also forks otm life feels great + the good is way better than any bad, tho i understand not everyone might feel that way
― Mordy, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
if there was a button the british could push that would instantly undo literally centuries of brutal horrific worldwide bloodsoaked imperialism and colonialism would they push it?
― 乒乓, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/16463
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
super cool. plz tell how it is
― Mordy, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
also: forks throws pottery (and maybe you do too?)
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Let's say you have a son or daughter who is five. If you press the button, do they also cease to exist? Or were they born of immaculate conception?
Eventually we all will be forgotten to time, why be hasty about it.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
guys, every fucking day is a gift and it's insane to me that any of you think nothing is preferable to EVERYTHING so I'm just going to detail how awesome my life is and completely ignore that my experience of life is nothing like other people's, go me
― emil.y, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
emil.y otm, congratulations forks on your great life
― WmC, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
awesome? sounds like way too much hard work to me.
― pandemic, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
yup
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Not enough napping imo.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
Where are the naps!?
I assume it's after the sex
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'm still back on how the person he loves dearly but has to break up with is not the same person he's going to have sex with?
― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― flopson, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
oh, forks, you casanova
A quiz:
"I generally enjoy life and am able to find meaning in things that sustain me and make me want to continue existing" => "Every day is a gift"
"I don't generally enjoy life and I have a hard time finding meaning in anything and just being in my skin is hugely taxing" => ??????
― Old Lunch, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
I might be doing dating wrong!
― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, serious kudos to anyone who legit feels like every day is a gift, but try to understand why other people might not share your outlook.
― Old Lunch, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY3bcc-cKwo
― emil.y, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
if you aren't breaking up with your beloved during the maestro of tabla, you might as well button yourself
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
I thought it was the same girl he was going to have sex with but that he was gonna break up with her the day after the sex.xp
― pandemic, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
i grew up on a cow farm in a small rural southern town and then threw my bread on the water and decided to go to a major metropolitan city with one suitcase and $1000 bucks in the bank. I then had a series of deep horrible disappointments and crippling bouts of depression that lasted about six yearsso not everything is great or has been easy or gone reasonably and while i'm deeply proud and happy with my life, it's the product of a great deal of hard work and effort and OCD tendencies and constant crushing failures and self-doubt. i dunno if it's "awesome" necessarily but trust me when i tell you that anybody who's privileged enough to have the time/tech/education to be contributing on this thread can find a level of joy in life that improves on "let's press a button and make it all go away" even if it requires medication/therapy/disappointment and sadness to achieveand yes, the naps are after the sex
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
is 'throwing bread on water' pottery slang
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
wow it's so crazy how everyone is giving subjective answers when the question asks your opinion
anyway the more I think about it, the more I think this question was designed to make us all WANT to push the fucking button by the end of this thread.
push it, don't push it, but don't belittle people for sharing their opinion. forks has a madcap life, and he wants to share, he's a positive dude by nature, good on him for feeling that way. because it's HIS bloody life, he can do what he wants. i go to work, I come home, I exercise, I sleep. that doesn't make my feelings about button pushing more or less valid.
we're all snowflakes etc
*unbookmark thread*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
"Trust me when I tell you that your experiences are completely irrelevant because I've had some experiences myself"
― emil.y, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://bible.cc/ecclesiastes/11-1.htm
emily, i got no idea why you think i'm preaching any other message than life is beautiful but coolio
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's a little more complicated than "my life sux y/n" b/c the act of eliminating oneself suggests a definitive decision that "my life cannot get any better"
Surely I'd press the button if I became seriously and irretrievably disabled, but it does make me sad to read that abled, employed computer-owners would rather terminate their lives consequence-free rather than consider a new life as a bike courier or a champion spaghetti eater or something
Not putting words in anybody's mouth or projecting. I've had serious phases of incredible depression and low-self esteem and it makes me sad to read that ILXors I respect would even consider this as a possibility, like, I will cook for you the rest of your life if you'd stick around. I hope nobody feels belittled in me saying this
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
Ahh but see I guess I'm missing the point already, this is now about "me" and "my feelings" instead. It really is a "life is pain y/n" Q, isn't it
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
yo forks i love that post& i love that the museums & djing girls of life are multiples
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
ew, soggy bread
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
This is about "would you push the button?" The answer "yes" appears to lead people to tell you about their sex lives in order to somehow impress upon you that life is amazing. Not really sure how that one works.
― emil.y, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Part of the joy of life is the things we learn and the memories we make, and choosing to eliminate yourself from history robs those who know you of every thought or memory about you. That might not be pain, but it still may be a huge deficit.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
I don't understand the question
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure this thread is a joy to read for a currently-disabled person.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
god i love ilx
― surm, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
if i cd push a button and be an invisible ghost that cd travel anywhere in space forever but only observe i'd think about that one
picking up on bits in the thread n not really following properly cos on phone, but this intrigues me. Can envisage it being a dreadful curse:
Me only cruel immortalityConsumes: I wither slowly in thine arms,
Here at the quiet limit of the world,A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream
The ever-silent spaces of the East,Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn.
― Fizzles, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
wait so is WCC part of aphex twin or not
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
em: weird to me that on the thirty things i'm doing right now, you feel like my sex life is the one i wanna talk about? especially when i just linked to a whole thread about my throwing pottery? sex is part of my life but it's not a more dominant force (or at least i try not to let it be) than that of a dozen other drives. real talk: none of that screed is BRAGGIN, it's simply a moment where i compare what my next three days are to not existing and that's such a shitty equation. it's not meant to be instructive. i'm just talking to myself.anyways. off.
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
― ciderpress, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
this sortof breaks my imagination im trapped in thinking from here and cant hypothesise myself into the imaginary space of this question, maybe im a massive narcissist. and anyway i don't want to have never tasted sushi fallen asleep on a bus or punched in the face or held hands with someone or you know so many endless things, waking up in warm sunlight etc etc etc
― plax (ico), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
shit yeah omniscience vs experience is a much more interesting and difficult question for me than the original premise here
― ciderpress, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
I can't reconcile forks' description of his life with forks' level of progress in Tokyo Jungle.
― JimD, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
Part of the joy of life is the things we learn and the memories we make, and choosing to eliminate yourself from history robs those who know you of every thought or memory about you.
And part of the shit of it is, for example, watching my grandmother, with advanced Alzheimers, lose every single one of those memories, more of them every day. She doesn't know who she is, who anyone else is, where she is, or much of anything else. She doesn't remember the word for "sandwich." She doesn't know how to eat tater tots. She can't remember whether she just went to the bathroom or not, and when she does, she doesn't understand what the toilet is for. What a joy!
― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
lmao xp
― flopson, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
Yo plax: at some point you won't know you did those things, and you won't miss them, because you won't have any intentional state at all. Button-pushing, that just speeds up that process. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REGRET PUSHING THE BUTTON. It is very possible to regret not pushing it. ERGO, push that shiz.
― emil.y, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
regret ain't so bad
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
itt: between grief and nothing, will you take grief
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://books.google.ca/books?id=HssrAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA300&img=1&pgis=1&dq=between+grief&sig=ACfU3U2jW__lyRi_aKUfBxIozUClbGa9Tg&edge=0http://books.google.ca/books?id=HssrAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA300&img=1&pgis=1&dq=grief&sig=ACfU3U39Lxxfj6bP_Q8Nd3SdHU28U6w7QQ&edge=0
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
forks how dare u, don't you know that relating yr experiences/pov is an attack on all others.
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Friday, 12 October 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link