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Calvin and Hobbes
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Author(s) Bill Watterson
Website Calvin and Hobbes
Current status / schedule Concluded
Launch date November 18, 1985 (1st)[1]
End date December 31, 1995 (3,160th)
Syndicate(s) Universal Press Syndicate
Publisher(s) Andrews McMeel Publishing
Genre(s) Humor, family life, politics, satire
.Calvin and Hobbes is a syndicated daily comic strip written and illustrated by American cartoonist Bill Watterson, and syndicated from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a highly precocious and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger.^ Humor Calvin and Hobbs bill watterson calvin calvin and hobbes calvin and hobbs More...

 ^ November 18, 1985 .

 ^ As for Calvin and Hobbes, it's Bill Waterson's comic strip and if he wants to tout environmental rights, so be it.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 .The pair are named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher.^ Vote Up Calvin was named after John Calvin .

 ^ Century Reformer, Theologian and prolific author.
  • Calvinism: The debate simplified 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.oldtruth.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Watterson named Hobbes after Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century philosopher, who has a dim view of human nature and this attitude is reflected in the comic strip over and over.

 [2] .At its height, Calvin and Hobbes was featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide; as of January 2010, reruns of the strip still appear in more than 50 countries (though not in North America).^ Hobbes though, should obviously sound more adult than Calvin.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Calvin and Hobbes were separeted, and after the twister dissipated, C&H, still separeted, flew all the way to Platte, Nebraska!
  • Cool Calvin Collection: Calvin & Hobes Movie Forum 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC books.dreambook.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ I also see that for some reason the eunuch appeared to be more concerned with water baptism than anything else.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 [1] .Nearly 45 million copies of the 18 Calvin and Hobbes books have been sold.^ AlexReynolds at 11:07 AM on February 28, 2005 If I buy a Calvin & Hobbes book, the book itself becomes mine.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In the Tenth Anniversary Calvin and Hobbes book, Bill Waterson said he hated the idea of an actor voicing Calvin and the rest of his characters.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ In addition to the Institutes, Calvin wrote commentaries on nearly all of the books of both the Old and New Testaments.
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 [1]
.Set in the contemporary Midwestern United States in an unspecified suburban community, the broad themes of the strip deal with Calvin's flights of fantasy and his friendship with Hobbes, his misadventures, his unique views on a diverse range of political and cultural issues and his relationships with the people in his life, especially his parents.^ Calvin and Hobbes didn't work because it was popular but because it was a well-written strip with imaginative concepts and layouts throughout.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ As for Calvin and Hobbes, it's Bill Waterson's comic strip and if he wants to tout environmental rights, so be it.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ When we come to study the influence of Calvinism as a political force in the history of the United States we come to one of the brightest pages of all Calvinistic history.
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The dual nature of Hobbes is also a recurring motif: Calvin sees Hobbes as a live anthropomorphic tiger, while other characters see him as a stuffed toy.^ He may be a stuffed animals to other adults, but to me he is just what Calvin sees, a real live tiger.

 ^ Explore Calvin and Hobbes at their best - rare cartoons, funny pictures, videos, and decide for yourself what the funniest Calvin and Hobbes cartoon is and see what others think .

 ^ It would be about Calvin being dragged under the bed by the monsters and Hobbes going after him.
  • Cool Calvin Collection: Calvin & Hobes Movie Forum 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC books.dreambook.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .Though the series does not mention specific political figures or current events, it does explore broad issues like environmentalism, public education, and the flaws of opinion polls.^ There are things that God does to people who trust Him, though their trust is not what causes those events to occur.

 ^ Sorry you didn't like the later years, but many of us did, and I for one didn't have any idea that politics figured into it at all.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Incredibly, public opinion polls show that around 60 percent of Americans believe that the grisly fantasies in Revelation will come true one day.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 [3]
The United States Postal Service announced on December 30, 2009 that a Calvin & Hobbes postage stamp will be issued in July 2010.[4]

Contents

History

“ I thought it was perhaps too 'adult,' too literate. When my then-8-year-old son remarked, "This is the Doonesbury for kids!" I suspected we had something unusual on our hands. ”

—Lee Salem, Watterson's editor at Universal, recalling his reaction after seeing Watterson's first submission[1]

.Calvin and Hobbes was conceived when Bill Watterson, having worked in an advertising job he detested,[5] began devoting his spare time to cartooning, his true love.^ Humor Calvin and Hobbs bill watterson calvin calvin and hobbes calvin and hobbs More...

 ^ If Bill Watterson is working on it alone then I'm all for it.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ I'm anticipating having a lovely time in this thread.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 .He explored various strip ideas but all were rejected by the syndicates.^ Vote Up The comic strip was rejected several times before being accepted and syndicated by United Press syndicate.

 .United Feature Syndicate finally responded positively to one strip, which featured a side character (the main character's little brother) who had a stuffed tiger.^ Because he has more holy things to attend to, he becomes the one who willfully passes by the man robbed and left for dead at the side of the road.
  • Hyper-Calvinism: A Brief Definition :: :: A Reformed, Christian Blog 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.challies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ McFetridge in his splendid little book, "Calvinism in History," says, "If we ask again, Who brought the final great deliverance to English liberty?
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I find that ultimately this issue is inconclusive for either the Calvinist or Arminian side or for any other position one might hold.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Told that these characters were the strongest, Watterson began a new strip centered on them.^ I love the way Watterson portrayed these 2 characters.

 [6] .But United Feature rejected the new strip, and Watterson endured a few more rejections before Universal Press Syndicate decided to take it.^ "Calvin and Hobbes" has been used with permission from Universal Press Syndicate.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The implications of this new physics is that there may be far more dimensions to the universe than the three you know.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Most of these passages are easy to interpret in my opinion, while a few are a little more wavering and take reasoning to understand.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 [7][8]
.The first strip was published on November 18, 1985, and the series quickly became a hit.^ November 18, 1985 .

 ^ The first of the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon series was published on November 18, 1985.

 ^ Vote Up The first cartoon appeared on November 18, 1985.

 Within a year of syndication, the strip was published in roughly 250 newspapers. .Before long the strip was in wide circulation outside the United States.^ Vote Up The comic strip was rejected several times before being accepted and syndicated by United Press syndicate.

 ^ In 1836 Wolff was invited to present his second advent message before the United States Congress and the legislatures of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .By April 1, 1987, Watterson and his work were featured in an article by The Los Angeles Times.^ Did it cease to be Watterson's creative work at that time?
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ PM on February 27, 2005 Is it okay for the government to force Watterson's works into the public domain after a time limit?
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 [7] Calvin and Hobbes twice earned Watterson the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year category, first in 1986 and again in 1988. He was nominated again in 1992. The Society awarded him the Humor Comic Strip Award for 1988.[9]
Watterson took two extended breaks from writing new strips, from May 1991 to February 1992, and from April through December 1994. In 1995, Watterson sent a letter via his syndicate to all editors whose newspapers carried his strip:
.I will be stopping Calvin and Hobbes at the end of the year.^ Along with his alter-ego, Hobbes, a stuffed tiger, Calvin gets into more trouble than a room full of 6-year olds could.

 ^ And not many on here are going to download 10 years worth of Calvin and Hobbes comics and put them in a book, while more will now be aware of the $95 book on sale in August.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin :     I'm writing my autobiography Hobbes :   But you're just six years old.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 This was not a recent or an easy decision, and I leave with some sadness. My interests have shifted however, and I believe I've done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small panels. I am eager to work at a more thoughtful pace, with fewer artistic compromises. .I have not yet decided on future projects, but my relationship with Universal Press Syndicate will continue.^ "Calvin and Hobbes" has been used with permission from Universal Press Syndicate.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) .
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Universal Press Syndicate Denies Movie ...
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 .That so many newspapers would carry Calvin and Hobbes is an honor I'll long be proud of, and I've greatly appreciated your support and indulgence over the last decade.^ Vote Up Hobbes and Calvin wearing newspaper hats (chapeaux) during meetings.

 ^ Besides the passage does not say what you want it say, although to support your doctrine it would almost have to say what you state but the fact remains, it does not say what you state.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ My question to you would be do you really believe you defended your faith with Scriptural support?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .Drawing this comic strip has been a privilege and a pleasure, and I thank you for giving me the opportunity.^ Why do you think God would give His creatures the opportunity to choose Him or Satan or atheism ?
  • Calvinism vs. Arminianism? 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.gotquestions.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Comic strips..You are forgetting some good ones people.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ First of all, I would like to thank you all for the very civil and friendly give and take on this very divisive and heartfelt issue.
  • Calvinism vs. Arminianism? 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.gotquestions.org [Source type: Original source]
.The 3,160th and final strip ran on Sunday, December 31, 1995.[10] It depicted Calvin and Hobbes outside in freshly-fallen snow, reveling in the wonder and excitement of the winter scene.^ Vote Up The final strip ran on December 31, 1995.

 ^ I always thought that I saw a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon back almost 10-15 years ago on Disney before I became a fan of the comic strip, but I've since told my self that I was imagining it.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Reply kimark421 kimark421 Jul 27, 2009 @ 10:49 am Calvin and Hobbes rocks...have always been a fan.

 ."It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy...^ Vote Up It's A Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson .

 .Let's go exploring!"^ Let's go exploring.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 Calvin exclaims as they zoom off on their sled,[11] leaving, according to one critic ten years later, "a hole in the comics page that no strip has been able to fill."[12]

Syndication and formatting

.From the outset, Watterson found himself at odds with the syndicate, which urged him to begin merchandising the characters and touring the country to promote the first collections of comic strips.^ The first collection of comic strips had this cover.

 ^ Watterson named Hobbes after Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century philosopher, who has a dim view of human nature and this attitude is reflected in the comic strip over and over.

 ^ Even if the comic strips were Creativity Itself, Watterson would still have his creativity.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 Watterson refused. .To him, the integrity of the strip and its artist would be undermined by commercialization, which he saw as a major negative influence in the world of cartoon art.^ John Piper would be a major source of the influence of supralapsarianism.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinism and the Divine Decrees – Correcting a Misunderstanding 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ That would make them more as they really are, not sucked into the commercial world.
  • Cool Calvin Collection: Calvin & Hobes Movie Forum 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC books.dreambook.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ That way, they would be more like they really are, not sucked into the commercial world.
  • Cool Calvin Collection: Calvin & Hobes Movie Forum 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC books.dreambook.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 [13]
Watterson also grew increasingly frustrated by the gradual shrinking of available space for comics in the newspapers. .He lamented that without space for anything more than simple dialogue or spare artwork, comics as an art form were becoming dilute, bland, and unoriginal.^ It is more than a simple invitation.
  • The problem(s) with Calvinism | Casey's Critical Thinking 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.hoshuha.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I have little doubt that there were some in the convention who leaned to the left, but I am also convinced that there were many who were more conservative than anything else, yet were painted with a wide brush.
  • Connellism Versus Calvinism: You Be the Judge « Provocations & Pantings 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC timmybrister.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I also see that for some reason the eunuch appeared to be more concerned with water baptism than anything else.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 [13][14] .Watterson strove for a full-page version of his strip, in contrast to the few cells allocated for most strips.^ On the bottom of the page you'll even see a comment by Watterson about how this strip was used most by bootleggers in the early days of bootlegging C&H. These are not studio animations.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 .He longed for the artistic freedom allotted to classic strips such as Little Nemo and Krazy Kat, and he gave a sample of what could be accomplished with such liberty in the opening pages of the Sunday strip compilation, The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book.^ I love and collect Calvin and Hobbes books!

 ^ That more important issue is the souls who could be lost because some have insisted on their liberty without regard for the effect that their exercise of freedom will have on those that are weak.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You'll also find places to buy cool Calvin And Hobbes books and other "stuff" for yourself or others.

 [15]
.During Watterson's first sabbatical from the strip, Universal Press Syndicate continued to charge newspapers full price to re-run old Calvin and Hobbes strips.^ "Calvin and Hobbes" has been used with permission from Universal Press Syndicate.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Watterson named Hobbes after Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century philosopher, who has a dim view of human nature and this attitude is reflected in the comic strip over and over.

 ^ To the poster who said Watterson left Calvin and Hobbes and never looked back, if you were directly quoting him then he said he left the "strip" behind and had moved on to "other pursuits"(i.e.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 .Few editors approved of the move, but the strip was so popular that they had little choice but to continue to run it for fear that competing newspapers might pick it up and draw its fans away.^ John wrote: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us” (1 Jn.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In the Middle East Christians continue to worship in the languages of their ancestors, even where they themselves grew up with Arabic as their mother tongue.

 ^ Like every kid, there was only one reason to pick up a newspaper ever....the comics section.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 [16]
This half-page layout can easily be rearranged for full, third, and quarter pages.
.Upon Watterson's return, Universal Press announced that Watterson had decided to sell his Sunday strip as an unbreakable half of a newspaper or tabloid page.^ Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) .
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Buzz Maverick: "One Half Of Me Admires Watterson For Refusing To Sell Out, The Other Half Is Suspicious Of Him For Refusing To Sell Out.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ One Half Of Me Admires Watterson For Refusing To Sell Out, The O by Buzz Maverik .
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 .Many editors and even a few cartoonists criticized him[17] for what they perceived as arrogance and an unwillingness to abide by the normal practices of the cartoon business.^ The "hang up" of many Calvinists is they think that belief is a work when in fact it is a God given and empowered ability to respond to Him.
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Calvinism - 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.bible-truth.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Joh 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him” (Mark 1:27).
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Watterson had negotiated the deal to allow himself more creative freedom in the Sunday comics.^ Even if the comic strips were Creativity Itself, Watterson would still have his creativity.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ More accurately, it *allows* libertarian freedom, specifically for unfallen man (it doesn’t require it).
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 Watterson's explanation for the switch:
.I took a sabbatical after resolving a long and emotionally draining fight to prevent Calvin and Hobbes from being merchandised.^ Calvin and Hobbes fight them, yadda yadda yadda....
  • Cool Calvin Collection: Calvin & Hobes Movie Forum 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC books.dreambook.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ So Calvin and Hobbes must save the world.They fight all his minions and stuff like that.It sould be rated PG for crude humor and mild lanuge.
  • Cool Calvin Collection: Calvin & Hobes Movie Forum 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC books.dreambook.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ PM on February 28, 2005 Is Calvin & Hobbes really worth fighting over?
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Looking for a way to rekindle my enthusiasm for the duration of a new contract term, I proposed a redesigned Sunday format that would permit more panel flexibility.^ Positively, they would gain new knowledge, earn their daily bread in a better way, use their talents more effectively, and enjoy liberty of ordinances.

 ^ On the one side, Middle-Way Calvinism was looking more like Arminianism, and on the other, High Calvinism seemed to be absorbing doctrinal antinomianism.

 ^ As for slavery example, I would argue that it was more of the eisgesis being used today in terms of the egalitarian position used in that day to defend slavery.
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]

 .To my surprise and delight, Universal responded with an offer to market the strip as an unbreakable half page (more space than I'd dared to ask for), despite the expected resistance of editors.^ Reread my John 6 -STOP allowing words more than context and culture to dictate meaning.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I didn’t see your “I should probably clarify my last comment.” post, I should refresh the web page more often.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The implications of this new physics is that there may be far more dimensions to the universe than the three you know.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .To this day, my syndicate assures me that some editors liked the new format, appreciated the difference, and were happy to run the larger strip, but I think it's fair to say that this was not the most common reaction.^ I think I have some other books but they never held my interest.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I will say that I have some serious doubts concerning your opinion of most of the Scripture that you discussed.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now, maybe some of the more logically minded among us can check my math on this, but if a Dawkin-like universe...
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The syndicate had warned me to prepare for numerous cancellations of the Sunday feature, but after a few weeks of dealing with howling, purple-faced editors, the syndicate suggested that papers could reduce the strip to the size tabloid newspapers used for their smaller sheets of paper.^ Their size is designed to be layed inside a large cookie sheet, though they could be placed on a baking stone.
  • 5 Kitchen Gadgets you can't live without??? - Cookware - Chowhound 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC chowhound.chow.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ At one time it could be said that Toronto was one of a very few North American urban centres featuring a more-or-less complete streetcar system.

 ^ This might/could suggest that the vessel of mercy are prepared beforehand in that God has eternally elected them while the vassals of wrath are prepared on their own in time (i.e.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinism and the Divine Decrees – Correcting a Misunderstanding 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ... .I focused on the bright side: I had complete freedom of design and there were virtually no cancellations.^ I have friends on all sides of each issue there and when it comes to evangelism and worship, we’ve done it all and we’ve had no problem.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There is no winning an argument when one side won't listen.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If there is no freedom of choice then everything is unalterably fixed and the whole scheme of redemption and appeal to repentance becomes meaningless.
  • PREDESTINATION 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.glenacres.org [Source type: Original source]

 .For all the yelling and screaming by outraged editors, I remain convinced that the larger Sunday strip gave newspapers a better product and made the comics section more fun for readers.^ Ummm...people keep talking about the greatest comic strip ever made.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Like every kid, there was only one reason to pick up a newspaper ever....the comics section.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Thus in all definitions of the arts there was dichotomy, as each definition was made up of two parts, each of which subsequently divided into two more parts.

 Comics are a visual medium. A strip with a lot of drawing can be exciting and add some variety. .Proud as I am that I was able to draw a larger strip, I don't expect to see it happen again any time soon.^ Of course, that seems to be changing these days, though I don’t think psychiatry will be redefining half the U.S. population as psychotic any time soon.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I will admit that I cringe every time I see Garfield ( I don't read it, I just cringe every time I see the name), because it has been awful for a while.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ I'd like to see something animated, but I don't believe it will happen.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 .In the newspaper business, space is money, and I suspect most editors would still say that the difference is not worth the cost.^ I can see how most that follow your doctrine would say that it is hard to fully understand.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now I understand that to an outsider, they might not be able to separate that difference but you say that you have read the New Testament and you still cringe when you hear the name of Jesus?
  • Hot Air » Blog Archive » The obligatory “cussing pastor makes Calvinism cool again” post 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC hotair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If Calvin were to reappear today, says Rolston, he would repudiate the Confession and demand the production of another which proceeded from different principles.

 .Sadly, the situation is a vicious circle: because there's no room for better artwork, the comics are simply drawn; because they're simply drawn, why should they have more room?^ And why should they not call it so now?
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Because they're not His sheep.

 ^ But why should they not cause astonishment ?
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

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Animation

.Watterson did consider allowing Calvin and Hobbes to be animated, and has expressed admiration for the art form.^ Calvin & Hobbes is art.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Calvin and Hobbes animation .

 ^ CALVIN & HOBBES animation cels by slone13 .
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 In a 1989 interview in The Comics Journal he said:
.If you look at the old cartoons by Tex Avery and Chuck Jones, you'll see that there are a lot of things single drawings just can't do.^ So we’ll see there.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinism and the Divine Decrees – Correcting a Misunderstanding 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But maybe – just maybe – there are practical things we can do when we do.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Mary Lee and I hope we'll see you there!
  • BaylyBlog: Out of our minds, too...: Reformed theology 20 November 2009 21:54 UTC www.baylyblog.com [Source type: General]

 Animators can get away with incredible distortion and exaggeration... because the animator can control the length of time you see something. The bizarre exaggeration barely has time to register, and the viewer doesn't ponder the incredible license he's witnessed. .In a comic strip, you just show the highlights of action – you can't show the buildup and release...^ Comic strips..You are forgetting some good ones people.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ What you, and all the men you quoted, need to do is not just say that hypers believe X. What you need instead to do is to show that ALL non-hypers believe Y instead of X, and Y is the condition that must be met in order to be a consistent non-hyper.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinism and the Divine Decrees – Correcting a Misunderstanding 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Like some of you have mentioned, I too stopped reading the daily comic strips after C & H ended.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 or at least not without slowing down the pace of everything to the point where it's like looking at individual frames of a movie, in which case you've probably lost the effect you were trying to achieve. .In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do.^ PG for crude violence and mild language The trailer should go like this: an; "A very important time in your life, (clips of comics) ...is now a motion picture event" Calvin; "WHOA" an; "This is calvin."
  • Cool Calvin Collection: Calvin & Hobes Movie Forum 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC books.dreambook.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ I suggest you spend some time studying with someone who understands what wave function for particles (not just electrons), spin couplings, etc.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If God knows everything you will ever do – even before time began – why make you go through the motions anyway?
  • Hot Air » Blog Archive » The obligatory “cussing pastor makes Calvinism cool again” post 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC hotair.com [Source type: Original source]

 I have a real awe for good animation.[13]
.After this he was asked if it was "a bit scary to think of hearing Calvin's voice". He responded that it was "very scary", and that although he loved the visual possibilities of animation, the thought of casting voice actors to play his characters was uncomfortable.^ You see, Mr. Calvinist....you are very sincere and think that you are defending God and His sovereignty ....but dear friend , God does not need the help of John Calvin or any Calvinist to defend His sovereignty and never has.
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Calvinism - 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.bible-truth.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In the Tenth Anniversary Calvin and Hobbes book, Bill Waterson said he hated the idea of an actor voicing Calvin and the rest of his characters.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Secondly, I agree with the general sentiment that hearing specific voices for the characters is bound to spoil what is, on it's own terms, a genuinely moving and beautiful strip.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 .He was also unsure whether he wanted to work with an animation team, as he had done all previous work by himself.^ Despite this God in his grace and through the work of Jesus Christ is drawing ALL people to himself.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I can choose to be poor or I can choose to rich…it just all depends on how hard I want to work.
  • Calvinism vs. Arminianism? 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.gotquestions.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I’m not totally hostile to your point here, but seriously, all you’ve shown me is that you WANT Hebrew culture to work this way.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 [13] .Ultimately, Calvin and Hobbes was never made into an animated series.^ Calvin and Hobbes animation .

 ^ Never published Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

 ^ CALVIN & HOBBES animation cels by slone13 .
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 .Watterson later stated in the Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book that he liked the fact that his strip was a "low-tech, one-man operation", and took great pride in the fact that he drew every line and wrote every word on his own.^ I love and collect Calvin and Hobbes books!

 ^ A great book for every library.

