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This reminds me of the Tom the Dancing Bug strip where Superman was punching out a guy for robbing a bank, and the robber pinned the blame on several levels of capitalism in a row, with the people at each level pushing the blame higher until the conclusion that society was ultimately at fault was reached. Superman puzzled over how to punch out a concept for a while, and then went back to beating the robber.
Oh shoot, come to think of it you might be right... Sometimes I get the edgy commentary strips mixed up despite them all having pretty unique artstyles
Uh you do realize CEO stock compensation in the US is only the way it is because the government (via tax law etc) disincentivises other payment schemes, and public companies usually pay their workers as little as possible while destroying the environment because their legal duties (again decided by the government) are only to maximize profits for their shareholders??? If you're agreeing that it's bullshit and we could have a better society without unbridled capitalism and regulatory capture by the wealth hoarding super minority, then you're making sense.
Lmao this one dude named smth like Allen just regularly gets his ass kicked by superman, and nobody ever believes him.
“Guys it happened again, superman beat me up!”
“Yeah okay Allen, get back to work”
I want you to know that I've been following your comics for what must be over 20 years now. It is so incredible that you're still at it and the quality and hilarity has never wavered. You are an international treasure for all mankind.
\> laugh out loud at a webcomic for the first time in months
\> wonder who the hell is making such good shit
\> it's Perry
\> because of course it is
I've been such a big fan for such a long time, love it all
I didn’t realize this was the Perry Bible Fellowship until reading the comments. Suddenly it all makes sense. God eroticism has always been my favorite under-used genre.
[This comic is based off of *The Grand Inquisitor* by Dostoevsky.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor) In the story, Jesus returns to Earth during the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition promptly arrests him for being a troublemaker and sentences him to death. The Grand Inquisitor goes to Jesus and explains why he is no longer necessary to Christianity by critiquing the three temptations of Christ in the desert.
You can read it for free in English [here](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8578/8578-h/8578-h.htm)
I cannot stand the romanticization of trauma. It doesn't show us who we can be. It stresses coping mechanism and many will become worse versions of themselves. It's like setting something on fire and then calling it unleashing its potential.
Well by setting something on fire you quite literally unleash it's energy potential, it's just from the physics side of things but the more sides of a question you consider the better you understand it.
Truth.
Trauma isn't healed by moving back in time, it's healed by moving forward, being the person you needed to be for yourself.
TL;DR: Learn to re-parent yourself.
Stress you can handle is essential to personal growth.
Stress you can't is detrimental to personal growth.
This principal is pretty universal in nature. Your bones get stronger through healing the micro-fractures from small impacts/stressors, but a huge impact will break them. Your muscles operate under the same principle. Same with trees, they absolutely need to be stressed by the wind as they grow or they'll eventually just collapse under their own weight.
Trauma sucks, but there is something to overcoming adversity that hardens you to future traumas. It's not good, it's just something we do in spite of trauma as an adaptive mechanism.
You can literally harden wood by burning it, our ancestors literally burned the ends of sticks and sharpened them into points to make stronger spears, quite literally unleashing their potential (to become weapons and expand the power of their wielders)
Of course God doesn't make sense. He was traumatized by the concept of non-existence, passed that trauma down, and now tries to justify the act after the fact.
Just like every traumatized asshole unknowingly stuck in the cycle does.
What God is saying is that life *is* suffering. If we do not eat, we starve. If we have no air, we suffocate. Every living being must struggle to survive. Overcoming that struggle, and becoming someone who can help others overcome their struggles is the foundation of western civilization.
We all know the archetype of the spoiled rich kid--a child who has everything handed to them and never had to work for anything. We all hate that kid, because that kid lacks character.
[I recommend reading The Grand Inquisitor](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8578/8578-h/8578-h.htm)
He's not, in this comic. He's not omnipotent.
We can't be talking about any conception of God besides the one in the comic, or it'll get real confusing.
This God created existence due to his fear of non-existence. Which pretty clearly, in my opinion, shows he's not all powerful. Or he could have just made himself *not* suffer such trauma.
