Comments on: Page One Hundred Thirty Six: Living on a Prayer

By: Miri

Miri — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:27:41 +0000

It seems to be that belief = power, remembrance = existance.

So, since nobody exept a very few people actually believe in Quetzalcoatl and all of the other gods, races, legends, etc, they don’t have much in the way of actual power, but since they are remembered at least in some way by a bunch of people (even if it’s only through D&D), they still have a firm hold on reality. In Quetzalcoatl’s case, since he gets half of his power from nature, but it’s a peaceful power, he’s more suited to the role of guardian, protector, and patron of knowledge and learning, things that are still (at least somewhat) respected and revered by humankind; therefore his power still exists, but not in a way that would allow him to interfere too directly with humanity.

By: Miri

Miri — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:19:24 +0000

Isn’t this entire webcomic an experiment in metaphysics?

And if a legend counts as worship and remembrance, and David is telling Laz’s story (which is all a legend is), and all of us are reading this comic and putting our energis into it, doesn’t that mean that Laz really does have followers?

By: SkitZ

SkitZ — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:02:35 +0000

Ohhhh….. evil is like salt to the Devil… too little and he’s too bland and cancels poker night… too much and he is turned into a pillar of salt by nuclear war… does this mean aliens have there own hate god?

By: blitz

blitz — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:55:08 +0000

yo, congrats on leveling up on belfry =P

By: approvedjunk

approvedjunk — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:47:43 +0000

I think if he is forgotten completely, he as a personification will disappear and be replaced with some other representation. Think about Christianity and how the lumped all of the Gods and Goddess of other races in to one big person.

By: Estrane

Estrane — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:59:37 +0000

Makes me think of Stephen King’s “Cell” in how one explanation of how everything went crazy was that humans are naturally murderous, blood-thirsty creatures and the only only reason we aren’t is that our intellect came out on top of that yet if the intellect is taken away (or covered up) we become crazy murderous people bent on killing all those who are not like us.

By: eriendil

eriendil — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:16:57 +0000

EEK! Rabid weasels are using ipods to spy on us!!!

By: fangrider

fangrider — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:04:59 +0000

SO TRUE! i thought of the I pod when i was three! theyre intercepting our thought waves!!!

By: eriendil

eriendil — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:00:45 +0000

Guess it gets down to what your’e really here for, huh?

By: eriendil

eriendil — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:53:05 +0000

Very true, Dave. The resident evil within us as a race has always been there across generations, with the devil relentlessly looking for ways to draw it out of us into the open, and then take advantage of rhe resulting chaos. Evil IS an invention of our own human nature, with the devil as it’s personification in our own image, anthromorphing, I think it’s called. What constitutes crime and the “evil” behind it is up to the social and moral values of a given culture, whose reaction to percieved evil may be a crime in yet another cultures viewpoint. The millions murdered in extermination camps in WWII, a million plus cambodians murdered by Pol Pot in Cambodia, the ethnic “cleansing” in Serbia, and the treatment non-muslims often receive in intolerant islamic cultures are all examples….