 ^ To the poster who said Watterson left Calvin and Hobbes and never looked back, if you were directly quoting him then he said he left the "strip" behind and had moved on to "other pursuits"(i.e.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

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Merchandising

.Bill Watterson insists that cartoon strips should stand on their own as an art form and has resisted the use of Calvin and Hobbes in merchandising of any sort.^ Humor Calvin and Hobbs bill watterson calvin calvin and hobbes calvin and hobbs More...

 ^ Calvin & Hobbes is art.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Never published Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

 [8] Watterson explained in a 2005 press release:
.Actually, I wasn't against all merchandising when I started the strip, but each product I considered seemed to violate the spirit of the strip, contradict its message, and take me away from the work I loved.^ However, such a view of God violates the love-drenched spirit of the New Testament and would likely horrify the Apostle Paul.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Therefore, he works meticulously to remove all knowledge of God and of His word from our minds before it can take root in us.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

 .If my syndicate had let it go at that, the decision would have taken maybe 30 seconds of my life.^ And that would mean I'm sitting here in bed as precious moments of my all-too-short life disappear forever.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In my words, a woman must make her own decisions concerning her own life, and be responsible and accountable for her own children before God, and she must take on self-advocacy in order to do this.
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If God gives life to a man, lets him be born with the sin nature, and decrees that man to hell then God is the cause of the man going to hell .
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Calvinism - 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.bible-truth.org [Source type: Original source]

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.Almost no legitimate Calvin and Hobbes merchandise exists outside of the book collections.^ I love and collect Calvin and Hobbes books!

 ^ You'll also find places to buy cool Calvin And Hobbes books and other "stuff" for yourself or others.

 ^ I'm sorry, there is no Calvin and Hobbes movie in production, and there are no plans for such.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 [21] .Exceptions include two 16-month calendars (1988–1989 and 1989–1990), the textbook Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes,[22] the textbook The Fallacy Detective,[23] and one T-shirt for a traveling art exhibit on comics.^ Calvin & Hobbes is art.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ As for Calvin and Hobbes, it's Bill Waterson's comic strip and if he wants to tout environmental rights, so be it.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ In it he presents a decent spiel on Calvinism and why he thinks it's correct, as well as a list of 23 questions to persuade one to accept his position.
.However, the strip's immense popularity has led to the appearance of various counterfeit items such as window decals and T-shirts that often feature crude humor, binge drinking and other themes that are not found in Watterson's work.^ The various constants in nature, such as gravity and the speed of light, are too precisely fitted with each other for this to happen by chance.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You say "The various constants in nature, such as gravity and the speed of light, are too precisely fitted with each other for this to happen by chance."
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How much of Watterson's original work would you feel is okay to use in such a mash-up?
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 [24] .After threat of a lawsuit alleging infringement of copyright and trademark, some sticker makers replaced Calvin with a different boy, while other makers made no changes.^ Not only Calvin but also Luther and countless other reformers who have held many of these convictions have made great contributions to the expansion of Christianity.
  • PREDESTINATION 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.glenacres.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Simply affirming it's the case that copyright infringement is theft is no more persuasive than simply affirming that it's not.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Some copyright infringement is indeed considered a criminal offense, even if the word "is" needs to be redefined.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 [25] Watterson wryly commented, "I clearly miscalculated how popular it would be to show Calvin urinating on a Ford logo."[20]

Style and influences

.Precedents to Calvin's fantasy world can be found in Crockett Johnson's Barnaby, Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts, Percy Crosby's Skippy, Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County, and George Herriman's Krazy Kat, while Watterson's use of comics as sociopolitical commentary reaches back to Walt Kelly's Pogo and Quino's Mafalda.^ The guy produced lightning in a bottle- like Krazy Kat (the greatest pice of mass-media art of the last century) or Peanuts.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Bloom County is still my favorite, but Calvin and Hobbes is a very close second.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ In my opinion, C&H and Bloom County are the 2 best comic strips in history.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 Schulz and Kelly particularly influenced Watterson's outlook on comics during his formative years.[8]
.In initial strips the drawings have a flatter, Peanuts-like look; in later strips, the drawings show more depth.^ On the one side, Middle-Way Calvinism was looking more like Arminianism, and on the other, High Calvinism seemed to be absorbing doctrinal antinomianism.

 ^ Link to the file It looked like no more than an oversized grapefruit with whiskers.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ This one has a map of the region, showing what the so-called lost continent might have looked like.

 .Notable elements of Watterson's artistic style are his characters' diverse and often exaggerated expressions (particularly those of Calvin), elaborate and bizarre backgrounds for Calvin's flights of imagination, expressions of motion, and frequent visual jokes and metaphors.^ For those of you interested in the issues of Calvinism and Arminianism Calvinists often make the worst Calvinists Tension in Calvinism – tension in the Christian faith Can You Marry the Wrong Person?
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinism and the Divine Decrees – Correcting a Misunderstanding 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I can actually see Susie's voice based on the styles of those two characters.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 .In the later years of the strip, with more space available for his use, Watterson experimented more freely with different panel layouts, art styles, stories without dialogue, and greater use of whitespace.^ That came later and became elevated further than simply recognizing a person's gifts and freeing him or her to operate more fully in them.
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Without these grim eschatological musings fundamentalists would have to use less effective stories to scare their children and to demonize the "outsiders".
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This is a question for ANYONE HERE. I can understand what you are saying about how God can use-without creating-evil for a greater good (eg.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .He also made a point of not showing certain things explicitly: the "Noodle Incident" and the children's book Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie were left to the reader's imagination, where Watterson was sure they would be "more outrageous" than he could portray.^ They would be left scratching their heads.
  • BaylyBlog: Out of our minds, too...: Reformed theology 20 November 2009 21:54 UTC www.baylyblog.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Watterson is more than a cartoonist.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ But it could have more than one application.

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.Watterson's technique started with minimalist pencil sketches drawn with a light pencil (though the larger Sunday strips often required more elaborate work); he then would use a small sable brush and India ink on the Strathmore bristol board to complete most of the remaining drawing.^ Would you feel differently if this were a "comic mash-up" of Watterson's work?
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ PM on February 27, 2005 So that would indicate he's rather against the idea of a hundred-dollar book of his works, and rather more in support of free distribution.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Positively, they would gain new knowledge, earn their daily bread in a better way, use their talents more effectively, and enjoy liberty of ordinances.

 He lettered dialogue with a Rapidograph fountain pen, and he used a crowquill pen for odds and ends.[27] He used Liquid Paper to correct mistakes. He was careful in his use of color, often spending a great deal of time in choosing the right colors to employ for the weekly Sunday strip.[28] .When Calvin and Hobbes started there were 64 colors available for the Sunday strips.^ There should be a Calvin and Hobbes movie!!!
  • Cool Calvin Collection: Calvin & Hobes Movie Forum 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC books.dreambook.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ This was returned to me today when I asked them yesterday if there was any pre-production or prduction of any sorts on a Calvin and Hobbes movie ...
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ However, for those of you who said you stopped reading the Sunday funnies, there's a strip that makes it worth reading again.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 .For the later Sunday strips Watterson had 125 colors as well as the ability to fade the colors into each other.^ Our ability to enter into the suffering of others cannot be stretched indefinitely.

 ^ I QUOTE: "When I quit the strip, I put my cartoons in boxes, and jumped into other persuits.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

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Art and academia

.Watterson used the strip to poke fun at the art world, principally through Calvin's unconventional creations of snowmen but also through other expressions of childhood art.^ He uses evenings and mornings as a description for a sequence, but that includes events before the Sun and Earth were created, so that suggests he was using those words in some other way than we use them.
  • Hot Air » Blog Archive » The obligatory “cussing pastor makes Calvinism cool again” post 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC hotair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ To the poster who said Watterson left Calvin and Hobbes and never looked back, if you were directly quoting him then he said he left the "strip" behind and had moved on to "other pursuits"(i.e.
  • Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC www.aintitcool.com [Source type: General]

 ^ The doctrine of election is a man-made doctrine created by none other that John Calvin, who was uninspired and unauthorized to do such.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 When Miss Wormwood complains that he is wasting class time drawing impossible things (a Stegosaurus in a rocket ship, for example), Calvin proclaims himself "on the cutting edge of the avant-garde." He begins exploring the medium of snow when a warm day melts his snowman. .His next sculpture "speaks to the horror of our own mortality, inviting the viewer to contemplate the evanescence of life."^ Link to the file Hollywood horror flicks have captivated us with alien blobs, but the slime slithering on our own planet is as beguiling.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 In further strips, Calvin's creative instincts diversify to include sidewalk drawings (or as he terms them, examples of "suburban postmodernism").
Watterson also lampooned the academic world. .In one example, Calvin writes a "revisionist autobiography," recruiting Hobbes to take pictures of him doing stereotypical kid activities like playing sports in order to make him seem more well-adjusted.^ Take the Russians as just one example.

 ^ Calvin and Hobbes have a party and during the party there should be a war between calvin's classmates vs. Calvin, Hobbes and you guessed it Susie, susie is only on his team because she was forced to so it would be fair, because Calvin said him and Hobbes could do it on their own, then hobbes said that they needed at least one more.
  • Cool Calvin Collection: Calvin & Hobes Movie Forum 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC books.dreambook.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Like so many belief systems, Calvinism is subject misunderstanding, stereotyping, and the propagation of misinformation.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinism and the Divine Decrees – Correcting a Misunderstanding 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .In another strip, he carefully crafts an "artist's statement," claiming that such essays convey more messages than artworks themselves ever do (Hobbes blandly notes "You misspelled Weltanschauung").^ You can vote for more than 1 caption but it will only accept 1 vote per caption per person.

 ^ If God just arbitrarily chooses to save some that may be even more wicked than you or me, but he does not save me, how could that be showing the love of God?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "I have seen more proper exegis come from Pyro, than I have in anything you have ever done, but you beeing so high on your self can not accept that.

 He indulges in what Watterson calls "pop psychobabble" to justify his destructive rampages and shift blame to his parents, citing "toxic codependency." In one instance, he pens a book report based on the theory that the purpose of academic writing is to "inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity," titled The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes. Displaying his creation to Hobbes, he remarks, "Academia, here I come!" Watterson explains that he adapted this jargon (and similar examples from several other strips) from an actual book of art criticism.[29]
.Overall, Watterson's satirical essays serve to attack both sides, criticizing both the commercial mainstream and the artists who are supposed to be "outside" it.^ I could name a bunch of academic theologians--but more, many pastors--who are on both sides of this divide and yet have no problem...
  • BaylyBlog: Out of our minds, too...: Reformed theology 20 November 2009 21:54 UTC www.baylyblog.com [Source type: General]

 Not long after he began drawing his "Dinosaurs in Rocket Ships" series, Calvin tells Hobbes:
.The hard part for us avant-garde post-modern artists is deciding whether or not to embrace commercialism.^ Part I: Thought: whether Google is making us stupid...
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .Do we allow our work to be hyped and exploited by a market that's simply hungry for the next new thing?^ It is easy to get confused and to think that our works after salvation save us, but they are simply the normal, natural by products of the salvation that has already occurred.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Instead of saying what it actually says, it would have to say this, He works all things after the counsel of OUR will.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .Do we participate in a system that turns high art into low art so it's better suited for mass consumption?^ High Calvinism went half-way towards Crispianism and in some cases turned into Hyper-Calvinism.

 ^ ID has been called "creationism in a fancy suit", and it's finding its way into high school classrooms.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 Of course, when an artist goes commercial, he makes a mockery of his status as an outsider and free thinker. He buys into the crass and shallow values art should transcend. He trades the integrity of his art for riches and fame.
...
Oh, what the heck. I'll do it.
.The strip for Sunday, June 21, 1992 criticized the naming of the Big Bang as unevocative of the wonders behind it.^ And scientists to create medicines, Viagra, and opened up the wonders of the universe for me from the Big Bang, expanding/collapsing universe to nature itself from pygmy sharks to the lemmings.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Posted by David & Tim Bayly, Sunday, 21 June 2009 .
  • BaylyBlog: Out of our minds, too...: Reformed theology 20 November 2009 21:54 UTC www.baylyblog.com [Source type: General]

 .The strip coined "Horrendous Space Kablooie," an alternative which has achieved some popularity among the scientific community, particularly in informal discussion and often shortened to "the HSK."[30] The term has also been referenced in newspapers,[31][32] books,[33] and university courses.^ Discussion is good, but there are some things things that are scientifically, morally and philosophically right or wrong in the black and white sense.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In England the Institutes enjoyed an almost unrivaled popularity, and was used as a text book in the universities.
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There are lots of used book stores, and the University of Toronto Bookstore , right across the street from the ICS. And of course I love the public transportation system .

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Social criticisms

With rare exception, the strip avoided reference to actual people or events. Watterson lampoons public decadence and apathy, commercialism, and the pandering nature of the mass media.
.In one instance, Calvin tells Hobbes about a science fiction story he has read in which machines turn humans into zombie slaves.^ Calvin :     I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by Man's destruction of forests.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin - I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.

 ^ So rapidly did Calvinism spread throughout France that Fisher in his History of the Reformation tells us that in 1561 the Calvinists numbered one-fourth of the entire population.
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Hobbes comments about the irony of machines controlling people instead of the other way around; Calvin then exclaims, "I'll say.^ Actually, it was the other way around.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What has Calvinism and hyper-Calvinism to say about this, I wonder.
  • Hyper-Calvinism: A Brief Definition :: :: A Reformed, Christian Blog 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.challies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin and Susie will roll around in the mud in a meadow and it will be raining and arms would be around each other and they will kiss and lick and bite each other will doing it for 72 hours.
  • Cool Calvin Collection: Calvin & Hobes Movie Forum 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC books.dreambook.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 Hey! What time is it?? My TV show is on!" and sprints back inside to watch it. .Another strip depicted Calvin's science fiction story about an extraterrestrial spaceship sucking up Earth's oceans and air.^ What we do about it is another story.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ When I read the claim that "God is perfect," I think about a theory suggested by Isaac Asimov, a science fiction writer who was also a top-flight writer of science fact.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If people cannot suck it up and be adult about their disagreement, it’s not the doctrine’s fault – it’s the meathead’s fault.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 To the cries of the suffocating victims, the aliens reply that this is preferable to the loss of their jobs. Calvin is concerned that his story is too far-fetched, to which Hobbes responds "Not enough, actually".

Characters

See also: Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin

Main article: Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
Calvin
Calvin
.Named after the 16th-century theologian, Calvin is an impulsive, sometimes overly creative, imaginative, energetic, curious, intelligent, often selfish, rude, and usually bad-tempered six-year-old, whose last name is never mentioned in the strip.^ She was often the target of Calvin's water baloons but usually she never got wet.

 ^ Calvin is a 6-year old, who is intelligent, curious, creative and has a huge imagination.

 ^ Watterson named Hobbes after Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century philosopher, who has a dim view of human nature and this attitude is reflected in the comic strip over and over.

 [36] Despite his low grades, Calvin has a larger vocabulary than many adults and an emerging philosophical mind:
.Calvin: "Dad, are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my accomplishments will validate your mediocre life and in some way compensate for all of the opportunities you botched?"^ That would mean this life is all you get.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvinism is like Islam basically for the way it controls your life.
  • Hot Air » Blog Archive » The obligatory “cussing pastor makes Calvinism cool again” post 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC hotair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So choose life in order that you may live , you and your descendants, .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
.Father: "If I were, you can bet I'd be re-evaluating my strategy."^ Joh 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Wm Tanksley, unless you’re a materialist, I’m at least puzzled by your suggestion that God and biochemical processes are causally responsible for my existence.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ (Matthew 25:34) “Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
  • Calvinism vs. Arminianism? 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.gotquestions.org [Source type: Original source]
.Calvin, later to his mother: "Mom, Dad keeps insulting me."^ Calvin :     Dad, did you do a mating dance when you first saw Mom?
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin :     Where do we keep all our chainsaws, Mom?
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin :     I asked Dad if Mom was going to have a baby, and he said not that he knew of.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]
He commonly wears his distinctive red-and-black striped shirt, black pants, and white-and-magenta sneakers.[37] .He is also an enthusiastic reader of comic books and has a tendency to order items marketed in comic books or on boxes of his favorite cereal, Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.^ Calvin :     I'll bet you'd rather have a bowl of tasty, lip-smacking crunchy-on-the-outside, chey-on-the-inside, chocolate frosted sugar bombs!
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 Watterson described Calvin:
.Calvin is pretty easy to do because he is outgoing and rambunctious and there's not much of a filter between his brain and his mouth.^ Watterson describes Calvin as easy to create because "there's not much of a filter between his brain and his mouth."

 ^ I hope we can get past this because there is much more at stake here than who is causing who offense.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Why hsa there been, as you will see in recording of the controversy, so much attention paid to Calvinism in the past ten years?
  • Connellism Versus Calvinism: You Be the Judge « Provocations & Pantings 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC timmybrister.com [Source type: Original source]

 I guess he's a little too intelligent for his age. .The thing that I really enjoy about him is that he has no sense of restraint, he doesn't have the experience yet to know the things that you shouldn't do.^ There is really no sense in me explaining it again.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You make no sense at all.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But you don’t know that yet do you dude?
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

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Hobbes

Main article: Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)
Hobbes
Hobbes
.From everyone else's point of view, Hobbes is Calvin's stuffed tiger.^ I love the panels of Hobbes lying in wait for Calvin and his pronouncements about tigers and his whole attitude and ideas.

 ^ Along with his alter-ego, Hobbes, a stuffed tiger, Calvin gets into more trouble than a room full of 6-year olds could.

 ^ FREE Calvin and Hobbes Widget DashboardWidgets is an internet community for coders, designers, and users of Apple's new Dashboard feature in Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger.

 .From Calvin's point of view Hobbes is an anthropomorphic tiger, much larger than Calvin and full of independent attitudes and ideas.^ Watterson named Hobbes after Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century philosopher, who has a dim view of human nature and this attitude is reflected in the comic strip over and over.

 ^ Of course, in effect, every ecclesiastical communion has defined the extent of the canon of Scripture, and fortunately the areas of agreement are much larger than the areas of disagreement.

 ^ I love the panels of Hobbes lying in wait for Calvin and his pronouncements about tigers and his whole attitude and ideas.

 .But when the perspective shifts to any other character, readers again see merely a stuffed animal, usually seated at an off-kilter angle and blankly staring into space.^ Predation only makes sense in a world with an evolutionary perspective; each animal exploiting the food and energy resources available including other animals.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What would make sense would be to see in the fossil record a marine animal, a fish for example, evolve into a whale or a porpoise or a seal.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I see less Christ-like character in many Calvinistic brethren than I do in just about any other tradition in Christianity.” .
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 Watterson explains:
."When Hobbes is a stuffed toy in one panel and alive in the next, I'm juxtaposing the 'grown-up' version of reality with Calvin's version, and inviting the reader to decide which is truer."^ Vote Up Hobbes waiting to ambush Calvin.

 ^ Vote Up Hobbes won't drop down the rope to the treehouse until Calvin says the password.

 ^ Vote Up Hobbes and Calvin wearing newspaper hats (chapeaux) during meetings.

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.Hobbes' true nature is made more ambiguous by episodes that seem to attribute real-life consequences to Hobbes' actions.^ I also realize more of the smaller sins in my life that I have overlooked in the past.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Hence, I emphasise more willingly this doctrine which deals with the corruption and guilt of human nature, since it seems to me not only more conducive to piety but also more theological.

 ^ His nature and attributes are seen in all He has made (See Romans 1:18-32).
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .One example is his habit of pouncing on Calvin the moment he arrives home from school, an act which always leaves Calvin with bruises and scrapes that are evident to other characters.^ I always thought Calvin and Hobbes is one of the best comic strips out there.

 ^ On the other hand Romanism especially does not thrive in a republic, but there Calvinism finds itself most at home.
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvins teachings blame God for everything and leave man unable to contribute one whit to his salvation.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .In another incident among many, Hobbes manages to tie Calvin to a chair in such a way that Calvin's father is unable to understand how he could have done it himself.^ How much clearer could it be to understand this?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It is too bad that Barak could not do it himself, but understandable.
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Many Presbyterian and Independent ministers who had been influenced by the appeal of the Middle-Way Calvinism of Saumur and of Richard Baxter adopted a moderated Calvinism.
Hobbes is named after the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who had what Watterson described as "a dim view of human nature."[29] Hobbes (the tiger) is much more rational and aware of consequences than Calvin, but seldom interferes with Calvin's troublemaking beyond a few oblique warnings. .Hobbes is sarcastic when Calvin is being hypocritical about things he dislikes.^ Calvin :     I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by Man's destruction of forests.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I love the panels of Hobbes lying in wait for Calvin and his pronouncements about tigers and his whole attitude and ideas.

 ^ At the very least wouldn’t you agree that it’s hypocritical to complain about being called an incipient Roman Catholic when you accuse others of being “Baptist” and you view being Baptist as negatively as being Roman Catholic?
  • BaylyBlog: Out of our minds, too...: Reformed theology 20 November 2009 21:54 UTC www.baylyblog.com [Source type: General]

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Although the debut strip clearly showed Calvin capturing Hobbes by means of a snare (with a tuna sandwich as the bait), a later comic (August 1, 1989) seems to imply that Hobbes is, in fact, older than Calvin, and has been around his whole life, quoting:
.Calvin: "The whole first half of my life is a complete blank!^ Most of my Christian life I’ve heard from the pulpit, preachers who preach against Calvinism and those who subscribe to it.
  • Hyper-Calvinism: A Brief Definition :: :: A Reformed, Christian Blog 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.challies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin :     I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ My first thought, on reading this, was “Wow, CMP tossed the Supras under the bus to make Calvinism look ‘nicer’”.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinism and the Divine Decrees – Correcting a Misunderstanding 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .What on earth did I know that someone wanted me to forget?"^ You can be in love with someone and be absolutely furioous with them and want to break up with them even though you know that tommorow they will genuinely say they are sorry and make up for it.
  • Hyper-Calvinism: A Brief Definition :: :: A Reformed, Christian Blog 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.challies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Crazy story, Anonymous...did that happen to someone you know?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
.Hobbes: "I seem to recall you spent most of the time burping up."^ By the time i hit post, most likely 68, and by the time you respond to this, 72.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Can you understand my saying that at times it seems FVers delight in contradicting others’ expectations of holiness?
  • BaylyBlog: Out of our minds, too...: Reformed theology 20 November 2009 21:54 UTC www.baylyblog.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Hobbes :   This article says that many people find Christmas the most stressful time of the year.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

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.Watterson eventually decided that it was not important to establish how Calvin and Hobbes met.^ In fact every important change which occurred in French Calvinism between 1634 and the Revocation can be traced eventually back to him.

