TOM THE DANCING BUG: ...And Who Shall Save God-Man?

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• [BreakingDeadMen]

  More Kirby than ever!

• [euansmith]

  Pheh… a typical deus ex caelo resolution… ;D

  • [jorgenfleisterman]

    God-God-Man? Perfututum sumus!

• [SomeGuyNamedMark]

  Fractal god-men!  Endlessly repeating.

• [Jellodyne]

  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.

  • [Avram Grumer]

    No rock can dent God-Floor! 

• [phlavor]

  Now my faith in atheism is shaken. Thanks Obama!

• [jorgenfleisterman]

  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.

  • [NelC]

     I think you’re thinking of Quantum Man.

    • [MikeB]

      hmm. i prefer uncertainty man. some claim to know where he is, others claim to know how fast he is moving.

      • [edgore]

        He is definitely either up in the sky, or faster than a speeding bullet.

    • [pa]

      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

  • [MarlboroTestMonkey7]

     You are obviously under the thrall of Overthinking It Man

    • [OtherMichael]

       Don’t you mean Mark Dery?

• [davecarroll]

  the comments are just as funny as the comic, even. 

• [edgore]

  It’s God-Men all the way down…

• [strangefriend]

   Ya idjits, that was the Holy Ghost!

• [chris jimson]

  God-Man is the Greatest Comic Ever (by definition.)

• [MattAtDoyle]

  God-God-Man has some impressive fronts piece… just saying.

  • [hypnosifl]

    God-God-Man is supposed to look like a Jack Kirby character, and Kirby was rather fond of that style.

• [swlabr]

  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.

  • [chris jimson]

    He was shoveling manure?

    That might be the best part of the story.

  • [Preston Sturges]

    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?”

• [turophile]

  But the unasked and unanswered question is, “Could God-Man create a stone too heavy for God-God-Man to lift”?

• [Tom]

  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.

  • [humanresource]

    You’re solution works according to the standards of theology. Theology, of course, is Aristotelian logic played with jokers wild and one-eyed jacks.