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Cyanide and Happiness

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About

Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide & Happiness related!

History

@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works started this community and wrote:

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.

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All comics posted are freely available online. In no way is the poster claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The universe is creeping to its inevitable heat death. As such, middle panel is the most accurate, and superior to all other panels. Not that it matters when we're drifting towards nothingness anyway

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Allow me to introduce you to: Eternal Recurrence

You think you can just get to end this suffering this easily? No, you're gonna be doing this for a lot longer. Eternity longer... 🙃

(But hey, that's just a theory, an Existential Theory)

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I hope this is true because my life is good 👍

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Consensus reality, which is our cultural idea of an objective universe, should be destroyed http://soulism.net/

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Consensus reality can only be agreed upon in segments where there is an overlapping sensorium - so, those forming the consensus can only possibly agree about the segments of reality in which their sensorium overlaps.

But, in effect, the accepted consensus reality requires and is based on a least common denominator of sensory capability - our most physical and repeatable senses and experiences. This precludes the evolutionary process and non-repeatable phenomena, and embeds people in a mentality where certain kinds of growth aren't even possible to intentionally engage in.

Use a three-dimensional tool, get three-dimensional results - and the kind of certainty the analytical mind seeks is definitively a three-dimensional tool.

Fortunately, the only time that truly matters is when we wish to change others minds - and they have a right not to change. Ultimately, there is a (very reasonable) unconscious sense in some people that they live on the brink of a wild, unimaginable chaos, and they're not wrong. For as long as they can, they'll avoid that through excessively-ordered thought and cultural systems (like science is used as, even though fundamentally, the scientific method is valid).

Anyways.. ..do as thou wilt (and live the result) is the whole of the law.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

we wish to change others minds - and they have a right not to change.

I disagree. Nazis, slavers, rapists. They have no right to their beliefs. We should have a set of laws that allows us to force such people into rehabilitation.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

they do have a right to their beliefs. ..and we have a right to treat them with equivalent respect to how they would treat us. How you treat others is implicit consent to be treated the same way by them, or by those they trust.

Moreover, we have a right to protect those who seek protection, if we deem that worthwhile, and the protectee does as well.

but they all have a right to think how they do- and attempting to eliminate that thought from the collective mind is both a: fighting from a weak position, and b: even if you manage to eradicate the kinds of thought that you seek to eradicate, you simply leave yourself and those of the next generation susceptible to it.

Instead, you need to incorporate it. ..Like one would with anger. It's not wise to follow anger (and many emotions) directly. But they do indicate a problem that you may need to address. But if you simply try to stamp it out because "anger bad", you'll end up an absolute wreck spreading anger with everything you do.

..except to those who only use it as a tool to recognize when something's wrong.

I think you will be rehabilitated, in time, because you want to control how people think. ..and people who think doing so is a solution are, themselves, a danger to society, and they are susceptible to control by bad actors. Fortunately, they're generally also a self-limiting problem.