Comic #4600: life-philosophy

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Panel 1: First character: "HOW DO YOU FIND MEANING IN A COSMOS THAT SEEMS NOT TO CARE AT ALL ABOUT HUMAN LIFE?"

Second character: "I'M A CHAUVINISTIC PRESENTIST."

Panel 2: First character: "FOR MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY, LIFE WAS MARKED BY SICKNESS, SORROW, WAR, AND PESTILENCE." (There is a visual of a second character walking through a snowy landscape.)

Panel 3: First character: "IN THE NEAR FUTURE, HUMAN LIFE WILL BE ENDED UTTERLY AS WE ARE EITHER KILLED BY OR ASSIMILATED INTO THE MACHINES."

Panel 4: First character: "I LIKE TO THINK ABOUT HOW MOST PEOPLE BEFORE US HAD GARBAGE LIVES, AND THE REMAINING SHORT SPAN OF HUMAN EXISTENCE WILL BE DEFINED BY DREAD AND THE FAREWELL TO ALL THAT ONCE MATTERED."

Panel 5: First character: "IN SHORT: SUCKS TO BE YOU, FUTURE AND PAST! AND, THUS, THE PRESENT MUST BE OUTSTANDING."

Panel 6: Second character: "I DON'T THINK YOU CAN BASE AN ENTIRE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE AROUND SCHADENFREUDE."

Panel 7: First character: "ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH ANY ABRAHAMIC RELIGION?"