Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 16, 2012
Transcript:
Lucy: Oh, I can't wait to hear how boys were created. Danae: That had to wait until the creation of fertilizer. Lots and lots of fertilizer... And lo, the magic honey dripped upon the sacred rose, and it grew in holy sweetness. The sacred rose grew bigger until it blossomed in divine perfection that was called girl!
The#1BoiseStateFan about 12 years ago
Lawn Mower, probably
Randy B Premium Member about 12 years ago
This is all happening on Danae’s planet, the one that was formed from a cosmic cat’s hairball.
Vonne Anton about 12 years ago
Watch the thorns.
Randy B Premium Member about 12 years ago
Nope, it’s just the authoritarian way.
Can't Sleep about 12 years ago
I thought she was Irish.
pcolli about 12 years ago
Remember the Crusades; we took the war to their country.
palos about 12 years ago
Danae in her birthday suit. Oh my.
Ida No about 12 years ago
It’s the opposite of when god-cats cough up hairballs.
Varnes about 12 years ago
And here I thought it was boogers……Lots and lots of boogers…..
markmoss1 about 12 years ago
@pcolli: Their (the original followers of Mohammed’s) country was a city (Mecca) and a patch of desert in present-day Saudi Arabia. Nearly everything else from Spain to India was taken at least partly by war and forced conversions.
But the Crusades weren’t started because the Arabs overran the Christian holy places – they started when a Turkish tribe won a war amongst the Muslims, blocked Christian access to those holy places, and overran most of the Asian lands of the Byzantine Empire.
vwdualnomand about 12 years ago
if girls are sweetness, beauty, and “divine perfection”, then why do many of them are angry, irrational, chocoholic, lying, indecisive, self-absorbed, self-centered, backstabbing unfaithful shoe fetishists?
einarbt7 about 12 years ago
Basically any sect/religion/faith program, I would have thought.
chazandru about 12 years ago
One suddenly wonders if Danae knows how the interactions between boys and girls results in the creation of more boys and girls. If not…I predict a primal scream during biology class.
GROG Premium Member about 12 years ago
You don’t have to go far to find the fertilzer, Danae. There’s plenty of it in that book you’re writing.
zoidknight about 12 years ago
Not in the last 500 years and none have remain as violent of kill as many people each day.
Beleck3 about 12 years ago
Islam is just going through growth phases like all religions do. Christianity was used to kill lots of people. lots and lots and lots, just like Islam. that’s the way religion works, has nothing to do with God, just man’s inability to accept others right to be. my way or the highway, aka John Wayne/American way. lol
oh how the mighty Christian right want to believe it is so holy and better than the rest. just another pig in a poke used to excuse killing. a rose is a rose is a rose.
which is why this better than religious BS is just that. my God is better than your God BS. works with such emotional humans scared of dying and or living for nothing.
zoidknight about 12 years ago
Nope, that is still an Islamic one.
William Bednar Premium Member about 12 years ago
Roses DO grow better in highly fertilized conditions!
thirdguy about 12 years ago
I miss the old days when Wiley would scold us for arguing about politics.
Paul Read Premium Member about 12 years ago
Personally, I’ve always believed that boys are more manure than girls.
brewwitch about 12 years ago
That could said of almost all organized religions.
Justice22 about 12 years ago
That is Danae’s way. —-or else!Hmmm, Maybe that is every woman’s way.
jimsizemore1405 about 12 years ago
How many wars have fought because they are just right and proper and in the name of God?
YatInExile about 12 years ago
Lots & lots of fertilizer? I wonder if the current political campaigns will provide enough.
Kali39 about 12 years ago
On the seventh day, God created man. Then She realized her mistake…
Linguist about 12 years ago
" There was a little girl,Who had a little curl,Right in the middle of her forehead.When she was good,She was very, very good,And when she was badShe was horrid !"
Gokie5 about 12 years ago
“Based on the motto on the podium, is she an Islamic sect?”Or Christian, during the days of the Inquisition, etc., etc.?
phoenixnyc about 12 years ago
And Wiley, this one made me laugh loudly enough to earn a “What’s so funny????” from my boss—three offices away.
Darwinskeeper about 12 years ago
I’m figuring that the Church of DANAE is Wiley’s take on some of the more athoritarian aspects of Christianity. Perhaps this is a poke at that bit in Genesis of Eve being created out of Adam’s rib.
Dtroutma about 12 years ago
Danae isn’t typical of most matriarchal societies, or views, she’s much more “boy like”.
If you don’t think “religions” are created by and for the psychotic, just watch what happens on this or any other thread when the subject comes up!
neeeurothrush about 12 years ago
forever may have basis in our natural world – the jury may still be out
http://www.astronomynotes.com/cosmolgy/s10.htm
neeeurothrush about 12 years ago
the link i provided above is just one of many in the open vs closed discussion
Vonne Anton about 12 years ago
I’m with you on this one. :-)
pcolli about 12 years ago
We create gods as and when we think we need them. The Universe is really held together with old string and sticky tape.
treered about 12 years ago
momo taro? :)
erinbliss about 12 years ago
It’s about as plausible as anything else I’ve ever read outside of scientific theory.
danketaz Premium Member about 12 years ago
This could start a stampede to the B.E. era
roctor about 12 years ago
Moros y christianos.
Ernest Lemmingway about 12 years ago
Technically Danae’s right about females coming first. The initial single-cell organisms developed ovum first, which then prompted the evolution of sperm.
Rickapolis about 12 years ago
Honey+Rose=Danae. How can one not love her? Even a booger brained boy.
Spamgaard about 12 years ago
As an Agnostic Atheist Secular Humanist Bicyclist (reformed recumbent), I take umbrage (humorously) at your specious attack on my desire to deliver the well-meaning, the misguided, the ignorant, and the coldly-calculating from their desire to foist their anti-scientific and anti-human-powered-vehicle beliefs upon other people, school boards, local, state and federal legislatures and agencies.
EDinWAState about 12 years ago
Actually, Alexikakos, you’re wrong. The early christian church did not believe in the spirit of man… they expected to have the physical body raised from the dead at the time of the last judgement. According to them, there was no heaven or hell (hence no spirit) until that fateful doomsday. It was common sense to either bury the righteous or burn the sinner.