Comments on: TOM THE DANCING BUG: ...And Who Shall Save God-Man? http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 09:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: humanresource http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1663379 humanresource Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1663379 You're solution works according to the standards of theology. Theology, of course, is Aristotelian logic played with jokers wild and one-eyed jacks. You’re solution works according to the standards of theology. Theology, of course, is Aristotelian logic played with jokers wild and one-eyed jacks.

]]> By: Tom http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1662067 Tom Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1662067 I never understood the immoveable stone question as an anti-theological argument. God can do anything, so certainly He can resolve this so-called paradox neatly and cleanly. I never understood the immoveable stone question as an anti-theological argument. God can do anything, so certainly He can resolve this so-called paradox neatly and cleanly.

]]> By: turophile http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1661225 turophile Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:57:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1661225 But the unasked and unanswered question is, "Could God-Man create a stone too heavy for God-God-Man to lift"? But the unasked and unanswered question is, “Could God-Man create a stone too heavy for God-God-Man to lift”?

]]> By: pa http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1661216 pa Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1661216 No, that's Omnipresent Man: http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/1/10/how-to-write-a-superhero-story.html http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/11/11/how-to-interrogate-a-suspect.html http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/4/21/how-to-explain-a-fictional-technology-or-superpower.html No, that’s Omnipresent Man:
http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/1/10/how-to-write-a-superhero-story.html
http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/11/11/how-to-interrogate-a-suspect.html
http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/4/21/how-to-explain-a-fictional-technology-or-superpower.html

]]> By: hypnosifl http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1661175 hypnosifl Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1661175 God-God-Man is supposed to look like a Jack Kirby character, and Kirby was <a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/Galactus%204.jpg" rel="nofollow">rather <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HHchIWFYERk/TyeKFBCL76I/AAAAAAAAMH0/seMinIOIHwI/s1600/odin3.jpg" rel="nofollow">fond</a> of <a href="http://marswillsendnomore.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/jack-kirby-eternals-19-2.jpg" rel="nofollow">that style</a>. God-God-Man is supposed to look like a Jack Kirby character, and Kirby was rather fond of that style.

]]> By: Preston Sturges http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1661091 Preston Sturges Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1661091 A guy walking down the road see a farmer holding a pig up to an apple tree so the pig can eat apples. The passerby says "You know it would save a lot of time if you just knocked some apples off the tree for the pig." The farmer said "What's time to a pig?" A guy walking down the road see a farmer holding a pig up to an apple tree so the pig can eat apples.
The passerby says “You know it would save a lot of time if you just knocked some apples off the tree for the pig.”

The farmer said “What’s time to a pig?”

]]> By: OtherMichael http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1661086 OtherMichael Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1661086  Don't you mean <a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/02/18/nervals-lobster-why-should.html#comment-803423555" rel="nofollow">Mark Dery</a>?  Don’t you mean Mark Dery?

]]> By: chris jimson http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660956 chris jimson Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660956 He was shoveling manure? That might be the best part of the story. He was shoveling manure?

That might be the best part of the story.

]]> By: swlabr http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660947 swlabr Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660947 Many years ago, when I was young, I tried to stump a gruff laconic old farmer that I knew with this conundrum. I think I saw it on Monty Python. "Can God create a rock so big that he himself cannot lift it?" "Sure." He didn't blink an eye at the question. Just kept shoveling. I pondered his reply for several minutes of silence, then I demanded: "So how does that work?" "He's only human." He didn't pause loading manure into the wheelbarrow the whole time. True story. It's hard to outwit old farmers sometimes. Many years ago, when I was young, I tried to stump a gruff laconic old farmer that I knew with this conundrum. I think I saw it on Monty Python.

“Can God create a rock so big that he himself cannot lift it?”
“Sure.” He didn’t blink an eye at the question. Just kept shoveling.

I pondered his reply for several minutes of silence, then I demanded:

“So how does that work?”
“He’s only human.” He didn’t pause loading manure into the wheelbarrow the whole time.

True story. It’s hard to outwit old farmers sometimes.

]]> By: MarlboroTestMonkey7 http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660917 MarlboroTestMonkey7 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660917  You are obviously under the thrall of Overthinking It Man  You are obviously under the thrall of Overthinking It Man

]]> By: MattAtDoyle http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660820 MattAtDoyle Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660820 God-God-Man has some impressive fronts piece... just saying. God-God-Man has some impressive fronts piece… just saying.

]]> By: Avram Grumer http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660646 Avram Grumer Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660646 No rock can dent God-Floor!  No rock can dent God-Floor! 

]]> By: chris jimson http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660508 chris jimson Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660508 God-Man is the Greatest Comic Ever (by definition.) God-Man is the Greatest Comic Ever (by definition.)

]]> By: strangefriend http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660504 strangefriend Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660504  Ya idjits, that was the <i> Holy Ghost</i>!  Ya idjits, that was the Holy Ghost!

]]> By: edgore http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660477 edgore Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660477 He is definitely either up in the sky, or faster than a speeding bullet. He is definitely either up in the sky, or faster than a speeding bullet.

]]> By: edgore http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660475 edgore Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660475 It's God-Men all the way down... It’s God-Men all the way down…

]]> By: davecarroll http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660466 davecarroll Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660466 the comments are just as funny as the comic, even.  the comments are just as funny as the comic, even. 

]]> By: MikeB http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660450 MikeB Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660450 hmm. i prefer uncertainty man. some claim to know where he is, others claim to know how fast he is moving. hmm. i prefer uncertainty man. some claim to know where he is, others claim to know how fast he is moving.

]]> By: NelC http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660381 NelC Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660381  I think you're thinking of Quantum Man.  I think you’re thinking of Quantum Man.

]]> By: jorgenfleisterman http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660372 jorgenfleisterman Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660372 The thing about the paradox is that God-Man is also supposedly omnipresent, so he could be Schrödinger's superhero deity - both stuck under the rock he can't lift and not stuck under the rock he can't lift everywhere else at the same time. The thing about the paradox is that God-Man is also supposedly omnipresent, so he could be Schrödinger’s superhero deity – both stuck under the rock he can’t lift and not stuck under the rock he can’t lift everywhere else at the same time.

]]> By: phlavor http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660371 phlavor Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660371 Now my faith in atheism is shaken. Thanks Obama! Now my faith in atheism is shaken. Thanks Obama!

]]> By: jorgenfleisterman http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660366 jorgenfleisterman Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660366 God-God-Man? Perfututum sumus! God-God-Man? Perfututum sumus!

]]> By: Jellodyne http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660342 Jellodyne Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660342 A rock so heavy that God-Man can't lift, spread out over a square meter or so of God-Man-Body, is still not heavy enough to dent the floor. This is making me question my theological beliefs. Perhaps I would be better served by faith in robust flooring solutions. A rock so heavy that God-Man can’t lift, spread out over a square meter or so of God-Man-Body, is still not heavy enough to dent the floor. This is making me question my theological beliefs. Perhaps I would be better served by faith in robust flooring solutions.

]]> By: SomeGuyNamedMark http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660336 SomeGuyNamedMark Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660336 Fractal god-men!  Endlessly repeating. Fractal god-men!  Endlessly repeating.

]]> By: euansmith http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660270 euansmith Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660270 Pheh... a typical deus ex caelo resolution... ;D Pheh… a typical deus ex caelo resolution… ;D

]]> By: BreakingDeadMen http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-and-w.html#comment-1660241 BreakingDeadMen Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=214227#comment-1660241 More Kirby than ever! More Kirby than ever!

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