Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 16, 2021

i’d say Repent follows Rejoice – so Rejoice today Repent tomorrow. Sort of theological sub-prime RnR!

I’ve decided to live my day as though it’s YOUR last one…

I rejoice because I’ve made it to another day.

Relax.

Stop what you’re doing and put your phone in movie mode. This is instantly going to go viral.

I rejoice that I don’t repent. I can’t change the past so I have no regrets. Having said that there have been some situations that I would approach differently if faced with them again. Maybe I should rejoice that I can’t even remember yesterday.

“What if you lived as if the day after tomorrow was your last day?” – Marcie Carlin. “You’re weird, Marcie.” – Patricia Reichardt, replying to that question.

Could we discuss this tomorrow?

Right. An optimist thinks that “this is the best of all possible worlds.” A pessimist is sure of it…

The judge told my uncle when his last day would be.

In between them stands Mahatma Ghandi with his own sign:

“LIVE as if you were to die tomorrow…..LEARN as if you were to live forever.”

True quote. ’Nuf sed.

I remember hearing it as, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” for the guy on the left.

Life is a highway. I wanna ride it all night long.

I think I’ll just have a quiet day in my recliner with a good book and a glass of Sammy.

I want to live today as if it’s my last. Unfortunately the women won’t cooperate

The glass is engineered to be twice as large as necessary.

Hell Margaret I am just glad to be here at all.

Option Three: Become an atheist.

Rejoice that you repented and have been forgiven.

Surely after you repent you can rejoice .. ?

“Tiger Above. Tiger Below. Sweet Strawberry.”

One can do both without being in conflict.

It’s all about what comes next.

If you repent you may rejoice in heaven.

If you don’t repent there may be no heaven for you to rejoice in.

Whether you repent or not, the likelihood that there is a heaven or a hell is zip-oh.

Pearls Before Swine today has Pig’s crying mistaken for sadness, when instead it’s for the “beauty of life”…

OOOO! The old “like” or “as” debate!

Remember the old commercial: “Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should.”? The word “as” would equate the product with the taste, while “like” is less than equal.

As regards this cartoon: Repent AND Rejoice! God loves you.

A Liberal and a Conservative meet on a street corner….

Whatever you decide, one day will be your last and as I found out recently it might be your “wife’s” last day and you will not be prepared for that either. Life sure can suck until that last day and “maybe” even after. Maybe I will find out soon maybe not.

And don’t forget, dance as if no one is watching.

Wow, a real win-win for me. I would do the same thing in both cases. Woo Hoo!!

Signs, signs, everywhere there’s signs.

- 5 Man Electrical Band

Like – as if.

Some say the glass is half empty; others say the glass is half full. It’s just possible that the wrong glass was used.

The proposition “Is the glass half empty or is the glass half full” begs the question of “Who does the pouring?”

I see a fight coming.

A vessel’s utility is based on its capacity for change. An empty glass is useless to take anything out of, a full glass is useless to put anything into. The half-filled glass is most versatile, as it can either be added to or taken from.

Find the common ground, fellas…for instance, you both clearly like sandals…

“Drink like it’s your last half-glass!”

Half full vs half empty is philosophy. Half water + half air is science.

Uh-oh.

Not sure I was given a glass.

Maybe I lost it…probably with my bootstraps.

“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” —Dr. Samuel Johnson

As usual, the engineering solution to the half-glass problem: most of the words in the two signs are redundant. He would have both of them stand under a sign with the common words and have one hold a smaller sign with “Rejoice!” and the other “Repent!”. :)

The crazy thing is, both of these signs are 100% correct.

Sort of like the cheerful guy saying, “It don’t get any better than this.” The gloomy Gus agrees that it doesn’t.

I would behave the same way no matter which philosophy I followed.