 ^ AM on February 28, 2005 In case you missed it many, many times above, everyone agrees with you, Alex, that Watterson still owns Calvin and Hobbes.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) .
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

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Calvin's parents

.Calvin's mother and father are mostly typical American middle-class parents.^ Calvinism came to America in the Mayflower, and Bancroft, the greatest of American historians, pronounces the Pilgrim Fathers "Calvinists in their faith according to the straightest system."
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The American historian Bancroft is right when he simply calls the Pilgrim-fathers, "men of the same faith with Calvin."
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Like many other characters in the strip, their relatively down-to-earth and sensible attitudes serve primarily as a foil for Calvin's outlandish behavior.^ Not only Calvin but also Luther and countless other reformers who have held many of these convictions have made great contributions to the expansion of Christianity.
  • PREDESTINATION 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.glenacres.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There are Southern Baptists who are leaving their churches because of the rhetoric coming from the pulpits of men like Johnny Hunt, Jerry Vines, and many others.
  • Connellism Versus Calvinism: You Be the Judge « Provocations & Pantings 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC timmybrister.com [Source type: Original source]
.At the beginning of the strip Watterson says some fans were angered by the way Calvin's parents thought of Calvin (his father remarked that he would have preferred a dog instead).^ I think you are looking at election in this way picturing people lining up at the gate of heaven clamoring to get in and God says to some no and to some yes.
  • The problem(s) with Calvinism | Casey's Critical Thinking 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.hoshuha.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "We boast," says Bancroft, "of our common schools; Calvin was the father of popular education — the inventor of the system of free schools."
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Along the way, great life lessons are learned by both although as Calvin would say when life lessons are all that happened that day, "What a boring day."

 They are not above some outrageousness of their own. Once, when Calvin asked for a cigarette, his mother provided him with one to teach him a lesson, and his father often tells him outrageous lies when asked a straight question, though Calvin often believes them:
.Calvin: Dad, were there dinosaurs when you were a kid?^ Calvin :     Dad, did you do a mating dance when you first saw Mom?
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin :     Just how long did you know dad before you married him?
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Why hsa there been, as you will see in recording of the controversy, so much attention paid to Calvinism in the past ten years?
  • Connellism Versus Calvinism: You Be the Judge « Provocations & Pantings 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC timmybrister.com [Source type: Original source]
.Dad: Oh, sure, your grandfather and I used to put on our leopard skins and hunt brontosaurus for all the clan rituals.^ With all due respect, that is a very "intolerant" and very "offensive" statement, to use a couple of the watchwords of our times.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It is still a matter of birth gifting but using different qualifications (gender vs. Hello Dan, Not sure of your question here?
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Sorry all you Rapture-philes, but the end days are actually billions of years from now, at least if we use your Genesis "day" as the model.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
.Other "explanations" from Calvin's father include that ice floats in order to get closer to the sun, that the world literally was in black and white like in old photographs until the mid-1930s, and that light bulbs work by magic.^ It's just the world was black and white then.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ That begins by knowing that we are the light of the world; the sun wearing earth; and that “light” is our essential spiritual nature.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What’s wrong with that argument is that there are other explanations too… which the physicists are working on without invoking a notion of God.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Calvin replied that they weren't magic, to which Calvin's father retorted, "Fine, don't believe your own father who has been around a lot longer than you."^ They just don’t believe it.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Is He not your Father, who bought you?
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And millions of kids believe in a fat Caucasian men, dressed in red, who drops presents and owns a cosmic motorcade of reindeer with a name of Santa Claus(!?
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .This usually results with Calvin's mom remarking, "I think Calvin's grades are bad enough already, don't you?"^ I think you've had enough.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You see, Mr. Calvinist....you are very sincere and think that you are defending God and His sovereignty ....but dear friend , God does not need the help of John Calvin or any Calvinist to defend His sovereignty and never has.
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Calvinism - 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.bible-truth.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "A malevolent, capricious, sadistic, lunatic god is much more entertaining; don't you think?"
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
.Watterson defends what Calvin's parents do, remarking that in the case of parenting a kid like Calvin, "I think they do a better job than I would."^ I would like to think it is the latter but I know you are smarter than that.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Oh, we like to think that they would, but it simply doesn't happen.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I would think that for some people defending Calvin is more important than defending Christ.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Calvin's father is shown to be very concerned with the building of character in a number of strips, though this is often also used as a comic device, either in the things he makes Calvin do or in the eccentricities of his own lifestyle.^ In my words, a woman must make her own decisions concerning her own life, and be responsible and accountable for her own children before God, and she must take on self-advocacy in order to do this.
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But they (again plural) sought out many devices (things to make us happier or things that are sinful).
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Eze 18:2 "What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel , saying, 'The fathers eat the sour grapes, But the children's teeth are set on edge'?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .For instance, in several strips he is shown coming home from an early morning bike ride in the snow, which he follows with a bowl of cold oatmeal.^ I would love to have Dr. Connell come with me to UPS in the early hours of the morning and help me share Jesus with my 5,000 coworkers who need the gospel.
  • Connellism Versus Calvinism: You Be the Judge « Provocations & Pantings 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC timmybrister.com [Source type: Original source]
.Calvin's father is a patent attorney; his mother is a stay-at-home mom.^ We know that Dad was a patent attorney and his Mom, well, stayed at home.

 .Both remain unnamed except as "Mom" and "Dad", or pet names such as "honey" and "dear" between themselves.^ It's another God of the Gaps argument, except this time the "gaps" include both gaps in our knowledge and the "gap" of the empty space between electrons and nuclei.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ His influence on some of his students was such that between them, when they became teachers, they produced a system of theology which has been given such names as New Methodism, Salmurianism and Amyraldism.

 .Watterson said "as far as the strip is concerned, they are important only as Calvin's mom and dad."^ Calvin and Hobbes Only the best comic strip ever!

 ^ Calvin's Mom and Dad also known as Mom and Dad first appeared in November, 1985.

 ^ If we step out of line once tonight, Rosalyn will kill us, and then Mom and Dad will kill us again when they get home.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Calvin's Uncle Max was once in the strip for a week and could not refer to the parents by name, which was one of the main reasons Max never reappeared.^ One has to assume that Calvin is one of the biggest reason for these behaviors.

 ^ What one could do, is argue for a particular form of compatibilism (and there are more than one), or argue that compatibilism is correct/ incorrect for the reasons you might advance.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The reason behind your name will be one of the reasons listed in the reasons why it is monitored/blacklisted.
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Susie Derkins

.Susie Derkins, the only important secondary character with both a given name and a family name, is a classmate of Calvin's who lives in his neighborhood.^ What is important is the eternal value of Christs death for all who believe upon His name.

 ^ The first major revolt against High Calvinism is associated with the name of James Arminius who became professor of theology at Leyden in 1603.

 ^ I apologize to everyone for my erroneous statement that Roseanne Rosannadanna was the "Saturday Night Live" character who was always saying "Oh, never mind...."
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Named for the pet beagle of Watterson's wife's family,[40] she appeared early in the strip as a new student in Calvin's class.^ Watterson named Hobbes after Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century philosopher, who has a dim view of human nature and this attitude is reflected in the comic strip over and over.

 ^ His influence on some of his students was such that between them, when they became teachers, they produced a system of theology which has been given such names as New Methodism, Salmurianism and Amyraldism.

 ^ Or perhaps my wife should not have the students in her Bible and Film class viewing The Last Temptation of Christ , since it springs from an unorthodox christology.

 She is polite and studious, with a mild imagination consisting of stereotypical young girl games such as playing house or having tea parties with her stuffed animals. .However, she is also depicted playing imaginary games with Calvin in which she is a high-powered lawyer or politician and he is her house-husband.^ Calvinism is so out of touch with biblical truth, one might almost get the impression that the Calvinist is joking or playing a game of some sort.
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Calvinism - 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.bible-truth.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Though both of them hate to admit it, Calvin and Susie have quite a bit in common.^ Though I have done quite a bit of reading on the topic of will and choice, I have not yet arrived at an understanding that would exclude Boyd’s views (though I’m quite settled that TULIP Calvinism is incorrect).
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin hates girls, but in particular, he hates Susie Derkins.

 ^ Susie is Calvin's Reason For Hating Girls .

 For example, Susie is shown on occasion with a stuffed rabbit dubbed "Mr. Bun", and Calvin, of course, has Hobbes. .Susie also has a mischievous (and sometimes aggressive) streak, which can be seen when she subverts Calvin's attempts to cheat on school tests by feeding him incorrect answers, or clobbers Calvin when he attacks her with snowballs.^ I prayed for God to help me fix my problems and truly follow Him, although it was apparent He was not answering any of my prayers and I would sometimes wonder if He was really listening.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin :     I called Susie a boogerbrain after school, and she went home crying.
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 Susie also regularly bests Calvin in confrontations such as their water and snowball fights, employing guile or force. .Hobbes often openly expresses his admiration for Susie, much to Calvin's disgust.^ Vote Up Calvin and Hobbes use the transmografier cardboard box as an emergency "box of secrecy" when Susie is allowed into his house by his mother.

 ^ Calvin called Hobbes this because Hobbes was "beguiled" by Susie's "feminine charms".

 ^ Hobbes, who Calvin anthropomorphasizes but to everyone else is just a stuffed tiger is also his alter-ego, He's Calvin's mature conscience, keeping him in check -- as much as anyone can.

 .Calvin starts a "club" (he and Hobbes are the only members) which he calls G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS) club, and while holding "meetings" in Calvin's treehouse, they usually come up with some way to annoy or socially maim Susie, most of which usually backfire on them completely.^ Calvin called Hobbes this because Hobbes was "beguiled" by Susie's "feminine charms".

 ^ Calvin and Hobbes are the only members so they claim several titles.

 ^ Hobbes :   Our oceans are filled with garbage, we've created a hole in the ozone layer that's frying the planet, nuclear waste is piling up without any safe way to get rid of it...
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Watterson admits that Calvin and Susie have a nascent crush on each other, and that Susie is inspired by the type of woman that he himself found attractive and eventually married.^ Calvinism is the doctrines of grace whereby the sovereignty of God is displayed in salvation and the assurance of the believer is found not in himself but in the work of Jesus Christ.
  • Connellism Versus Calvinism: You Be the Judge « Provocations & Pantings 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC timmybrister.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I was able to track his "revelation" of 1st Corinth 4:7 That can be found in his work called """On the Predestination of the Saints"""" He admits it himself.

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Secondary characters

.There are some secondary characters that help reveal more about Calvin's personality.^ I have little doubt that there were some in the convention who leaned to the left, but I am also convinced that there were many who were more conservative than anything else, yet were painted with a wide brush.
  • Connellism Versus Calvinism: You Be the Judge « Provocations & Pantings 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC timmybrister.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I am a lot more Calvinistic in my theology even though there are some points I disagree with.
  • Calvinism vs. Arminianism? 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.gotquestions.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And, yes, there is much more than getting to heaven, but think about it.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .These include his babysitter, his teacher, some relatives which have been cut, and other students from his class.^ He uses evenings and mornings as a description for a sequence, but that includes events before the Sun and Earth were created, so that suggests he was using those words in some other way than we use them.
  • Hot Air » Blog Archive » The obligatory “cussing pastor makes Calvinism cool again” post 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC hotair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Moreover, the Russians and Greeks are not even in precise agreement with each other on which of these to include.

 ^ In these verses above and others previously mentioned, we learn there are some who choose not to accept the truth (Gods Word).
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

Rosalyn

Rosalyn is Calvin's babysitter. .She takes advantage of his parents' desperation to leave the house by demanding advances and raises.^ Taking your own metaphor, if you built me a house, placed me in it, then forced me to leave, burned it down, built a much better house, and placed me in that… Would you be acting unjustly?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .In her final appearance in the strip, she at last forces Calvin to behave by using his own haphazard rules against him during a game of Calvinball.^ People choose not to believe in Him because they want to live by their own rules.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Last Days in this context would be God’s retribution against those in Israel who rejected him.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God does not put a gun to man’s head to force him to choose a certain way, but so uses internal (emotions, desires, habits, etc.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 .She is also probably the only character in the strip that Calvin really fears, as she does not mince words or actions to get Calvin to behave or go to bed on time.^ Bancroft speaks of "the political character of Calvinism, which with one consent and with instinctive judgment the monarchs of that day feared as republicanism."
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvinists, recognizing the their position is at odds with God's word, reply that God says that He really does not love the world, even though God is love?!
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Calvinism - 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.bible-truth.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ NEVER, NOT ONCE in God's word does He limit salvation to only a few, and NEVER does He say He has elected most of the world to hell simply because He wishes too.
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Calvinism - 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.bible-truth.org [Source type: Original source]

Moe

.Moe is the stereotypical bully character, a large, cruel, dimwitted "six-year-old who shaves" who—in nearly all of his appearances—shoves Calvin against walls or onto the ground while demanding his lunch money and calling him "Twinky", "Twinkie", or occasionally "Squirt". Moe is the only regular character who speaks in an unusual font: his (frequently monosyllabic) dialogue is shown in crude, lower-case letters.^ Not only Calvin but also Luther and countless other reformers who have held many of these convictions have made great contributions to the expansion of Christianity.
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 ^ And that seven year old girl whom police found in the woods; murdered and sexually abused, found dead with sticks shoved (inside of her- please excuse me), All part of God's wonderful plan for her life?

 ^ It is according to the purpose, the fixed and unalterable will, of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will (v.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 Watterson describes Moe as "every jerk I've ever known."[29]

Miss Wormwood

.Miss Wormwood is Calvin's world-weary teacher, named after the junior devil in C. S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters.^ Miss Wormwood, Calvin's teacher, has seen it all, and is ready to retire.

 ^ Miss Wormwood : Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Whether he's at school tormenting Miss Wormwood, his teacher, or being tormented himself by Moe, his nemesis, he is always entertaining.

 .She usually wears polka-dotted dresses, and is another character who serves as a foil to Calvin's mischief.^ Another characteristic of hyper-calvinism seems to be the anathema of anyone who doesn’t hold to EXACTLY the same views as they do.
  • Hyper-Calvinism: A Brief Definition :: :: A Reformed, Christian Blog 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.challies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin In His Red Wagon Cast Of Characters Just Who Is Calvin?

 .Calvin, when in his Spaceman Spiff persona, sees Miss Wormwood as a slimy, often dictatorial alien.^ Miss Wormwood : Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin :                 Miss Wormwood?
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Miss Wormwood : Yes, Calvin?
  • Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes (Universal Press Syndicate) 11 September 2009 9:43 UTC generationterrorists.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Calvin has occasionally made references to her getting indigestion ("It's really gross how she drinks Maalox straight from the bottle"), taking various medicinal drugs ("I wonder if her doctor knows she mixes all those prescriptions") and smoking ("Rumor has it she's up to two packs a day, unfiltered"), while Miss Wormwood herself once reacted to Calvin's behaviour by squinting her eyes and thinking "Five years until retirement" repeatedly.^ I really don’t know what to think of it all.
  • Calvinism vs. Arminianism? 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.gotquestions.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Miss Wormwood, Calvin's teacher, has seen it all, and is ready to retire.

 ^ They have made some pretty major mistakes in life now that has cost them like having sex before marriage,drinking,drugs,ect I know sin is sin so it doesn’t matter what they have done God will forgive them.
  • Calvinism vs. Arminianism? 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.gotquestions.org [Source type: Original source]

 Watterson describes her as "an unhappy person", due to her belief in the value of education.[41]

Recurring elements

.There are many gags in this strip, some in reality and others from imagination.^ Perhaps there was some other reason.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It was a time when they did not realize who God was but they knew there had to be some sort of God because of His great creation.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There are some who argue that “many” is simply synonymous with “all“; that Christ died for all or every individual.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 The gags are as follows:

Calvin's roles

Main article: Calvin's alter egos (Calvin and Hobbes)
.Calvin imagines himself as a great many things, including dinosaurs, elephants, jungle-farers and superheroes.^ In the cartoon strip, the transmogrifier transforms Calvin into a tiger, dinosaur, elephant, monster or whatever he wants -- only his imagination limits him -- which, of course, means there are no limitations.

 ^ To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Meaning makes a great many things endurable-perhaps everything.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 Three of his alter egos are well-defined and recurring:
.
  • As "Stupendous Man" he pictures himself as a superhero in disguise, wearing a mask and a cape made by his mother and narrating his own adventures.^ He cannot keep himself saved because man has not righteousness of his own.
    • Frequently Asked Questions About Calvinism - 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.bible-truth.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ They can’t resurrect themselves or make themselves “born again” anymore than a physically dead man can resurrect himself or an unborn child can cause his own conception/birth.
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     ^ I suppose this is to be expected just as Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, etc., are biased towards their own man-made, unauthorized, and uninspired doctrines.
    • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

     Stupendous Man almost always "suffers defeat" to his opponent, usually Calvin's mother ("evil mom lady"). .When Hobbes asks if Stupendous Man has ever won any battles, Calvin says all his battles are "moral victories."
  • "Spaceman Spiff" is a heroic spacefarer who narrates his experiences in the third person.^ To Frank J. and all who question Calvinism: .
    • Hot Air » Blog Archive » The obligatory “cussing pastor makes Calvinism cool again” post 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC hotair.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Yet in all forms of Calvinism there were to be found those who were perplexed by the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity and who sought to modify it in one direction or another.

     ^ That all depends on your unique experiences and the memories an individual person’s mind is made up of.
    • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

     As Spiff, Calvin battles aliens (typically his parents or teacher) with a ray gun known as a "zorcher" (a water gun) and travels to distant planets (his house, school, or neighborhood). Calvin's self-narration as Spaceman Spiff is frequently riddled with alliteration: "Zounds! Zorched by zarches, Spaceman Spiff's crippled craft crashes on planet Plootarg!"[42]
    • .
  • "Tracer Bullet," a hardboiled private eye, says he has eight slugs in him.^ As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?"
    • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     "One's lead, and the rest are bourbon." .In one story Bullet is called to a case in which a "pushy dame" (Calvin's mother) accuses him of destroying an expensive lamp (broken during an indoor football game between Calvin and Hobbes).^ Vote Up Hobbes and Calvin wearing newspaper hats (chapeaux) during meetings.

     ^ Could you please address what one disgruntled person brought up about Romans 9:11, "but because of Him who calls".
    • Frequently Asked Questions About Calvinism - 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.bible-truth.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I claim that even within the framework of the story, even if Shakespeare were to grant a character knowledge about him, that character could not justly accuse S of guilt in the murder.
    • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

     In another, he is snatched by the pushy dame's "hired goon" (Calvin's father having a talk with him).

Cardboard boxes

Calvin duplicating himself using a cardboard box, as seen on the cover of Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"
.Over the years Calvin has had several adventures involving corrugated cardboard boxes which he adapts for many different uses.^ The term Middle-Way was first used by John Humfrey as a description of Moderated Calvinism in the title of several pamphlets.

 ^ And not many on here are going to download 10 years worth of Calvin and Hobbes comics and put them in a book, while more will now be aware of the $95 book on sale in August.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Vote Up Calvin's transmografier machine (cardboard box).

 .In one strip, during which Calvin shows off his Transmogrifier—a device that transforms its user into any desired shape—Hobbes remarks "It's amazing what they do with corrugated cardboard these days."^ Calvin, these people who supposedly seek God in sex and drugs are not really seeking God, but rather they seek to fulfill their own selfish and sinful desires and motives.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin and Hobbes Only the best comic strip ever!

 ^ So there was a connection between the nature of the one Church both before and during the latter-day glory and that connection was the Congregational way.

 [43] .Calvin is able to change the function of the boxes by rewriting the label and flipping the box onto another side.^ There's a knob drawn on the side of the box which Calvin turns to the setting he wants, adding new settings by scribbling them around the dial.

 .When used in this manner, a cardboard box can become not only conventional childhood inventions, (a storage container for water balloons, for instance) but also a flying time machine and a duplicator.^ Vote Up Calvin's transmografier machine (cardboard box).

 ^ Vote Up Calvin and Hobbes use the transmografier cardboard box as an emergency "box of secrecy" when Susie is allowed into his house by his mother.

 ^ This method of receiving the Holy Spirit only occurred two times, at Pentecost with the apostles and in this instance with the Gentiles.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .In addition, Calvin utilizes a cardboard box as a desk when he is attempting to sell things.^ Vote Up Calvin's transmografier machine (cardboard box).

 ^ Vote Up Calvin and Hobbes use the transmografier cardboard box as an emergency "box of secrecy" when Susie is allowed into his house by his mother.

 .Oftentimes, his merchandise is something that no one would want, such as "A swift kick in the butt" for one dollar[44], or a "Frank appraisal of your looks" for fifty cents.^ The girls in Rio will make your head spin...in more ways than one no kiddin' nevermind the head...u...whoa!
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Besides the passage does not say what you want it say, although to support your doctrine it would almost have to say what you state but the fact remains, it does not say what you state.
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 ^ And, no need to worry about the end of the world as no one is reading your books now.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

Calvinball

.Other kids' games are all such a bore!
They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
Calvinball is better by far!
It's never the same!^ They have never met but they share a common enthusiasm for all that is best in Puritan divinity.

