D. Long : "Deep! I prefer to follow the logic of Calvin: I believe in predestination, because it makes me less accountable for my actions. 
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I can imagine that, for some individuals, the very notion that we are not in full control of our lives would make their stay here on Earth meaningless and unacceptable, and ending it the only logical solution. They would, though, have to appreciate the bitter irony that whether death is attainable has probably been preordained.
I am not one of those individuals. On lazy days, I like to know that someone else is taking the steering wheel. On dull days, I like to believe that I have a destiny! <rolls eyes>
Thursdays are Tijuana Shorts: Comics which feature the regular cast but are non-canon, deal with off-topic themes and may even break the 4th wall. They are noticeably shorter comics with toned-down art and less panels. Get used to them! Tijuana Regular resumes on Monday.
Lol. Well, I would like to think that my destiny included computers that work good – but they control the outcome, not me! I just about threw mine off the balcony the other day to take control back, but the bastard machine sucked me back to being nice to it again!
I appreciate what you are saying, but I have to TOTALLY disagree with you, I feel that our lives are completely ours to mold, there is no predestiny, only starting circumstances.
I love the second panel though, freakin classic!
I think I find predestiny appealing because (and this is what people tell me) I like to place the blame somewhere else when things go wrong. If it appears that I can’t delegate blame to other humans, how about to a higher power?
The sepia tone seems very effective for this one!
Anyone holding a newspaper should be relegated back to the era when sepia tones were the only choice. Newspapers are so….. out.
On my first read-through, I thought Ace Pilot was shooting the other guy in panel 2. So as I read the strip, my thinking went something like this:
1) “Oh, he took ‘fatalism’ to mean ‘the moral philosophy that encourages you to be fatal to things!’
2) “No, wait–he understood that without free will, there can be no moral culpability for your actions!”
3) “Oh wait, now he’s got the gun in his mouth…he’s realized that with no free will, we’re all better off dead.”
This comic is exceptionally clever even when you misunderstand it!
For the longest time, I assumed that fatalism meant you took a viewpoint that every action could possibly lead to, well, death, and that such people saw and acknowledged their own mortality more frequently than others. A few months back, something I happened to read ‘enlightened’ me and since then, I’d been itching to make a comic exploring this.
Now I’m curious what it was you read!
I…um, actually read a thesaurus. Actually, I was trying to find a synonym for some term for a report at work, and after clicking through a bunch of unrelated searches, I saw ‘fatalism’ and I thought, hey, I’ve always wondered what exactly that meant.
I nap, therefore I am!!
I don’t believe I have a destiny to fulfill, I believe I have choices! No matter what choices I make, for the right or for the wrong, in the end my death is certain!
Now there’s an argument for fatalism, if anything! Cos ultimately, every man is destined to die. Of course, taking the ‘ultimate’ factor into the equation in any debate is unfair and distorts the picture.
Great comic. There’s a lot to this for being a “short.”
Thanks, Tony!
You’re a pretty deep guy. I love intellectualism.
Well, I had to counter the last 20 or so comics which centered around crude, sexual humour
Mmmm, I like nothing better than a touch of philosophy in my webcomics!
Deep! I prefer to follow the logic of Calvin: I believe in predestination, because it makes me less accountable for my actions.