Gunnerkrigg Court

[Triangle Man]

The whole "Coyote only exists because people believes he does" theory seems about to be confirmed.

Essentially making him a 'Tulpa' or something akin to the Slenderman and one other example I can't talk about here.

...I am behind on so many webcomics...

[deathsbuddy]

...hmm.

I guess that explains why Ysengrin was mad.
I wonder what Coyote's angle is on telling Annie this, though. Wouldn't it shift her back toward the court?

[BRPXQZME]

Coyote plays by his own rules. Nobody else’s. Not even his own.

[Triangle Man]

...hmm.

I guess that explains why Ysengrin was mad.
I wonder what Coyote's angle is on telling Annie this, though. Wouldn't it shift her back toward the court?

Possibly, although it could also have no effect on her alliance whatsoever.

And Coyote's angle on telling her this is because he really, really wants her to tell him stories.

Clearly.

[bloodyEmissary]

Annie is wholly unimpressed.

[Ace of Dark-Hearts]

Okaaaaaaaay...?

[Bandages]

This is going rather interestingly so far

[mysteriousOutsider]

Coyote has a point.

[Bandages]

annie doesn't seem to think so

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no he doesn't, because human intellect is logical and all animals are logical to some degree

[mysteriousOutsider]

The pointy half is the first half. The second half is not so pointy.

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no see that's the problem, it often fails to be logical at all.

logic is not the primary goal of the brain, you have to work at it

[DizzzyZebra]

I disagree with the recent page on so many levels. Now, I agree with the first analogy, because its very hard for man to empathise with other beings, and always put their problems above other animals. Feeling they shouldn't die and blaming God is exactly what most people would do. However:

You can make simple things into amazing things, it takes an important skill to think outside normal constraints.

Its called creativity Coyote. Please tell me you are just trolling and didn't miss the entire point of 'building up' from smaller things to larger, complex things. Our cells are still just made of atoms, but look at what they can do now, and where would we be without them? I think the universe would be rather boring.

To be able to see the possibilities from one pebble, to be able to relate other things to that pebble, without this technique in our minds, we would of died out. We could never have advanced. We have to be able to look at something and see. Of course, to other animal's points of view, lack of human advancement is a good thing. But who can't empathise now?

Ironically, nature is the greatest skilled bitch at creating massive architecture from tiny pebbles, even if she doesn't get that dash of inspiration. Just look at how complicated the world is, and how simple the building blocks. Its not a purely human trait, even if it is not conscious on an evolutionary level.

Anyway, waiting to see if this isn't an author tract.

[dialecticBlight]

What Coyote is arguing against is, when it boils down to it, creativity.

Seeing things exactly for what they are and nothing else, and leading a life of pure and utter objectivity, is impossible to follow, for one. All minds are imperfect and can't be demanded to follow exactly the truth and easily distinguish it from falsehoods, and this applies to both humans and animals. For another - creativity is required for digestion of concepts that are not simply observations on what actually exist. In this category falls philosophy - the observation of deeper meaning in the objective facts that we are presented with. Thus, if we were to accept Coyote's philosophy, he is "tainted" by the very thing he spoke out against. And, amusingly enough, the very scenario he is presenting is offering deeper insight into a scenario which is by all means a dying man's last thoughts, and not much to get worked up about.

In fact, creativity and inspiration are fairly common, both in humans and animals. What Coyote seems to be arguing for is... uh, a thought process more adequately described as robotic.

Is Coyote a hypocrite? Is this a gambit? Is he secretly a robot? Or, most probably, is all of this just yet another giant mind-game?

You decide.
I may also just really like trying to poke holes in Coyote's logic, it's sort of an obsession for me

[BRPXQZME]

It’s part of a plot to turn Annie into one of those annoying teens who quote Nietzsche every other utterance.

[deathsbuddy]

Oh man, this is one of my favorite discussions.

Here's an interesting exercise. You've spent your whole life thinking of stairs as "a way up or down". Some time, go over to a flight of stairs and try to see them as just a terrace of wood or concrete, and pay attention to their spacial properties.

It's mindblowing.

[zeratuljo1291]

highly relevent after this spiel from coyote:

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. -Kurt Vonnegut

[deathsbuddy]

It causes him to not see a stone when it is just a stone. Instead, his diseased eye sees a weapon, or a symbol. The shape of a woman, a spark of inspiration!

A seed bismuth?

[Ace of Dark-Hearts]

Huh, interesting.

I guess this means Coyote only exists because people will him to.

I wonder why this makes Ysengrin angry, though?

Also, that first panel of Coyote is really creepy.

[Triangle Man]

And now we get into weird philosophy.

This should be fun, right?

[Freack]

I am down with weird philosophy.

[willPowered]

All philosophy is weird.

Anyway, I reckon Skeletal Coyote is meant to be how he used to look in his older days of not existing, and he has since come to not exist in a much cuter form. He's pretty awesome though, I'd kill for something like that as a wallpaper.

[Ace of Dark-Hearts]

All philosophy is weird.

Anyway, I reckon Skeletal Coyote is meant to be how he used to look in his older days of not existing, and he has since come to not exist in a much cuter form. He's pretty awesome though, I'd kill for something like that as a wallpaper.

So basically, Coyote is actually a skeleton that's been Flandarized by humans into existence?

I dig it.

[Ace of Dark-Hearts]

All philosophy is weird.

Anyway, I reckon Skeletal Coyote is meant to be how he used to look in his older days of not existing, and he has since come to not exist in a much cuter form. He's pretty awesome though, I'd kill for something like that as a wallpaper.

So basically, Coyote is actually a skeleton that's been Flandarized by humans into existence?

I dig it.

[BRPXQZME]

No, he was just a simple coyote who lived thousands of years ago and is now dead. When he died, he used his godlike powers to give himself his godlike powers.

you know what, maybe i need a little practice at this whole storytelling thing

[dialecticBlight]

No, he was just a simple coyote who lived thousands of years ago and is now dead. When he died, he used his godlike powers to give himself his godlike powers.

you know what, maybe i need a little practice at this whole storytelling thing

Something so acutely paradoxical like this would probably be the best origin story possible for Coyote.

I dig it.

[Ace of Dark-Hearts]

I dig it.

Yessss, my influence is spreading.

*finger pyramid of evil contemplation*