 ^ Not all of them understood the role of "elder" in the same way nor did they all define "authority" the same way either.
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They abhorred as no body of men ever more abhorred all conscious mendacity, all impurity, all moral wrong of every kind so far as they could recognize it.
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 .It's always bizarre!
You don't need a team or a referee!
You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!^ You also don't seem to know what a 'superstition' is.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I think you yourself don't know what it is I don't get.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I don’t know if you have the book or not.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
—The Calvinball theme song[45]
.Calvinball is a game played by Calvin and Hobbes as a rebellion against organized team sports; according to Hobbes, "No sport is less organized than Calvinball!"^ Without any intention on his part, and even against his own desire, Calvin became the head of the evangelical party in Paris in less than a year after his conversion.
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If as Edwards more or less says, man is a will, then there is no such thing as doing something against your own will.
  • Hyper-Calvinism: A Brief Definition :: :: A Reformed, Christian Blog 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.challies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If Calvin is your hub, then, I must say, I have less in common with you than I do them.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 [46] .Although the first depicted game of Calvinball followed Calvin's failure to join the baseball team, the game appears in such a complete form there that it is likely Calvin and Hobbes had been playing it for a long time beforehand.^ Perhaps you’re reading that to indicate that if they turn from the light long enough, there will come a time when they will be left in the dark specifically BECAUSE they had turned away from the light for so long.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But I pray thee to conduct thyself in such a manner that, in future, no one will have the boldness to publish such doctrines, and to give trouble with impunity for so long a time as this man has done.'
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ At the time Calvin came upon the scene it had not yet been determined whether Luther was to be the hero of a great success or the victim of a great failure.
  • The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination - Chapter XXVIII 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.aracnet.com [Source type: Original source]
.The only hint at the true creation of the game comes from the last Calvinball strip, where a game of football quickly changes into a game of Calvinball.^ The only way that a man will humble himself and see Christ’s excellency, and repent and believe, is if God changes the clay into wax – only then will the wax melt!
  • The problem(s) with Calvinism | Casey's Critical Thinking 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.hoshuha.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Calvin remarks "sooner or later, all our games turn into Calvinball,"[47] suggesting a similar scenario that directly led to the creation of the sport.^ Calvin - I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.

 ^ And after all, the Christian life is one of having Christ’s sufferings flow into our lives.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Find out how we depend on ice in our everyday lives - and what we lose when a warmer world turns Greenland to slush and sends glaciers into retreat.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .Calvin and Hobbes usually play by themselves, although Rosalyn (Calvin's baby-sitter) plays once in return for Calvin doing his homework, and does very well for herself after eventually realizing that the rules are made up on the spot.^ Vote Up Hobbes waiting to ambush Calvin.

 ^ Vote Up Hobbes won't drop down the rope to the treehouse until Calvin says the password.

 ^ Vote Up Hobbes and Calvin wearing newspaper hats (chapeaux) during meetings.

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.The only consistent rule states that Calvinball may never be played with the same rules twice.^ As just stated, experimental tests may lead either to the confirmation of the hypothesis, or to the ruling out of the hypothesis.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 [49] Scoring is also arbitrary, with Hobbes at times reporting scores of "Q to 12" and "oogy to boogy."[50] .The only recognizable sports Calvinball resembles are the ones it emulates (i.e., a cross between croquet, polo, badminton, capture the flag, and volleyball.^ The difference between the saved and the lost is one thing and one thing only: a 5 letter word called GRACE. .
  • The problem(s) with Calvinism | Casey's Critical Thinking 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.hoshuha.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The difference between those that repent, and those that do not, is one thing, and one thing only: Grace.
  • The problem(s) with Calvinism | Casey's Critical Thinking 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.hoshuha.com [Source type: Original source]

 ) Equipment includes a volleyball (the eponymous "Calvinball"), a soccer ball, a croquet set, a badminton set, assorted flags, bags, signs, and a hobby horse. .Other things appear as needed, such as a bucket of ice-cold water, a water balloon, and various songs and poetry.^ Mar 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
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 ^ It included, not only the 150 Psalms, but also various biblical and extrabiblical canticles, such as the Magnificat , the Nunc Dimittis , the Song of the Three Holy Children and the Te Deum .

 [51] Players also wear masks resembling blindfolds with holes for the eyes. .When Rosalyn asks Calvin the reason for the requirement, Calvin responds, "Sorry, no one's allowed to question the masks."^ Couple this truth with what Jesus also says in verse 65: For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.
  • Hyper-Calvinism: A Brief Definition :: :: A Reformed, Christian Blog 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.challies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This he does simply by asking the right questions -- questions that do not have monosyllabic yes or no answers but lead to further reflection and conversation of interest to the listening audience.

 ^ But the reason he’s asking that question IS to offer a possible explanation for God wanting to raise up an evil person: what if He wanted to do it in order to demonstrate His wrath?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 [48] When asked how to play, Watterson states, "It's pretty simple: you make up the rules as you go."[52] Calvinball is a nomic or self-modifying game, a contest of wits and creativity rather than stamina or athletic skill, in which Hobbes (and on one occasion, Rosalyn) usually outwits Calvin, who takes it in stride, in contrast to his otherwise bad sportsmanship.

Wagon and sled

.Calvin and Hobbes frequently ride downhill in a wagon, sled, or toboggan, depending on the season, as a device to add some physical comedy to the strip and because, according to Watterson, "it's a lot more interesting ...^ Humor Calvin and Hobbs bill watterson calvin calvin and hobbes calvin and hobbs More...

 ^ Watterson named Hobbes after Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century philosopher, who has a dim view of human nature and this attitude is reflected in the comic strip over and over.

 ^ I'd be interested to see some more in-depth statistics, since what most surveys call "Christians" is a lumping of the sheep with the wolves.
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]

 than talking heads."[53] .While the ride is sometimes the focus of the strip,[54] it also frequently serves as a counterpoint or visual metaphor while Calvin ponders the meaning of life, death, God, or a variety of other weighty subjects.^ I do not see how these passages could mean anything other than what they say and they do not say that whoever has life will continue to have eternal life regardless of what we do.
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 ^ If you mean by the term that all people are morally neutral and God condemns innocent people to hell, but saves others, then that is not what Calvinists believe.
  • Hyper-Calvinism: A Brief Definition :: :: A Reformed, Christian Blog 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.challies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This is spiritual death which means being separated from God.
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 [53][55] .Many of their rides end in spectacular crashes which leave themselves battered and broken, a fact which convinces Hobbes to sometimes hop off before a ride even begins.^ Act 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
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 ^ In fact, we are chosen to be sheep from before the beginning: the fact that before regeneration we are acting like goats does not make us goats.
  • Hyper-Calvinism: A Brief Definition :: :: A Reformed, Christian Blog 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.challies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Riding on horseback he preached in many villages and towns even if the place already possessed a non-conformist church.

 [56] .In the final strip, Calvin and Hobbes depart on their toboggan to go exploring.^ And not many on here are going to download 10 years worth of Calvin and Hobbes comics and put them in a book, while more will now be aware of the $95 book on sale in August.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 [11]

Snowmen

.Calvin often expresses his artistry and releases his frustrations through the creation of snowmen.^ The earlier reformers, Luther and Calvin, had believed that the conjunction of Word and Spirit made the Scriptures normative through the way in which they created and nourished faith.

 .His works often depict violence and/or comic sarcasm, sometimes in the form of relatively elaborate scenes involving many snowmen or figures of extraordinary size (a giant head and two hands that appear to be peeking over the horizon reminiscent of Kilroy, or a replica of Easter Island).^ Why was this so, especially when he appeared on the scene when many others had used the same prophetic reasoning to pinpoint dates which failed to be the beginning of the second advent?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 He frequently comments on his work, such as when he explores "avant-garde" work by creating a snow creature titled "Bourgeois Buffoon" and, later, a traditional snowman he calls representative of his new art movement, "Neo-Regionalism". Calvin's parents are usually not pleased with Calvin's snowmen, but have tried to look on the bright side, mentioning how "the neighbors have planted big trees next to the house" and that "traffic on the street has slowed down."

Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooey

.Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooey is a childish bed-time story which Calvin insists be read to him every night.^ In fact every important change which occurred in French Calvinism between 1634 and the Revocation can be traced eventually back to him.

 ^ Benson showed his distaste of Calvinism by reviving the story of the burning of Servetus in Geneva in the time of Calvin .

 ^ Actually, I was given nightmares every time I read the book of Genesis.
  • Calvinism vs. Arminianism? 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.gotquestions.org [Source type: Original source]

 .His father is usually unwilling to read it and regularly insists upon reading a fairy tale or other "normal" children's book.^ Theological conservatives on the other hand will insist that they believe everything written in Genesis, except the plain reading of it.” .
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ A recent book, The Genius Factory, is a tale about the Nobel Prize sperm bank, a project that produced more than 200 children.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ He confuses Thomas Edwards, father of John Edwards, with Thomas Edwards of Rhual and attributes the books of the latter to the former, who wrote amongst other works the famous Gangraena .

 .He apparently makes sound effects and comical voices and dances while reading as well.^ If it is not for us to judge if infringement is OK, it's also not for us to judge if it's not OK. And if we are to leave it up to the law, well, it's perfectly legal for us to put the link up, and up to the individual to click through and read the comics.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 .On some rare occasions a fairy tale is read, but Calvin usually interrupts and adds his own commentary.^ A careful reading of Calvins treatises, commentaries and Institutes reveals that sometimes he seems to have believed in limited atonement and sometimes in general redemption.

 ^ I’ve read Calvin’s Institutes and some of his commentaries a number of years ago as well as St. Augustunes confessions (in Latin).
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Hobbes authored two books; one being about a "hypothetical" boy imprisoning his "hypothetical" father; and the second being a twist on Goldilocks and the Three Bears.^ All we can learn by talking about culture is that either one verse is not factual, OR that there exists some way of reconciling the two verses.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And, no need to worry about the end of the world as no one is reading your books now.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father” (Matthew 10:29).
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

"Chewing" magazine

.Chewing magazine is a magazine for gum chewers which Calvin subscribes to and reads avidly with Hobbes, who finds it absurd and pointless.^ You'll also find places to buy cool Calvin And Hobbes books and other "stuff" for yourself or others.

 ^ Most of my Christian life I’ve heard from the pulpit, preachers who preach against Calvinism and those who subscribe to it.
  • Hyper-Calvinism: A Brief Definition :: :: A Reformed, Christian Blog 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.challies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Hobbes, who Calvin anthropomorphasizes but to everyone else is just a stuffed tiger is also his alter-ego, He's Calvin's mature conscience, keeping him in check -- as much as anyone can.

 .Other gum chewing magazines, such as Chewers Illustrated and Gum Action, are also mentioned in some strips.^ In these verses above and others previously mentioned, we learn there are some who choose not to accept the truth (Gods Word).
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Alan’s definition in comment 33 of God’s postive action in saving some while passing over others is actually the definition of Single Predestination.
  • Hyper-Calvinism: A Brief Definition :: :: A Reformed, Christian Blog 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.challies.com [Source type: Original source]

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Books

Main article: List of Calvin and Hobbes books
The first Calvin and Hobbes treasury.
.There are 18 Calvin and Hobbes books, published from 1987 to 2005. These include 11 collections, which form a complete archive of the newspaper strips, except for a single daily strip from November 28, 1985. (The collections do contain a strip for this date, but it is not the same strip that appeared in some newspapers.^ Calvin's Mom and Dad also known as Mom and Dad first appeared in November, 1985.

 ^ November 18, 1985 .

 ^ Vote Up The first cartoon appeared on November 18, 1985.

 The alternate strip, a joke about Hobbes taking a bath in the washing machine, has circulated around the Internet.)[57] Treasuries usually combine the two preceding collections with bonus material and include color reprints of Sunday comics.
Watterson included some new material in the treasuries. In The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, which includes cartoons from the collections Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under the Bed Is Drooling, the back cover features a scene of a giant Calvin rampaging through a town. .The scene is based on Watterson's home town of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and Calvin is holding the Chagrin Falls Popcorn Shop, an iconic candy and ice cream shop overlooking the town's namesake falls.^ The biblical view (often called Augustinianism or Calvinism) holds that the fall has not just rendered mankind sick or disabled, but rather spiritually dead.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 [58] .Several of the treasuries incorporate additional poetry; The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes book features a set of poems, ranging from just a few lines to an entire page, that cover topics such as Calvin's mother's "hindsight" and exploring the woods.^ AlexReynolds at 11:07 AM on February 28, 2005 If I buy a Calvin & Hobbes book, the book itself becomes mine.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Having said that, just so nobody thinks I'm "avoiding the issue," I do not think the calvin & hobbes site is morally objectionable.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But here are just a few cautions from a 'soft' complementarian who also once tried holding these same convictions in a doctrinally-broad setting.
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, Watterson presents a long poem explaining a night's battle against a monster from Calvin's perspective.^ AM on February 28, 2005 In case you missed it many, many times above, everyone agrees with you, Alex, that Watterson still owns Calvin and Hobbes.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]
.A complete collection of Calvin and Hobbes strips, in three hardcover volumes totaling 1440 pages, was released on October 4, 2005, by Andrews McMeel Publishing.^ AlexReynolds at 11:07 AM on February 28, 2005 If I buy a Calvin & Hobbes book, the book itself becomes mine.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ PM on February 28, 2005 Is Calvin & Hobbes really worth fighting over?
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ PM on February 28, 2005 *steals Alex's keyboard* Is Calvin & Hobbes really worth fighting over?
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 It includes color prints of the art used on paperback covers, the treasuries' extra illustrated stories and poems, and a new introduction by Bill Watterson. The alternate 1985 strip is still omitted, and two other strips (January 7, 1987, and November 25, 1988) have altered dialogue.[59][60][61]
.To celebrate the release (which coincided with the strip's 20-year anniversary and the 10-year anniversary of its absence from newspapers), Calvin and Hobbes reruns were made available to newspapers from Sunday, September 4, 2005, through Saturday, December 31, 2005,[62][63] and Bill Watterson answered fifteen questions submitted by readers.^ AM on February 27, 2005 Bill Watterson hates getting his stuff thieveried and is a very private man .
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ To answer your question with hopefully a degree of specificity; I do think that God is the cause of salvation, in that He is both the enabler and the initiator - but the act that we must follow through with is a response.
  • Hyper-Calvinism: A Brief Definition :: :: A Reformed, Christian Blog 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.challies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ AlexReynolds at 11:07 AM on February 28, 2005 If I buy a Calvin & Hobbes book, the book itself becomes mine.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 [20]
Early books were printed in smaller format in black and white. .These were later reproduced in twos in color in the "Treasuries" (Essential, Authoritative, and Indispensable), except for the contents of Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons.^ But, as Isaac Chauncy later pointed out, knowing the mild views of these two men, this verdict was to be expected.

 .Those Sunday strips were not reprinted in color until the Complete collection was finally published in 2005. Every book since Snow Goons has been printed in a larger format with Sundays in color and weekday and Saturday strips larger than they appeared in most newspapers.^ I know, there are libraries, but it is a lot easier to browse books online than it is to acutally look at every one in a physical library.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Plus, why the Galapagos Islands haven't been the same since their most celebrated visitor set foot on their rocky shores more than a century ago.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ They say that after 45 years of effort, those who still search for signals from the stars are fueled by faith rather than by scientific rationale.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Watterson claims he named the books the "Essential, Authoritative, and Indispensable" because, as he says in The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, the books are "obviously none of these things".
An officially licensed children's textbook titled Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes was published in a single print-run in 1993.[22] The book includes various Calvin and Hobbes strips together with lessons and questions to follow, such as, "What do you think the principal meant when he said they had quite a file on Calvin?" (108). The book is rare and increasingly sought by collectors.[64]

Academic response

.In her book When Toys Come Alive, Lois Rostow Kuznets says that Hobbes serves both as a figure of Calvin's childish fantasy life and as an outlet for the expression of libidinous desires more associated with adults.^ Both terms however, are figures for a new life in Christ returning to pristine justified.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvinism and complementarianism both enjoy the advantage of making more sense of the Biblical text, especially the New Testament paranaeses, without resorting to hermeneutical yoga.
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It is, however, to say that progress towards both Unitarianism and hyper-Calvinism received a certain boost by the controversy in London.

 .Kuznets also looks at Calvin's other fantasies, suggesting that they are a second tier of fantasies utilized in places like school where transitional objects such as Hobbes would not be socially acceptable.^ If anyone attributes the Word of God to Satan then I would not suggest they would be one that we could never convince otherwise either.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ At these meetings the clergy spoke in such a way as to suggest that they saw themselves as a church within a church, the blueprint of what the larger church should be.

 ^ However, such a view of God violates the love-drenched spirit of the New Testament and would likely horrify the Apostle Paul.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 [65] .Another academic critic, Philip Sandifer, using the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan, identifies the strip's depiction of time within Calvin's real and imaginary worlds as a manifestation of the Lacanian concepts of the Imaginary, the Real, and the Symbolic.^ Theories in physics are often formulated in terms of a few concepts and equations, which are identified with "laws of nature," suggesting their universal applicability.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But the world is imperfect, and if they admitted that, then the real pirates (the professionals who would have paid for a copy if they'd had to, because they use it all the time, but pirated the software instead) would have a legal argument that Adobe had abandoned its IP rights.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Similarly Jesus used the same concept of knowledge in an exchange with His critics in JOH 8:19 And so they were saying to Him, "Where is Your Father?"
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 [66]
.A collection of original Sunday strips was exhibited at Ohio State University's Cartoon Research Library in 2001. Watterson himself selected the strips and provided his own commentary for the exhibition catalog, which was published widely as Calvin and Hobbes Sunday Pages 1985-1995.^ AlexReynolds at 10:44 AM on February 28, 2005 In case you missed it many, many times above, everyone agrees with you, Alex, that Watterson still owns Calvin and Hobbes.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I don't agree that he still owns Calvin and Hobbes.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What he does own or have (assuming he hasn't sold it) is a limited grant from the government that gives him some (but not total) ability to control the reproduction of Calvin and Hobbes.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 [67]
Academics and other intellectuals were interviewed for a Sept 9, 2009 BBC Radio 4 half-hour documentary about the comic strip, narrated by Phill Jupitus.[68]

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Further Reading

  • Watterson, Bill (1995). .The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book.^ AlexReynolds at 11:07 AM on February 28, 2005 If I buy a Calvin & Hobbes book, the book itself becomes mine.
    • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ And not many on here are going to download 10 years worth of Calvin and Hobbes comics and put them in a book, while more will now be aware of the $95 book on sale in August.
    • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

     Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel. .ISBN 0-8362-0438-7. 
  • Watterson, Bill (2005).^ AM on February 27, 2005 Bill Watterson hates getting his stuff thieveried and is a very private man .
    • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

     The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN 0-7407-4847-5. 

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I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.
.William B. "Bill" Watterson II (born 1958-07-05) is the author of the comic-strip Calvin and Hobbes.^ AlexReynolds at 11:07 AM on February 28, 2005 If I buy a Calvin & Hobbes book, the book itself becomes mine.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Even if the comic strips were Creativity Itself, Watterson would still have his creativity.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And not many on here are going to download 10 years worth of Calvin and Hobbes comics and put them in a book, while more will now be aware of the $95 book on sale in August.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

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Calvin & Hobbes

Calvin: So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!
First line of the first Calvin and Hobbes strip.
Calvin: Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?
p12 Susie Derkins first introduction
.Hobbes: What's that cereal you're eating?^ Dish cooks while you sleep (wake up to hot cereal) or start in the morning while making breakfast and have hot lunch or dinner waiting for you when you're ready to eat.
  • 5 Kitchen Gadgets you can't live without??? - Cookware - Chowhound 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC chowhound.chow.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.Calvin: It's my new favorite, "Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs". Have a taste.^ If I have a nice new car parked in my yard and I say to you, Mr. Calvin, I have a free gift for you, a nice new car is parked in my yard, but you have to come get it.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
Hobbes: Thank you. (clutching throat) MFFPBTH!!!!! S-Sw-Sw SWEET!!!!!!!!!
.Calvin: Actually, they're kinda bland till you scoop sugar on 'em.^ Perhaps you’re reading that to indicate that if they turn from the light long enough, there will come a time when they will be left in the dark specifically BECAUSE they had turned away from the light for so long.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I suppose you can try to interpret these differently, but we all know what they're really saying.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Bugbread, you keep saying, "no, they're not the same thing even if you say they are."
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]
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.Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace?^ When Christ comes, He will annul all wars and bring in peace.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
Calvin: Too few role models.
I'll be the fearless American defender of liberty and democracy...and you can be the loathsome godless communist oppressor. We're at war, so if you get hit with a dart, you're dead and the other side wins,OK?
Hobbes: Gotcha.
Calvin: GO! (WAP, WAP) Kind of a stupid game,isn't it?
p62
.Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression.^ Yet in all forms of Calvinism there were to be found those who were perplexed by the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity and who sought to modify it in one direction or another.

