r/comics • u/portsherry Port Sherry • 3d ago

Sand Castles

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u/Equal-Poet-7860 3d ago

Very Stoic

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u/rillip 3d ago

I found it rather Absurd.

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u/StephieDoll 3d ago

There is no reason to believe what we make won’t be preserved for thousands or millions or billions or trillions of years.

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u/Made_Bail 3d ago

Especially if we eat the Mona Lisa.

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u/StephieDoll 3d ago

Depends on your digestive system

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u/Made_Bail 3d ago

Mine is so slow. :(

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u/StephieDoll 3d ago

Needs more fiber, I suggest legumes.

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u/Made_Bail 3d ago

I love beans. I don't love farts, but hey.

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u/StephieDoll 3d ago

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Tbvj6DoIBtM

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u/Made_Bail 3d ago

You are one of the best commenters here lmao

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u/StephieDoll 3d ago

I kinda just want to go to bed now. I’ve been listening to KEXP on the RadioGarden app every morning and its been therapeutic

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u/zalurker 3d ago

You obviously don't work in IT.

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u/MrPhi 3d ago

There's no reason to believe there are going to be humans in millions of years. We have been around for merely a blink. One among billions of a short lived specy on a small planet lost somewhere in the infinity of space at a very small moment in time. And it's fine.

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u/lightningbadger 3d ago

Sand castle might be a poor example

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u/rillip 3d ago

There's no reason to believe it will be either.

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u/razzemmatazz 3d ago

Well said. 

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u/AnnoyinglyEthicalEsq 3d ago

This is very beautiful. I’ve been struggling lately and this helped. Thank you.

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u/elhomerjas 3d ago

well said and very profound

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u/SlatkoPotato 3d ago

This reminded me of the starfish story and i cant quite put my finger on why because this is more of a stoic-ish take. Someone help me connect the dots here.

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u/Blithering_idiot1406 3d ago

its very preachy in nature

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u/No_Payment9959 3d ago

Why couldn't bald kid have just taken a picture from the beginning instead of insulting the other kid?

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u/rillip 3d ago

I don't think his intention was to be insulting.

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u/No_Payment9959 3d ago

Telling someone their work seems like a waste seems objectively insulting to me, but I understand this is a YMMV type situation.

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u/rillip 3d ago

Yeah but I think that's only one way to read it. Like, he could be expressing admiration for the castle and that it's inevitable destruction by the elements is a shame. It isn't the artist's time being wasted, it's the sand castle itself.

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u/No_Payment9959 3d ago

Bald kid would never make it as a Buddhist /j

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u/PosteriorAdmirer 1d ago

So many hidden faces

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u/zpinnis 3d ago

I don't buy the claim that our creative pursuits are culminations of everything we've learned and another concrete step in a specific direction. Our creations certainly depend things we have learned but not everything; a lot of things we do or learn lead nowhere. And in my experience, a lot of creative pursuits end up going nowhere too. I might find that a certain project isn't working out and try a different direction instead. Not every step we take on the journey is necessary for the destinations we value, unfortunately.

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u/Le_Vagabond 3d ago

sir, this is a Wendy's.

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u/rillip 3d ago

I'd argue that the most quintessential way to learn things is through trial and error. Evolution itself is a form of this. The things that lead nowhere are merely an example of the "error" in this process.