If you could push a button and simply cease to exist, would you press it?

xxxp or American Dad episodes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vacation_Goo

It's days like this I wish Banaka would show up

Maybe this button should just put have the power to put you on stand-by for just 6 months with no consequences, rather than cease to exist altogether. There's experiences I'd rather have not been round for (such as practically the whole of 1995), but not worth giving up the rest of my life to avoid.

I most definitely would push the button. When, is the question.

the most I'd consent to is activating a process that has a small random chance of pressing the button at any given moment, biased towards several decades from now

You guys should look at more ricky rubio gifs

What if the button were a cat's anus?

some people don't get fulfillment from happiness, but that doesn't mean embracing misery is going to make you more fulfilled

the times in my life where I'd have said "sure!" to this button aren't those where amazingly bad things had happened. when things actually happen, that gives you a bunch of real shit to deal with, and I can understand the impulse to end it all at those points, but not with the disconnect the question would give. In those instances I may feel hopeless, but I want the chance for redeeming the situation. When I felt like a total lump, I'd want to hit rock bottom and tear a hole through it, making everything blow up and leaving a sucking void where I was.

It's the days when I didn't feel much at all, that I was probably either depressed or just disconnected, that I'd rather just walk out without anyone noticing, and I'd push the button.

Is the refutation of my priviliged twattery that life is NOT worth living for some? And that it is presumptuous to tell other people life is precious? What exactly should we bear that in mind as a bulwark against? It's a short text message on a BBS, I can't cover all the exigent circumstances of justifiable despair. I think as a rule, life is a gift, no precious moments, and it's mystifyingly sad that spurs an argument.

Btw sex and pottery exist with equal oomph on the phenomenomenomenomenological and JAHLOVE continuum for me; I am a firm believer that we are what we do/consume/create/share/abuse

And yeah, feel free to come out to the city and not not exist! As any ilxor I've met IRL over the past five years will tell you, I will always put u on the list and buy u the first round. U too em!

didn't the chemical brothers have a song about this?

Forks, YOU CALLED PEOPLE PRIVILEGED. I WAS QUITE CLEARLY USING YOUR VOICE. Jesus Christ, try actually reading something for a change. If you can't be bothered to even do that then fuck it, I'm out.

"fuck it, I'm out"

-- actual label on the button?

I feel like we'd have to be really careful in labeling this button, as such a label would really make me tempted to hit it

I think as a rule, life is a gift, no precious moments, and it's mystifyingly sad that spurs an argument.

I envy your mystification. Hang on to that!

forks, i do like you as an internet friend and all, but yes, it is very presumptuous to tell people that life is precious. almost condescending, in a way. not that i have anything against you specifically having a kick-ass life, but the world is full of utterly miserable people who have just had enough.

Life just *is*, imo. On one hand, I'm not going to join the voluntary extinction movement, but I'm also not a person who is religious about the sanctity of life or whatever else.

I guess I really want to be reincarnated as a rock.

i would like for you to be reincarnated as a rock

Life is the best, I would never not live it

I mean making other ppl smile is kinda the best thing ever

Life's not a song. Life isn't bliss. Life is just this: It's living.

how does the existence of utterly miserable people make saying life is precious presumptuous (not a sarcastic q just interested in what the link bw these two sentences were)? does the existence of miserable people make life less precious?

This button is impossible and should stay so

I mean if it erases everything you are, were and could be

yeah, i'm sort of baffled by all this. i know no one is intending this, but the way it's coming out is like "stating an opinion in anything but the most neutered fashion is forcing your views on others, and presumptious". makes me not want to post anything at all (i'm sure others would be cool with that)

language is violence, bro

language is a virus

if someone says something that isn't exactly what you wanted to be within conversational bounds on a thread you started, it isn't thread hijacking to me, but opinions apparently vary

pretty sure everyone has pushed a snooze button before on their alarm which amounts to about the same thing but only lasts 10 minutes.

OP has taken ball and gone home at this point so that's not even the issue at this point xp

ce n'est pas sur le suicide

- René Magritte

Life is precious in the same way that minerals are precious. An unusual occurrence, cosmologically speaking.

life may be precious for many people and i wouldn't deny that to them, but to speak it as a universal truth just doesn't sit right for me

but who knows, i'll admit holding this opinion may come off as being sanctimonious itself

I am amazed at how perfectly-formed this question is for prodding ILE into 1000 posts in a few hours. btw, my answer is 'no', but you all knew that, I suppose.

"life is precious" "don't say that, you'll upset the utterly miserable" "what harm could it do, they're already miserable to begin with!" "good point! why are we talking about this let's have sex and then throw pottery"

why are you people so violent, throwing pottery all over?

nhex: wouldn't mind hearing u explain further but, if it's just a feeling i understand & can't cop to my own opinions about this to being much more than that

i think a less heavy question that would allow people who want to answer yes to do so could be something like
"if your health plan could get you an operation that would make you never sleep ever with no health consequences, would you opt out?"

"life is precious" "don't say that, you'll upset the utterly miserable" "what harm could it do, they're already miserable to begin with!" "good point! why are we talking about this let's have sex and then throw pottery"

― flopson, Friday, October 12, 2012 3:15 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

cancel yes.

wow this thread is pretty intense, my answer is a definitive 'no' fwiw, extreme unrelenting physical pain and/or maybe debilitation is the only thing i can imagine of thatd make me want to magical suicide, tho im sure there are all sorts of unimagined things lurking out there

so you guys answering no, would, given the choice, never sleep?

"There are all sorts of unimagined things lurking out there. Pretty intense!"

-- Bob Marley --

haha

it is very presumptuous to tell people that life is precious

no, no it's not. or at least, it's equally as presumptuous to get on a low horse about it just because you make an opposite contention.

i sympathize w/forks life is beautiful argument even if i do find his version a bit desperately over scheduled, but to me i feel like theres some sense of appreciation thats deeper than beauty which is maybe a lil too overtly binary

I love falling asleep, but what's the point to BEING asleep? You can't remember it/don't experience it, or at least I don't. If it wasn't necessary for basic health it would be a waste of time for sure.

so you guys answering no, would, given the choice, never sleep?

If I could remove my need for sleep without going insane, I would do it in a heartbeat.

sleep is awesome, fuck the haters

my only concern with not sleeping would be that maybe I'd need to increase the dosage on my SSRIs due to spending more hours awake, which come to think of it I have to go take those

i like sleep, and eating, feel like theyre p central to the feeling of being alive, might be kinda effed to give that up