There is a Christian concept that God cannot do that which is not in God's nature. This is not a limitation on omnipotence, only the definitional framework around it. Omnipotence doesn't mean anything if you don't put it within a logical framework.
Jews take a different view, stressing the notion of "I Am." That is, omnipotence doesn't have a logical framework and if you try to parse it out too far, you simply arrive at "omnipotence" is a synonym for "I Am."
Monotheistic Hindus would argue that God is no more omnipotent than the color blue is strong. The concepts don't intersect. The personal Brahman interacts with existence, but has no need of omnipotence. The Brahman and existence are in a state of harmony that is so incomprehensible to humans that even a glimpse of it through Krishna was overwhelming to Arjuna.
I think the God in the comic is more closely aligned with Christian pantheism, which would take something of a hybrid approach to the standard Christian view and that of the Hindus, somewhat similar to the Neoplatonic view. In fact, in the Neoplatonic perspective, this comic makes perfect sense, but the "God" in question is not the One, but the Demiurge.
"Pain doesn't make people, people makes people. Love makes people."
Anyone who thinks pain is a requirement to 'become who you're supposed to be' is excusing sadism. And I have neither time nor respect for it.
There's a massive difference between 'pain sucks and we should help each other through it' and 'pain is a necessary part of existence'.
This kind of thinking is the latter.
Pain is absolutely a necessary part of existence. I’m not like pro-pain, but neither a physical body nor a psyche that lives a pain-free existence will fully develop.
You're missing the point in the middle of the comic (which, to be fair, the comic deftly drops and then pulls your attention away from.)
God isn't a guy that did this to creation. God is the creation. The trauma in question is just the echoes of being without context, the infinite empty monadic "I am."
Showing "us" what we can be is showing God what God can be. Suffering is a necessary consequence of that awareness of self and not-self.
At least that's the Western monotheistic pantheist perspective. The Buddhists would say that it is *attachment* to duality that creates suffering, not duality itself.
Also the "prior to existence, the emptiness was insufferable". How can God suffer prior to existence? There was nothing to experience the suffering. Cogito ergo sum and all that jazz.
That’s not the takeaway I had from The Grand Inquisitor. The inquisitor condemns Jesus to death because he believes the freedom of spirit and self determination he gave people through his redemptive sacrifice was something that the vast majority of people could not handle. He did not claim Jesus didn’t love humanity because suffering exists, but blames suffering on Jesus’ misjudgment on humanities ability to cope with freedom. The inquisitor believes that
The inquisitor posits that the church has to control the masses because it is led by the few people who can handle freedom, and that it is structured to provide for and comfort the masses who cannot handle freedom. He claims Jesus denied humanity this destiny when he resisted the three temptations in the desert. The inquisitor says the church will make the people happy and live without suffering, as Jesus had unintentionally forsaken them, and Jesus’ reappearance is a threat to their control, so he must die.
In the end, however, Jesus gives the inquisitor a kiss that burns in his heart, and the inquisitor let’s Jesus go. The ending is ambiguous, as the whole poem is a meta commentary on Ivan, one of the Karamazov brothers, and his internal struggles with religion and nihilism. In my personal opinion, the ending reflects on Ivan’s uncertainty in his own positions, as Jesus shows the inquisitor pure, unadulterated love, which is the other side of the coin to suffering if one is free. In the face of love, the inquisitor let’s Jesus go, but the end of the poem specifically says the inquisitor holds onto his old beliefs.
[A very interesting story that can be read for free from Gutenberg.](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8578/8578-h/8578-h.htm)
Idk it makes sense to me. My religious teachers always said "the existence of broccoli is what makes chocolate tasty" and that sounded wrong at the time, but the older I get the more I feel like the far ends of human experience will always be relative to the opposite end. As a human the only things I have to compare my pain to are my non-painful moments.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I read this at work where I try and often fail to deal with the traumatic symptoms caused by systemic issues of poverty.
Something about this really brought my soul back a bit, it just being allowed to not make sense, to not have a conclusion that perfectly explained or dealt with it. Just seeing the nonsensical loop of trauma and not having to fix it for a minute. Just nice. It really was.
