago
Today’s Sermon: Calculating Your 10% Tithe
Eno, “Will this be on the Final Exam?”
SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago
*MATH TESTS BELONG IN CHURCH * :
How do you get three days and three nights from Friday afternoon until Sunday before dawn?
YOU DON”T!!! ( ’ Babylon ’ lied.)
”Ephraim has encompassed me witth lies “(Hosea 11:12)
“Our ancestors have inherited lies, worthless and profitable gods’..” Jeremiah 16:19
Illusionzone said, 5 months ago
Isn’t it that He would rise on the “third day?” You start to count with “one” not “zero.” (Otherwise, we’d count our toes zero through nine instead of one through ten.) So – Friday was the first day, Saturday the second day, Sunday the third day.
Simple.
SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago
@ D-i-c-e-R : Nice.
The tithe doesn’t even get introduced unless they have agreed to the original 10 rules of kindergarten written on stone. . So wait till they find out the tithe has been wasted! (final exam hint )
If that doesn’t cause wailing and gnashing of teeth, what will?
The good news for these two is that they are looking at the stars, which are put there to establish signs and seasons of the Biblical feasts and fulfillment of prophesy.
‘And when ye shall see all these things come to pass, looketh up - your redemption draweth nigh.’
Then, no more tests. You either will have gotten a pass or fail.
You are now free to pray up on a roof….
grazer said, 5 months ago
I’m a free man….I pray everywhere but in a church.
MILDOG172
said,
5 months ago
HAPPY SOLSTICE!!!!!!!
SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago
Illusionzone - your name fits you.
And the three nights???
Friday, Saturday, oops……… Doesn’t work.
Try using the preparation day for the Passover sabbath instead of the prep for the regular seventh day sabbath for the day of death. (John’s gospel mentions that he had to be taken off the cross before the High sabbath day which is not saturday but the first day of Passover) Then it works,, if you allow a resurrection on the seventh day sabbatharound sunset. After all , he was gone already when they looked ‘as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week’ - was he not?
(Now we have to fight all that religious dogma we’ve been fed.)
Now you have: Wed . pm, Thurs. pm, Fri. pm plus ThursDAY, FriDAY, SaturDAY! Three full days, three full nights. And if he rose on Saturday around sunset, it even was the third day. Imagine that!
Voila. Simple truth with facts faces the easter bunny.
Theory of relativity just fell off the charts. So if it didn’t happen the way I described, he didn’t fulfil Matthew 12:39-40, which would make him a false prophet, which I don’t believe he was. Of course I have found myself to be wrong many times before. I think religion and governments changed the truth for profit.
(Be careful on the ‘simple’ thing. Proverbs chapter 7warns about going into a house where the evil woman calls in the simple and ‘a young man void of understanding’. )
HelmetHead said, 5 months ago
And all those names of days commemorate pagan deities…
“Watch where you step at the Pearly Gates.”
prasrinivara said, 5 months ago
EMET, you first consider “3 days & 3 nights” as idiom for “3 calendar-days”, but use Jewish rather than conventional (as of now) calendar-days. After that quite simple.
Ergo, 3 days and 3 nights.
SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago
True Helmethead- I’ll Edit now. THanks. At least partially because I appreciate your point. Our society is inundated with the names of pagan dieties.
Which verifies Hosea 11:12 and Jeremiah 16:19.
And who said “watch where you step…”?
SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago
Calgary Pras -
Interesting. But being arrested and in custody is not the same as being ‘in the earth’. (But I will do a sage check on that one)
Your version doesn’t align with the notation in John 19:31 (KJV has the notation; some others also). The high day was only the first and last day of the feast of unleavened bread. Why would it be out of sync for the Messiah to be slaughtered wth all the other passover lambs on the prepartion day before Passover week? It would show that he was Israel’s passover blood. And he would have still been up and about on Firstfruits. If the man we are speaking of did not fulfill the feast days of Bible, then he cannot be their Messiah. He must also fulfill the remaining unfulfilled Biblical feast days to the tee or he his not Messiah. Christianity has removed the very knowledge we need to hold ‘Jesus’ to the test, or see if in fact the Jews have been right all along in their rejection of the ‘Christian Jesus’. And guaranteed- he will reveal Himself to Israel and Judah before He comes back at the last trump.
So, is the Jesus preached dying on Friday to and risen by Sunday AM before dawn the same as Messiah? Very good question for the Jews and even the Arab nations; all this teaching does is match up with the pagan fertility goddes feast day of Easter every year, without regard of the fact that the resurrection has to coincide with the feast of Firstfruits, which is often different than ‘easter’. Bad connection if you believe in the one true God of Abraham, Moses, and spiritual Israel.
Why would Constantine,the perfector of mixing church and state to appease the masses, outlaw everything Hebrew? He took away the light that was given in Torah and the biblical feasts days, and if you read his edict carefully, even the Psalms would have been prohibited.
The Babylonian/Constantine ‘Jesus’ has covered the fact that Yeshua is the Messiah of Israel, which includes Jews (the tribe of Judah) as only one of twelve tribes. The rest of Israel has been scattered throughout the world for ages, but is now being regathered spiritually if not bodily. ‘Smite the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered’.
bald 716 said, 5 months ago
enough of these religious rants , it is a cartoon for crying out loud, read it and enjoy it
SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago
They are valid discussions brought about by a thought provoking comic strip .Maybe you should consider thinking beyond today.
NoBrandName said, 5 months ago
I weep for the future.
mrprongs said, 5 months ago
Prayer in school is fine, as long as every religion represented by a student teacher of faculty member is given equal time. And those that don’t care are free to busy themselves in other ways. Of course, then classes will have to be shortened to accommodate, thus proving religion destroys education. Education is the whole point of school. Thus, separation of church and state is required, and why we have to eliminate prayers in school. Too keep religion from making us stupid.
HelmetHead said, 5 months ago
EMET, my avatar is Danai from “Non Sequitur.” One of those Sunday strips that’s still hanging from my bulletin board parodies the creation story, but the Creator is a horse. “Watch where you step at the pearly gates” is the punchline. (Helmet Head is what the horse calls Danai, btw. I own a horse, and never ride without a helmet.)
Jamescmeyer said, 5 months ago
When a math exam in an inappropriate setting is in any way remotely similiar to communication with one’s Heavenly Father, regardless of where it is, there might have a bit of grounding for this argument.
SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago
Thanks helmethead -
but now i don’t know what an avatar is.
I thought your name had something to do with the ‘helmet of salvation’ .
Which it could be if you are thrown off your horse.
HelmetHead said, 5 months ago
EMET, you have an avatar. It’s the little picture to the left of your post.