calvin and hobbes wisdom?

[handmade34]

[freshwest]

1. Thanks, I'm a fan of that kid and his stuffed tiger.

[handmade34]

2. the world would be a better place

is everyone was required to read a bit of Calvin and Hobbes each day

[Posteritatis]

23. I get a kick out of how many of my friends have the complete C&H sitting around. (nt)

[Capitalocracy]

13. I've been a fan since I was 6

probably the only reason I have a decent vocabulary and critical thinking skills today

[handmade34]

21. my son grew up reading them everyday

I think it did him good!

[Fumesucker]

3. ...

[freshwest]

5. My favorite is the one of the alien spaceship sucking up all the oceans, clouds and air.

The Earthlings plead, "Help us! Please stop!"

The aliens said, "We're sorry to learn that you will soon be dead. But though you may find this slightly macabre, we prefer your extinction to the loss of our jobs."

Sounds very much like life on Earth, doesn't it?

Unfortunately I don't know how to post it, but you get the picture.

[handmade34]

6. I get the picture :-)

[handmade34]

8. I'm smiling

BIG!

[pnorman]

10. I really miss them too!

http://www.marcellosendos.ch/comics/ch/index.html

http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html

[handmade34]

16. thanks for the links!

:toast:

[pnorman]

20. Two things that realy calm down my occasionally jangled nerves, and bring a smile to my lips:

1). Cats
and
2). Calvin and Hobbes

[brettdale]

4. I love Calvin and Hobbes

Thanks for posting this.

[handmade34]

7. one of my favorites...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. kick for Calvin and rec for Hobbes

I can't wait to grow up.

[handmade34]

17. I hear it's way overrated

[Richard Steele]

11. Back when I was a child, I thought that everything would make sense when I grew up.

Ignorance was bliss.

[tavalon]

12. Yeah

I thought that the grown ups had all the answers and one day I would be admitted to their exclusive club. It was a repetitive shocker to realize they didn't actually know what I thought they knew.

[Mariana]

19. Didn't help that so many of the grown ups

PRETENDED to know, and that they were just refusing to tell you the answer to whatever your question was. I lost a lot of respect for quite a few grown ups when I figured out that they'd been bullshitting me, that they didn't know the answers any more than I did. I retained my admiration for the ones who would admit to having no idea, especially if they said something like, "Lets go find the answer."

[badgerpup]

26. I'm...well, 'of a certain age'...

:blush:...and still don't feel like I imagined the grownups felt...i.e., confident and in charge of things.

Me, I'm tap-dancing on quicksand...

[tavalon]

31. That's actually the secret

Though, finally getting that does make it a lot easier to be a grownup. For me, at least.

[Richard Steele]

27. That is a VERY WELL STATED post, Tavalon. That's just how I felt as a child.

I thought the same thing.

I knew that 'grownups' did things I was not privy to,
so I thought that being 'grownup' was some sort
of exclusive club....that someday someone would
hand me a membership card, or give me the secret password,
and suddenly I would have access to the answers
to all my questions.

Imagine my disappointment. :rofl:

[tavalon]

29. I don't have to imagine it.

It took at least 10 years of being an adult before I finally figured out that it wasn't me that was defective. Slow learner in that area, I guess.

[handmade34]

18. I didn't

necessarily think things would make sense, but I thought things would be easier. What a shock!

[freshwest]

32. Hum, that was when things did make sense, for me, anyway, just in the flow.

Then this became my fate, like so many others:

'When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.'

Sure you know the tune. I remember the day when I stopped looking at meadow as the wondrous display of life that it was, every leaf, every pebble, every insect. Instead, I saw a vacant lot. You can't go back.

But in continuing my education, I went through those science courses where you realize that for the most part, so to speak, we are NOT here in the material sense we considered ourselves to be. (You know, that thing about electron orbits, etc. for what it's worth.)

So the older I get, the less sense I can make of the dogma that I worked so hard to learn. But I'm liking it better all the time.



:hi:

[Capitalocracy]

14. I think humans are inherently incapable of wrapping their heads around mortality

We can never experience nonexistence, therefore we have no point of reference to imagine it. We can't imagine this as our inevitable future, so we can't help but thinking of it in terms we can understand, like bliss, in Heaven, or suffering, in Hell, for example.

[handmade34]

15. good point

and one reason most everyone needs some sort of religion... Of course, everyone experiences life through their own lens... My views changed significantly after a life threatening motorcycle accident years ago, and then again after I sat with my husband as he passed... each of these life events causes us to reflect, maybe much the same way 'calvin' does, often irreverently

[BrklynLiberal]

22. Calvin and Hobbes, and Pogo..the greatest comics ever...

[kag]

24. Both my kids read C&H voraciously. Over and over.

When my son was 12 (he's 14 now) he asked for the complete C&H collection for Christmas. My sister-in-law, who had drawn his name for the extended-family gift exchange, looked it up and found that cost almost $75, which was the official price limit on gifts. I told my son he could get the books, but that he wouldn't get anything else from his aunt. He said that was okay, and when the day came for all of us to open gifts he opened his one, thanked his aunt profusely, and began excitedly reading all three volumes as the rest of us continued to open gifts.

I used to take credit for my kids' great vocabularies until I realized that they know words that I DON'T:-) Now I know it came from C&H.

[walldude]

25. I got the same set for Christmas...

And everyone in my house from my youngest son to my wife and I have read all of them over and over... Best comic ever.

[Ezlivin]

28. Too bad the artist Bill Watterson is a hard-core right-winger and Tea Party supporter

I am just kidding!

[handmade34]

30. no one with that imagination

could be anything but a progressive or wicked 'crazy' :rofl:

I was thinking how the comics are the man, and he is the one we love... funny, I never took the time to find out much about him

Watterson and his comics sure inspired and/or changed a lot of lives

[pokerfan]

33. C&H is my favorite strip of all time

and also my avatar...

http://britishexpats.com/blogs/uploads/t/Tiggs+Graz/1155.gif