Comic #6180: selfish

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Title: HOW CAN GOD HAVE A SON WHO IS ALSO HIM?

Panel 1:
Person 1: "How can God have a son who is also Him?"
Person 2: (in clergy attire)

Panel 2:
Person 2: "Oh that’s easy. Imagine every hour a single brain cell of yours dies. Are you still you?"
Person 1: "Sure."
Person 2: "Imagine instead of dying it’s removed and kept elsewhere. Are you still you?"
Person 1: "Same, yeah."

Panel 3:
Person 2: "Imagine you repeat this process over and over, each time replacing the old cell with a new cell, using the old cells to construct a copy of you. Now you are a you who made you."
Person 1:

Panel 4:
Person 1: "What about the unity of God?"
Person 2: "Also easy."

Panel 5:
Person 2: "Suppose each day a random of the two you's loses a cell, which is destroyed, then replaced by a cell from the other you. This process can be iterated until you’re back to just you."

Panel 6:
Person 2: "You-ness is transferable, expandable, contractable. It can be forked, merged, sped up, slowed down."

Panel 7:
Person 2: "Throw in a being who exists beyond time and ba-da-bing. 'Mystery of the Trinity,' my ass."

Panel 8:
Person 2: "So no you… ever was… not you… or became you."
Person 1: "Really the only hard part is the grammar."

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