 ^ In fact, there is every reason to conclude that Peter is discussing people who never had true faith; who only received temporary outward benefits.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I studied postmodernism under an ordinary guy who happened to be a convinced postmodernist, and he never said anything like that.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 But maybe he's heard of America, and he dreams of living in this land of freedom and opportunity! .Someday, I'd like to meet that little boy...and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!!^ If you don't like the fact that other people have opinions, then you have come to just about the worst place in the Universe to enjoy your Sunday.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In Isaiah 6:9-10 God is simply telling him to go ahead and preach to the people even though he knew they would not accept the truth.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Very few tell the truth today but rather we are most concerned about being politically correct and that people like us.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
Calvin's Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid lima beans.
p70
.Hobbes: Look, it says you have to be eighteen to buy cigarettes.^ Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!'
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What you're doing now is the equivalent of linking a page on pistachio ice cream and a page on virgins, and saying, "Look, there's the proof, right there, again."
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So, if they say to you, 'Look, he is in the wilderness,' do not go out.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
Calvin: EIGHTEEN?!? By then I'll know better!
p90

Something Under the Bed Is Drooling

Calvin: Boy, what a day! I went to school, played outside, and did my homework. I'm exhausted. .[to his dad] You know what time it is now?^ I think you know by now that I do not believe this.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ GAL 4:9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now imagine that every other idiot knows what you know, then what?
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]
Calvin's Dad: Uh, 7:35.
Calvin: It's Miller Time.
Calvin's Dad: Get back here!
p28
.Calvin: Were there dinosaurs when you were a kid, Dad?^ Call it inconsistent as you like, but I daresay there is more healthy Christian mystery in the confession than in this pop-Calvinism.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
Calvin's Dad: Oh, sure! .Your grandfather and I used to put on our leopard skins and hunt brontosaurus for all the clan rituals.^ With all due respect, that is a very "intolerant" and very "offensive" statement, to use a couple of the watchwords of our times.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Sorry all you Rapture-philes, but the end days are actually billions of years from now, at least if we use your Genesis "day" as the model.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So if you ripped all the C&H yourself and then kept it locally on your computer, it'd be fair use.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]
.Calvin's Mom: [to Calvin's dad] Listen, buster, I think Calvin's grades are bad enough already, don't you?^ I don’t think that’s because of their Calvinism.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I think you yourself don't know what it is I don't get.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "A malevolent, capricious, sadistic, lunatic god is much more entertaining; don't you think?"
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin's Dad: YOU'RE TRASHING YOUR ROOM AT 1:00 IN THE MORNING LOOKING FOR MONSTERS?!^ Wm Tanksley, unless you’re a materialist, I’m at least puzzled by your suggestion that God and biochemical processes are causally responsible for my existence.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Just because your ego refuses to believe that some things are possible – it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re right.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Dish cooks while you sleep (wake up to hot cereal) or start in the morning while making breakfast and have hot lunch or dinner waiting for you when you're ready to eat.
  • 5 Kitchen Gadgets you can't live without??? - Cookware - Chowhound 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC chowhound.chow.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .IF YOU DON'T GET BACK INTO BED THIS INSTANT, YOU'LL HAVE A LOT MORE TO WORRY ABOUT THAN STUPID MONSTERS!!^ I have previously discussed the elect and these verses earlier and will talk about the elect even more below when you bring it up again.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You are in danger of grafting into your “Reformed Theology” many of the more dubious aspects of belief propagated by fringe Fundamentalism.
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In fact, you have more microbes on you and in you than you do human cells (and bathing won't help.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Lazy Sunday book 23
.Susie: Do you have your line memorized for the nutrition play, Calvin?^ If Calvin is your hub, then, I must say, I have less in common with you than I do them.
  • Parchment and Pen » Calvinists, Let’s Calm Down 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I am flabbergasted at your assumption here Mr. Calvin, especially as smart as I know you are, even I can completely understand this Scripture .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Well, you can soon say goodbye to the burden of beefy burgers and chlorophyll-ridden lettuce - you'll be able to pop a pill for all your nutritional needs!
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Calvin: I'm still learning it. .Being an onion is a difficult role, you know.^ And I know I don't like being a puppet in anyone's eyes, do you?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Do you mean that being in 'proper gender roles' is part of our justification of salvation?
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ That's difficult, if you don't know what you're thinking.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 What are you?
Susie: I'm "fat."
Calvin: No, I mean in the play.
Susie: Anyone ELSE want to say it?!?
Calvin: Aackk! Understudy! Understudy!
p43
Calvin's Dad: It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't mean anything but what it's seen on TV.
p100
Calvin: Dad, where do babies come from?
.Calvin's Dad: Most people just go to Sears, buy the assembly kit, and read the instructions.^ I want to go back to the point I made about every example or instruction of salvation we read of in the Scriptures not including every element required of us to be saved.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I see where it reads the church, the church of God, the churches of Christ, the church of the first-born, but most of the time it just refers to the church.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If both of these verses are true in the sense you take them here, then why shall we not read this as meaning that no people will go to Hell?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
Calvin: I CAME FROM SEARS?!?!
.Dad: No, you were a Blue Light Special at Kmart.^ No matter how right you think you are, no matter how sincere, no matter how deeply you believe, by my lights you are full of it.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 Almost as good, and a lot cheaper.
Calvin: AAUUGHHH!
.Calvin's Mom: Dear, what are you telling him now?!^ Now I ask you Mr. Calvin how do you know you are not a superficial Christian yourself?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now I will ask you again, does God contradict Himself when He says He will have mercy on those that do His will and obey Him .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So can you tell me now whose sins did Adam inherit, and the angels and Jesus and what about the Virgin Mary?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

Yukon Ho!

.Susie: Talking with you is the conversational-equivalent of an out of body experience.^ PM on February 27, 2005 So where in the DMCA does it talk about throwing out the existing body of copyright law?
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Explain that rhetoric to folks who've been charged with criminal violations of the DMCA. So where in the DMCA does it talk about throwing out the existing body of copyright law?
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You think Deepak Chopra is talking about religious experiences that cannot be studied by science?
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]
p72
.Calvin's Dad: Go break his little legs, will you, honey?^ Yet, you are going to take a little license with the Scriptures yourself.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You are going to have the light just a little while longer.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Okay, John, I kind of think I see where you are going a little better now.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
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Weirdos from Another Planet

.Susie: I was going to ask you to play House, but I think you'd be a weird example for our children.^ Act 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now I wonder what would make you think that our salvation could change on a moments notice.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Download Going to Extremes [0.0 MB] Sun, 8 February 2004 17:35:01 PDT You think your life is tough?
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
p36

The Revenge of the Baby-Sat

Calvin: If I was in charge, we'd never see grass between October and May.
p6
.Calvin's Dad: I think "Santa" would rather have a cold beer.^ Think about it Mr. Calvin if to believe or not believe is an act of divine sovereignty and beyond our own control, then any divine command requiring belief would be irrelevant.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Think about it Mr. Calvin it would not make sense here that these people would need to be instructed with meekness if there had to be no effort on our part.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
p15
.Hobbes: Strange that Santa would go to the trouble to wrap a box of coal.^ I'm not going to go to the trouble to actually write the wget script, but I'd guess it would be only slightly longer than the previous one.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]
p15
.Calvin's Dad: (spotting Calvin's macabre snowmen) You can always tell when you get to our house.^ How we live with unbelievers is always a mission, whether its in a foreign country, or our own house.
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]
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[Hobbes eating "Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs" to help Calvin get proof of the purchase seals to get a beanie.]
Hobbes: Blechh. I feel sick.
Calvin: Oh, c'mon. That's only your second bowl of cereal.
Hobbes: This stuff is pure sugar.
.Calvin: But it's fortified with eight essential vitamins, so it's good for you.^ Here you essentially deny that good complementarian husbands, who take Ephesians 5 to heart, actually exist.
  • DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed: Why Do the New Calvinists Insist on Complementarianism? 1 October 2009 10:17 UTC www.revkevindeyoung.com [Source type: Original source]
Hobbes: Give me a break. This is like eating a bowl of Milk Duds.
.Calvin: Look, it says right here, "Part of a wholesome, nutritious, balanced breakfast."^ Think about it Mr. Calvin it would not make sense here that these people would need to be instructed with meekness if there had to be no effort on our part.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "Dante was right, and if heaven is the universe and the Earth is part of that universe, then Earth is part of heaven, and one can say that Earth is heaven, or at least potentially."
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If Dante was right, and if heaven is the universe and the Earth is part of that universe, then Earth is part of heaven, and one can say that Earth is heaven, or at least potentially.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]
Hobbes: And they show a guy eating five grapefruits, a dozen bran muffins...
.Calvin: (shaking) You know why you shake like that?^ Now I ask you Mr. Calvin how do you know you are not a superficial Christian yourself?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Call it inconsistent as you like, but I daresay there is more healthy Christian mystery in the confession than in this pop-Calvinism.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In compliments to Calvinism (as you know by the fire I lit while talking to you and Bill last week) how do you explain Isaiah 45:7?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 Vitamin deficiency, I'll bet.
p43
Calvin's Mom: I haven't seen Calvin for about 15 minutes now. That probably means he's getting in trouble.
p76
.Calvin: People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.^ To me that ends up in a shooting match, because it puts people on the defensive and ends any kind of productive discussion, or even the desire to continue one.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ On that same day, right after he preached this first gospel message, the people who had just crucified Jesus ask Pete r what they must do.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I suppose you can try to interpret these differently, but we all know what they're really saying.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
Hobbes: Isn't your pants zipper supposed to be in the front?
p100
.Calvin's Mom: How can kids know so much and still be so dumb?^ Now I ask you Mr. Calvin how do you know you are not a superficial Christian yourself?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In compliments to Calvinism (as you know by the fire I lit while talking to you and Bill last week) how do you explain Isaiah 45:7?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How do you know so much about the unknowable?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin's Dad: I'm going to the office and get some sleep.
p124

Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"

Calvin's Dad: The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
p23
.Calvin: I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests.^ I encourage you to read the entire book of Acts to learn more about how the Holy Spirit worked through the apostles.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There is nothing postmodern about reading early Christian writers through the lens of early Christian writers rather than Calvin, Augustine, or John Piper.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In Hebrews 11 we read of countless examples of how a work of God was required in order for someone to be saved.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.^ Personally, I think the Universe has always existed in one form or another.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It is interesting (sometimes) to hear what other think about this wonderful universe we inhabit and who put us here.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It could be an important indicator of the prevalence of life elsewhere in the universe.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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Calvin's Dad: Numb toes build character.
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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.]
Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box!
Hobbes: "ZQFMGB" isn't a word! It doesn't even have a vowel!
Calvin: It is so a word! It's a worm found in New Guinea! Everyone knows that!
Hobbes: I'm looking it up.
.Calvin: You do, and I'll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js!^ Did Calvin come up with that one or did you?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin, you can argue with me on this all you want, but you can not argue with Paul because his defense is the inspired Word of God.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Unfortunately, those four statements are pretty much independant (ok, the "it's all good" may link up, so let's just look at the following three) You have already paid for it.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]
Hobbes: What's your score for ZQFMGB?
Calvin: 957.
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Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons

.Calvin's Dad: I have all these great genes, but they're recessive.^ Act 1:24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men , shew whether of these two thou hast chosen , .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem ; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria , except the apostles.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This is precisely what Arminians have done with the words “all” and “world.” They have not closely checked the biblical usage, and thus have poured their own meaning into these words.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 That's the problem here.
p8
Calvin: Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character.
p9
Susie: Our class voted Calvin the "Most likely to be seen on the news some day".
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.Calvin: It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.^ At this point, he's reduced to begging for crumbs of support from the people still reading his drivel, and to making up silly rebuttals to claims no one made.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There is no way this statement will stand up under scriptural analysis Mr. Calvin.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ As a famous scientist once said, "Smart people (like smart lawyers) can come up with very good explanations for mistaken points of view."
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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Hobbes: Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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.Hobbes: Van Gogh would've sold more than one painting if he'd put tigers in them.^ But it is to point out that those who profess the Reformed faith should know that at certain points their profession may mean more than one thing.

 ^ The girls in Rio will make your head spin...in more ways than one no kiddin' nevermind the head...u...whoa!
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It´s also the setting for more than one loony tale.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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.Calvin: They say winning isn't everything, and I've decided to take their word for it.^ I believe the Scriptures mean what they say and you should take them more literally yourself, then you would not have to try to wrestle with so much Scripture.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Pete r says it was by my mouth that they should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Word of God says that your doctrine dishonors Him and takes away His praise and glory because it does not follow that form of doctrine that was delivered by Jesus and the apostles.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin: In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.^ In any case, please don't ever mark my name in column A, B, or C again, especially when I have not weighed in with a personal opinion on the subject.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Find out why we worry about all the wrong things and don't fret enough about things that really are a threat, as we examine the science - and psychology - of risk.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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Calvin: It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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.Calvin's Dad: I don't know whether your grasp of theology or meteorology is the more appalling.^ I am flabbergasted at your assumption here Mr. Calvin, especially as smart as I know you are, even I can completely understand this Scripture .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Not even scientis themselves claim to know more than anyone else, only you and your mystical claim to their divinity.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If your theology isn’t robust enough to handle God being supreme over moral evil, then I don’t see how it can handle natural evil.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.
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Susie: Uh oh... here comes Calvin - the Incurable Weirdness poster child.
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Calvin's Dad: By the finite patience vested in me, I hereby dub thee "mud." You may rise.
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The Days Are Just Packed

.Hobbes: So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?^ It may be your position that a dog is a cat because they're both domesticated house pets.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ (I'm not saying your post is "abuse", just pointing out that MeTaing a single post does not necessarily make for a bad MeTa, and pointing out a pattern of abuse often, but not necessarily, makes for a good MeTa).
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Link to the file Our computers get faster every year - so how long will it be before they're as good as the best computer around: the human brain?
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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Calvin: Mom and Dad drive me crazy. .They don't understand me and I don't understand them.^ You don't understand the scientific method, you don't understand natural selection or what constitutes scientific proof, yet you continue to post your opinions as if they are on par with science.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 It's hopeless! I'm related to people I don't relate to.
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.Calvin: [as Spaceman Spiff] Free to roam the heavens in man's noble quest to investigate the weirdness of the universe!^ Second, if God is not the one who preserves His saints because such a preservation would violate man’s free will, then how are the saints in heaven preserved?
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin: Do you believe in the devil?^ I would find it hard to believe you have not given this any thought Mr. Calvin.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?^ And I know I don't like being a puppet in anyone's eyes, do you?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Act 18:25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I speak truly, and you agree (I know) that God is not to blame for people’s evil actions.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
.Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.^ Man may need the help of the Holy Spirit, but it is man’s will which controls this help.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]
.Calvin: You just can't talk to animals about these things.^ What bad wording are you talking about?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Exactly what skeletons are you talking about?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Again, just where and when are you talking to God?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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Hobbes: I don't know which is worse...that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low.
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.Susie: The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.^ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You may hate to hear that, but that's because people seldom tell the truth, even though most people are thinking and behaving the same way.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Jesus said, “The wind blows where it wishes , and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?^ Let’s not be silly and assume that if God exists - He/She/It would only have to do things the way we would and makes sense for us.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Think about it Mr. Calvin it would not make sense here that these people would need to be instructed with meekness if there had to be no effort on our part.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Again consider that Jesus also said His words would give us life .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.^ The idea that we are only responsible if we can choose in a libertarian manner is nowhere supported in the Bible, and when you think about it, doesn’t make much sense.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Remember, the question was "do YOU believe", not "what other beliefs about the end of the world do you think are stupid."
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Perhaps you are thinking about this possibility: I depend on Jesus to save me, but I believe that I must add something to what He did in order to complete or appropriate that salvation for myself.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny. .Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity?^ I don't appreciate it, and that is why I don't do that to you.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I think you yourself don't know what it is I don't get.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "A malevolent, capricious, sadistic, lunatic god is much more entertaining; don't you think?"
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Why would we develop that way?^ Why would life help itself out in that way?
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 How does it benefit us?
.Hobbes: I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.^ Personally I don't care if evolution is true or not because God makes things the way he does.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ That doesn’t make sense in God’s ordered plan of things either.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How do you seriously make a common sense case for the nature of the universe when such things exist.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]
Calvin: (after a long pause) I can't tell if that's funny or really scary.
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Calvin: Paul Gauguin asked, "whence do we come? What are we? W here are we going?" .Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside!^ So don't worry about elbow room.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Psa 139:14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works , And my soul knows it very well.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I have been involved in a few churches since about 1987 (I am not counting the ones when I was a kid because I only went because mama made me go).
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 See ya later! .Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?^ Paul says that Christ achieved a reconciliation not for those who made the first move toward God but for sinners, for enemies.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Furthermore, if one defines a carnal Christian as does the apostle Paul, who says that a carnal Christian is someone who has a sectarian spirit in the church, then Calvinists believe in such a thing as a carnal Christian.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Paul is saying that saving faith requires that people have a certain knowledge of the truth; that is, they must know who Christ is and what He has done.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: Our country was founded a long time ago, roughly around 200 B.C.
Miss Wormwood: 200 B.C.?!
Calvin: "Before Calvin." [Later, in a dunce cap] That's what's important!
.Calvin: When I grow up, I'm not going to read the newspaper and I'm not going to follow complex issues and I'm not going to vote.^ If you read the verses following (chapter 6) you see that Paul addresses the issue of our obedience after salvation .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 That way I can complain when the government doesn't represent me. .Then, when everything goes down the tubes, I can say the system doesn't work and justify my further lack of participation.^ Consider JAM 2:18 But someone may well say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works."
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In my research I have found too many verses to remember saying that we are saved apart from our own works but never apart from Jesus work on the cross.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Jam 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
Hobbes: An ingeniously self-fulfilling plan.
.Calvin: It's a lot more fun to blame things than to fix them.^ But it is to point out that those who profess the Reformed faith should know that at certain points their profession may mean more than one thing.

 ^ That is, the loss of every good thing in this world is meant to reveal that Christ himself more than compensates for all losses.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So the fateful decision was a choice which involved a lot more than just physical function/freedom on Adam and Eve’s part.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!
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.Calvin: You call this news?!^ Call it inconsistent as you like, but I daresay there is more healthy Christian mystery in the confession than in this pop-Calvinism.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 This isn't informative! This is a sound bite! This is entertainment! This is sensationalism! Fortunately, that's all I have the patience for.
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.Hobbes: What would you call the creation of the universe?^ That is why I would say that if you want to create a "fundamental change in their belief", you need to make sure that you yourself aren't blindly following your own beliefs.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Do you think a random universe of concrete objects colliding by chance is the right model for creation?
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And anonymous: God, similar to what science believes, created the universe - from nothing, just as you seem to believe.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
.Calvin: The Horrendous Space KABLOOIE!^ Fred Hoyle knew way, way more about the subject than I do, but I still have problems with the Big Bang (renamed by Calvin "The Horrendous Space Kablooie!"
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Big Bang, also known as the Horrendous Space Kablooie, has relegated the steady-state idea into the footnotes of astronomy textbooks.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin: Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.^ There is nothing postmodern about reading early Christian writers through the lens of early Christian writers rather than Calvin, Augustine, or John Piper.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Call it inconsistent as you like, but I daresay there is more healthy Christian mystery in the confession than in this pop-Calvinism.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Hobbes: Science kind of takes the fun out of the portent business.
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Calvin: [I pray for] The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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.Calvin: Miss Wormwood, I'm a fierce advocate of the separation of church and state.^ Not only did these courageous souls want to separate from the State Church, they also wished to be completely free of all State interference.

 .Nevertheless, I feel the need for spiritual guidance and comfort as I face the day's struggles.^ I might be comfortable downloading an album by a struggling artist, but I won't feel comfortable keeping it.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 .So I was wondering if I could strip down, smear myself with paste, and set fire to this little effigy of you in a non-denominational sort of way.^ Do you think you could tone down the hate-speech by the way?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now I wonder what would make you think that our salvation could change on a moments notice.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I discussed the dead man earlier when you asked how a dead man could help himself, but lets take it a little further.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 [Outside the principal's office] Boy, what a touchy subject!
Calvin: Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

