Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 26, 2011

Is everybody happy?

Happiness is being sad???!!!

Maybe she’s trying to say, you don’t know happiness until you’ve experienced sadness.

Or maybe mac47’s suggestion (somewhat Orwellian?) i.e. ‘freedom is slavery,’ ‘happiness is sadness.’ Hmm.

Of course Lucy probably has another concept only a child can conjure.

Just rambling here …..

Oh, that’s life, alright…

What was that all about?

Uh - happy/sad = happy but not sad or sad makes happy when you’re sad/happy?

If everything was the same color - there would be no color.

…”Or else I’m going to slug you!”

TOUCHÉ, Skeeterhawk, you don’t know what you had till you loose it.

Well, she is their resident therapist.

The question is, how can you know that you’re happy if you aren’t sad sometimes? Lucy should change the sign from “The Doctor is in,” to “The Philosopher is in.” The trouble is that Philosophers don’t earn many nickels (just ask anyone with a degree in Philosophy).

Lucy needs to see the “the doctor”.

Lucy lunicy

The problem is that Lucy IS the doctor.

Reminds me Bea Arthur’s come back after Mel Brooks says he’s a stand-up philosopher in History of the World, Part 1. Too bad I can’t repeat it.

Grog, wasn’t one of his lines, “It’s great to be king!” ?

Yes, Woody157, in one of the last skits, I think. For some reason I was thinking of the calling for the pi$$ boy this morning. I guess I really had to go to the bathroom but there wasn’t one close by.

Many people are only happy when they are unhappy. Most of them comment on “Calvin and Hobbes”. They are only happy when they are unhappy about other commenters they think are unhappy because of their comments. Actually, THOSE commenters aren’t unhappy, they are only unhappy about the happy folks’ happy-happy comments at times.

In logic, they call this equivocation.

In the intelligence services, they call this brainwashing.

I think that Charles (via Lucy) was trying to say that you cannot truly be happy without experiencing the entire range of human emotion. For instance, Linus may be living superficially, not examining his entire experience, existing in a state of denial. Which we know to be true, as he has to put up with Lucy, therefore, should not be happy 24x7 …rofl.

Kind of like Manic Depressive.

okk……….. i guess its opposite day………….. u r ” sane ”

Happiness is being sad?? That is an emotional paradox!