Linda? Can I ask you something?
on March 14, 2018 at 12:01 amChapter: Faith and Science
Location: SEMME Complex
“What’s Jesus done that I haven’t?” is a pretty baller thing to say, Linda.
“What’s Jesus done that I haven’t?” is a pretty baller thing to say, Linda.
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Well, I’m pretty sure Linda hasen’t been crucified or had a religion started based on what people believe she said.
She totally did the trick with the loaves and fishes, though. And turning water into wine made her very popular in college.
After what SEMME has done, and with it having demigods on payroll, I would be surprised if there weren’t religions devoted to worshipping the organization.
Yeah, all things considered, comparing herself favorably to the actual Jesus Christ (even just the HISTORICAL one, but she’s clearly alluding to the Biblical one) might have been a step in Linda’s progression from “wise authority figure who must sometimes do regrettable things” to “holy @#$%, I’d rather be led by Omarosa Manigault.”
…lots of things?
Has she walked on water? Cuz that’s a pretty iconic bit he had.
That said, it’s a pretty great line.
Most people have.
Puddles and ice, yo.
Curses, beaten by that >.< much!
Meh, even I’ve walked on water.
(you didn’t say it had to be in liquid form…)
Technically, “water” is the name for the liquid form of H2O, so yeah, they did.
(“Steam” and “Ice” being the names of the other forms.)
(I’ll see myself out.)
Actually, water vapor is the gaseous form. Steam is a heated mist that is released as a result of the boiling process under certain conditions.
…damn you.
How long did it take your mother to speak to you again after this one, Willis?
I’ve yet to see Linda flip a table, but I’m hoping for it
Have you ever yelled at a fig tree, Linda? Huh?
Yelled at and cursed a fig tree!
(This is the best call-out.)
It only counts if the fig tree actually shrivels and dies as a result of your invective.
Toddler Walky is such an adorable derp.
TODDLER BEEF IS JUST SHORT ADULT BEEF
TELL THE PEOPLE
I’m going to assume this isn’t an actual flashback for Linda, but rather Joyce trying to imagine toddler Walky and toddler Beef with… mixed success.
I think that’s a key point of Joyce’s personality that Linda has (possibly inadvertently) zeroed in on: Things that would break other people’s faith, or even just make them question it, are confirmations of faith for Joyce.
That’s true. I’m just really irked by Linda equating faith with just being someone who has plenty of empathy, knows how to be happy, and still tries as hard as an innocent child does to be happy. I’m that kind of person as an atheist, because it comes from believing in anything really powerful, which for me is nothing religious or even spiritual but just the goodness of other people and friendship.
And Joyce could be that person without religion, too. I think she already believes in love and friendship enough to pull it off. Maybe that’s what happens as the comic progresses? I never read IW in the old archives.
Dunno – sump’n ’bout wages of sin being death, so dyin’ to pay everybody else’s wages?
or some such
Linda, why do you call your son Walky, after hesitating to call your other one ‘Beef’?
Well, your options are:
(1) David is the one who matters to her and she chooses to use his real name as a pointed hint that she wants very intensely for him to grow up and act like the adult she expects him to be, whereas Beef is more or less fine at the level he is and doesn’t need to be pushed to achieve.
(2) Calling your own kid a nickname that’s more or less just your own last name is maybe kind of weird.
She uses both David and Walky in this same strip though, which is kinda silly.
I think you might be misunderstanding their comment? She hesitated on saying Beef’s name, which could either mean that it’s not a nickname that she’s very fond of… or that’s a child she’s not very fond of 😉
The thing is that she didn’t hesitate at all with using “Walky”, which would’ve been the nickname based off their own last name.
She managed to accomplish everything Jesus did and then a genocide to boot.
I hate Linda more than Jesus.
Well, okay, I don’t actually hate Jesus or really feel anything about Jesus in particular, so that wasn’t a great choice of wording to express the sentiment of, “Linda is awful and her unhindered ability to spend her adulthood playing at being this long-suffering boss and concerned mother figure is seethingly wrong to me on many levels.”
Whereas the most I’ve cared about Jesus was back in Catholic school when his existence or lack thereof took up hours of my day that I could have spent learning real things.
To be fair, engaging in the philosophical debates on whether or no any deistic construct exists or no and whether or no such an existence is meaningfully relevant to those of us on the human scale is at the least a useful exercise of critical thinking skills regardless of how you decide to view the issue after consideration*. It’s wasting one’s time and energy over how other people choose to view the topic that is the bigger issue in the long term.
*I personally came to an effectively apatheistic pantheism view myself (ie god is, from a human perspective, indistinguishable from the general workings of the universe and is irrelevant to human existence and interaction). This footnote only exists because someone inevitably asks when I make the statement it’s attached to.
Wasn’t it revealed that she wasn’t actually the one who genocided the martians?
Correct. There’s a slight wrinkle added later on down the line, but she was framed.
I really don’t get the “what I now know” part. What does she know, and what did she do, that is bigger than shutting down Hell for every person for eternity?
I think that people can die and come back again?
Yep, that’s exactly it. The last bit of shocking revelation she received was that she actually died, was framed for the Martian genocide, then resurrected and given bullshit as memories of what happened.
‘Beef’, you duke-nukey little boy.
Joyce’s faith gets tested in a way deMille would deem worthy. As pure-hearted as she is, this is an incredible burden.
Someday I hope we see the story of Linda forcing a bunch of demons into a herd of swine and then making those swine run off a cliff.
Or that time she visited a megachurch just to smash up their on-campus Starbucks.
Turned water into wine.
Worked in a toy storeShit, that hasn’t happened yet