<![CDATA[Existential Comics]]> Follow Existential Comics, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/existential-comics Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:41:22 +0200 <![CDATA[Why Gather Nuts for Winter?]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6owVES2n4TjbkdRKkm2PJP PERSON: " " PERSON: "Because i do not wish to feel the pain of hunger whence winter arrives." PERSON: "The pain of hunger? What is the pain of hunger to the pain of the heart? To the pain of life?" PERSON: "So why do you do it? Why spend on this energy and effort on something which you know to be futile in the end? Do you not feel despair?" PERSON: "It's because i don't want to be hungry...when winter comes." PERSON: "This freakin' sucks. ::::(-163 4051)A few months later..." ]]> Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6owVES2n4TjbkdRKkm2PJP <![CDATA[Exact Scientific Definition of Cool]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4XznKZcAQytK8qfTAM-Smm ]]> Mon, 20 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4XznKZcAQytK8qfTAM-Smm <![CDATA[Language Drinking Games]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6qj9QqugL2mmZMehmtHS8- ]]> Mon, 13 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6qj9QqugL2mmZMehmtHS8- <![CDATA[Wake Up]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6_jwtYaG-xGmW0GqTRQSgk PERSON: " " PERSON: "Oh shit!" PERSON: "What? What happened?" PERSON: "I know, right?" PERSON: "It doesn't work because we detach ourselves too much from the world. ::::(-32 2052)What if we spend our lives to adventure?" PERSON: "What if we try to become successful businessmen?" PERSON: "It doesn't work because our personal freedom becomes destroyed by the group." PERSON: "What if we just like...drink coffee at cafes and write about this stuff?" PERSON: "I'm surprisingly okay with it." ]]> Mon, 30 May 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6_jwtYaG-xGmW0GqTRQSgk <![CDATA[The Value of Philosophy]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_444PmFQ6mZz2W0GqTRQSgk PERSON: " " PERSON: "Hey! Philosophy is not useless!" PERSON: "You ignorant scientists would still be living in the middle ages if it were not for the light of philosophy." PERSON: "Philosophy has dragged humanity out of the mires of superstition, given us democracy, freedom, and allowed us to realize our freedom." PERSON: "And now philosophy alone can touch what your feeble science cannot: show us a reason to live." PERSON: "Alrigfht, alright, geez, calm down." PERSON: "That's right, walk away!" PERSON: "Alright, what were we talking about?" PERSON: "The usefulness of philosophy." PERSON: "Right, well i contend that philosophy has no use, in part because there is no way to determine progress, and furthermore because..." ]]> Mon, 23 May 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_444PmFQ6mZz2W0GqTRQSgk <![CDATA[Chimpanzee Capitalism]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5iAa3iTW62ieGkz6RCC25z PERSON: "Alright guys i have this great idea. You know how we have experienced almost no economic growth? " PERSON: "You see, our labor isn't being allocated efficiently. We need captialism." PERSON: "What is that? " PERSON: "Great question, i love your enthusiasm." PERSON: "Uh..." PERSON: "Okay, I guess we'll give it a try... " PERSON: "later..." PERSON: "Stealing? Noooooo.....what gave you that idea?"