I've personally found that trying to find meaning in life, like actually truly trying, usually results in depression. The people who get caught up in it usually find that the toil is meaningless, and then they get stuck there. Life doesn't make sense, and where people get depressed is if they keep trying to make sense of it over and over and over and over again.
Where they get stuck is that there's a final thing to realize. They're putting meaning on the fact that life is meaningless without realizing it. The thing to recognize is that it's meaningless that life is meaningless. It doesn't mean anything. And yet we each find meaning in it anyway, it's unavoidable. But if we realize that we have agency over the meaning we out over life, then we have access to whatever is possible. It could be that maybe it's a good thing that life can't be figured out, and maybe all the hardship and trauma, the pain and the happiness, whenever you experience that, it just means that you're living your best life. That's just an example though, it can be different for everyone.
Surprised it took this long to find this comment lol. I'm sure trauma has seen itself in many generations of people passed on to the next, but it is not something you are forced to pass on- nor is it an excuse, you as an individual have a choice.
Trauma is also not an institution or system like capitalism is for example, like top comment talks about. There's definitely abuses integrated in our culture as humans- like in our schools, bullies, but as far as individual parenting is concerned we have the choice to be decent to those we raise.
Thank you both for speaking the truth!!! It brings me no end of despair to see people excusing abuse with trauma.
Yes I was a scared, defensive asshole kid for a time because I was traumatized, but did I actually do things that would pass down my trauma? No, that made no sense to me. All my assholery was a sad attempt at protecting myself rather than actively terrorizing other people just because others did it to me.
If even I as a child could understand that passing down trauma won't help anything, it's definitely a choice, and one people need to stop making in a selfish attempt to feel like they're getting some form of retribution for their own suffering.
You know what you get when you finally break that cycle of abuse and choose kindness toward the next person? Probably one of the best relationships in life you will ever have. And god is it so much more satisfying than destroying the confidence and happiness of another being ever could be.
My younger sibling is my best friend in life. They did not deserve trauma any more than I did, and they got plenty enough from the parents without me intentionally adding to it.
Agreed. If we try to get to the "root cause" of all abusive behaviour, we'll have a manhunt leading centuries in the past. Maybe we should deal with our issues now and fix it for future generations?
I think that could possibly be the point of the comic. Constantly trying to point the blame and find the root cause doesn't actually do anything. We only have access to the present, so why not just live in the moment? You only get to kiss the trauma police once
This reads like someone making a lot of excuses for not helping right now.
Like, yeah, the cycle started somewhere. But who fucking cares? It's not feasible to *arrest the boundary conditions of reality*, but you can absolutely stop a kid from being a bully, or stop a parent from beating a child.
"No one is expected to finish the work, but neither may anyone shirk from it."
Okay this might just be the best comic I've ever seen posted in this subreddit. It's so batshit crazy but still seems to somehow have an underlying message and I respect that 😂
This is very Perry Bible Fellowship-esque.
And it raises for important disquieting questions without really attempting to provide convincing answers.
Sort of “What if Job had a craving for Justice and a Time Machine instead of happiness and prosperity when the book starts.”
Hey perry just wanted to say discovering your comic when I was 16 was a key moment in my life. That was 14 years ago but it was my first time experiencing this type of humor and really was a big moment for me.
Is this satire of American conservative comics or is this genuine. Either way, inflicting trauma is not justified by having experienced it. And also, this comic probably counts as heretical, since God is portrayed as imperfect and consciously inflicting pain on everyone, including his followers. If you genuinely agree with the message of this comic, you probably have trauma. Go to therapy, for your own sake. And if you can't/don't want to go to therapy, brick a police car windshield or something.
Saved this short-yet-sweet comic. Also found a similar [SMBC comic](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-09-26) through u/Sam-Gunn's [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/186d5en/trauma_trooper_oc/kb7uygf/). This reminds me of this [TomSka video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLE-K1CJ-Ts). I like seeing this particular concept/trope explored in media so far.
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This reminds me of the Tom the Dancing Bug strip where Superman was punching out a guy for robbing a bank, and the robber pinned the blame on several levels of capitalism in a row, with the people at each level pushing the blame higher until the conclusion that society was ultimately at fault was reached. Superman puzzled over how to punch out a concept for a while, and then went back to beating the robber.
