I’d not heard of this before (and neither has DuckDuckGo SE), but looking up the trio of meanings behind “scrupulous” and then adding “invisibility” sort of shortcircuited my logic banks.
If there is a god-like being of whatever stripe, flavour, or sort, it strikes me more that it demostrates an invisibility of scruples rather than scrupulous invisibility.
Don’t suppose there’s a link, if even to an earlier J&M strip?
Came here with the same question. My guess: the general confusion that results from migrating Jehovah from a tutelary sheep herder’s god who chats with folks and smites enemies and other unwary bystanders, to a more abstract universal. I did find some bible whackers presenting an elaborate discussion about this as relating to visibility, by means of various hedges like “well, they didn’t really mention perceiving much detail” etc. – the point being, they are put to some trouble by some quotes where their god says he’s invisible, and others where someone mentions having seen him. I don’t get how “scrupulous” fits into this picture – the biblical god seems to feel he’s above the need to have any scruples.
This Jay Way character is just painstakingly invisible, taking each and every precaution not to be seen. Even to the extent that those who happen to see him do not live to tell it.
@Donn Cave – Since Jesus is Jehovah in reincarnation mode, I suppose there were those who wrote about Jesus’ appearance in Jehovah’s reappearance. Apostles and so forth. And as we all have been informed, Jesus was/is a tall, slender white guy with an aquiline profile, 6-pack abs, and long, light, wavy hippie-hair. Perhaps the poor chap had vitiligo.
In my experience many of the more serious believers have built — or had built for them — a towering tower of answers to every question they might ever run into. They aren’t good answers — at least not in my opinion — but that isn’t the point; the point is not so much to convince you that they are right, but to convince themselves. In this they aren’t so different from anybody else who has bothered to think hard about the world; all that varies is the quality of the answers. (Again, in my opinion…). Most people, smart and stupid alike, are less interested in cold hard truth than in finding ways to believe whatever it is they want to believe.
I can highly recommend ‘The Line’ and ‘The Atheist Experience’ on YouTube where mostly Americans ring in to try to justify their tinpot beliefs only to have them roundly trounced by Matt Dillahunty, a former Southern Baptist, and others. Often frightening to see how so many human brains are incapable of any rational thought.
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“Scrupulous invisibility” …
I’d not heard of this before (and neither has DuckDuckGo SE), but looking up the trio of meanings behind “scrupulous” and then adding “invisibility” sort of shortcircuited my logic banks.
If there is a god-like being of whatever stripe, flavour, or sort, it strikes me more that it demostrates an invisibility of scruples rather than scrupulous invisibility.
Don’t suppose there’s a link, if even to an earlier J&M strip?
Came here with the same question. My guess: the general confusion that results from migrating Jehovah from a tutelary sheep herder’s god who chats with folks and smites enemies and other unwary bystanders, to a more abstract universal. I did find some bible whackers presenting an elaborate discussion about this as relating to visibility, by means of various hedges like “well, they didn’t really mention perceiving much detail” etc. – the point being, they are put to some trouble by some quotes where their god says he’s invisible, and others where someone mentions having seen him. I don’t get how “scrupulous” fits into this picture – the biblical god seems to feel he’s above the need to have any scruples.
This Jay Way character is just painstakingly invisible, taking each and every precaution not to be seen. Even to the extent that those who happen to see him do not live to tell it.
Shaughn: Sounds like the assassin in Day Of The Jackal.
@Donn Cave – Since Jesus is Jehovah in reincarnation mode, I suppose there were those who wrote about Jesus’ appearance in Jehovah’s reappearance. Apostles and so forth. And as we all have been informed, Jesus was/is a tall, slender white guy with an aquiline profile, 6-pack abs, and long, light, wavy hippie-hair. Perhaps the poor chap had vitiligo.
@Bvereshagen:
Even more like the Russian Terminator, when someone saw his face. (Mind the smile!) The movie ‘Russian Terminator’ is from 1989.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEDtMJ8SpLk
In my experience many of the more serious believers have built — or had built for them — a towering tower of answers to every question they might ever run into. They aren’t good answers — at least not in my opinion — but that isn’t the point; the point is not so much to convince you that they are right, but to convince themselves. In this they aren’t so different from anybody else who has bothered to think hard about the world; all that varies is the quality of the answers. (Again, in my opinion…). Most people, smart and stupid alike, are less interested in cold hard truth than in finding ways to believe whatever it is they want to believe.
I can highly recommend ‘The Line’ and ‘The Atheist Experience’ on YouTube where mostly Americans ring in to try to justify their tinpot beliefs only to have them roundly trounced by Matt Dillahunty, a former Southern Baptist, and others. Often frightening to see how so many human brains are incapable of any rational thought.