.Calvin: If mom and dad cared about me at all, they'd buy me some infra-red nighttime vision goggles.^ PE 3:9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you , not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I read every commentary I could find but I think everyone had some different meaning and they all ended up causing contradiction in the Scriptures.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What about all the Baptists, Methodists, and all those people who have desired a relationship with God, are you now condemning them to hell if they are not of the so-called elect?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin: Everybody I know needs a complete personality overhaul!^ I am flabbergasted at your assumption here Mr. Calvin, especially as smart as I know you are, even I can completely understand this Scripture .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: I'm being educated against my will! My rights are being trampled!
Hobbes: Is it a right to remain ignorant?
.Calvin: I don't know, but I refuse to find out!^ Although I concur that the logic of TULIP Calvinism (i.e., determinism) entails God introducing evil, I accept the argument of Calvinists who refuse to take that step and who instead just say “I don’t know”.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin: Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.^ Did Calvin come up with that one or did you?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I'd love to see some of you get nailed, just to see the surprised look on your face when you're in court and you try to pull that one on a judge.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: Verbing weirds language.
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.Calvin: If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.^ Now I ask you Mr. Calvin how do you know you are not a superficial Christian yourself?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It sounds like you worship scientist's and don't do enough thinking for yourself.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I asked you Mr. Calvin, You mean these verses are referring to baptism of the Holy Spirit?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin's Mom: [on phone] What do you mean Calvin left his clothes with Susie??^ If you take out God or the supernatural, you're not really left with religion or spiritual meaning, but simply a set of values.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I asked you Mr. Calvin, You mean these verses are referring to baptism of the Holy Spirit?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "If you take out God or the supernatural, you're not really left with religion or spiritual meaning, but simply a set of values.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! .Want to see my book report?^ Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all were written, in continuance were fashioned, when none of them.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I can do whatever I want with the physical book - read it, loan it to people, use it as a coaster, test my paper shredder with it, blow my nose in it, etc.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]
Hobbes: (Reading Calvin's paper) "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender modes."
Calvin: Academia, here I come!
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.Calvin: Reality continues to ruin my life.^ I also realize more of the smaller sins in my life that I have overlooked in the past.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I, as well as Angie and Chelsea, started attending faithfully and I continued to pray regularly for God to help me in my life.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
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.Hobbes: I wonder what people knew before there were magazine quizzes.^ God knew His people that way before the world was created, and we come to know Him in that way after we have been saved.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So to say that God foreknew His people before the world was created does not at all mean that He knew what they were going to choose and acquiesced in their choice.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This does not prove God chose some individuals and rejected others, but that before the world was created, before there was Jew or Gentile, God chose to have a people for Himself.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: Miss Wormwood, I protest this "C" grade! .That's saying I only did an "average" job!^ Jesus did not say that the priest and levite sinned, only that they did not recognize their neighbour.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If only someone could say that the probability of creation was zero, then it could be easy to prove that it was God's work -- but the fact that creation did happen is contradictory to zero probability.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Jesus did not say that the priest and levite sinned, only that they did not recognize their neighbour’ .
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .I got 75% of the answers correct, and in today's society, doing something 75% right is outstanding!^ I’m not sure if that’s right, but I do feel reasonably sure that Christ’s answer has something to do with the crowd’s question, and therefore must contain some reference to Himself.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Isaiah 11:4 says that the Lord will “judge the poor in righteousness, / And decide with equity for the afflicted of the land.” To judge with justice is something more than what the world can do today.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 If government and industry were 75% competent, we'd be ecstatic! I won't stand for this artificial standard of performance! I demand an "A" for this kind of work! I think it's really gross how she drinks Maalox straight from the bottle.
p.85
.Calvin: Do you think babies are born sinful, that they come into the world as sinners?^ Do you believe the world will come to an end?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You think yourself modern because you were born into a modern society.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In His second coming, He will settle the sins of this world.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
.Hobbes: No, I think they're just quick studies.^ Allowing sharing of this tool means that the producer could claim that they're losing a sale when in fact I would just do without the tool if I had to buy it.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Bugbread, you keep saying, "no, they're not the same thing even if you say they are."
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Nearly everyone knows someone they think is lucky, and they're not all Irish.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.Calvin: Whenever you discuss certain things with animals, you get insulted.^ We’ve already had that unfortunate experience on some of the other threads, and I am enjoying discussing things with you, so I hope we can keep it on a respectful and productive plane for all here.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Just because you haven’t experienced certain things, it doesn’t mean that they can’t be experienced.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]
p.90
.Hobbes: There's more to this world than just people, you know.^ It's not just you against the world.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There are people agreeing with you.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I know you later question that we must get in the church to be saved and I will explain it in more detail then.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
p105
.Calvin's Dad: Cyclists have a right to the road too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs!^ Dont you see Mr. Calvin if righteousness comes through election by the grace of God alone, then Christ died in vain.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!
p.106
.Calvin: You know how people are.^ I believe this is how we know people by their fruits.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ GAL 4:9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I didn't know which you were asking, so I didn't know how to answer.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 .They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it.^ It was a time when they did not realize who God was but they knew there had to be some sort of God because of His great creation.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What surprises some is that many of the founders of modern science were not only Christians, but they were scientists in order to demonstrate that we lived in an orderly universe.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Jesus did not say that the priest and levite sinned, only that they did not recognize their neighbour.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
p109
Hobbes: The important thing is we tried our best.
Calvin: The important thing is we lost!
Hobbes: Oops, I always forget that the purpose of competition is to divide people into winners and losers.
.Calvin: What's the point of trying if you can't be a winner?^ Unless of course you were simply trying to point out that baptism is not necessary and did not mean to prove that irresistible grace and unconditional election are false doctrines.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Let us consider the point you were trying to make concerning circumcision and baptism.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There is no need to be offended that I was trying to thoughtfully respond to the point that you had made.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]
Calvin's Dad: Calvin, losing is a part of life. .You should learn to be a good sport about it and keep things in perspective.^ I encourage you to read the entire book of Acts to learn more about how the Holy Spirit worked through the apostles.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Join us as we talk with experts about the degree to which the media shake your tree merely to keep you engaged.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ It should come together for you by now if not, it definitely should as you keep reading.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 After all, winning isn't everything.
.Calvin: Is that really what they believe on the planet you're from?^ I am still not sure what you really believe.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If you take out God or the supernatural, you're not really left with religion or spiritual meaning, but simply a set of values.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I believe the Scriptures mean what they say and you should take them more literally yourself, then you would not have to try to wrestle with so much Scripture.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
.Calvin's Dad: You've been watching athletic shoes ads again, haven't you?^ AlexReynolds at 12:33 AM on February 28, 2005 "I learned it from watching you, dad!"
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ That's because I CAN'T TELL, because YOU GUYS HAVEN'T EVEN BROACHED THE ISSUE. All you've been talking about is whether copyright infringement equals theft.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "I learned it from watching you, dad!"
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]
p.110
.Calvin: Do you believe in evolution?^ You believe evolution by faith.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "You believe evolution by faith."
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You believe evolution with no proof.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
Hobbes: No.
.Calvin: You don't believe humans evolved from monkeys?^ I would find it hard to believe you have not given this any thought Mr. Calvin.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ To those posting here who do not believe that humans evolved from some non-human life form: .
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I don't expect you to believe it no matter how it's explained.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
Hobbes: I sure don't see any difference. [Calvin angrily chases him] Woo hoo hoo!
p.114
.Calvin: I believe personal greed justifies everything.^ It is true that a person is not justified until he believes in Christ.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 Also, private lives are legitimate public entertainment. And the lowest common denominator is always right. Do I have career options or what?
.Hobbes: I think I need to start hanging around with other animals.^ We all need more critical thinking in our lives, and this is a good place to start.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
p.122
.Calvin: The problem with people is that they don't look at the big picture.^ People come to Christ because they want to and they believe, not because they're afraid of what will happen to them if they don't.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So nobody can flat out admit that they don't care about casual piracy from people who wouldn't have been customers anyway.
  • Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes. | MetaTalk 10 February 2010 12:53 UTC metatalk.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If some people want to have one-liner exchanges I don't have a problem.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 Eventually, we're each going to die, our species will go extinct, the sun will explode, and the universe will collapse. Existence isn't only temporary, it's pointless! We're all doomed, and worse, nothing matters!
.Calvin: Miss Wormwood, could we arrange our seats in a circle and have a little discussion?^ I discussed the dead man earlier when you asked how a dead man could help himself, but lets take it a little further.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I touched on this a little earlier it makes sense that if it is the faith that saves us then it could not be our personal faith or faith alone as most Protestant denominations teach.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it's less wasteful. .[In the corner with a dunce cap] For some reason, they'd rather teach us stuff that any fool can look up in a book.^ Romans 9:16 teaches us that Jews are not entitled to salvation just because they were born Jews, just as we are not saved because we will it or because meritorious work (he that runs) forces God to save us.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What bothers me is that many of the fundamentalist community are looking forward to the "End Times", and the first place they look for a sign is from some conflagration in the Middle East.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Again, your reasoning would appeal to human philosophy rather than what the Scriptures teach .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
p125
Calvin: Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine,
oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design!
Such beauty and grace wild nature produces...
[disgusted] Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!
p140
.Calvin: Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in...But everytime I do, they tell me to stop it.^ Pete r says it was by my mouth that they should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They say that we should do something to protect them.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For this reason God will send them [those who perish] strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned.” .
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]
p.140
.Calvin: The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.^ Focusing on the repentance unto life and also to the Gentiles, we learn that from this point in history, the gospel would be preached to all people and forgiveness granted to those who obey the gospel.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Arminian is forced to argue that no causal and meritorious relationship exists between Christ’s redemptive work and the application of His sacrifice to those for whom He died.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ MAT 24:22 "And unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days shall be cut short.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
p142
.Calvin: From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do!^ Maybe by now you do not want it to mean anything other that what it truly teaches.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now imagine doing the same with a living cell: inserting the genes you want to create the organism you want.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Now, I do want to mention that I don’t agree with Sproul that St.Paul is claiming that God wanted to do this “to show His wrath”.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in.
p145
.Calvin: What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?^ Calvin, your doctrines reasoning just would not give me much assurance because it would cause me to wonder if I ever had true faith to begin with.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin, once again your doctrine will not hold up to Scripture.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
p146
(After Calvin hits a baseball and breaks a house window, walks up to Susie)
Calvin: Don't ask dumb questions. Just ring my doorbell, hold the bat, and yell HA! HA!
Susie: Why is that worth ten cents to you?
p.150
.Calvin: History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.^ It’s unwise to suggest that because God is sovereign He is therefore the direct cause of every single event in life.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
p152
.Calvin: These real-life video programs are great!^ But in addition to these searches for clever cosmic company, the Institute also has a wide-ranging astrobiology research program: How did life begin?
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Calvin, these people who supposedly seek God in sex and drugs are not really seeking God, but rather they seek to fulfill their own selfish and sinful desires and motives.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 Here are ordinary people having actual, horrible experiences, which are broadcast nationwide for the public's viewing amusement! It's intrusion, exploitation, and voyeurism all in one! .You never know where a video camera will be!^ During this time I wanted to grow closer to God than I had ever been and was seeking to truly know Him in an intimate way that intimate way you mentioned earlier, that I had never experienced.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It is my earnest hope that you will accept my apology for having caused you offense and know that I never meant to offend.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You stated, I know of many people who seek for God in fame, finances, sex, drugs, etc., but never find Him.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 Everything's fair game!
.Hobbes: Who'd have guessed Big Brother would go commercial?^ Another strong reason to reject the interpretation which says that Christ shed His blood for people who go to hell is that it would totally contradict Scripture.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I think it would go without saying that anyone who has believed this since Christs death would not choose to believe and repent anyway.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It would be time to dust our feet off and go about our way to someone who will listen and have an open heart and open mind.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
Calvin: I love to snicker at other people's tragedy.
p.156

There's Treasure Everywhere

Calvin: Today at school, I tried to decide whether to cheat on my test or not. .I wondered, is it better to do the right thing and fail...or is it better to do the wrong thing and succeed?^ Discussion is good, but there are some things things that are scientifically, morally and philosophically right or wrong in the black and white sense.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction...but on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.^ No one can restrain His hand.” .
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.” .
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For if it be predestined that one man be good and another man evil, then the first is not deserving of praise or the other to be blamed.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 Of course, most everybody cheats some time or other. .People always bend the rules if they think they can get away with it.^ People choose not to believe in Him because they want to live by their own rules.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The fundalmentalists think only the bad people will suffer and they will be safe, but all will suffer.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "Athiest think scientific laws, which have always been, rule the behavior of the universe, and not much is known before the Big Bang, ...only theories" .
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 Then again, that doesn't justify my cheating. .Then I thought, look, cheating on one little test isn't such a big deal.^ One more thing: Isn't the Big Bang theory a case of extrapolating way past the point where we have any knowledge of how to extrapolate, or even if extrapolation still applies?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 It doesn't hurt anyone. .But then I wondered if I was just rationalizing my unwillingness to accept the consequence of not studying.^ I will just leave it at this I am glad that at this point in my life I have studied the Manuscripts and compared them to several of the translations, especially with the Scriptures concerning salvation.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So I’ll accept your speculation in the same spirit that I made my speculation, and with just as much willingness to believe the one as I do the other.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Still, in the real world, people care about success, not principles.^ Sometimes it seems to me that people worship Buddha, which isn't really what that religion is about.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ While God might let evil people rule, He is still sovereign over the rulers of the world.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I do not think you really care about God but you will find out that the Christians were right.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Then again, maybe that's why the world is such a mess.^ Why did the universe evolve in such a way that universal forces are such as they are, maybe b/c in all other possible worlds, or actual ones that tried to exist b/4 failed.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 What a dilemma!
.Hobbes: So what did you decide?^ Did you decide it was time to be born?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
Calvin: Nothing. I ran out of time and I had to turn in a blank paper.
Hobbes: Anymore, simply acknowledging the issue is a moral victory.
Calvin: Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test.
p. 12
Calvin: Look, a dead bird!
Hobbes: It must've hit a window.
Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. .You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious.^ Do you not realize that the term "natural selection" contains the word "selection?"
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now can you really read this passage and come away with the idea that it was really our idea to be saved and that God was just responding to our choice?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You claim to have certain knowledge about the nature of God, and about what's in God's mind, When very many brilliant mystics say that both are unknowable.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .But to go on with your daily affairs, you can't really think about that...which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly.^ If you take out God or the supernatural, you're not really left with religion or spiritual meaning, but simply a set of values.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Act 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How can you really believe he is talking about believers only?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 It's very confusing. .I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up.^ Does that make any sense at all?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You make no sense at all.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I suppose that the conclusion here is that God chose a group, an institution, rather than the individuals who make it up.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
Hobbes: No doubt.
p16
Calvin: I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.
p18
.Susie: Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.^ For decades now, small numbers of people have been trying to ensure an existence beyond death by having their bodies sometimes only parts of their bodies deep frozen.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
p25
Hobbes: So basically, this maverick is urging everyone to express his individuality through conformity in brand-name selection?
p29
[Calvin is posing in his underwear in front of his mirror.]
.Calvin: Made in God's own image, yes sir!^ Rom 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Mat 15:6(b) Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Yes, we sin in the likeness of Adam but he was not born of sin; he created his own sin and was made aware of sin by his conscious, so are we, in the likeness of Adam.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
Hobbes: God must have a goofy sense of humor.
p31
[Calvin is outside, looking up at the stars.]
Calvin: I'M SIGNIFICANT!...screamed the dust speck.
p30
Calvin: Everybody seeks happiness! Not me, though! That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
p34
.Calvin: They say the world is a stage.^ So to say that God foreknew His people before the world was created does not at all mean that He knew what they were going to choose and acquiesced in their choice.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Calvin, what do these verses mean if they do not mean what they actually say?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.
Hobbes: Maybe that's why it's hard to tell if we're living in a tragedy or a farce.
.Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.^ What makes Calvinism more special than any other Christian doctrine?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: Incredibly, people never expect to get hit with a snowball in the house.
.Hobbes: I'll see you in your room momentarily.^ Good to see that you've changed your tune.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You are absolutely right, Brutus, and I can't tell you how glad I was to see it in your post.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Again, I hope you see the absurdity of your reasoning with your license.
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.Calvin: Some people complain all the time!^ I know some denominations believe that 144,000 represents the total number of people who will be admitted to heaven over all time, but an equal argument could be made that this number represents only the total number of Jews that went to heaven on this one “day” in 70AD. .
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ All forms of Calvinism, except potentially those forms that use the concept of middle knowledge (some debate where middle knowledge theories are Calvinist, but that is not relevant here), are deterministic.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ He lived in Africa some 60,000 years ago, which means that all humans lived in Africa at least at that time.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .They complain about the least little thing!^ To argue about Evolution and chance, Can it answer why have things evolved the way they are?
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Question to everyone: Shouldn’t we all be at least a little suspicious of a person who can “materialize things out of thin air”?
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 .If something bugs them, they never let go of it!^ He is explaining to let them go on with their sinful ways (letting Satan have them) and if we do not associate with them, maybe they will understand that we are trying to show them their wrong and perhaps they will repent.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Let's go down and confuse them by making them speak different languages--then they won't be able to understand each other.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They could not seem to let go of the old system completely.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .They just go on and on long after anyone else is interested!^ Honestly, you're not going to win anyone over by telling them they are a sinner and they will burn in Hell unless they repent.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 It's just complain, complain, complain! .People who gripe all the time really drive me nuts!^ It was a time when they did not realize who God was but they knew there had to be some sort of God because of His great creation.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I know some denominations believe that 144,000 represents the total number of people who will be admitted to heaven over all time, but an equal argument could be made that this number represents only the total number of Jews that went to heaven on this one “day” in 70AD. .
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Focusing on the repentance unto life and also to the Gentiles, we learn that from this point in history, the gospel would be preached to all people and forgiveness granted to those who obey the gospel.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .You'd think they'd change the subject after a while, but they never do!^ I have also read some commentary, although as I stated previously to you, it is hard to find two commentaries that totally agree as they are subjective for the most part.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now I wonder what would make you think that our salvation could change on a moments notice.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Actually I think they can explain it, only you have to be a physicist to really understand it.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 .They just keep griping until you start to wonder, 'What's wrong with this idiot?'^ Funny how you tell me first that I don't know scientific definitions, then when I cite scientific definitions you tell me that mine is wrong and that I just need to look in Webster's, which is not a scientific dictionary.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Keep in mind what you just wrote here and read the following verse which came from the mouth of Jesus .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They just simply thought they were saved but failed to do the will of the father mentioned in verse 21, which you left out of your comments.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .But they go on complaining and repeating what they've already said!^ And like I already said, God didn’t put the evil into their hearts; they acted according to the evil that was there.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I’ve already said that I find them to be reconcilable with Romans 9, and I can’t disagree with that.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Things said while asleep, as reported by the companion: "I've got to go tomato-pasting, I can't keep holding up this cat."
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]
.Hobbes: Maybe they're not very self aware.^ I’ll be responding to them very carefully later; they’re worth more than a QuickReply.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
Calvin: Boy, that's another thing that gets on my nerves!
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.Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question.^ Perhaps you’re reading that to indicate that if they turn from the light long enough, there will come a time when they will be left in the dark specifically BECAUSE they had turned away from the light for so long.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You see your insinuating questions are better suited to your own self.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They've even deduced the color of extra-terrestrial trees (it's enough to make you see red!
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 I now intend to forget it forever. .You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system.^ How do you propose I present the Gospel to these unbelievers called Calvinists without first showing them that the evil system which they teach is not the gospel?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ From your answer, it sounds like God came from nothing, which basically contradicts everything you've been saying.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Download A Trip Through the Solar System...But How Do You Planet?
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 Congratulations.
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.Calvin: I understand my tests are popular reading in the teachers' lounge.^ Eph 3:4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.
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.Calvin: [to Moe, the bully] Your simian countenance suggests a heritage unusually rich in species diversity.^ Also, what a chimp-human hybrid ancestor suggests about the fuzzy definition of species, and whether a blip in simian DNA could produce a giant Kong.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Moe: ...What?
Calvin: [handing over his milk money] Here. That was worth 25 cents.
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.Calvin's Dad: Why is it that I can recall a cigarette ad jingle from 25 years ago, but I can't remember what I just got up to do?^ I’ve read Calvin’s Institutes and some of his commentaries a number of years ago as well as St. Augustunes confessions (in Latin).
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Plus, why - after billions of years of evolution - our brains just barely work!
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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Calvin: Trifle not with tired tigers.
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Calvin: This piece of pie is awfully darn small!
Calvin's Mom: Life could be a lot worse, Calvin.
Calvin: Life could be a lot better too! … But worse is more likely.
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Calvin: My internal clock is on Tokyo time.
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Calvin: I sure am great! .I'm one of the greatest people who ever lived!^ Since it is God who enables His people to persevere, one is continually cast upon Him and His promises.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They might be people who led exemplary lives and gave back far more to society than they took.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The culture we live in is one of voyeurism and sensationalism – of people lapping up scandal like water.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 .How lucky people are to know someone as great as me!^ I believe this is how we know people by their fruits.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I think this would be easier to see in someone than how many people they had brought to Christ.
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 ^ The people purporting this such as yourself are the ones that use the great inventions but do not have an inkling as to how they came to be or how they function.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 I'm great in so many great ways! In fact, I'm so great that my greatness is...
Susie: You're not great! .You're the most conceited blowhard I've ever met!^ If you truly need examples, I'd suggest looking in past questions, though, this has been the most heated debate in some time, at least that I've participated in.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
.Calvin: When you're great, people often mistake candor for bragging.^ Darrin, this is a really old thread, so probably not many people are listening… You might want to move on to a more recent Calvinism thread.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So, if you're here to constantly tell people that you're right and they're wrong, and you insist on name-calling and denegration, go find a chat room somewhere.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It’s an empty trick unless you’re saying, “We reject those people’s beliefs because they believe X. And what you’re saying here amounts to X!” .
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
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Hobbes: Virtual reality is already here.
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.Calvin (writing, after being asked to explain Newton's First Law of Motion "in his own words"): Yakka foob mog.^ In verse 36 Pete r explains that the word which God sent was being preached and in verse 37 he says That word, I say, ye know.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It’s also hard for me to “explain the similarity”, since the two claims are so similar; it’s like being asked to prove that zero is equal to zero.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. (speaking) I love loopholes.
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.Calvin: I'm thinking of starting my own talk radio show.^ Think about it Mr. Calvin if to believe or not believe is an act of divine sovereignty and beyond our own control, then any divine command requiring belief would be irrelevant.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .I'll spout simplistic opinions for hours on end, ridicule anyone who disagrees with me, and generally foster divisiveness, cynicism, and a lower level of public dialog!^ This is his way of reminding Christians that we are the ones in fellowship with God, rather than the cynics who ridicule our faith.
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.Hobbes: It would seem you were born for the job.^ Therefore, you seem to disagree with RCS Jr. What Does RCS Jr. Why would he pick those words?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There's a lot that can do us in, and it would seem you have good reason to worry.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.Calvin: Imagine getting paid to act like a six-year-old!^ So you teach that God made the man who raped a 12 year old girl commit that horrible act and neither one of them had a choice in the matter.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Nor do I imagine it likely that Paul could see thousands of years into the future.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They cling to these non sense beliefs because their religion is anti-science and says the earth is six thousand years old.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: [sighs] I wish I could go to the moon.
Calvin's Dad: I wish you could too.
Calvin's Mom: Dear.
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.Calvin: Why should I have to WORK for everything?!^ "Why should we expect anything to act with any predictability if everything finds its source in chaos?"
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Why should we expect anything to act with any predictability if everything finds its source in chaos?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 It's like saying I don't deserve it!
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.Calvin: One of my baby teeth came out!^ My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.” .
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If Sproul, Jr. God authors evil in the way Jonathan Edwards did (as quoted in my first comment above), then any charge of hyper-Calvinism, due to this one issue, is clearly out-of-bounds.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .I have to say, I'm not entirely comfortable holding a piece of my own head.^ In my research I have found too many verses to remember saying that we are saved apart from our own works but never apart from Jesus work on the cross.
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Calvin: My brain always rejects attitude transplants.
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Calvin: Look at how people are portrayed in the comic strips. The women are indecisive whiners, nagging shrews, and bimbos! And the men are no better. They're befuddled morons, heavy drinkers, gluttons, and lazy goof-offs! Everyone is incompetent, unappreciated, and unsuccessful! What kind of insidious social programming is this?? .No wonder the world's such a mess!^ For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Although the potential for physical growth in this relative world is finite, there is no such limitation on inner spiritual growth.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 I demand politically correct, morally uplifting role models in the funnies!
.Calvin's Dad: Yes, we all know how funny good role models are.^ GAL 4:9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This is how He knows the number of our days, because He is all-knowing not because He has decided ahead of time how many they would be.
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 ^ All of these verses show us how we know.
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Calvin: And look, all the kids are obnoxious brats!
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Calvin: Cigars are all the rage, Dad. You should smoke cigars!
.Calvin's Mom: Flatulence could be all the rage, but it would still be disgusting.^ No denomination could claim this because if they did then all the others would be condemned.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If that were His focus, He could have just as easily proved it by choosing not to create us at all, since he already knew full well how we would react.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They would all be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit so that they could continue His teachings until such time as the New Testament could be documented.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
Calvin: I see.
Dad: Nicely put, dear.
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It's a Magical World

.Calvin: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.^ You also don't seem to know what a 'superstition' is.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I think you yourself don't know what it is I don't get.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I don’t know if you have the book or not.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin: I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.^ My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.” .
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And you [the apostles] will be hated by all for My name’s sake” (Mt.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Mat 24:9 "Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
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.Hobbes: If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some!^ I have also read some commentary, although as I stated previously to you, it is hard to find two commentaries that totally agree as they are subjective for the most part.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If God just arbitrarily chooses to save some that may be even more wicked than you or me, but he does not save me, how could that be showing the love of God?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Just because your ego refuses to believe that some things are possible – it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re right.
  • The God Delusion? Part 3 : IntentBlog 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.intentblog.com [Source type: Original source]
Calvin: Now yer talkin'!
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.Calvin: People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them.^ Think about it Mr. Calvin it would not make sense here that these people would need to be instructed with meekness if there had to be no effort on our part.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It is a mistake to think that all Puritans were committed to the so-called Five-points of Calvinism formulated at the Synod of Dort in 1618.

