Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 21, 2010

LOL!

GM earlybird specials

Calvin, LOV IT MADE MY SAT> of course Hobbs isn’t there to see it

**Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

How’s the face marg? Makes a bleeep poor airbag, huh?

Marg is back again! Hallo! I don’t understand anything about cricket!

HaHaHa poor calvin…

The face is hurting, Mike. Time for a pain pill.

Yay!   Oooops, oh no!

Sometimes, you just can’t win…

Hmm.. get better at that, and you might just be able to scratch a little profit on the streets, lol.

Hi, marg! Welcome back!

A Pyrrhic victory.

As an only child I can so relate to this.

I wonder what solitaire dodgeball would look like?

Maybe you should have tried to hit it a little farther, Calvin.

Good to see you back at the top of the comments, Marg!

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

I quoted the following verse yesterday to show how Calvin in panel 3 “comes up short” in comparison with God. “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him…” II Chronicles 16:9a khpage brought up a verse in a different context below: Puddleglum - “since all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” perhaps God is looking for someone other than any of us… If I didn’t know better, I might think that you were trying to trip me up, but I think you are either just being facetious or are looking for a real resolution to an apparent contradiction. In my quoted verse, the key word is “perfect”. In this context (verses 1-10), It means upright and sincere, but in a general sense and at this particular time. King Asa came up short. In the verse you quoted, it indicates the state or condition of all humans compared to God. None of us is “perfect” because we are all sinners. I endeavored to be as “brief and pithy” as possible. I’m open to further discussion if my response is insufficient.

“…but there was no joy in Mudville…Mighty Calvin had struck out…” Paraphrasing, of course, but I can see Hobbes hanging his head low, and Calvin slinking back to the dugout. sadness

Page 352, paragraph 4 of the Calvinball handbook, clearly shows that this is a home run as revised 15 seconds ago. PLAY BALL!

The price of success…

My cousin Anthony is “out” too

I will flag two things, spam and religion. Both are trying to sell me something I don’t want in my morning comics.

I didn’t see a sales pitch on religion, nuglath, just a discussion, just part of the normal give and take we see here every day.

I always flag aardvarks.

It seems to be working.

I just saw a photo taken by a space telescope of the milky way. in my latest issue of Astronomy. Somehow, someway, someone had identified a small (very small) yellow dot. Insignificant in comparison to the remaining part of the photo. Which, incidentally, was only several arc degrees in area, which tells how large the Milky Way really is. This yellow dot was our solar system! Not just earth,mind you,but our entire solar system! How insignificant we truly are! Surely, we exist not because of any divine intervention but purely as a freak of nature! That’s right Puddleglum2, a freak of nature! Striving to be perfect to appease a divine creator is rather fruitless since he(she or it) never existed in the first place.

Welcome back Marg. Hope your injuries heal quickly.

twypsi: Do you remember the Russian Cosmonaut, who was asked if he saw God when he was in orbit? He said he saw nothing, there was no God. After John Glen made his first flight, he was asked the same thing, his answer; “I saw God everywhere I looked.” You may look at our position in the Milky Way and see our existance as a freak of nature, but others will look at it and see it as proof of divine intervention.

Welcome back Marg!!

It’s hard to celebrate self-defeat.

And that goes for religious pettifoggers too.

Act first - think later.

I am new here to commenting but I LOVE to read the Calvin/Hobbes everyday and some of the comments. As much as I endorse my religion (Mormon), there is a time and place for everything. I do NOT believe this forumn should start religion debates or spam ads. It taints the fun of the comic with touchy issues that do not apply.

well said jolynn

I think this shows Calvin’s motivation, not only as a batter,but also as a fielder, in-spite of “outing” himself.

I agree, Jolynn, 1000%!

Hi Marg! Welcome back!

Gm, Marg, Mike, Grog & Fran!

my life in a nutshell

Calvin must have hit it straight up ,still hard to catch. The look on his face when he figures out hes out is priceless . If you can see a religious meaning in this you and your religion cant understand the book your reading from.

@jolynn191978,

It’s not a debate until the detractors start. It’s a discussion. I am trying to ignore the detractors, but it is sometimes too hard.

@Puddleglum2,

You probably know this already, but ‘perfect’ in many places means ‘mature’, as opposed to ‘without flaw’. Which confuses a lot people in verses like Matt. 5:48 and Phil. 3:15.

I had rather take the chance of believing and being wrong than not believing and being wrong.

god, such lengthy discussions! the final punch line was just awesome. no other word. period.

dahawk: I agree with you there! I choose to be a believer because the consequences of being a non-believer (if everything I was ever taught as a child are anywhere near true) are pretty frightening indeed!

spammerflaggen!

Only if you believe them.

Save it for Sunday “B.C.“‘s.

The bird55==

Except there are plenty of places on the internet to “discuss” religion. Here is not a good place for it. Let us just enjoy the comic and the laughs.

Ladies and Gentlemen! What we have here is Calvin, The world’s greatest All-Star baseball fielder.

Well said Jolynn!

Good to see you back Marg. :-)

Welcome, Jolynn!

He is the Greatest! Who woulda thought that he could pitch like that!

I can relate all too well to this cartoon, I spent many years playing by myself like Calvin, even though I had a sibling, she preferred to go elsewhere and we didn’t stay together all that much. All due to the efforts of a parent to divide us, in large measure at least. So much for being an ACOA…even in small ways it stays with you for a lifetime. I wish Calvin had more kids his age he could relate to to play with…..

Adult Children Of Alcoholics, If I looked it up right.

I’ve had those days…

@Jolynn191978, and others,

For some of us, our faith is our life. Other’s discuss their lives (vacations, recipes, memories, personal history, etc.) here, and I do not see where this is any different. You do not have to participate in our discussion. If we were proselytizing, I would understand your objection. We view life through the lens of our faith. This is who we are. Please stop insisting that we leave an essential part of ourselves at the door. That is asking us to take our faith out of our lives.

Not gonna happen.

Calvin, I know the feeling. And to all a good night.

Being an only child growing up I can relate to the game Calvin. Glad I had alot of neighbor boys to play with and three cousins but there are those alone days!

Marg: Glad to see you’re doing better!

Am new here, love reading the comments too! wish you could squeeze the comments so that we could read more on one page

@thebird55… I agree completely. If people want to only discuss the comic, then I would be completely okay with not discussing my relationship with God….

Let’s be realistic here… we can’t JUST discuss the comics, because our life experiences make our discussions… There are times I discuss my friendship with my best friend Sarah in and amidst the conversation about Calvin and Hobbes, but no one says anything about that, so why would they do the same when someone mentions God?

@firesmith-

Watch the aardvark comments… some of my best friends are aardvarks. Keep up the anit-aardvark rhetoric and I’m gonna have to flag YOU.

Y’all can discuss whatever you want except your online store and what you got for sale ;) I’m ironically both very religious and very anti-church at the same time, extolling the virtues of one religion being right or wrong kinda bugs me, mostly because no matter what label you affix to yourself, the message of God is the same, so why all the argument? My church is the church of “be one of the good guys”, and no religion I’ve ever seen teaches anything different.

Most of what I see for religious discussion on here is “church neutral” and I for one don’t really see the reason to worry about it. I don’t see people trying to “convert” anyone to a different way of thinking or anything… more just how the topic of the day relates to religion in general. I for one thinkd it’s pretty benign ;)

Calvin beat himself.