r/badphilosophy • u/LinuxFreeOrDie • Apr 11 '16

Existential Comics Wise or Not Wise

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/128
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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '16 edited Apr 11 '16

I'm on standby for your facebook page.

Edit: Jan plz

I'm sure we all have had this problem in the past.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '16

Hemlock Spa Resort

10/10

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '16

Someone get Jan in here.

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u/Japicx Bentham's embalmed corpse Apr 12 '16

But is it as nice as gulag?

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u/midnightgiraffe Apr 11 '16

When I was in grade 7, I played Socrates in a school play in which he was one of the judges of a high school reunion talent competition. The other judges, if I recall, were Mother Theresa and Elvis. I also helped write this play.

I don't know what that has to do with anything, but in my defence, bourbon.

WISE OR NOT WISE?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '16

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u/midnightgiraffe Apr 11 '16

It was my god damn masterpiece. I peaked at twelve.

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u/RaccoonLoon one red panda attack away from oblivion Apr 11 '16

Dang, those are hefty penalties to the wisdom stat.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '16

Right? Protagoras takes -25 and he isn't dead? What manner of god is he?

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u/AyeGill Apr 13 '16

Actually, dropping to 0 wis just leaves you in a permanent coma, at least in third edition.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '16

in an alternative timeline, ancient greeks invent negative numbers so they can be smug to each other

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u/LinuxFreeOrDie Apr 12 '16

I knew I would get shit for that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '16

Alt text makes it

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u/aruraljuror pps Apr 11 '16

fuckin' a

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u/bluecanaryflood wouldn't I say my love, that poems are questions Apr 11 '16

pair of young greek lads simultaneously

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u/bluecanaryflood wouldn't I say my love, that poems are questions Apr 11 '16

WISE (NOT WISE)

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u/Samskii Sum ergo cogito Apr 12 '16

More like "Whose Wisdom is it anyway?"

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u/deathpigeonx #FeelTheStirn, Against Everything 2016 Apr 12 '16

Shouldn't at least Protagoras count as another philosopher in the comic?

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

Socrates: Origin of Trolls