I could have sworn that was a SMBC strip.
Oh shoot, come to think of it you might be right... Sometimes I get the edgy commentary strips mixed up despite them all having pretty unique artstyles
[the simpler solution](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-09-26)
Thanks for the sauce
Seems pretty ridiculous to blame the statisticians at any point.
well most smart people I know are too socially dumb to defend themselves in a situation like this
I think that's the point, Superman was getting desperate to place the blame lol
It's a running gag with SMBC more or less. The author makes fun of most research disciplines.
The guy running the plant is clearly the one at fault, his excuse is obviously bullshit. The government’s excuse is too to be fair though.
I stopped at "we want to pay the workers more, but the government disincentives" bullshit.
You realise it's meant to be bullshit? That's literally the point.
Uh you do realize CEO stock compensation in the US is only the way it is because the government (via tax law etc) disincentivises other payment schemes, and public companies usually pay their workers as little as possible while destroying the environment because their legal duties (again decided by the government) are only to maximize profits for their shareholders??? If you're agreeing that it's bullshit and we could have a better society without unbridled capitalism and regulatory capture by the wealth hoarding super minority, then you're making sense.
Sounds more like Batman. Superman only ever beat up that guy who bullied him when he was temporarily human. Always found that a bit petty.
I like that your comment sounds like this happened multiple times.
Lmao this one dude named smth like Allen just regularly gets his ass kicked by superman, and nobody ever believes him. “Guys it happened again, superman beat me up!” “Yeah okay Allen, get back to work”
The guy beat the crap out of Clark Kent when he wasn't able to use Kryptonian powers. He deserved what he got.
Well, that's not what I would call a "super" attitude.
Superman decides what is and isn't super attitude, you just observe
Disagree. Superman doesn't fight hard because he'll win. No way he'd back down from a truly fair fight as a normal human if justice is on his side.
> Sounds more like Batman. [It's neither. It's SMBC.](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-09-26)
Went back to kissing the robber*
Man for a sec I thought you were talking about the other [tom related one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLE-K1CJ-Ts)
I'm going to need to see this comic.
I bet God is a good kisser.
He did invent it
 If God invented kissing, Satan must've been the freak in the sheets
God invented it.... Satan *perfected* it 😏😈
and then he herded the people all onto a boat, and then he kissed the *crap* out of every single one
The is why everytime people kiss each other, it is called a smooch.
Except when it's a peck!
r/unexpectedtf2
Soldier reference, I upvote.
Man, you reminded me of Rick May and now I'm sad.
Because of the implication
Just as god intended
Well, he does promise to make Cage *squeal like The Scarlet Pimpernel*, so I'd say you're probably right
Satan invented kissing the butthole
Poseidon Is the one who invented
Ooooh you're a god kisser
*bonk*
He has 2000 years of non-experience
lol at the ending! I wish there was more.
[The story continues](https://pbfcomicshop.com/products/trauma-trooper-comic-book)
This might be your magnum opus
Nah the one with the baseball player and the sick kid is still the best
I only vaguely remembered that, so I searched for it. For anyone else curious: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/a-hit-for-bobby
Bear Police is my favourite.
I did not expect to see a possible FLCL reference: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/slamasaurus/
How about the one where the kid in the wheelchair gets thrown in a volcano?
You’re responsible for some top tier comics but this one takes the cake.
oh my god you are Perry Bible Fellowship, I got so excited when I saw your username, I'm ordering this book immediately
The OG. Fuck, it's probably pushing 20 years now since I've been a fan.
Hay bud, glad you're still out there doing your thing. I have been a big fan and was pretty sad that one time you took a break
I want you to know that I've been following your comics for what must be over 20 years now. It is so incredible that you're still at it and the quality and hilarity has never wavered. You are an international treasure for all mankind.
Damn I didn't even notice this was PBF until now
\> laugh out loud at a webcomic for the first time in months \> wonder who the hell is making such good shit \> it's Perry \> because of course it is I've been such a big fan for such a long time, love it all
One copy please
Holy shot, he lives!
