Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 20, 2012

awesome one

It’s realy hard to stand so much bliss!

Besides being bliss, Ignorance apparently is also hazardous!

I love Calvin. He can rationalize a concussion into and excuse to continue “living on the edge” and defying the laws of physics. Go Calvin! Take a beating, keep repeating"!

As a nurse, I ‘ve had the same experience. Do you ever get the ones who tell you that what you’re doing isn’t right because it isn’t how they do it on the TV dramas?

Calvin would be safer with a helmet and a motocross bike.

@Tog and @Goldenroya I sympathize with your plight, I’m hoping to get admission into a college LPN program. The nosy questions of “why aren’t you in medical school” will go nicely with “why aren’t you married.”

But back to the cartoon: Ignorance is bliss, but knowledge is power. If Calvin wants to be Dictator For Life, he’d better hit the books!

Truely, a tale (and a tail) for our times. Please, let’s not learn anything from the events of the last decade…

Calvin has his head in the sand. That’s the way to remain ignorant!

“Hitch (tether) your wagon to a star!” It will protect you from disaster.

Hobbes’ tail is not ‘wagon’, but Calvin’s tongue is!

One who does not learn from his mistakes is liable to repeat them with similar disastrous results!

“Have faith, hope and charity (love)!That’s the way to live successfully…”

When we are children, we are taught as children. And we are prone to reject childish things as we grow up. After college,I was ready to reject religion. So I locked myself in a room and spent months rreading and thinking about this stuff I was going to ditch—know thine enemy as it were, in an adult way. Ended up basically doing a mental 180.

I don’t try to change people’s minds—that’s not my place. But I think many people reject religion out of ignorance of it rather than out of knowledge about it.

If it’s short-term and stupid, then it’s not really self-interest, is it?

I’m a nurse practitioner with a master’s degree. People ask me routinely if I’m practicing to be a doctor. Very frustrating, especially since I have been a nurse for 33 years.

Click here: Pearls Before Swine (2006)

And this is why, as another Calvin and Hobbes said, television is truly the opium of the masses. Look at how easily so many shows are designed to distract us from other matters, or tells us that we’re all fine and right and never should examine our convictions (wherever they lie) or patterns.

I should add that there is television that’s genuinely thought-provoking and challenges convictions, but most of it is pure opium.

@GoldenRoya and Tog. I know you are both right, but I appreciate you. Nurses usually know more about the patients than the doctors do. After all, who spends more time with them?

Try gain. That’s not the way it was for me either. I turned against religion before high school.

It’s a sure way of getting yourself killed some day, Calvin.

This is quite an appropriate commentary on politics today!

My Mom was a nurse, great person, & sooner or later everyone will wind up in a box!

The Wall St. bankers should read this strip. Oh wait… they did.

Waterson’s ability to make commentary that is a relevant today as it was years ago continues to amaze me. This comic should be posted in the halls of government, finance and on the walls of ALL political aspirants.

Given the success of the Tea Party, Calvin’s position covers a good chunk of the electorate.

Some people thrive on simplicity and fear complexity. Others thrive on complexity and fear simplicity. Then there are a bunch of us messing around in the middle, trying to balance the two.

This one’s awesome!

The global economic crisis explained in 7 panels.

So true.Seen from both sides, I understand now that there are some things I do not want to know.

Calvin, the prophet. Housing bust of 2008.

Wow! I had no idea Calvin is a Tea Bagger!

Dana puts a feel-good message in the strip. Bill keeps his message more real-world. They’re both great.

How did this wonderful adventure turn into a religious discussion?

Not as infuriating as it is going to be when you finally find out the teachings were not hogwash!

how fitting that Calvin’s head is buried in the sand.

This strip is amazing…

Poor Calvin & Hobbes!

xxx

I’m reminded of another C&H strip that ends “Live and don’t learn; that’s us” (or something like that).

Before this happened I didn’t. But this was not the only event, some more followed, than I began to believe in omens!

