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- Larisa: My soul has a very high price.
- The Devil: Come on! Can’t you even pretend to be a little surprised?!
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@ pilgrim3:
Not quite. Intervention of the this variety would necessitate violating man’s free will. If that happens, man loses individuality and it would just be a cosmic being playing with atoms. As it were, we still exist and still maintain freewill. Food for thought.
Besides, I found the comic to be humorous, regardless of beliefs.
@ Agarax:
I wondered when someone would bring up Sympathy for the Devil. Actually someone mentioned sympathy in another post on the last comic, but it was in a different context. At any rate you get one Mick Jagger point for being the first.
I’m putting in a plug for Sandra to live, Larissa to be cured of Wolfram’s Disease (and no tossing another genetic disorder into the mix), those bobcat kits from way back to be alive, healthy and well, and Richard’s boss to be arrested and convicted as the serial killer she is. And Landon’s Mom to get over herself . . yeah, okay, that last is expecting too much of Lucifer . . . and God . . .
@ coyoteBR:
But the name of the song is Sympathy for the Devil.
That panel 3 devil is definitely one of my favorite Satans ever. He just looks so cheerful! 😀
I like the FWOOM effect.
@ pilgrim3:
And when you realise that to be a fair and just God, you need to let people have free will to chose, then talk to me about my God. Plus, if I have to depart all the knowledge I have about God to you then a couple verses i would quote. “Those who have ears, listen.” And i can’t remember the other verse clearly but it goes something like this “those who are fated not to listen, are fated to never listen” OR “Some people may not accept the Word even if the best people speak to them.” And Jesus did talk to a lot of people and only a handful stayed true to him. 😛
This Devil reminds me of the one from God, The Devil and Bob.
Larisa gives no fucks.
@ Korso:
She’s like the honeybadger. 😀
Demarion wrote:
None of that will happen. 😛
P.S. I didn’t understand the ‘Richard’s boss’ thing. I can’t seem to find the refrance
i was hoping you could explain how Zoey and Michelle became a couple. I know you have this hole thing planned already but i’m sure a lot of people would like it too. Either way it’s your decision so not gonna insist if you say no. See ya!
@ RobertaM:
That’s an interesting perspective in regards to god not being responsible for evil for creating free will and creating a reality in which resources are limited and scarce.
Now, don’t get me wrong, if you create an imperfect ant farm, and the ants in it are miserable, then you are not evil. However, if you intentionally create an ant farm that has built in flamethrowers internally to randomly burn through tunnels slaughtering hundreds of ants, then it’s strange that you would claim moral high ground.
This is, of course, presuming you’re going with one of the many monotheistic religions I understand. Most of those have the creator of being as infallible, in otherwords, it/he/she both chose and knew that it was creating a reality that was going to be, for millenia, perhaps longer, inimicable to humanity. And, furthermore, that as such an entity you would -only- speak to one, maybe two of them to inform them that “Oh, right, paradise is just around the bend if you believe this cult of people who believe in me, but, uh…if you don’t believe this cult? Yeah….infinite time spent in an upsidedown pit with your eyes being scraped with rusty forks while entities constantly twist your every nerve ending into excruciating, undeniable pain.”
If you’re referring to a pantheistic god, gratz, you’re right. A lack of omnipotence, omnipresence, and/or omniscience allows for alot more leeway in whether or not an entity actually is truly evil in a particular scenario. However, the vast majority of ‘single god’ religions have gods who are, functionally, evil for the sake of evil, if only due to either the laziness of their design (Yeah, the digestive system is complex, but you could design a reality in which such things were unnecessary and food simply vanished when it entered the throat), or the inherent malevolence of it (alot of humanity’s designed social characteristics are -from- how hostile it was in the early days. Even if you deny evolution, towns didn’t spring from the clay and form as they were. And so, in a tribe of a hundred people, you needed people willing to make sacrifices and hit other people over the head to -enforce- order and make them occasionally do things they didn’t want, sad but true)
….I haven’t gotten to argue religion in a bit. This post is nothing personally, I literally stumbled onto your post and decided on a metaphysics discussion time.
*runs*
I was gonna ask how she knew but I learned a long time ago not to question this sort of thing in S&W.
@ Chameon:
I have to agree with you, thankfully my religion has a much more complex view of the afterlife than most Christians that makes it much easier to accept. Basically even if one doesn’t learn about my church in this life, they’ll get a chance in the afterlife before being judged and basically everyone will learn about it at some point in time. Hell then is reserved basically for everyone who just doesn’t like the idea of being given a free choice and would rather go to hell than live in any sort of heaven, but that is their choice. Furthermore heaven is split into many different degrees of glory based upon how well one did with the knowledge that one had, with at least some potential for improvement in the afterlife. Plus even the lowest glory is better than Earth so, pretty great philosophy and religion if you asked me. (Still not always the easiest to accept, but the only religion I think I’ll ever consider that isn’t more of a philosophy than a religion in the Abrahamic sense).
@ Trackman1997:
Any religion that has a hell is not one I would ever accept, and it kinda horrifies me that anyone else would accept any religion with a hell, (unless the hell in question is actually a pretty chill place and not at all a hell according to any traditional definition,) because the very existence of a hell makes me morally superior to that religion’s deity/deities, and someone like me REALLY shouldn’t be able to easily claim moral upper ground over what’s supposedly the supreme being/s of the universe.
@ noname:
Fair enough, though Hell isn’t a fiery pit of eternal torture in my religion, just a place where one doesn’t participate in the plan that they didn’t like anyway. It does mean that they are unable to progress like those in heaven.
@ GPedia:
but if someone has the option of giving someone free will to chose. then they must let them chose wrong. otherwise, they become robots. Lois Lowry wrote in The Giver SPOILER WARNING: that to have a choice, and to choose wrong, is better than no choice at all.
The Devil’s “Ta da!” is missing from the transcription.