Uhoh. Distracting ephemera!

Pardon me goof right now - ephemera, what is this word? I am getting a "help, i have to use terminology because i am too insecure to adress the perceived issue"y vibe.

Would kindly teach me?

Transient things. Objects which are not made to last. The pastor uses it, I presume, to mean "worldly" things as opposed to "spiritual" things.

Yep. God is eternal; possessions you can't access when you die.

Really whack religious terms, i grasp it currently as.

[Unfriendly statement about religion past a assuring aspect of it]

Yeah, the pastor is using it to mean that these things are useless garbage.

Only in this context. Ephemeral is pretty much anything that's short lived, religious or not.

I agree. Yet its probably prominent usage, as is assume by this comic might have tainted it religious.

Thanks for the confirmation. I'm not a native speaker so I fumble at times!

Or generally trivial things like obscure paper related to something.

She sure has a lot of toy. Ali has competition for the more expensive collection of the house.

Have you seen the price of sex toys? No contest.

Not only is she being a bit over zealous she is invading the privacy of others. Bad Bear! No cocaine or picnic baskets for you!

Not even a picnic basket full of ephemeral "toys" discarded by Booboo?

*points do not give toys to the bear sign*

Or *points to this sign* ---> https://youtu.be/ENE_mTyV23c?t=10

XD I wanted to post that one as well ,but it didn't make much sense in this contest.

Going by Hilde's personality, I'm guessing this bear is getting a lot more than she bargained for. And I don't think she's going to like the response these actions get her...

Hilde seems the sort of free spirit to care less about that.

Now the question is going to be how many Liz is going to end up borrowing.

ROFLMAO. Methinks she found much more than the kind of "sinful ephemera" she was expecting to find.

I loath this character with every fibre of my soul

Her, or the environment that creates people like her?

Both

I feel more pity for her. It seems to me she was brought up in such an environment; the emotional and mental manipulation in such groups is a heck of a thing to overcome. It usually takes a good mental smack to change.

Like Lynette Fromme and Sandra Good of the Manson Family. Even decades after the murders, they STILL defended Manson and professed his 'goodness', when others in the family (eventually) realized what a POS he was.

Or how about all the loyalists to Jim Jones? So many of them not only poisoned themselves, but did their best to poison the folks who didn't WANT to die. Including around 100 kids....

Something something about staring into the Abyss...

A world without pants has people with a thing against lewd. Didn't see that coming!

It' a crying Tamagotchi D':

I REALLY wonder why A&H chose Elizabeth to be a babysitter, conversenly from the past HORRIBLE experience with her.

Said horrible experience ended with Eliza apparently realizing the errors of her ways so I'm guessing they decided to give her another chance. It's now on her to not squander that...which it seems she's on the cusp of failing to do so....

We'll have to wait and see.

Same story. Just colored now.

Way to righteously dig through another person's private property while totally ignoring the young child you're there to look after. Truly a bastion of morality.

That when she realized that she saw too much.

I learned a new work today "ephemera".

This is going to end awful, hilarious, or both.

Hilarious. Hilde? Could care less about what religious nutbags think about her.

"Oooh, so you went through my stuff and saw my sex toys! .... wanna borrow them and try them out?"

"Ephemera"? Well, credit where credit's due, Eliza at least picked up a diverse vocabulary over her life.

"I'm the sin police. Let me do an illegal search of your apartment."

Good. Good. Let the sin flow through you.

Sounds like Henry has been quite inventive with his hiding places... and she in finding them XD

First of all, you shall be watching the joey, not activelly seeking for sinful ephemera.
Second, those were hidden and outside from Ali reach, so you cannot complain they left them around if they where not.
Third... Remember to clean them after...

BZZZZ.....

She right here is proving the point WHY sitter cameras were invented. Yeah I am sure the pastor is a fine upstanding man of the cloth but her listening to him is like standing in gasoline holding a lit match.

Gaia Bless
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Snoofy old burr

Got the goods! >:3
Gaze and let the gays flow back through you!

She regrets what she found, lol.

Are you sure that's regret and not accidentally turning herself on?

It's both. She's trying to protect the joey from 'sin' and finds herself tempted. This sort is good at generating conflicting paradigms.

Yeah this is why i don't friend overly religious people

I imagine if this were an animated show, the sound effects for the last 2 panels would be

*SHUNK-WOING-oing-oing-oing*

It's too easy to imagine this sequence as one of those VGA-era point and click adventure games

Eliza can't find the sinful ephemera, then you notice the drawer is selectable

With the little popup message with the crude graphic that approximates what you found.

BAD hypocrite! BAD BAD. Don't make me wack your nose with the dildo!

Welcome to a whole new world, Eliza.

When you find someone's brutally raunchy f-list at the bottom of their wholesome profile

Guess which bear isn't getting hired again!

ROCKET SHIPS!

Sorry but if one of my friends did that in my place while I was gone it would be the last time they were there!

And this why a lot parents invest in house or nanny cam for theses reasons

And this is precisely why Eliza is NOT the person to be doing this. The pastor basically just told a recovering alcoholic to go to to an unattended bar and grab all the booze she can find.

Okay honestly this is a bit far, you had more than enough moral and/or legal stuff by the stuff out in the open, and now any case you plan to press charges in regards to 'think of the children' is now tainted by unnecessary digging

This is definitely Illegal...

Yeah.. Let's grab and hide the already super hiden sextoys >_>
Cue Joey breaking something and hurting himself while she's not looking .

Typical Crusader trying to find Casus Belli against proclaimed heathens.

Granted, I've already read the entire current comic on the main site, so I know what's coming. But I think something that a lot of people might not be thinking about is this; why is Eliza so hard core on this? Maybe consider that, as a child, she herself was thoroughly brainwashed into this religious bullshit so much that its hard-coded in her brain. I'm not saying that's what's going on here as there's a multitude of other possibilities, but it's a fair bet.

"But when you're an adult, you can think for yourself and make your own choices!"
That's true, but a *little* trickier for those that have been indoctrinated into something for their entire life.

Just give it a bit of time to catch the upcoming pages and you might see an interesting development or two. Or, ya know, just go read the whole thing on Rick's main site now instead of waiting. Or better, order the books if (like me) you're the type that likes to collect hard copies.

Frankly, she DESERVES that blush!

I remember the part in the bible where God said "And shameth thee who art not Like thee. Their lives deviant, give me money, and call the guardians of social decentce Karan"

That last panel cracks me up LOL

Heeheeheheee. More temptation for our cutie bear.

I hope she washes them when she is finished with them.

She's awful prudish for someone who walks around wearing no pants. I can't wait to see whats she's found!

Oh lord that girl look deep into the abyss and it is looking right back at her XD