Love to days strip ,Calvin is trying to figure out whats the most fun?And of coarse he has got it wrong again .

I agree that ignorance is bliss…can’t you see the smile on my face?

Calvin is frightening. He keeps riding off the SAME CLIFF.

It sounds more like the creationists and birthers. Why educate yourselves when ignorance comes neatly wrapped like a present…

I like how the third and fourth panels are being blown by the force of their ride.

Hmmm, a nice portrayal of the balance between wisdom and ignorance

Never do anything you can’t explain to the EMT.

Not in all cases. I was uncertain of my faith before college, and since I’ve been here my life has completely changed. I’ve seen God’s work and experienced His presence in undeniable ways. I didn’t understand what intimacy with God was before I joined the youth ministry here and experienced the power of prayer and worship. Miracles and revelations happen. Atheists may choose to deny this because it is contrary to their view of the world, but it is a fact.

To this strip, Calvin is demonstrating an unfortunate and self-destructive mentality I’ve seen in many of my college peers: YOLO, or You Only Live Once. It’s a shameful idea and a license for irresponsibility.

Poor Calvin. Seeing and fixing problems may require personal change—but that sort of change actually makes life better, and leads to being a better person.

Happiness may lie in short term stupidity, but joy lies in making the world better.

I know. I agree with Marx’ wife, he should have made capital instead of writing about it. Why the world chose to listen to this loser, who did not understand money enough to have two cents to rub together, I’ll never know. John D. Rockefeller should have been the author- he started with nothing!

If more people were sceptical (instead of sheeple) we might not be in the mess we are in …

so you’re saying that you can’t tell nobody nothing they don’t want to hear..My second rule of life …

I LOVE calivin and hobbes

@GoldenRaya.. Very true.. Most people prefer to wallow in their stupidity and pride than even try to consider that something else might be correct.. Even if irrefutable proof is shown in front of them.. And if you try to put some sense into these dullheads you are branded a fool or a morally corrupt person.. So better to just let them be, and laugh inwardly at their stupidity.. because, yes they can be incredibly stupid.. :)

There’s no point trying to talk sense to them.. Everyone wants to feel their own self worth and have a “better than thou” kinda attitude.. So basically when they see you as a nurse it makes them feel good about themselves.. which is really stupid but its the way their brains work..

Hah!!! that was my thought as well. Vietnam wasn’t enough. Now we have Afganistan and PG1 and 2!!, the great depression and the great recession!!

38lowell,If everyone will “wind up in a box”, where will they unwind?

Heres the thing….although we all get the obvious point I have to really wonder because it’s all headed to the same place anyway isn’t it? Having watched people blissfully going over the cliff time and again while others struggle to hold on intelligently because its right Im starting to think that letting go actually MAY lead to some sort of happy end since the end is perpetually nigh. Nah, on second thought…that couldn’t be, better hold on tighter.

To the nurses: First off, thank you for the care you’ve given me in the past. You truly are the unsung heroes of health care. I briefly worked for Home Depot and I loved it when wearing a bright orange apron, people would come up to me and say, “excuse me. Do you work here?” I’m a cabinet builder and installer by trade. I would rip out a kitchen down to the studs and the homeowner couldn’t understand why it would take more than a day to complete when they do it in a day on T.V.

Attempting to follow this comment thread is a baffling endeavor.

Troll.

boy..calvin always have to have the right suggestion for everything!!..:P

i always lived my this same damn principle.“What a man doesn’t know won’t hurt him”.This is one of the many things, that in my point of view, Calvin got right.Does anyone agree with me?

Most agnostics I know were atheists from an early age, certainly pre-college. Only a few exceptions were those who decided that evangelical religion was hooey. Especially a problem if that brand of evangelism involved denial of scientific evidence.

It’s much better to laugh in their faces; you just have to time it right. All the better if you can get them to laugh along with you at themselves.

Wow. I just finished Bradbury’s “Farenheit 451”. Amazing how often those same principles show up in modern culture.