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| title = I Know You're Listening | | title = I Know You're Listening | ||
| image = i know youre listening.png | | image = i know youre listening.png | ||
− | | titletext = Basically it's Pascal's Wager for the paranoid prankster | + | | titletext = Basically it's Pascal's Wager for the paranoid prankster |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | The man in this comic periodically says "I know you're listening" aloud in empty rooms. The idea is that if nobody is listening, he doesn't lose anything, and if somebody ''is'' listening, he gains by freaking them out. As mentioned in the title text, this is similar to {{w|Pascal's wager|Pascal's Wager}}. Blaise Pascal was a French philosopher and mathematician who postulated that it was best to behave like a good Christian on earth because, if there was no afterlife, you wouldn't lose anything by being Christian, and if there was, you'd gain immensely by going to heaven due to being a Christian. (Needless to say, there are numerous holes in this argument.) | |
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− | As mentioned in the title text, this is similar to {{w|Pascal's Wager}}. | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Now and then, I announce "I know you're listening" to empty rooms. | :Now and then, I announce "I know you're listening" to empty rooms. | ||
− | + | :[Cueball is sitting in an armchair, reading. He murmurs something.] | |
− | :[Cueball is sitting in an armchair, reading. He murmurs something | + | :[Second man in front of a large computer terminal jumps out of chair after hearing the first man mumble. His chair has fallen over] |
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:If I'm wrong, no one knows. And if I'm right, maybe I just freaked the hell out of some secret organization. | :If I'm wrong, no one knows. And if I'm right, maybe I just freaked the hell out of some secret organization. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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