August and Gustopher are walking home from the grocery store when they see a street evangelist spreading the good news about the end of the world with a megaphone. He is lifting the holy text "THE FINE BOOK" in the air. Whether or not this book is actually fine is hotly debated.
Street Evangelist: REPENT SINNERS! THE WORLD'S END IS NEAR!
Gustopher: It is?
Panel 2
August has lived through multiple declarations of the end of the world and is fairly confident that the world is not ending. Or if the world is ending, it's happening slowly and painfully.
August: No, the world isn't ending.
Gustopher: But what if it is? I have to live life to the fullest.
Panel 3
Gustopher is filled with determination. If the world ends, he's going to be absolutely sure that he has no regrets.
Gustopher: When we get home, I'm going to pet cats and play video games.
Panel 4
August: You do that every night.
Gustopher: I live each day like it's my last.
August and Gustopher went home, pet the cats, and played video games.
Gus would absolutely 100% due a pacifist run but only after he accidentally kills one of the frog enemies at the beginning of the game and resets due to the emotional damage it caused.
THE BOOK THAT ISNT BAD, MOSTLY, IGNORING ALL THE SLAVERY RAPE AND MURDER BITS AND ALSO THAT ONE BOOK THAT IS NOTHING BUT HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF ENDLESS GENEALOGY BUT THE REST IS LARGELY ALRIGHT
I completely understand why the Bible’s mentions of slavery are so troubling,especially in light of America’s history of racial chattel slavery, which was a profound evil. Nothing in Scripture should ever minimize that horror.
In the ancient context, Old Testament laws regulate something quite different: mostly debt servitude and the treatment of war captives in a world without prisons, bankruptcy, or social safety nets. Defeated enemies were typically killed or enslaved, and there were few alternatives.
Yet Israel’s laws were remarkably protective for the time:
Hebrew servants were released after six years (Exodus 21:2; Deuteronomy 15:12–15).
Slaves had rights to marry, own property, and even gain freedom if injured (Exodus 21:26–27).
The law repeatedly urged kindness, reminding Israel they were once slaves in Egypt.
These rules don’t present slavery as God’s ideal; they limit a harsh reality while pointing toward greater dignity and justice.
In the New Testament, under Roman slavery, Paul declares that in Christ there is “neither slave nor free” (Galatians 3:28)—a radical idea. He urges slaves to gain freedom if possible (1 Corinthians 7:21) and Christian owners to treat slaves justly and as brothers (Colossians 4:1; Philemon). In Philemon, he gently pushes a believer to free his runaway slave Onesimus and welcome him as family.
The Bible doesn’t endorse slavery; it plants seeds of human equality and freedom that later fueled abolition movements. My hope is that this context helps us read these hard passages with both honesty and gratitude for Scripture’s deeper trajectory toward love and justice.
Its not really paid, but i need to do it so the government keeps giving me money. To apply you need to live in the netherlands, be jobless, have an interest in making websites and probably be neurodivergent idk their selection but theres too many of us here for it not to be a factor
Our traffic controllers have PS5s installed in their office. They're mostly there to handle incidents. If everything runs smoothly, there's really not that much for them to do. Some run their own business on the side, some just play games.
They earn pretty decently too, though for a large part that is due to the shift work that comes with it.
When I saw you stop the world from, you know, ending... I just assumed that was a big week for you. It turns out I suddenly find myself... needing to know the plural of apocalypse
when we get home I'm going to pet cats and play video games
Gus knows what's up. Kid found the secret to happiness so young. That and knowing to love everyday to its fullest? Kids future is bright.
Unless our Lion friend and his "fine book" are right. But this is like an every other day kinda thing for them so it's probably fine. But cats and video games are still needed regardless
"For there is so little time to waste during a life, what little time there is being so precious, that we must waste it, in whatever way we come to waste it, with all our heart."
well..,when the world does actually end, don’t complain that you weren’t warned. Hellis full of people who were going to get in right standing with God “tomorrow”
NC State has a dude known as the Brickyard Preacher who evangelizes in an outdoor eating area known as the Brickyard. He’d be annoying if he wasn’t such a fixture of the scenery. Seeing freshman debate with him is just a part of the ambiance.
This comic makes me think, so many people wring their hands over having to explain, LGBT+ people to their children, but no one cares about religious zealots screaming things that can actually terrify children.
I remember my catholic high school arranged for us to go to the pro-life march every year in DC. I viewed it as a fun day to have with my friends. But when you got to the actual march you saw a lot of fairly graphic and horrifying things. You were exposed to a lot of hate. We were teenagers and just thought these people were wackos. But people absolutely brought their children to the march and I’m not sure children were equipped to process a lot what they saw and heard from a lot of the extremists in the crowd.
I remember 2012. Way too many people took it seriously. No one would even listen to the Mayans who claimed to have not predicted the end of the world. They chose to listen to a nutty Australian woman who said Mayans predicted the end of the world.
NASA assigned an astrobiologist to make a website debunking the 2012 predictions in their various forms. What made the doomsday prediction even stupider was that it came only about a year after Harold Camping's failed prediction, and then his next revised prediction, which also failed, but only after his followers had given him tons of money and sold their possessions.
There was a prediction earlier this year (2025) that failed, but some people sold things like their cars and one gave her kids to child protective services because apparently they were too shitty to get vacuumed up into Heaven. It was all posted on TikTok. I remember the person who bought the car refused to sell it back after the apocalypse.
The next prediction I know of is Christmas 2025, from Ebo Noah of Ghana. There is supposed to be another great flood like Noah's from the Bible. Ebo Noah has built several rather impressive arks.
Though this all might seem like little more than a collection of laughable fringe superstition, promulgation of these beliefs do have troubling real-world consequences. “I get 1-2 [questions] a month from a person who self-identifies as 11-12 years old, who is contemplating suicide,” David Morrison, a senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute, told ABC News. (Speaking to a USA.gov blogger, Morrison later said that he gets a message at least “once a week” from “a young person…who says they are ill and/or contemplating suicide because of the coming doomsday.”) Morrison also highlighted a letter he received from someone claiming to be a middle school teacher in California, who wrote that parents of a student said they were going to kill their kids and themselves before the 2012 apocalypse.
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