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   Sisyphos said, 8 months ago

   Sentient rocks rock! But Boody is so innocently skipping stones! In quantum fieri potest!
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   NebulousRikulau said, 8 months ago

   The problem is that the Strong Draconic Principle overrules the Weak Lithotic Principle.
   
   The strength of the Anthropic Principle is still undetermined.
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   Stephen Gilberg said, 8 months ago

   And I thought “Spot the Frog” had an excess of empathy.
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   ArthurAllen said, 8 months ago

   I was going to argue with that rock, but I decided to skip it.
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   capndunzzl said, 8 months ago

   …loves me like a rock.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago

   Boody doing some scooning with stones. A kinetic litho-symphony on a liquid medium. How delightful!
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   jason thompson said, 8 months ago

   All that scientific talk is a lil’ rocky to me=)
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   Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם) said, 8 months ago

   Apropos to this comic strip, if quantum mechanics were theistic rather than humanistic in its referents, it would make perfect sense.
   
   As it is, paradoxes arise if one takes a man-centered POV on the subject. I can never remember the limerick that expressed one such paradox, alas, but I can remember clearly somebody’s answer to it (the paradox involving whether an object exists if no human is watching it):
   
   Dear Sir, Your astonishment’s odd;
   I am always about in the Quad;
   And that’s why this tree
   Will continue to be,
   Since observed by Yours Faithfully, GOD!
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   Jo Jo said, 8 months ago

   Cool that they can stil communicate. Distance doesn’t seem to be very limiting to rock talk.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago

    @Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם)

    Well since God(s) are imaginary they can have quantity x and violate physics any time it wants too as dreams do. Keep that imagination running! Just don’t confuse it with reality.
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    prrdh said, 7 months ago

    @Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם)

    The original was:

    There was a young man who said “God,
    must find it exceedingly odd
    when he finds that the tree
    continues to be
    when no one’s about in the Quad”.

    See http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/ for a more complete discussion.

    Your raising the question of the relevance of Berkeley’s philosophy to an understanding of today’s strip makes me wonder if one of the rocks served as the instrument of Dr. Johnson’s famous ‘refutation’ of that philosophy ;-)
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    prrdh said, 7 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    There is, of course, the possibility that God is imaginary in the sense that the square root of minus one is imaginary.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 7 months ago

    @prrdh

    The question is can the Universe (s) exist without either?
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