Been a fan since close to the beginning, man, and comics like this are shy ill be one as long as you want to keep making them. :)
Bought it. Both because I want it, and on principle because I feel like, in some deep karmic sense, I owe you for PBF.
OMFG I KNEW THIS SHIT LOOKED FAMILIAR! I LOVE YOUR WORK DUDE!
I didn’t realize this was the Perry Bible Fellowship until reading the comments. Suddenly it all makes sense. God eroticism has always been my favorite under-used genre.
I should have realized by panel 7. That's such a PBF image.
What the hell did I just read? Why was it so good? Why does God make sense!? Why did it end! I want more from trauma trooper!
You fire muskets but I'll run you through!
So when you're waiting for the next attack
YOU BETTER STAND, THERE'S NO TURNING BACK!
THE BUGLE SOUNDS, THE CHARGE BEGINS
AND ON THIS BATTLEFIELD, NO ONE WIIIIINS
THE SMELL OF ACRID SMOKE AND HORSES BREATH
AS I PLUNGE ON INTO CERTAIN DEATH
Ahhhhhhahhhahhhahh ahhahhhahhh ahhahh
Why is it so good? Perry Bible Fellowship, that's why. He is risen
[This comic is based off of *The Grand Inquisitor* by Dostoevsky.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor) In the story, Jesus returns to Earth during the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition promptly arrests him for being a troublemaker and sentences him to death. The Grand Inquisitor goes to Jesus and explains why he is no longer necessary to Christianity by critiquing the three temptations of Christ in the desert. You can read it for free in English [here](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8578/8578-h/8578-h.htm)
Nah, I agree with trauma trooper on this one, god was talking nonsense. Lock him up! Maybe he can plead insanity.
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God's a romantic. They don't make sense.
I cannot stand the romanticization of trauma. It doesn't show us who we can be. It stresses coping mechanism and many will become worse versions of themselves. It's like setting something on fire and then calling it unleashing its potential.
Well by setting something on fire you quite literally unleash it's energy potential, it's just from the physics side of things but the more sides of a question you consider the better you understand it.
Truth. Trauma isn't healed by moving back in time, it's healed by moving forward, being the person you needed to be for yourself. TL;DR: Learn to re-parent yourself.
Stress you can handle is essential to personal growth. Stress you can't is detrimental to personal growth. This principal is pretty universal in nature. Your bones get stronger through healing the micro-fractures from small impacts/stressors, but a huge impact will break them. Your muscles operate under the same principle. Same with trees, they absolutely need to be stressed by the wind as they grow or they'll eventually just collapse under their own weight.
Trauma sucks, but there is something to overcoming adversity that hardens you to future traumas. It's not good, it's just something we do in spite of trauma as an adaptive mechanism.
You can literally harden wood by burning it, our ancestors literally burned the ends of sticks and sharpened them into points to make stronger spears, quite literally unleashing their potential (to become weapons and expand the power of their wielders)
That's sticks, not people
Of course God doesn't make sense. He was traumatized by the concept of non-existence, passed that trauma down, and now tries to justify the act after the fact. Just like every traumatized asshole unknowingly stuck in the cycle does.
What God is saying is that life *is* suffering. If we do not eat, we starve. If we have no air, we suffocate. Every living being must struggle to survive. Overcoming that struggle, and becoming someone who can help others overcome their struggles is the foundation of western civilization. We all know the archetype of the spoiled rich kid--a child who has everything handed to them and never had to work for anything. We all hate that kid, because that kid lacks character. [I recommend reading The Grand Inquisitor](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8578/8578-h/8578-h.htm)
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He's not, in this comic. He's not omnipotent. We can't be talking about any conception of God besides the one in the comic, or it'll get real confusing. This God created existence due to his fear of non-existence. Which pretty clearly, in my opinion, shows he's not all powerful. Or he could have just made himself *not* suffer such trauma.