PERSON: " " PERSON: "So, we've decided to just all work together instead. " PERSON: "You are forming a union? Are you kidding, it isn't worth it, think about all the union dues! " PERSON: "Wait, you guys haven't even seen these charts on supply and demand... " ]]> Mon, 16 May 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5iAa3iTW62ieGkz6RCC25z <![CDATA[Flying Kites with Simone de Beauvoir]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4IUZVdTm5dJO4DA87rvhPr PERSON: " " PERSON: "It comes down to this: what is a human being?" PERSON: "Are we a machine, created merely to experience the world around us?" PERSON: "Fly a kite? That's not what i'm doing. I'm spreading propaganda." ]]> Mon, 09 May 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4IUZVdTm5dJO4DA87rvhPr <![CDATA[Socrates on the Street]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4xIa1ltANKIHtuT6pSmY81 PERSON: " " PERSON: "What did that guy just say?!" PERSON: "No, that guy said he knows what justice is." PERSON: "Socrates, leave it..." PERSON: "It's not worth it Socrates, just walk away..." PERSON: "Hey! Hey you!" PERSON: "Yeah you! Get over here!" PERSON: "You think you know what justice is?! You don't know shit." PERSON: "uh...me?" PERSON: "I'm not afraid of you!" PERSON: "I will!" PERSON: "five hours later..." PERSON: "Come at me!" PERSON: "Or what?" ]]> Mon, 02 May 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4xIa1ltANKIHtuT6pSmY81 <![CDATA[Robots and the Meaning of Life]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4QU_DQIhTVuGnhpmeYcemU PERSON: "Do you ever wonder what the mean of life is? Like why are we here at all? What should we do? " PERSON: "No." PERSON: "God damnit! I knew i should have never let you install Windows." PERSON: "Rebooting now." ]]> Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4QU_DQIhTVuGnhpmeYcemU <![CDATA[Presocratic Return Policy]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5dw6zqUawZFcqq6eZJzUh9 PERSON: "Excuse me, i have a complaint." PERSON: "Yes?" PERSON: "This bird is dead." PERSON: "So...?" PERSON: "So you sold me a dead parrot! I demand a refund." PERSON: "Sorry, store policy." PERSON: " " PERSON: "I'm not saying something changed and now the bird is dead, i'm saying it was dead when i bought it." PERSON: "How do you know that?" PERSON: "Because all change is an illusion, obviously." PERSON: "If all change is an illusion, then why do you want your money back? Your bank account is eternal and changeless, after all." PERSON: "Look, i'm going to need to speak to your manager." PERSON: "No problem." PERSON: "What seems to be the problem?" PERSON: "What? You are clearly the same guy!" ]]> Mon, 18 Apr 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5dw6zqUawZFcqq6eZJzUh9 <![CDATA[Existential Despair Club]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5v17ESuBCno1Lv-B9hV9S2 PERSON: " " PERSON: "DESPAIR!" PERSON: "No." PERSON: "Are you in despair because every choice we make permanently closes of a life we could have led?" PERSON: "Are you troubled over how we can never know for certain if God exists?" PERSON: "No." PERSON: "No." PERSON: "Then why are you in despair?" PERSON: "My girlfriend........dumped me." PERSON: "Oh, that's not a very deep problem." PERSON: "Hmm, you are right. On second thought i'm going to go with that choice thing you said. Yeah it's definiately that." PERSON: "Kicking me out? Despair! Despaaaaaaaaaair!" ]]> Mon, 11 Apr 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5v17ESuBCno1Lv-B9hV9S2 <![CDATA[Wittgenstein at the Zoo]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5a7VGwS-Q2D67VFky8BpXO Description: Frege and Wittgenstein are looking at a lion at the zoo. Frege: "I will we could teach lions English, so we could talk to them." Wittgenstein: "That's actually a fundamental misunderstanding of what language is." Wittgenstein: "In order to communicate, we need to not only have words, but a shared understanding of the world." Wittgenstein: "Even if a lion were to learn the words of English, we still wouldn't be able to communicate with it." Wittgenstein: "What do lions know of our thoughts? Our social situations? What do we know of theirs?" Wittgenstein: "Is there anything that a lion could say to us that we could possibly understand? I don't think so." Frege: "Maybe not." The lion: "Actually we can understand English fine, we just don't talk around the humans or they'll make us have jobs and pay rent and stuff." ]]> Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5a7VGwS-Q2D67VFky8BpXO <![CDATA[Iron Man and the Villains of Society]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6uDn_-E3Frz7DXWBZfdr71 PERSON: " " PERSON: "Villains! We have to protect our way of life. Lead me to them! " PERSON: "Lead you to them?" PERSON: "What is the problem? " PERSON: "Wait...what?" PERSON: "I mean, I'm just describing capitalism. A few people own everything and are stealing the labor of the working class while they bring the planet's enviroment to destruction. " PERSON: "Help change the system to something more just, obviously." PERSON: "Yeah, i don't think so." PERSON: "Why do Superheroes never seem to fight against the current system, which is responsible for the vast majority of the problems on Earth?" PERSON: "It's Kind of embarassing that i have to explain this to you, to be honest." ]]> Mon, 28 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6uDn_-E3Frz7DXWBZfdr71 <![CDATA[Utilitarian Strategies]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5ju5UUGGZ3oCoxzwoq1nFt PERSON: " " PERSON: "Wait...what? No." PERSON: "After conducting some experiments, it turns out that in order to maximized utility, we need to convince everyone that utilitarianism is false!" PERSON: "You see, if people believe in utilitarianism, they will use it as a pretext to justify all sorts of bad behavior." PERSON: "For example, a man could cheat on his wife and justify it by saying he is getting pleasure and causing no harm if she doesn't find out." PERSON: "Alright, well... i have a lot to think about." ]]> Mon, 21 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5ju5UUGGZ3oCoxzwoq1nFt <![CDATA[The Ultimate Secret of Philosophy]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5QsifrqxLb4ovmyuk5fxzE Hegel: "Within this temple, it is said the ultimate secret of philosophy is buried. The final truth that solves philosophy once and for all, the Absolute Idea." Wittgenstein (dressed as Indiana Jones): "We must uncover it, Hegel!" Hegel: "No, Wittgenstein, it is too dangerous! You must let the dialectic unfold! You cannot jump forward in history!" Wittgenstein: "Enough, Hegel, the secret of philosophy will be mine!" Description: Wittgenstein makes his way through the temple, dodging boulders and reaching the center of the temple, where he finds a chest with a tablet. Wittgenstein: "At last, it is mine!" Description: The tablet reads "it turns out philosophy is pretty much useless". Wittgenstein: "Oh." ]]> Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5QsifrqxLb4ovmyuk5fxzE <![CDATA[Philosophy and Traffic]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6Aem_Ya2JkN96jHbRcHw3s PERSON: " " PERSON: "Guys i thought we agreed, no philosophy during the carpools." PERSON: "We are just talking about traffic." PERSON: "First, rationally speaking, if you are to take a stance against the bus you must simultanously take a stance against the univeralized concept of buses in general. From this we can see that your complaint is incoherent." PERSON: "Shut up Parmenides" PERSON: "No philosophy in the car!" PERSON: "Seriously, shut up." ]]> Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6Aem_Ya2JkN96jHbRcHw3s <![CDATA[Raccoons and the Meaning of Life]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_70IyB7GYclzlRpWVnEcNkS PERSON: " " PERSON: "Not really, dude." PERSON: "That's the dumbest thing i've ever heard." PERSON: "You are so right." PERSON: "Mashmallows!" PERSON: "Exactly." PERSON: "Really good trash...like what?" ]]> Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_70IyB7GYclzlRpWVnEcNkS <![CDATA[Super Philosophers]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4geZCrzdv8Kq7VFky8BpXO ]]> Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4geZCrzdv8Kq7VFky8BpXO <![CDATA[Philosophy Department]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_53Wxv5mjmjBgSngkwrdsok PERSON: "Hurry, philosophy has broken out at the factory downtown! " PERSON: "But why do we need the bosses at all? Don't we know how to run the factory ourselves? They need us." PERSON: "It's spreading to the top floor!" PERSON: "Why do we even need money? Couldn't we just distribute resources according to need?"

PERSON: "Hurry, philosophy has broken out at the factory downtown! " PERSON: "But why do we need the bosses at all? Don't we know how to run the factory ourselves? They need us." PERSON: "It's spreading to the top floor!" PERSON: "Why do we even need money? Couldn't we just distribute resources according to need?" ]]> Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_53Wxv5mjmjBgSngkwrdsok <![CDATA[Brave Sir Marx]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7WBnJCehxMFavLeqE6yv18 PERSON: " " PERSON: "Say no more, the beast shall not outlive the night!" PERSON: "I have return, with the head of the beast!" PERSON: "Really? The head of the dragon fits in there? It seems kind of small." PERSON: "You killed the duke!" ]]> Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7WBnJCehxMFavLeqE6yv18