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[[Cueball]] occasionally says "I know you're listening" aloud in empty rooms. The idea is, that if nobody is listening he doesn't lose anything, but if somebody ''is'' listening he gains by freaking them out. In this case another Cueball-like surveillance man does get quite the shock.
 
[[Cueball]] occasionally says "I know you're listening" aloud in empty rooms. The idea is, that if nobody is listening he doesn't lose anything, but if somebody ''is'' listening he gains by freaking them out. In this case another Cueball-like surveillance man does get quite the shock.
  
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As mentioned in the title text, this is similar to {{w|Pascal's Wager}}. {{w|Blaise Pascal}} was a French philosopher and mathematician who discussed the issue of the possibility that God actually does exist or not. According to Pascal, a rational person should live as though (a Christian) God exists, because he would lose negligible things if this turns out not to be true, but would gain immensely if it is true, by going to heaven in the afterlife. As Pascal himself recognized, this is not a proof of any god's existence, Christian or otherwise, but rather an inexorable choice made by every human being. Cueball makes a similar choice here, though hardly for such a moral reason.
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As mentioned in the title text, this is similar to {{w|Pascal's Wager}}. {{w|Blaise Pascal}} was a French philosopher and mathematician who discussed the issue of the possibility that God actually does exist or not. According to Pascal, a rational person should believe in God because he wouldn't lose anything if this is wrong, but if this belief is correct he would gain immensely by going to heaven at his afterlife due to being a Christian. The argument works equally well for any and all gods, but doesn't give any reason to choose one over the other, so it seems unlikely that Pascal's Wager has ever changed anybody's religious views. One important way Cueball's wager is different from Pascal's is that Cueball can choose to engage in paranoid pranks, but belief is not something that one can possess simply by choice.
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This comic has a clear resemblance to the [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/My_Hobby My Hobby] series. This would also make it clear the Cueball in this comic is actually [[Randall]].
  
  
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==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[Caption above the two panels of the comic:]
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:[Above the two panel comic:]
 
: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.
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:[Cueball is sitting in an armchair, reading. He murmurs something.]
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:[Cueball is sitting in an armchair, reading. He murmurs something unreadable.]
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:[Second Cueball like surveillance man with headphones jumps out of chair in front of a large computer terminal after hearing Cueball's mumble. His chair has fallen over.]
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:[Below the two panel comic:]
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:[A second Cueball-like surveillance man with headphones, seems to have gotten up from his office chair so fast that is has fallen over and lies behind him. He is now standing in front of a large computer terminal with two screens, he can hear Cueball's mumble as it is shown as coming from one of the screens. The surveillance man is leaning back away from the terminal while holding a hand to his headphones.]
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:If I'm wrong, no one knows.
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:And if I'm right, maybe I just freaked
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:[Caption below the panels:]
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:the hell out of some secret organization.
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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.
 
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==Trivia==
 
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*This comic has a clear resemblance to the [[:Category:My Hobby|My Hobby]] series. This would also make it clear the Cueball in this comic is actually [[Randall]].
 
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*10 years later Randall made a similar comic: [[2203: Prescience]].
 
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*See also [[628: Psychic]] for similar guess work to make you look cool.
 
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
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