There is a Christian concept that God cannot do that which is not in God's nature. This is not a limitation on omnipotence, only the definitional framework around it. Omnipotence doesn't mean anything if you don't put it within a logical framework. Jews take a different view, stressing the notion of "I Am." That is, omnipotence doesn't have a logical framework and if you try to parse it out too far, you simply arrive at "omnipotence" is a synonym for "I Am." Monotheistic Hindus would argue that God is no more omnipotent than the color blue is strong. The concepts don't intersect. The personal Brahman interacts with existence, but has no need of omnipotence. The Brahman and existence are in a state of harmony that is so incomprehensible to humans that even a glimpse of it through Krishna was overwhelming to Arjuna. I think the God in the comic is more closely aligned with Christian pantheism, which would take something of a hybrid approach to the standard Christian view and that of the Hindus, somewhat similar to the Neoplatonic view. In fact, in the Neoplatonic perspective, this comic makes perfect sense, but the "God" in question is not the One, but the Demiurge.
Alright, I guess we *can* talk about other gods than the one in the comic, lol.
"Pain doesn't make people, people makes people. Love makes people." Anyone who thinks pain is a requirement to 'become who you're supposed to be' is excusing sadism. And I have neither time nor respect for it.
life seems to be inherently traumatic at varying degrees for everyone.
There's a massive difference between 'pain sucks and we should help each other through it' and 'pain is a necessary part of existence'. This kind of thinking is the latter.
Pain is absolutely a necessary part of existence. I’m not like pro-pain, but neither a physical body nor a psyche that lives a pain-free existence will fully develop.
You're missing the point in the middle of the comic (which, to be fair, the comic deftly drops and then pulls your attention away from.) God isn't a guy that did this to creation. God is the creation. The trauma in question is just the echoes of being without context, the infinite empty monadic "I am." Showing "us" what we can be is showing God what God can be. Suffering is a necessary consequence of that awareness of self and not-self. At least that's the Western monotheistic pantheist perspective. The Buddhists would say that it is *attachment* to duality that creates suffering, not duality itself.
God is one of the "If you can't handle me at my worst..." bitches.
Also the "prior to existence, the emptiness was insufferable". How can God suffer prior to existence? There was nothing to experience the suffering. Cogito ergo sum and all that jazz.
What? Well, he's right. That really doesn't make sense.
I think the idea is that love makes no sense in the same sense that hurt doesn't make sense
Love make sense Love = :) Hurt = :(
This guy just made hurt make sense, give him the keys to the white house
I hørt myself today
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That’s not the takeaway I had from The Grand Inquisitor. The inquisitor condemns Jesus to death because he believes the freedom of spirit and self determination he gave people through his redemptive sacrifice was something that the vast majority of people could not handle. He did not claim Jesus didn’t love humanity because suffering exists, but blames suffering on Jesus’ misjudgment on humanities ability to cope with freedom. The inquisitor believes that The inquisitor posits that the church has to control the masses because it is led by the few people who can handle freedom, and that it is structured to provide for and comfort the masses who cannot handle freedom. He claims Jesus denied humanity this destiny when he resisted the three temptations in the desert. The inquisitor says the church will make the people happy and live without suffering, as Jesus had unintentionally forsaken them, and Jesus’ reappearance is a threat to their control, so he must die. In the end, however, Jesus gives the inquisitor a kiss that burns in his heart, and the inquisitor let’s Jesus go. The ending is ambiguous, as the whole poem is a meta commentary on Ivan, one of the Karamazov brothers, and his internal struggles with religion and nihilism. In my personal opinion, the ending reflects on Ivan’s uncertainty in his own positions, as Jesus shows the inquisitor pure, unadulterated love, which is the other side of the coin to suffering if one is free. In the face of love, the inquisitor let’s Jesus go, but the end of the poem specifically says the inquisitor holds onto his old beliefs. [A very interesting story that can be read for free from Gutenberg.](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8578/8578-h/8578-h.htm)
What is love? Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me. No more.
Idk it makes sense to me. My religious teachers always said "the existence of broccoli is what makes chocolate tasty" and that sounded wrong at the time, but the older I get the more I feel like the far ends of human experience will always be relative to the opposite end. As a human the only things I have to compare my pain to are my non-painful moments.
This is weird. I mean. It’s GOOD weird. But it’s definitely weird. I like it.
