I remember when this strip came out. I was an undergrad at FSU and was taking a psychology course as a social science requirement. The professor introduced us one evening to a philosophy grad student who gave us this comic strip and asked us to pretend we were Opus and asked us to write in what we would ask in the 4th panel. We took turns reading our answers to the class and then let the grad student collect them. The responses were quite diverse as you can imagine: one person asked if there is life after death, another asked if there is life beyond our planet, one guy wanted to know why the castaways did not kill Gilligan (he might have been a bit baked), a fellow chemistry major asked if there is silicon based life anywhere in the cosmos and one guy asked if Oswald really killed JFK and if not, who? My sister’s roomie was in the class and asked why does evil always seem to win over good (phrased like the way Twain stated it in the Mysterious Stranger)…. As I was having a lot of issues with my then current girlfriend, I simply asked why life is like the second law of thermodynamics with everything in life, including love, skewing toward disorder (I have to admit that I did have a pitcher of beer or 3 with 2 of my classmates before class). It was a fun evening. Nice break from studying biochem, differential equations and inorganic chem. Aced the class BTW.
I remember when this strip came out. I was an undergrad at FSU and was taking a psychology course as a social science requirement. The professor introduced us one evening to a philosophy grad student who gave us this comic strip and asked us to pretend we were Opus and asked us to write in what we would ask in the 4th panel. We took turns reading our answers to the class and then let the grad student collect them. The responses were quite diverse as you can imagine: one person asked if there is life after death, another asked if there is life beyond our planet, one guy wanted to know why the castaways did not kill Gilligan (he might have been a bit baked), a fellow chemistry major asked if there is silicon based life anywhere in the cosmos and one guy asked if Oswald really killed JFK and if not, who? My sister’s roomie was in the class and asked why does evil always seem to win over good (phrased like the way Twain stated it in the Mysterious Stranger)…. As I was having a lot of issues with my then current girlfriend, I simply asked why life is like the second law of thermodynamics with everything in life, including love, skewing toward disorder (I have to admit that I did have a pitcher of beer or 3 with 2 of my classmates before class). It was a fun evening. Nice break from studying biochem, differential equations and inorganic chem. Aced the class BTW.