 ^ Man has an active spirit that creates beautiful works of art, music, architecture, and that makes great strides in science.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist's statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.
Hobbes: You misspelled Weltanschauung.
p68 (July 15, 1995)
Calvin: Shock and titillate me! I've got money!
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.Susie: Did you know that nobody on our street sets an alarm clock in the morning?^ I am curious to know, how did you know the mind of your children when they were infants or very young?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I know you do not doubt His omniscience, so you must be saying that He knows what we will choose but simply does not have to consent or submit to our choice.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Crazy story, Anonymous...did that happen to someone you know?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.
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Calvin: It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy...Let's go exploring!
Last line of the final Calvin and Hobbes strip

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

.Calvin: Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.^ You are about to get them all included if you will just leave out the nothing part.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols...I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh” (Ezek.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: (Talking on a pay phone)Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
p29
.Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace?^ When Christ comes, He will annul all wars and bring in peace.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
Calvin: Too few role models.
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.Hobbes: Did you ask your Mom if you could jump off the roof?^ What did you have to do with your birth?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Act 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How could we find it, even if it's not intelligent?This is your chance to listen to, and ask questions of, some of the best researchers in this dramatically exciting field.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.Calvin: Questions I know the answers to I don't need to ask, right?^ I'm sorry, but I really, really want to know the answer to this question: is there any explanation of the "big bang" theory, or is it just that "there was a big bang"?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now I ask you Mr. Calvin how do you know you are not a superficial Christian yourself?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The need for salvation (forgiveness of sins) is universal among those who know right from wrong (those who are held accountable).
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Calvin's Dad: The world isn't fair, Calvin.
.Calvin: I know, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?^ I want to know the truth Mr. Calvin, I am begging, pleading, and praying, with all my heart and soul.
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.Calvin: There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!^ You make no sense at all.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If God just arbitrarily chooses to save some that may be even more wicked than you or me, but he does not save me, how could that be showing the love of God?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There is simply no Scripture that anyone can show you that will support we are baptized by the Holy Spirit.
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.Calvin: I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.^ What makes Calvinism more special than any other Christian doctrine?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Instead of trying to reform the church, Luther, Calvin, and Knox, should have been more focused on restoring and maintaining the original church.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Please try and show a little more consistency by practicing what you preach.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin: Where do we keep all our chainsaws, Mom?^ James is not teaching that if we are baptized and then subsequently sin, as we all do, then we are condemned by our failure to keep all the commandments flawlessly.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I have a feeling that this all powerful, omnipotent, omniscient god our fundamentalist brethren keep talking about is actually a toothless, enfeebled, frustrated wannabee.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin: I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.^ If you turn to Christ, you will discover in God more wonders in this fallen world than could be imagined in any other world.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God, thank you for making this wonderful world and scientists.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
.Hobbes: I think if you're born, it's too late.^ In terms of the mechanics of how this works, we might be closer than you’re thinking.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If you think you’re from God but you reject Christ you’re wrong; and if you think you accept Christ but you haven’t learned to do that from God you’re wrong.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You think yourself modern because you were born into a modern society.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin: Do you have any money?
Hobbes: No.
Calvin: How can we get some? .Who do you know that we could sue?^ They would even include people you know and care for, who you might even love.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You know the story here and it was not to cause the Gentiles to believe it was to cause the Jews to believe , and not to believe in the gospel but to believe that the Gentiles could be saved.
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 ^ I do not know how you could otherwise explain this Scripture.
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Calvin: Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.
p35
.Hobbes: You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.^ All we know is that unlike us, there was a time when he was not a slave to sin — and yet he chose to serve sin and die to righteousness anyhow.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Also, why real human evolution is picking up the pace (did you know that blue eyes are relatively new?
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ ECLAT is the name and WE NEVER DIE! Just be good in this world folks and you will know when IT IS TIME. Note: Eclat TIME is not like Humate time.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin: Girls are like slugs—they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what.^ I have also read some commentary, although as I stated previously to you, it is hard to find two commentaries that totally agree as they are subjective for the most part.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I am content to take away all those things from them, which to any considerable degree of probability may again beget the like mischiefs if they be not taken away.

 ^ The warnings to persevere and work hard at sanctification serve many purposes.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: Hey Susie, what's the answer to Question 7?
Susie Derkins: Imadoofus.
Calvin: Thanks.
(Calvin realizes Susie has tricked him)
Calvin: The Tooth Fairy's gonna make you rich tonight, Susie.
p76
Calvin: I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
p86
.Hobbes: If you don't get a good night kiss, you get Kafka dreams.^ I don't know about you but modern medicine has done my family and I a world of good.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin: But Calvin is no kind and loving god!^ If we could see the real motives of their hearts, we would discover that at no time were they ever activated by a true love of God.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It would have no bearing on the fact that God loves us with an all consuming love and wants to share what he has with us.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God is no respecter of persons Mr. Calvin, and Adam was just like all men are today.
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 .He's one of the old gods!^ So you teach that God made the man who raped a 12 year old girl commit that horrible act and neither one of them had a choice in the matter.
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 He demands sacrifice!
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.Hobbes: I had resolved to be less offended by human nature, but I think I blew it already.^ It is easy to get confused and to think that our works after salvation save us, but they are simply the normal, natural by products of the salvation that has already occurred.
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.Calvin: You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid?^ GAL 4:9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?
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 ^ I do not know how you could otherwise explain this Scripture.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now I ask you Mr. Calvin how do you know you are not a superficial Christian yourself?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 Well, mine are even worse!
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Calvin's Dad: I think we'd better get that kid to a psychologist.
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.Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you're not responsible for your actions.^ Wm Tanksley, unless you’re a materialist, I’m at least puzzled by your suggestion that God and biochemical processes are causally responsible for my existence.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If everything you do or don't do comes from God, then you're nothing more than a puppet.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Plus, does your entire life really pass before your eyes if you jump off the Brooklyn Bridge?
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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.Calvin: That's one of the remarkable things about life.^ If all things had been handed over to Jesus by God, what about one of the most important things, salvation of the elect?
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 ^ I have to say that the one thing I am most disturbed by is that this book is published in 1999 and we barely know about it now.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Please tell us about how one scientist has observed or measured in a repeatable experiment one kind of kind of thing changing into another.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 It's never so bad that it can't get worse.
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Calvin: I'd hate to have a kid like me.
p203
.Calvin: There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.^ But the reason there’s no blame is NOT that embryology is controlled by impersonal, uncaring random forces that God does nothing about (as you say); rather, it’s because God had a plan for all mankind that involved the blindness of that man.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ All we know is that unlike us, there was a time when he was not a slave to sin — and yet he chose to serve sin and die to righteousness anyhow.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It is certainly a fair inference that He does not want any [of you] to perish, but for all [of you] to come to repentance.
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Hobbes: Most people don't sleep well next to a hungry tiger.
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Calvin: I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
p235

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

.Calvin: As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.^ I know you later question that we must get in the church to be saved and I will explain it in more detail then.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You know about electricity and gravity, but can you totally grasp and explain it?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I do not know how you could otherwise explain this Scripture.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: Childhood is short and maturity is forever.
p33
Calvin: I'm sick of everyone telling me what to do all the time! .I hate my life!^ Luk 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 I hate everything! I wish I was DEAD! [pause] Well, no I don't. Not really. I wish everyone ELSE was dead.
p.56
.Calvin: I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.^ Think about what you are saying Mr. Calvin, in consideration of the above verses.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Link to the file You think your life is tough?
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ I think I have discussed in good detail every Scripture you mentioned in your last forte of unconditional election, either during or previously.
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.Calvin: Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.^ It is by far the best thing I’ve read on the problem of evil.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We’ve already had that unfortunate experience on some of the other threads, and I am enjoying discussing things with you, so I hope we can keep it on a respectful and productive plane for all here.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
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Calvin: True friends are hard to come by...I need more money.
p86
.Calvin: I think life should be more like TV. I think all of life's problems ought to be solved in 30 minutes with simple homilies, don't you?^ I don’t think the answer is simple, but you seem to.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I believe the Scriptures mean what they say and you should take them more literally yourself, then you would not have to try to wrestle with so much Scripture.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ As You have given Him authority over all flesh, then He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.… I pray for them.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 I think weight and oral hygiene ought to be our biggest concerns. .I think we should all have powerful, high-paying jobs, and everyone should drive fancy sports cars.^ Nearly everyone knows someone they think is lucky, and they're not all Irish.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ I read every commentary I could find but I think everyone had some different meaning and they all ended up causing contradiction in the Scriptures.
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 ^ You have to be pretty arrogant to think you have something everyone else should want, or else.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .All our desires should be instantly gratified.^ Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
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 ^ TI 2:3-4 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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 Women should always wear tight clothing, and men should carry powerful handguns. .Life overall should be more glamorous, thrill-packed, and filled with applause, don't you think?...^ I guess I expected much more Scriptural proof from you to support why I should believe in your doctrine, and I do not believe you provided it.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I believe the Scriptures mean what they say and you should take them more literally yourself, then you would not have to try to wrestle with so much Scripture.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ As You have given Him authority over all flesh, then He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.… I pray for them.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Then again, if real life was like that, what would we watch on television?^ I would really like to know where that quote came from Friend, because it sounds very different from what my church has taught me...
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I would really like to hear your comments on these other verses too, but anyway, here are my thoughts.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And, would you like to give your love life a boost?
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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.Calvin: It's only work if somebody makes you do it.^ The idea that we are only responsible if we can choose in a libertarian manner is nowhere supported in the Bible, and when you think about it, doesn’t make much sense.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Gal 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
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.Calvin: Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.^ It could be an important indicator of the prevalence of life elsewhere in the universe.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Find out why intelligent life elsewhere in the universe won't resemble Tinseltown's take.Guest: Phil Plait, an astronomer and author of Bad Astronomy.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ It is interesting (sometimes) to hear what other think about this wonderful universe we inhabit and who put us here.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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.Calvin: But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!^ If anyone attributes the Word of God to Satan then I would not suggest they would be one that we could never convince otherwise either.
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 ^ Think about it Mr. Calvin if to believe or not believe is an act of divine sovereignty and beyond our own control, then any divine command requiring belief would be irrelevant.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In my research I have found too many verses to remember saying that we are saved apart from our own works but never apart from Jesus work on the cross.
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[Calvin has created several duplicates of himself.]
Calvin: The worst part is that I don't even have the fun of doing the things I'm getting blamed for.
p188
Hobbes: Live and don't learn, that's us.
p190
Calvin: This morning I had a wonderful dream. .By holding my arms out stiff and pushing down hard, I found I could suspend myself a few feet above ground.^ Anyway I think we left out a few verses here this could have been my fault.
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I’ll try to pinpoint a few that, in my estimation, could use a response.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 I flapped harder, and soon I was soaring effortlessly over the trees and telephone poles! I could fly! I folded my arms back and zoomed low over the neighborhood. Everyone was amazed, and they ran along under me as I shot by. Then I rocketed up so fast that my eyes watered from the wind. I laughed and laughed, making huge loops in the sky! ... .That's when Mom woke me up and said I was going to miss the bus if I didn't get my bottom out of bed; 20 minutes later, here I am, standing in the cold rain, waiting to go to school, and I just remembered I forgot my lunch.^ We'll get the lowdown of what's going up; from missions to land near the poles of Mars and dig into its cold, crusty surface...
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ I do not believe that just because I commit a sin or sins, and happen to die before I can ask God for forgiveness, that somehow this sin is going to cause me to lose my salvation.
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 ^ In other words God said I will harden his heart because He knew that what He was doing was going to force Pharaohs heart to harden not that God intentionally hardened it (not to start with anyway - He did later).
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 Tuesdays don't start much worse than this.
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Calvin: [as Stupendous Man] Yahh! Freedom and justice shall always prevail over tyranny, babysitter girl!
p218
Calvin: Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.
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  • I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word "booger" in a newspaper comic strip.^ The Holy Spirit for some reason uses a different word to describe the Father’s lordship from that of Jesus Christ.
    • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ If we study secular history that covered approximately 500 years in the early first century, we learn that the word baptizo was used to describe ships that sank at sea.
    • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

     .
    • The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book (pg 78)
  • So, what's it like in the real world?^ This is disturbing but sadly not really novel in the world of Calvinism (or well hyper-Calvinism).
    • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

     Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it. .
    • Kenyon College Commencement Address (May 20, 1990)
  • You can lead people to truth, but you can't make them understand it: the story of my youth, as seen from the present.^ Why do you not understand My speech?
    • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Why do you not understand my speech?
    • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Download AWA: Life's Stories May 5 2008 [34.7 MB] Monday, 05 May 2008 0:0:0 PDT How did the first cells make the scene?
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     .
    • The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
  • If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood.^ Find out how accurate their prognostications are.
    • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Find out if you could swap it for silicon in DNA. Plus, the conundrum of calculating a carbon footprint.
    • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ How can you really believe he is talking about believers only?
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     .I've found that the only way I can keep writing every day, year after year, is to let my mind wander into new territories.^ Keep in mind that's only theory.
    • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Another way of putting my point, since you found it so confusing that you thought it was contradictory, would be to quote Jacob’s words: “You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.” God was behind the act of selling Jacob into slavery, but while it was an act of evil for the brothers, it is an act of good for God.
    • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Jam 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: .
    • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

     To do that, I've had to cultivate a kind of mental playfulness.
    • Kenyon College Commencement Address (May 20, 1990)
  • We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. .We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves.^ Wonder, I find Jonathan’s admonishment, “Perhaps, we should all be careful” to be far more measured and gracious than your own.
    • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Or do you think that everyone, rather than being created for a purpose, needs to find out what their own best reason for being is?
    • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Or do you think that everyone, rather than being created for a purpose, needs to find out what their own best reason for being is?"
    • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery— it recharges by running.
    • Kenyon College Commencement Address (May 20, 1990)
  • Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. .Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules and rewards.^ If you take out God or the supernatural, you're not really left with religion or spiritual meaning, but simply a set of values.
    • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Also, the chief of Virgin Galactic is happy to send you into space on a private flight - but it may max out your credit card.
    • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ I do not think you really care about God but you will find out that the Christians were right.
    • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Kenyon College Commencement Address (May 20, 1990)
  • Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience. .
    • Kenyon College Commencement Address (May 20, 1990)
  • Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.^ Deu 30:20 by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him ; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."
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     ^ So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, We do have a choice, but are there any limitations or restrictions on that choice?
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     ^ So choose life in order that you may live , you and your descendants, .
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     .In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.^ If we depend on our own works or the works of another person, we are held to the standard of perfection and will necessarily fall short.
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     ^ It’s hard work to interpret ancient cultures — and although it’s a shame to avoid that hard work by ignoring the task, it’s even more so to avoid it by paying lip service to the task and not actually doing the work.
    • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The whole idea that this and other passages teach that the Holy Spirit is working internally upon people, attempting to save them, but that they prevent the Spirit from doing so by their own will is most absurd, especially considering the many passages which teach the opposite.
    • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

     Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. .Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake.^ It was a time when they did not realize who God was but they knew there had to be some sort of God because of His great creation.
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     ^ Jesus kept hold of all of apostles that God granted Him, except of course, the son of perdition (Judas), who lost his salvation because of his sin.
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     ^ The Word of God says that your doctrine dishonors Him and takes away His praise and glory because it does not follow that form of doctrine that was delivered by Jesus and the apostles.
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     .A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.^ Our souls shall live in happiness and glory, because they are renewed: and our bodies too shall be raised up in glory, because they are temples of the Holy Ghost.
    • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ But the reason he’s asking that question IS to offer a possible explanation for God wanting to raise up an evil person: what if He wanted to do it in order to demonstrate His wrath?
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     ^ Romans 9 doesn’t say that God endured with Pharaoh; it said that God raised up Pharaoh in order to show God’s power.
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     .You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing.^ How do you explain the end of Deuteronomy 7:9 with those who love Him and keep His commandments;.
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     ^ Yes, as you say, there are some atheists who are not compatibilists and some who are, and what of it?
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     ^ John 8:40 says: but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God; .
    • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them.^ Well, you put yourself out there and are kind doing it.
    • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We'll hear the new definition of a planet as proposed at the International Astronomical Union meeting in Prague.Also, NASA, have you checked the Lost and Found?
    • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ We'll hear how the most famous meteorite of our era, ALH84001, changed our ideas about the possiblity of life on Mars.
    • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
    • Kenyon College Commencement Address (May 20, 1990)