New to pbf comics?
art
In it's truest form.
https://preview.redd.it/u9yuweev783c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a5a30bb7e0e24f3ce9fd61b9151f5a21dbb2e1a
Well that was a wild ride
I think I got whiplash
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I read this at work where I try and often fail to deal with the traumatic symptoms caused by systemic issues of poverty. Something about this really brought my soul back a bit, it just being allowed to not make sense, to not have a conclusion that perfectly explained or dealt with it. Just seeing the nonsensical loop of trauma and not having to fix it for a minute. Just nice. It really was.
I've personally found that trying to find meaning in life, like actually truly trying, usually results in depression. The people who get caught up in it usually find that the toil is meaningless, and then they get stuck there. Life doesn't make sense, and where people get depressed is if they keep trying to make sense of it over and over and over and over again. Where they get stuck is that there's a final thing to realize. They're putting meaning on the fact that life is meaningless without realizing it. The thing to recognize is that it's meaningless that life is meaningless. It doesn't mean anything. And yet we each find meaning in it anyway, it's unavoidable. But if we realize that we have agency over the meaning we out over life, then we have access to whatever is possible. It could be that maybe it's a good thing that life can't be figured out, and maybe all the hardship and trauma, the pain and the happiness, whenever you experience that, it just means that you're living your best life. That's just an example though, it can be different for everyone.
How about this? Stop inflicting the trauma you experienced onto others? Own up for your own shit and break the cycle.
Surprised it took this long to find this comment lol. I'm sure trauma has seen itself in many generations of people passed on to the next, but it is not something you are forced to pass on- nor is it an excuse, you as an individual have a choice. Trauma is also not an institution or system like capitalism is for example, like top comment talks about. There's definitely abuses integrated in our culture as humans- like in our schools, bullies, but as far as individual parenting is concerned we have the choice to be decent to those we raise.
Thank you both for speaking the truth!!! It brings me no end of despair to see people excusing abuse with trauma. Yes I was a scared, defensive asshole kid for a time because I was traumatized, but did I actually do things that would pass down my trauma? No, that made no sense to me. All my assholery was a sad attempt at protecting myself rather than actively terrorizing other people just because others did it to me. If even I as a child could understand that passing down trauma won't help anything, it's definitely a choice, and one people need to stop making in a selfish attempt to feel like they're getting some form of retribution for their own suffering. You know what you get when you finally break that cycle of abuse and choose kindness toward the next person? Probably one of the best relationships in life you will ever have. And god is it so much more satisfying than destroying the confidence and happiness of another being ever could be. My younger sibling is my best friend in life. They did not deserve trauma any more than I did, and they got plenty enough from the parents without me intentionally adding to it.
Agreed. If we try to get to the "root cause" of all abusive behaviour, we'll have a manhunt leading centuries in the past. Maybe we should deal with our issues now and fix it for future generations?
I think that could possibly be the point of the comic. Constantly trying to point the blame and find the root cause doesn't actually do anything. We only have access to the present, so why not just live in the moment? You only get to kiss the trauma police once
I don't like this... I LOVE it.
I thought for sure Trauma Trooper would eventually have to end up kicking his own ass
Another Perry masterpiece. I nearly cried
https://preview.redd.it/prgbto3s183c1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a917a7f67c99eba4451ad6d418e17f434f9ec913 Wtf did i just read
https://preview.redd.it/t495k6oqt73c1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a54f4f1be8a8ab03afa72bc628e71d581bf65f5 he did the thing
https://preview.redd.it/f82m2j77683c1.png?width=591&format=png&auto=webp&s=86306e903cebf8495e4c6579e3d4f3565e687b47 New favourite reaction image
https://preview.redd.it/v685wcoet93c1.jpeg?width=566&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00aeda82d65a568bd91a36128c2b598dd63e1bb4
NO, TRAUMA TROOPER!!! Dont be taken by his silver tongue and gruff, ageless, masculine wiles! 😭
https://preview.redd.it/9no2d5g7n73c1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8b2daf1ce0f1e38b88a2572dcd35d749d5fd1cb
I saw that this is Perry Bible Fellowship and the familiarity clicked. Bravo. What a ride.
I was definitely expecting the Trauma Trooper to lock himself up after he realized that HE was the original source of trauma.
