Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 01, 2022

If elementary school teachers knew the answer to that question, they wouldn’t be elementary school teachers.

Calvin, you’re named about a theologian. Go to a seminary for that question of yours.

Maybe you’ll find the answer in that book, Calvin. Better get to reading!

Good thinking, Calvin. Get the fundamental questions sorted out before you start on the trivial.

Calvin, you’re not being philosphical, you’re stalling! ;P

Elementary teachers DO know the answer to that question. That is WHY they teach elementary students. Wait until college and its’s too late

Missed her chance to tell him the point of human existence is to learn all they can about the subjects she’s trying to teach him.

How odd. Calvin seems to have been taken over by Caulfield from “Frazz.”

Ask Hobbes.

I hear you, Calvin. I hear you.

Hobbes would answer

“The point of human existence is to feed tigers.”

The point of human existence:

You suffer through 8 years of elementary school, 4 years of school with other snarky teenagers, and 4 years of cramming for a position that you’ll be stuck in for 50 years. Then when you retire, you can kick back and read a comic strip about a kid suffering through elementary school.

For me, the discovery of beer, girls, and rockanroll, made the question moot.

Life is a meaningless morass of boredom, and then a tiger eats you.

What is the point of human existence? To live.

What is the meaning of life? Life itself.

Live life like you mean it.

That’s an excellent question, Calvin.

For centuries, philosophers and theologians have been trying (futilely) to find an answer.

Really, hasn’t Calvin been dabbling in existentialism?

With Calvin, you have to be specific about asking for questions…

Calvin, check with Garfield, he had this question answered today. ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )

In times like today, global warming, greed, wars, I wonder the same thing.

The point of existence is simply surviving. The point of school is surviving more comfortably. (For the record, the point of kids is local labor and your retirement plan. Has been for thousands of years.)

Only troublemakers ask questions like that. Walk in a straight line and do as you’re told.

Now he’s starting to sound like Caulfield in “Frazz”!

His teacher looks a LOT like my old 2nd grade teacher.

This is not a real life, it’s only a test. If it were a real life, we’d have been given better instructions. Since we were not given adequate instructions, I am working on the theory that we are expected to figure out the purpose for ourselves, and that the purpose of life is to figure out what is the purpose of our own lives.

To glorify God and enjoy Him forever

I tried that with my teacher once. He shot right back with “To finish your test.”

This reminded me of the flashback in Annie Hall in which Woody Allen’s character as a child has been brought to his pediatrician by his mother. He’s depressed because he read that the universe is expanding. He explains that this means it will eventually break apart and that will be the end of everything. His mother interjects, “He stopped doing his homework!” Replies the child, “What’s the point?”

Westminster Shorter Catechism: Q1. What is the chief end of man? A1. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

The only point of life I’ve been able to determine is to decrease entropy locally

42 Calvin…..42

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anyone tell you different.” – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

This is a comic written and drawn by an adult. The 6 year old is a genius level, his wonder and imagination far exceeding those around him. He’s much smarter than his teacher and at least one of his parents. Children like this need to be challenged to stay engaged, and directed on a path to benefit all of mankind, not ridiculed. An intellect like that taking the wrong path can be dangerous to the world as history has shown.

“Continual self-education and personal growth” – next question.

Say what you will about Calvin, he is one smart kid.

okay, this one is decent, but it’s already gotten officially onto the MAX on the “stale” list. Which is “SO STALE STOP READING DIS”

My existence is based upon being a good steward of God’s resources. I am enjoying what past generations have done and preparing future generations to enjoy what I provide.

Today is Shrove Tuesday also known as Pancake Day. At Easter, we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus by eating chocolate eggs. On Shrove Tuesday, we celebrate Jesus preparing for forty days in the wilderness by eating pancakes.

Our pancakes are sometimes joined by Maple Syrup from which was named Mabel Syrup who was revealed as the author of “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie”.

There is no point to life, its more of a blunt edge

I think Jef Mallet got his start reading Calvin and Hobbes.

After a few, Dad opined to me, ‘Your job in life is to justify your life..’

I had the same thoughts in my college poetry class 40 plus years ago.

It’s pointless. Now let’s move on.

My question is, when do we stop obsessing over that question? When we find a satisfying answer, or when we decide it’s getting in the way of our lives?

The answer is in the next chapter, The answer is ALWAYS in the NEXT chapter.

“I challenge jurisdiction!” As Calvin takes the first step on a strange journey.

The point is what you make it.

For a second there I thought I was reading Frazz.

Don’t hold your breath, kid.

Survival. This is even more important than reproduction, but just barely.

For Calvin, THAT WAS the issue at hand.

Wouldn’t we all?

Genesis 1:26-28 will give you the only true answer.

Now we know where Caulfield gets it from.

I’m surprised he expends ANY energy on this, given his disposition of school.