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Cyanide & Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

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History

@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works started this community and wrote:

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.

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All comics posted are freely available online. In no way is the poster claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (8 children)

It's His own fault for bothering with all that divine hiddenness silliness.

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you could prove “God” existed that’d be lame and boring. The uncertainty is what makes it fun.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The uncertainty is what's caused dozens of wars and oppression. Without which, history lessons would be really boring. This is much better.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Many religions and ideologies are pretty fine with uncertainty.

It's pretty much only monotheism which claims certainty and kills you if you say you have comments about their "facts."

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's because anthropologically, realism is pretty new. The idea of a single objective truth to encapsulate the whole universe was an idea invented by the Romans. And everyone knows what the Romans did to religious diversity in Europe. Most cultures in the history of the world have to some degree acknowledged the subjectivity of perception and the self-contradictory nature of "objective truth".

I'm part of a political movement that opposes Roman/Abrahamic style realism. We believe it's the cause of the crusades, slavery, the nakba, the holocaust, the witch trials, and all of history's other greatest atrocities. True freedom will only come when we are free to perceive differently than those in authority. To live in a different perceptual universe.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Like this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism

The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine."[7]

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ya know, I'm gonna say that humans are capable of pretty horrific shit without needing to get caught in the weeds like that. Yeah, religions don't have a great track record, but neither do most institutions above a certain age. We really like turning people who aren't with us into people who are against us, and we're biologically programed to then be able to hurt them. Tribes fought and this that wouldn't, died. So, it's basically in all of us on some level.

But before you think we're cruel or horrible, it's not that. We're mostly the result of evolution's whims, like most things on earth. Humans usually innovate not by thinking things through but by trying whatever comes first and winging it from there. It's why the scientific method was such a breakthrough. We didn't get better at finding better ideas, we just wrote down and shared the stupid stuff we did. Then, it was just a matter of time before people iterated enough to find truly beautiful things.

It's why the internet should be a beautiful thing, but assholes want to own it and that means it had to eat up our every waking moment.

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I’d argue it’s the people who are so “certain” that they’re right who are generally instigating the atrocities in the modern day.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's fun to hate your neighbors for having the wrong Invisible Friend and be afraid they'll show up and kill you in your sleep. Always a blast!

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