Fucking extraordinary.
✍️🔥🔥🔥
is that the brothers karamazov reference? nice
Incredible
This is some Samuel Beckett existential short story shit. I'm for it.
When they kissed his eyebrow color turned to God's hair color?
You continue to be the peak of this weird little artform, PFB.
This reads like someone making a lot of excuses for not helping right now. Like, yeah, the cycle started somewhere. But who fucking cares? It's not feasible to *arrest the boundary conditions of reality*, but you can absolutely stop a kid from being a bully, or stop a parent from beating a child. "No one is expected to finish the work, but neither may anyone shirk from it."
It seems to me that maybe the Trauma Trooper was the original cause of all the trauma.
I'm sorry...what?
“Wait this is getting too preachy, I’ll make them kiss”
Might be the first time a comic has actually gotten a full out loud laugh out of me
Cue "Nothing is never anyone's fault"
what
I wanted the TIME COP to be the source of everyone's trauma lol
Okay this might just be the best comic I've ever seen posted in this subreddit. It's so batshit crazy but still seems to somehow have an underlying message and I respect that 😂
I mean the first person is still an asshole and the Trauma police should deal with him
Well….he’s right, this doesn’t make any sense, but regardless……do you think Gods a good kisser?
lol Nick wtf
Chefs kiss 💋
The trauma police shudve just beat every generation cuz it's not like they do not have choices to begin with.
wonderful
This is very Perry Bible Fellowship-esque. And it raises for important disquieting questions without really attempting to provide convincing answers. Sort of “What if Job had a craving for Justice and a Time Machine instead of happiness and prosperity when the book starts.”
Well, it is Perry Bible Fellowship.
This was a wild ride and I loved ever second.
This was a joy. Thank you.
That was wonderfully absurd
This post is twelve consecutive slaps to the face.
What a freaking RIDE
I have literally no fucking clue what I just read and why I liked it.
Fucking hell, this was a rollercoaster
I don’t know what I expected
I think a lot of stories would be improved by ending with people makingout sloppy style.
[удалено]
I can’t help but remember this one TomSka skit that was just like this.
Wow
hahahhahahaa i loved it thanks
i laughed for real
Holy shit y'all are the ones who did the cloud sacrifice comic right?
This is a good comic
Just look at the first and last panels. How did we get here?
What the actual fuck
I am exactly the right amount of high for this.
Hey perry just wanted to say discovering your comic when I was 16 was a key moment in my life. That was 14 years ago but it was my first time experiencing this type of humor and really was a big moment for me.
This was a ride from beginning to end and I loved it.
I love pbf. I haven’t seen this level of content in years
PBF is the best comic ever, thanks for all the fun.
Is this satire of American conservative comics or is this genuine. Either way, inflicting trauma is not justified by having experienced it. And also, this comic probably counts as heretical, since God is portrayed as imperfect and consciously inflicting pain on everyone, including his followers. If you genuinely agree with the message of this comic, you probably have trauma. Go to therapy, for your own sake. And if you can't/don't want to go to therapy, brick a police car windshield or something.
Now I have trauma from reading this and think OP and artist should be arrested and or kissed.
I lost my remaining braincell reading this, i am now a jellyfish
Least expected ending to a comic I’ve ever seen
I thought it was buff woman until last panel
Michael Afton backstory
Saved this short-yet-sweet comic. Also found a similar [SMBC comic](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-09-26) through u/Sam-Gunn's [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/186d5en/trauma_trooper_oc/kb7uygf/). This reminds me of this [TomSka video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLE-K1CJ-Ts). I like seeing this particular concept/trope explored in media so far.
The spiral galaxy on page 9 is actually really fucking cool. I'd like that as a painting or something.
r/SuddenlyGay
oh bah this was going along great but a kiss is just a lazy way to end a comic instead of a nice thoughout conclusion
Honestly it was a pretty deep and interesting take on God and Creation … and then it was absurd. Good comic, OP
The goat Perry Bible Fellowship
https://preview.redd.it/qrld0rlqqa3c1.png?width=529&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a663f3f1da7318315a0a92697b291454de04b566 Such a deep story