With school, the struggle is finite, having a clearly defined ending. It’s only life that requires “endless” (from your own POV) struggle.
Years ago, a friend in fandom asked his readers “So you go to school, and you graduate, and then what? Years and years of just living?” For some reason, this haunted me.
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Nancy the existentialist. She’s been reading her Schopenhauer.
Argythree almost 5 years ago
I can only answer question number 3. The answer is ‘yes’…
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member almost 5 years ago
1. For funsies.
2. For funsies.
3. Yes. (for funsies, I’m sure)
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member almost 5 years ago
In other Nancy news, with Norm Feuti’s “Retail” having ended the good folk at the Deseret News have decided to replace it with OJ’s Nancy:
https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2020/2/23/21145576/comics-retail-grumbels-closes-shop-norm-feuti-nancy-olivia-jaimes-fritzi-ritz-sluggo
No doubt a certain portly syndicate person is happy to have stolen one from King Features.
nuncanunca almost 5 years ago
Wait, I get it … Nancy’s questions become progressively harder too! I see what you did there!
Calvinist1966 almost 5 years ago
I think what Nancy’s really trying to ask is why learning makes things harder rather than easier.
Pipe Tobacco almost 5 years ago
Too deep for me when I read it at 5am. Perhaps after a coffee and a pipe, it will become clear?
VICTOR PROULX almost 5 years ago
Speaking as a human being, I am not sure I crave “increasingly hard challenges.” I may be miss identifying myself.
Kip Williams almost 5 years ago
With school, the struggle is finite, having a clearly defined ending. It’s only life that requires “endless” (from your own POV) struggle.
Years ago, a friend in fandom asked his readers “So you go to school, and you graduate, and then what? Years and years of just living?” For some reason, this haunted me.
phlash almost 5 years ago
That’s the price you pay for unlimited breadsticks and salad…
DCBakerEsq almost 5 years ago
FUN FACT. Life’s a bitch. Then, you die.
SHIVA almost 5 years ago
Suddenly she’s a Rhodes scholar!!! Is this a result of hanging with Sluggo!!!?
Teto85 Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The meaning of life, (the universe and everything) is 42.
Hue SL almost 5 years ago
3: can’t answer, spoilers.
a swino almost 5 years ago
1. Because humans crave increasingly difficult challenges. 2. Because endless struggle is the only meaning of life. 3. Yes.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 5 years ago
“Fatti non foste a viver come lupi / ma per seguitar virtute e canoscenza” By Messer Dante Alighieri 1300 BC circa .
asrialfeeple almost 5 years ago
Being miserable builds character and the answer to the meaning of life is 42.