Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 17, 2022

Because those are the signs you remember.

Because the universe isn’t there to hold your hand, Calvin.

don’t tempt fate, Calvin

I bet the signs WERE there and Calvin just ignored them.

Because hindsight is 20/20.

Because you can only be held accountable for what you actually do, not for what you are thinking about doing.

Well, Jesus taught us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and that was taught well before Calvin filled the balloon. The sign was there; Calvin just ignored it — as we all often do.

Actions have consequences, not the other way around…

That’s called “comeuppance” and it’s one of the ways you can discover which way time runs. And though we can remain somewhat childlike, with luck, as we grow, one of the aspects of being a grown up is FORESEEING consequences.

Whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back. You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. Therefore, make peace with your god, whatever you perceive him to be – hairy thunderer, or cosmic muffin.With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal, The world continues to deteriorate.Give up!

Calvin forgot the number one law of the universe: Susie always retaliates (and wins).

I hope it was worth it!

Heartening to see a six-year-old figuring out the indifferent nature of the universe.

You figure that out, you’re a genius!

The universe is indifferent to your plans. And it is indifferent to your pain. It is quite arrogant to think it even knows you exist.

There is waiting for a sign to proceed and dealing with the Karma from what you did. The former never happens in reality.

The Susie happenstance is on time and in line with the universe.

because you should know better

I was gonna suggest that Susie’s parents hire a bodyguard for her—but she does a pretty good job on Calvin herself!!

BTW, where is Hobbes with one of his “gems of wisdom” in the last panel??

The universe doesn’t provide punishment or reward, only consequences.

The universe sometimes enjoys a good laugh, Calvin.

He’ll never learn. XD

The Universe is listening, It will answer, and It has a perverse sense of humor.

Calvin must enjoy getting beaten up by Susie if he expects that reaction from her every time he throws a water balloon or snowball at her

It’s called alive to appreciate it experience.

H-e-l-l hath no fury as a six-year-old girl hit with a water baloon.

The saying “it´s easier to ask forgiveness than get permission” isn´t always the wise move.

If you need to justify it to yourself by asking for a sign, maybe that’s a sign you shouldn’t do it.

…and they lived happily ever after!

Deuteronomy 10:12-13

It’s tough to build character when your face is buried in mud.

WHENis ‘Calvin’ gong to learn (paraphrase)‘it is not nice to mess with ’Susie Derkings’ ???

When is ‘Calvin’ going to learn(paraphrase)‘it not nice to fool with ’Susie Derkins’ ! ! ! !

It’s called “logical consequences.”

Twenty years later: “You are invited to the wedding of Calvin and Susie…..”

Was hot yesterday. A water balloon attack would’ve been welcome.

When you know nothing matters, the universe is yours. And I’ve never met a universe that was into it. The universe is basically an animal. It grazes on the ordinary. It creates infinite idiots just to eat them. Smart people get a chance to climb on top, take reality for a ride, but it will never stop trying to throw you and eventually it will, there’s no other way off.

Rick Sanchez

Like they say, luck may be a lady, but karma’s a b*****!

Because the Universe doesn’t give a flip about us. It’s us we have to worry about. Forget that at your own peril.

That’s nothing, Calvin. Just wait until you endure the Wrath of Mr. Bun!

Sometimes you get the test before you’ve read the chapter.

I don’t know about y’all, but when I was six, I didn’t ponder such deep moral issues. I certainly didn’t have Calvin’s vocabulary then.

The universe’s moral law is called “karma”

I knew a guy who always said before he did something stupid, “God, if you got a problem, now’s your chance.”

As Mark Twain observed: “A man carrying a cat home by the tail gets nine or ten times more knowledge than a man who never does. If nothing else, he learns to never carry a cat home by the tail again. I say if he wants to carry a cat home by the tail, let him. It’s not easy to be eccentric these days.”

I love Susie

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.” ― Terry Pratchett

oooh! Mr. Bun was caught in the area of effect!

Today’s strip – with its boy versus girl theme, it’s printed sound effects and the boy beaten up and seeing stars at the end – reminds me of one of my favourite Oor Wullie strips. Oor Wullie is a comic strip in a Scottish newspaper called The Sunday Post which has many English readers including myself. Wullie is a Scottish boy about four years older than Calvin. He has blond spiky hair like Calvin.

I have described this strip from 1993 twice before on Go Comics. The first time was when I was reminded of it by a Nancy strip and the second when I was reminded of it by an Andy Capp strip:

Wullie’s “sometime girlfriend” Primrose Patterson invites him to roller skate with her but Wullie says, “Naw! No time for lassies!” Primrose replies, “Your loss! You don’t know what you’re missing!”

Wullie realises what he’s missing when a blonde girl in a short dress asks him to roller skate with her. “Try and stop me, hen! I’m not bashful.” Primrose is on the other side of the fence and has overheard them. “Two timing wee nyafF! I’ll sort his hash!”

Primrose trips Wullie up. In the first panel of the bottom row, Wullie is already seeing stars but will soon be seeing more as the girl he was two timing Primrose with was two timing her own boyfriend and he blames Wullie.

The middle panel of the bottom row shows a large fight cloud decorated with more stars and with the English words THUMP! , CRUNCH! and BATTER! and the Scottish words BLOOTER! , SKUD! and BANJO!

In the final frame, Wullie is still seeing stars and has a lump sticking out of his spiky hair, bruising on his face, a black eye and a sticking plaster between the black eye and the lump. His sleeve has been torn off and the arm inside it is being bandaged by a laughing Primrose. “Not bashful eh? You looked well bashed to me! Ha! Ha!”

Calvin, you have a conscience that already told you you were skating on thin ice before you did the deed.

Maybe no moral law that you can see, but there is the law of self-preservation…

Calvin will regret this when they are both 17…Susie won’t forget either.

Calvin will be one of those “Hold my beer” guys in the future.

Because “causality”. :)

The problem with experience is that it gives the test before the lesson.

Calvin receives another lesson in consequences and karma.

As the good book says, if you spit in the air, it lands in your face.

That’s what karma (कर्म:) is for.

The universe wants you to know there are consequences for actions… free will can lead to bruises.

Advantage: Darwin! Somehow, Calvin is still The Deuce Master!!

It waits for the collapse of the probability vector.

If you have to ask for a sign to NOT do something, that means you already know it is wrong. Calvin knew 100% this was wrong. He deserved what he got.

I think sometimes the universe just wants to see what will happen.

You get payback each time Calvin

Because the moral law of God carries natural consequences when you break it.

Learning by experience. First you get the test, then you get the lesson.

Experience gives the test first, and the lesson after.

By chance, Susie also had that same conversation about pounding Calvin. The universe, in its infinite wisdom, did not interfere

Doctor Strange: “The cautions are always written in the book AFTER the spell…”

There’s a difference between law and law enforcement.

Calvin as an adult; “Hold my beer and watch this…"

Free will, Calvin. It’s called free will. You knew it was wrong before you did it.

The Universe sent the signal,your thick skull prevented it getting through

There is no moral law, but actions still have consequences.

At least his aim is getting better.

Just consequences.