That’s right ladies and gentlemen. I am retiring from the regular-posting-of-comics-on-this-website game. I hope that you have enjoyed my comics. Most of them were fun to make. Two or three of them were total pains to make.

From Retirement

There is a chance of scattered comic submissions from retirement. Nothing regular, but possibly a funny note every once and a while. From time to time a guest-artist front might also move through ThadGuy.com with some quality guest comics accumulating.

Cheers,

Thad

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Until then, I hope that you all have a wonderful time.

Cheers,

Thad Guy

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This comic is written by the totally cool and awesome author of the comic Saint Gasoline.

This comic is written by the totally cool and awesome author of the comic The Flowfield Unity.

Just in case you wanted to see some pictures of horsehair wigs.

I like to appear smart. Even if it turns out I am not. It is a little quirk of mine. In case some of you also like to appear smart, here is a little trick to do so. It works surprisingly often. Just use Latin names for things that everyone knows. People seem to think knowing the Latin name for a concept shows an uncommonly strong understanding of it. I’m not really sure why. I hope that doesn’t mean I not smart.

See that look on Seinfeld’s face? That is the look of complete contentment as he accomplishes his life’s dream.

Woody Allen almost pulled it off as well. However, he may not have been sure that it was time and only did it in animated form.

Here is some information about the whole cigarettes consumed per capita thing. I didn’t make it up.

With debates like this representing much of the argument that makes it through to the public, it is inevitable that people will become disenchanted with argument.

Just to remind us of what argument could be, let’s take a look at some of it’s virtues.

The many uses of Argument

1) To find the right conclusion

Logic is possibly the most reliable way of predicting what our senses will show us. Argument is a key way for us to communicate and harness this logical ability. Using argument to find correct conclusions is possibly its most obvious use.

• This is just a taste of a new form of management sweeping the nation!
• The bleeding edge in management technology!
• A new codification of a very old system!
• No those last two statements don’t actually contradict!

Sign up today for your free seminar in “freaking the f@#k out”.

I read an article the other day (and lost the address) the explained that it might be possible to resuscitate people quite a long time after their heart has stopped beating. Despite expectations, cells seem to be able to survive relatively long periods without oxygen. The cells just have to be brought back into the world of oxygen slowly, or they freak out and die. From my not-a-cardiologists viewpoint this is a big step forward in our understanding of how to revive those who have had heart attacks.

In The Beginning – From the Economist

The article referred to above is about cumulative advantage and can be found here. It is incredibly interesting.

Pascal’s Wager assumes that there are only two divine possibilities:

1. An all knowing, all powerful, and perfectly moral God exists
2. There is no God

This premise is false. The world’s actual possibilities are sadly much more varied and more numerous. If we grant that a perfectly moral God is possible, many other deities are also logically possible. Sadly, the only way for a conception of the divine to be logically impossible is if it has a contradiction built into it. [For example a deity can’t both exist and not exist.]

A recently popular response to Pascal’s Wager argues that if God exists, he is not worthy of our devotion. This is not an argument against the existence of God, but one that encourages ‘just resistance’ to God.

The basic thrust of the argument is that if God is willing to reward and punish for the simple belief in him, independent of a person’s actions, then he is immoral. As the story goes, if such an immoral and cruel God exists we owe it to a sense of our own dignity to resist him.

I hope that you enjoy the new site, and let me know if you see and ridiculous mistakes that I should actually fix.

Until this site is up and running, please use our old site.

Assuming we don’t trust our senses, here is the fun question: what is the value of Occam’s razor? In situations that involve truth, an objective reality, and two theories of equal explanatory power Occam’s razor tells us the theory that makes the least amount of assumptions is most likely to reflect reality. But, we are assuming there is no reason for our experiences to be connected to some “objective reality.” Without truth, it seems Occam’s razor is only a principle that helps keep our theories about what we perceive as simple as logically possible.

Before about the age of 15 Mark was like the little caplet. He was small for his age. He had glasses that were about half an inch thick and his hair always seemed to be rather disheveled and a little greasy. In the middle of his teen-age years Mark remade himself, apparently as a sheer act of will. He became incredibly strong, capable, cleanly, and still amazingly nice.