Calvin & Hobbes

.Calvin: Much as I like my "Chocolate Frosted Crunchy Sugar Bombs", the best part is after the cereal's gone.^ I did my best on grammar and spellchecked but much of the Scripture has words not in the dictionary and grammar errors itself, especially the King James Version passages.
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 ^ My experience has been that the best scientists are the most humble individuals, who never cease to marvel at the natural world, of which human beings are only a tiny part.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 That's when I eat the milk that's sludgy from all the extra sugar I added. Sometimes I eat two to three bowls of this.
.Hobbes: I can hear your heart racing from here.^ I would really like to hear your comments on these other verses too, but anyway, here are my thoughts.
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.Calvin: They make these with marshmallow bits, too, but Mom won't buy them for me.^ Calvin, these people who supposedly seek God in sex and drugs are not really seeking God, but rather they seek to fulfill their own selfish and sinful desires and motives.
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 ^ Think about it Mr. Calvin it would not make sense here that these people would need to be instructed with meekness if there had to be no effort on our part.
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 ^ Let's go down and confuse them by making them speak different languages--then they won't be able to understand each other.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
.Calvin: I think geniuses should be given special considerations.^ Think about what you are saying Mr. Calvin, in consideration of the above verses.
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Calvin: For a girl, she's remarkably perceptive!
Calvin: Despite that amazing display of cunning, reflex, and physical prowess, your tail still has a death-grip on your butt.
.Calvin: I find it easier to live my life with lowered expectations.^ I have done nothing wrong other than live my life the best way I know how and as joyful as I can.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
Calvin: Ms. Wormwood, I'm a fierce advocate of the separation of church and state. Nevertheless, I feel the need for spiritual guidance as I face the day's trials. .Therefore, I was wondering if I could strip down, smear myself with paste, and set fire to this little effigy of you in a non-denominational sort of way.^ Do you think you could tone down the hate-speech by the way?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you; It has consumed you, And I have turned you to ashes on the earth In the eyes of all who see you.
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 ^ Now I wonder what would make you think that our salvation could change on a moments notice.
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.Calvin: If ignorance is bliss, this lesson would appear to be a deliberate attempt to deprive me of happiness, the pursuit of which is my unalienable right according to the Declaration of Independence.^ If ignorance is bliss, this is one happy-go-lucky country.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Eze 18:9 if he walks in My statutes and My ordinances so as to deal faithfully--he is righteous and will surely live," declares the Lord GOD. .
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 .I therefore assert my patriotic prerogative to not know this material.^ Therefore, when God says “my thoughts are higher than your thoughts,” he admits to having “thoughts,” and by extension, to not knowing everything already.
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 I'll be out in the playground.
Calvin: Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
Calvin: [On Moe the bully] Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
.Calvin: [On Moe the bully] Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.^ So you teach that God made the man who raped a 12 year old girl commit that horrible act and neither one of them had a choice in the matter.
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.Calvin: [Mom let him try a cigarette and he nearly hacked himself to death] Trusting parents can be hazardous to your health.^ Luk 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
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 ^ It is him to whom we say “He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!” .
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 ^ Jam 5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
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Calvin: Don't be so dysfunctional, Mom.
.Calvin: [Telling Miss Wormwood why he didn't read his history assignment] The book publisher didn't use the proper print fixative.^ Dude, go to a freakin museum, or better yet, read a history book.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Owen Gingerich is research professor of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University, and the author of The Book Nobody Read:Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ I recommend that you read and put in your library the many historical Jesus books which have been published in the last 50 years.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Needless to say, when I picked up the book, all the letters slid off the pages and fell on the floor in a heap of gibberish.^ In his book Almighty Over All (Baker, 1999), R.C. Sproul Jr. What tipped me off to this was hearing a paper presentation at a conference in April in New Orleans.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We love you and love your great book, and that's about all there really is to say...except will you come to Oregon?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ That would be like saying I fell down but I was never standing up.
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Calvin: The problem with rock and roll is that the generation that created it is now the establishment. .Rock pretends it's still rebellious with its video posturing, but who believes it?^ There still are some who believe the earth is flat and the Grand Canyon is a relict of Noahs Great Flood.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The stars are all either 45-year-old zillionaires or they endorse soft drinks!^ They say that after 45 years of effort, those who still search for signals from the stars are fueled by faith rather than by scientific rationale.
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ They cling to these non sense beliefs because their religion is anti-science and says the earth is six thousand years old.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ These same people also believe in a young earth notion despite all the scientific evidence proving the earth to be about four billion years old.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 The 'revolution' is a capitalist industry! Give me a break! Fortunately, I've found some protest music for today's youth. This stuff really offends Mom and Dad!
Hobbes: Easy-listening Muzak?!
Calvin: I play it real quiet, too.
.Calvin: I sure like "Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs"! Look how brown the milk gets!^ Im not sure about the point here, but looking at the other verses under this heading it looks like this is an effort to refute the doctrine of total depravity.
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Hobbes: Ugh.
Calvin: Want to see something weird? Look at the nutritional information on the side panel.
Hobbes: Wow. 100% of the Daily Recommended Allowance of Caffeine!
Calvin I got the new album by "Scrambled Debutante." All their songs glorify violence, mindless sex, and the deliberate abuse of dangerous drugs.
.Hobbes: Your mother's going to go into conniptions when she sees this lying around.^ If I choose to fall into a disgraceful pattern of sin and remain in it, and God sees that I am not going to repent of it, I will lose my salvation.
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[Calvin tosses the actual record into the trash.]
Calvin: Well, I sure didn't buy it for the music!
[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.]
Susie: Hello?
Calvin: Hi, Susie! It's me, Calvin! .I was wondering if you'd like to come over and play.^ I don’t have time to tie John 6 into this conversation, but I’d like you to read this entry nontheless to see where I’m coming from.
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Susie: Why, sure! .Boy, I don't think you've ever invited me to...^ "A malevolent, capricious, sadistic, lunatic god is much more entertaining; don't you think?"
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I don’t care what the big boys think or the little ones either.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I don't think you know the rules of a debate.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
Calvin's Mom: Calvin, what are you doing?
Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away.
Calvin's Mom: You're contagious! You can't have anyone over to play!
Calvin: Shhhh! Shhhh! You'll spoil the whole thing! I was going to trick Susie into catching... HEY! OW! LET GO!
Susie: [Hanging up the phone] Any chance of getting transferred, Dad?
Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win!
Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! .You won last time!^ When was the last time you were in a court, Technicolordreamboat?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Jud 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
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 ^ Pe 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, .
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 I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh! What a stupid game! You must have cheated! .You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose!^ Surely you can look around you and make some easy and elementary observations and know that this cannot possibly be true, even if you dont read anything else in the Bible.
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 ^ I’d take the position that if God is to make a universe in which every moral creature is to have free will then there must be a possibility of some of those free moral agents choosing to do evil.
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 ^ When some one knits, they actively take the yarn and using needles make the fabric.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 I hate you! I didn't want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you'd cheat! I knew you'd win! Oh! Oh! Aarg!
[Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming "Aaaaaaaaaaaa", then falls over.]
Hobbes: Look, it's just a game.
Calvin: I know! .You should see me when I lose in real life!^ You should see now that your clincher is not really a clincher after all.
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 ^ As You have given Him authority over all flesh, then He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.… I pray for them.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You should note that in Romans 1:5 we see the reason we receive gracefor obedience to the faith.
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Calvin: I sure am great! .I'm one of the greatest people who ever lived!^ Since it is God who enables His people to persevere, one is continually cast upon Him and His promises.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They might be people who led exemplary lives and gave back far more to society than they took.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The culture we live in is one of voyeurism and sensationalism – of people lapping up scandal like water.
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 .How lucky people are to know someone as great as me!^ I believe this is how we know people by their fruits.
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 ^ I think this would be easier to see in someone than how many people they had brought to Christ.
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 ^ The people purporting this such as yourself are the ones that use the great inventions but do not have an inkling as to how they came to be or how they function.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 I'm great in so many great ways! In fact, I'm so great that my greatness is...
Susie: You're not great! .You're the most conceited blowhard I've ever met!^ If you truly need examples, I'd suggest looking in past questions, though, this has been the most heated debate in some time, at least that I've participated in.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
.Calvin: When you're great, people often mistake candor for bragging.^ Darrin, this is a really old thread, so probably not many people are listening… You might want to move on to a more recent Calvinism thread.
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 ^ So, if you're here to constantly tell people that you're right and they're wrong, and you insist on name-calling and denegration, go find a chat room somewhere.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It’s an empty trick unless you’re saying, “We reject those people’s beliefs because they believe X. And what you’re saying here amounts to X!” .
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.Moe: I don't like your face!^ Scientists often use circumstantial evidence, but they don’t just accept it, like any other evidence, at face value.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And Anonymous, at least have the gumption to use your name man.......I don't like hearing insults from the peanut gallery.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
Calvin: Then don't look at it!
Moe: I'd rather change it! Haw!
[Moe punches Calvin.]
.Calvin: I don't care about being accepted.^ I guess I don’t worry so much about being perfectly on-topic when a thread is as old as this one….
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 I'd settle for being ignored.
.Hobbes: Shouldn't you be doing your homework?^ If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.
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 ^ In so doing you might find your opinions to be more warmly received.
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 ^ You are going to have to contort, distort, and ignore Scripture, which is what you are doing with your doctrine, to rely upon this Scripture to teach unconditional election.
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Calvin: I'm pretty sure the assignment was optional.
Hobbes: Denial springs eternal.
Calvin: It's not denial. .I'm just very selective about the reality I accept.^ Yet it is almost for naught, because it seems that Pablo and his friends are just too deep in the dark about what really goes on.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin! Pay attention! .We're studying GEOGRAPHY! Now what state do you live in?^ I think I might understand now why you state we can not fully understand some things.
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 ^ Now imagine doing the same with a living cell: inserting the genes you want to create the organism you want.
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 ^ Now lets discuss the other verses you mentioned above that you stated seemed to indicate the opposite.
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Calvin: Denial.
Ms. Wormwood: [sighs] Well, I don't suppose I can argue with that...
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin.
Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
Calvin: I have plenty of common sense. I just choose to ignore it.
.Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts.^ Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words : and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him .
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 ^ Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
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 ^ Joh 8:51 "Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death."
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 .I wonder why we think faster than we can speak.^ Also, why our Hollywood skeptic is tired of wild ghost chases and Phil Plait speaks out on lapses in critical thinking.
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Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
.Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil?^ I would find it hard to believe you have not given this any thought Mr. Calvin.
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 .You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?^ And I know I don't like being a puppet in anyone's eyes, do you?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Act 18:25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
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 ^ I speak truly, and you agree (I know) that God is not to blame for people’s evil actions.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
.Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.^ Man may need the help of the Holy Spirit, but it is man’s will which controls this help.
  • Sovereign Grace: An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reformedonline.com [Source type: Original source]
.Calvin: You just can't talk to animals about these things.^ What bad wording are you talking about?
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Exactly what skeletons are you talking about?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Again, just where and when are you talking to God?
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
.Calvin's Dad: I wouldn't have been in such a rush to grow up if I knew the whole thing was ad-libbed.^ A child growing up under such teaching lives in fear.
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.Calvin: [as Tracer Bullet] I introduced the dame to a friend who's very close to my heart.^ My friends who were/are atheists have never told me of any instances of discrimination they might have faced.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I want to know the truth Mr. Calvin, I am begging, pleading, and praying, with all my heart and soul.
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 ^ I would really like to know where that quote came from Friend, because it sounds very different from what my church has taught me...
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 Just a little down and left, to be specific. My friend is an eloquent speaker. He made three profound arguments while I excused myself from the room. I always leave when the talk gets philosophical.
Hobbes: Tigers add panache and savoir faire to any social occasion.
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. .Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers!^ Co 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; .
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 ^ Heb 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
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Calvin: I just don't test well.
Calvin: I want the last piece of pie! Don't divide it up! Give it to me!
Calvin's Mom: Don't be selfish, Calvin!
Calvin: So the REAL lesson here is "Be Dishonest?"
[Calvin's mom gives him the whole piece of pie.]
Calvin: My parents' idea of a wild night is to mix a scoop of real coffee in with a decaf.
Calvin : Can I be excused? There's a TV show I want to see.
Calvin's Mom : We're still eating dinner, Calvin.
Calvin: I'm through. This stuff tastes awful. I want to go watch television.
Calvin's Mom: It's impolite to leave the table in the middle of a meal.
Calvin: So what am I supposed to do? .Just sit here and watch you guys CHEW?! I'll miss my show!^ But just because you are born into a modern society it doesn't automatically ascribe to you wisdom, judgement, logic, reason, and faith in God that got us here.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If you missed Seth on Larry King Live, check out our blog and watch the videos.
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 ^ My prayer for you is that you'll realize the truth of it before it is too late.
  • On Faith: Who's Afraid of the End of the World? - Susan Jacoby 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
Calvin's Mom: Your TV show isn't as important as spending some time together as a family.
Calvin: We'll compromise. I'll go watch a sitcom family.
(Later. Calvin is still sitting at the table with his parents.)
Calvin: My TV show is starting. I'm missing my show!
Calvin's Dad: This year, I thought we'd just keep the tree in the garage.
Calvin: In the GARAGE?!
Calvin's Dad: Sure. .You can go out and look at it whenever you want, and it saves all the trouble of decorating it.^ You might want to look at the Manuscripts.
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 ^ God wants all men to be saved .
  • Calvinism vs. The Bible 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.snapbug.ws [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In His final instructions to His apostles on earth, why would He have them go out in the world doing things that have nothing to do with saving the lost?
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Calvin: We're not going to DECORATE it?!
Calvin's Dad: Why bother? .We just take it all down in two weeks.^ Not just one or two of these, but all of these passages are referring to water baptism Mr. Calvin.
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 On Christmas Day, if you get a present…
Calvin: IF I get A present?!
Calvin's Dad: …you can take it out to the garage to open, and pretend the tree has lots of lights and…
Calvin: MOM!
.Calvin's Mom: I know somebody who's going to get a lot of coal in his stocking, buster.^ Link to the file It's always a surprise to go digging in Seth's basement - who knows what we'll find!
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 ^ Link to the file It´s always a surprise to go digging in Seth´s garage who knows what we´ll find!
  • SETI: Are We Alone? | Astronomy Media Player 20 November 2009 6:52 UTC www.jodcast.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ The man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.
  • Parchment and Pen » Taking Calvinism Too Far: R.C. Sproul Jr.’s Evil-Creating Deity 10 February 2010 12:54 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]
Calvin's Dad: The season gets less jolly every year.
.Calvin's Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses?^ If I have a nice new car parked in my yard and I say to you, Mr. Calvin, I have a free gift for you, a nice new car is parked in my yard, but you have to come get it.
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Calvin's Mom: No, I haven't.
[Calvin walks in wearing the glasses.]
Calvin: Calvin, do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!
[Calvin's Mom cracks up]
.Calvin's Dad: Okay, I admit the voice was a little funny, but that's still one darn sarcastic kid we're raising.^ Okay, so they're a little stiff on that one.
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Calvin: The problem with tigers is that they have no setting between "off" and "high".
.Calvin's dad: Being a parent is wanting to hug and strangle your kid at the same time.^ By the same token when a child disobeys, he does not stop being the child of that parent.
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Calvin and Hobbes
Creator(s)Bill Watterson
StatusEnded
Syndicate(s)Universal Press Syndicate
Genre(s)Humor
First stripNovember 18, 1985
Last stripDecember 31, 1995
WebsiteCalvin and Hobbes

"Calvin and Hobbes" is a comic strip by Bill Watterson about a boy called Calvin and a tiger called Hobbes. When Calvin looks at Hobbes, he sees a real tiger. However, everyone else sees Hobbes as a toy. This comic began in 1985 and has been in over 2,400 newspapers. Readers bought almost 23 million Calvin and Hobbes books.

In the comic, Calvin spends a lot of time with Hobbes. In pictures with only Calvin and Hobbes in them, Hobbes looks like a cartoon tiger. He stands on two legs. In pictures with any other person, Hobbes looks like a stuffed animal. Calvin meets Hobbes in the first story. Calvin catches him with a string and a tuna fish sandwich as bait. Calvin and Hobbes have all sorts of trouble and adventures. The comic strip continued from November 18, 1985 until December 31, 1995.[1]

Contents

Characters

Calvin

Calvin is a 6 year old boy. He is named after a religious thinker, or theologian, John Calvin. His last name is never in the comic.

Calvin often pretends, and he has a powerful imagination. He also does things without thinking. He is often very excited and is curious about everything. Sometimes he is selfish and rude. Calvin does not get good grades in school, but he knows very many complex words that usually only adults know. "You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid?" he says. "Well, mine are even worse!"

Calvin usually wears a shirt with red stripes on it. He has blond hair that stands up on his head. Watterson has described Calvin this way:

  • "Calvin is pretty easy to do because he is outgoing and rambunctious and there's not much of a filter between his brain and his mouth."[2]
  • "I guess he's a little too intelligent for his age. The thing that I really enjoy about him is that he has no sense of restraint, he doesn't have the experience yet to know the things that you shouldn't do."

Calvin's other personalities

Calvin often appears one of his many imaginary personalities. Sometimes he thinks he is a superhero called Stupendous Man. Sometimes he is an astronaut and explorer called Spaceman Spiff. Other times, he appears as a private eye, Tracer Bullet. There are many others like Captain Napalm.

Hobbes

In classic comic tradition of sidekicks, Hobbes is like Calvin's 'good side' because he is more mature and makes smarter decisions than Calvin does. When Calvin does something like throw a snowball at a girl, Hobbes will say "You think she's cute, right?"

From most characters' point of view, Hobbes is Calvin's stuffed tiger. However, from Calvin's point of view, Hobbes is as alive and real just like other characters in the comic strip. He is named after 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who had what Watterson called "a dim view of human nature."[3] Hobbes is much more alert and aware of the bad things that can happen than Calvin is. But, he does not stop Calvin's trouble making. All that he really does is warn him. Calvin will be the one to get in trouble for doing something wrong, not Hobbes. Hobbes also likes to surprise Calvin. He approaches him quietly and then jumping on Calvin. Calvin hates this.

From Calvin's point of view, Hobbes is a real, intelligent, loyal, and cunning tiger, much larger than Calvin and full of his own attitudes and ideas. But when the view changes to any other character, readers see merely a little stuffed tiger. Watterson explains it like this:

“ When Hobbes is a stuffed toy in one panel and alive in the next, I'm juxtaposing the "grown-up" version of reality with Calvin's version, and inviting the reader to decide which is truer.[4] ”

Although the first strips clearly show Calvin capturing Hobbes by means of a trap (with tuna fish as the bait), a later comic (1 August 1989) seems to imply that Hobbes is, in fact, older than Calvin, and has been around with him his whole life. Watterson decided that it was not important to explain how Calvin and Hobbes had first met.[3]

Calvin's family

Calvin's mom and dad are mostly American middle-class parents; like many other characters in the strip, their relatively realistic and sensible manners act as a contrast to Calvin's childish and selfish behavior. Both parents go through the entire strip without names. They are only called "Mom" and "Dad", or nicknames such as "hon" and "dear." Watterson has never given Calvin's parents names "because as far as the strip is concerned, they are important only as Calvin's mom and dad." This ended up being somewhat problematic when Calvin's Uncle Max was in the strip for a week and could not refer to the parents by name, and was one of the main reasons that Max never reappeared.[3]

Susie Derkins

Susie Derkins, the only character in the strip with both first and last names, is a fellow classmate of Calvin who lives in his neighborhood. She first appeared early in the strip as a new student in Calvin's class. Unlike Calvin, she is polite and very smart and eager to improve in her studies and grades at school, and her imagination usually seems mild-mannered and calm, consisting of a standard young girls' games such as playing house or having tea parties with her stuffed animals. Her approach to these games is arguably more modern, however, some might say even skeptical. (In a game of "house" she usually casts herself as the traditional working wife while Calvin is the lousy and useless husband or some version similar to that.) "Derkins" was the nickname of Watterson's wife's family beagle, and he liked the name so much he named this character after it. As much as either of them hate to admit, Calvin and Susie have quite a bit in common. (Susie is shown on occasion with a stuffed rabbit known as "Mr. Bun," and Calvin always has Hobbes.)

Watterson admits that Calvin and Susie have a bit of a wild crush on each other (Said by Calvin, "It's shameless the way we flirt."), and that Susie is inspired by the type of women Watterson himself finds attractive (which has led to speculation that Susie is based on Watterson's wife). Her relationship with Calvin, though, is frequently conflicted, and never really becomes sorted out, and the closest things are times when Calvin sends dead flowers and hate-mail as Valentine's Day gifts for his own enjoyment. (She feels he likes her enough to send her that gift, and he rejoices in her noticing.)

Sometimes Hobbes does something to attract Susie's romantic attention. He is often successful and this makes Calvin angry and jealous. Although on the surface these events take the form of Hobbes teasing Calvin and showing off his charms, they may be Calvin's way to disguise his own crush on Susie, by pretending that it is Hobbes' crush instead.

Moe

Moe is a bully, "a six-year-old who shaves" who is always pushing Calvin against walls, forcing to give him to give away his lunch money, and calling him "Twinky." Moe is the only regular character who speaks in an unusual font: his (frequently monosyllabic) dialogue is shown in rough, lower-case letters. Watterson describes Moe as "every jerk I've ever known." And while Moe is not smart, he is, as Calvin puts it, streetwise. "That means he knows what street he lives on", as Calvin says.

Miss Wormwood

Miss Wormwood is Calvin's bored and depressed teacher, named after the apprentice devil in C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. She continuously wears polka-dotted dresses, and serves like others as a foil to Calvin's rude behavior. Calvin's response to the boring studies of schoolwork is endless dreams of his imagination. She is eagerly waiting to retire, taking a large amount of medication, and is apparently a heavy smoker and alcoholic drinker.

Although time does change in the Calvin and Hobbes universe, which is mostly seen in the changing of the season, Calvin (and Susie) returns to Ms. Wormwood's first-grade class every fall.

As usual, for an adult entering Calvin's world, Miss Wormwood sees things differently from Calvin. For example, when she talks to Calvin about his missing homework, Calvin's Spaceman Spiff persona sees her as a large slimy threatening snarling alien. "Slowly, carefully, Spiff draws his death-ray blaster".

Rosalyn

Rosalyn is a teenage high school senior student and the person who watches Calvin whenever Calvin's parents go on a night out together. She is the only babysitter able to put up with Calvin's bad behavior, which she uses to demand raises and advance payment from Calvin's desperate parents. She is also, according to Watterson, the only person Calvin truly fears— certainly she is his equal in sneakiness, and is willing to play as dirty as he does. Rosalyn has a habit of sending him to bed at 6:30, which he refuses to do, and only makes more trouble. Rosalyn's boyfriend, Charlie, never appears in the strip, but calls her on the telephone sometimes. Calvin often cuts short these calls. Originally, she was created as a nameless, one-time only character with no plans to appear again; however, Watterson decided he wanted to keep her unique ability to scare Calvin, which led to many more appearances.

At one time during the strip shown in the book collection "The Revenge of the Babysat", Calvin's parents prepare to go out on a night with a dinner and a movie while leaving Calvin with Rosalyn. When he finds out she is coming, Calvin runs up to Hobbes and explains the situation. Later when Rosalyn appears, Calvin and Hobbes hear that Rosalyn needs to study for a big science test. They decide to ruin her studying. After Calvin's parents leave, Calvin approaches Rosalyn, curious about what she's doing. After slyly talking her away from her science notes, he quickly grabs them, runs to the bathroom door with Hobbes, and locks the door while Rosalyn yells from he outside demanding her notes back. Once they "flushed" her notes (in which they only pretended to and flushed an empty toilet). Moments later when the wonder if Rosalyn has gone, Calvin opens the door only to find Rosalyn pounce upon him and throw him to bed at 7 o'clock which Hobbes notes that they went to bed 30 minutes later than usual. The ending shows Calvin's parents coming back home to find Rosalyn charge extra money for the job while Calvin's parents argue if there's another babysitter in town.

Common subjects

Snowballs and snowmen

During the winter, Calvin likes to make ugly or frightening snowmen when once Calvin created the "Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons". Also, his snowmen creations have had snowmen with missing or multiple heads, snowmen taking another's head for a bowling ball, and snowmen being "knocked over" by his family's car.

Also, Calvin frequently throws snowballs at Susie, most likely having himself being chased by Susie. Once Calvin (while in his "Stupendous Man" alter-ego) also made a gigantic snowball and dropped it at Susie while on top of a tree, as where Susie's mom described it as a "the size of a bowling ball".

Monsters under the bed

The monsters under the bed are described as scary, octopus-tentacled shaped creatures that lived under Calvin's bed every time he went to sleep. Often, they would try to bribe Calvin to come under the bed by giving him a new toy or by urging Hobbes to push Calvin over in return for a fresh piece of salmon. According to Calvin he'd usually describe them as "all fangs and no brains". They often lie to Calvin when he asks "how many monsters are under my bed?, when they'd usually reply there's "only one" or "none and go to sleep". Although various monsters were known to exist under Calvin's bed, two named monsters "Maurice" and "Winslow" appeared and re-appeared during the strip's middle times.

G.R.O.S.S.

Get Rid Of Slimy Girls is Calvin's anti-girl club. The club's goal is to annoy and bother girls, and Calvin's main target is Susie Derkins. The club has only two members, Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin is "supreme dictator-for-life" and Hobbes is the "first tiger". They two usually make plans like throwing water balloons or snowballs at Susie. Often these plans have a bad ending. However, every time G.R.O.S.S finishes a mission or meeting, they always get awards such as medals, honors, and promotions. Of course, the word "gross" also means disgusting.

School and homework

Calvin hates school and homework so much. He usually tries to avoid them. His Mom always makes him ride the school bus even though he doesn't want to, and sometimes tries to run home and not go to class. In one Sunday comic strip, Calvin's imagination became so wild and creative that he imagined getting in a F-15 Eagle airplane and blasting his elementary school to pieces with many missiles.

References

  1. ↑ "Spiffy: 'The Complete Calvin and Hobbes'". NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5007825. Retrieved April 28, 2010. 
  2. ↑ Williams, Gene (1987). Watterson: Calvin's other alter ego. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Watterson, Bill (October 1995). The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book. Andrews McMeel. ISBN 0-8362-0438-7. 
  4. ↑ Andrew Christie (January 1987). "An Interview With Bill Watterson : The creator of Calvin and Hobbes on cartooning, syndicates, Garfield, Charles Schulz, and editors". Honk magazine. 

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Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Main Characters
Calvin | Hobbes
Secondary Characters
Susie Derkins | Miss Wormwood | Moe | Rosalyn

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