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

two great tastes that go great together

*me pushes button....but button is on vaporizer*

/me winks

If you could push a button and simply inhale a sick rip, would you press it?

Thought experiment. Pretend it would involve no physical pain to yourself, and no emotional or financial or other repercussions to the people around you. Would you hit the vape button?

would you capture it, or just let it slip?

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onMQDyWsmX0

http://make-everything-ok.com/

Yes i would push it.

Pretty much the ultimate 'going off the grid'.

Do you get to reincarnate though?

That would kinda defeat the purpose.

the maths of you should push the button because you wouldn't know what you were missing - like you-can't-lose - always seems wrong to me. it was in that derek parfait nyer profile a while ago, the idea that any amount of potential joy has less currency than the avoidance of any potential suffering. those things are on way more of a continuum ime, & are related & transform each other. sometimes i think about when you can't sleep very well, & you spend a whole night staring, your mind racing. some of the times you remember that and some of the times you forget it, it is time that has gone, it was real but it doesn't exist anymore. other times it informs your actions, you remember it, maybe you work out a way to avoid it. i am also not crazy on sharing here but joy can be really contingent on, or enabled by, down periods, too. as a contrast, or relationally. there's something about well you wouldn't know you were missing it that makes this debate too fingers-in-your-ears alternate-reality, to me, like you are literally having to discount all of your lived experience as a human. it sets such a low baseline for satisfaction. for me it feels more like one of the situations that come up when you have to decide whether or not to ask someone out or not, w/the knowledge of how terrible that process is going to be but how much is dependent on it - in any situation there is an option to just neuter the risk & opt for the quiet, but part of the experience of life being okay is wrapped up in it having unfolded, i think.

ps i am listening to phil lynott solo jams while i type this

the maths of you should push the button because you wouldn't know what you were missing - like you-can't-lose - always seems wrong to me. it was in that derek parfait nyer profile a while ago, the idea that any amount of potential joy has less currency than the avoidance of any potential suffering.

yeah it's basically "better to have never loved at all than to have loved and lost"

it's cool if you write some cool plays w/yr pent up emotion

Kinda workin' on that angle in lieu of inventing and pushing the button.

I have an inkling that this desire for self-termination is rooted in a belief that "the future is here" and there's nothing beautiful to look forward to, like, on a technological or political level, and that's kind of interesting

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

The thing I don't get is why not just run up like a zillion dollars on a credit card going to hawaii or something and eat expensive pizza everyday before you press the button?

think of the embarrassment of ordering artisanal hawaiian pizza and being put on hold then autotransfered to a suicide prevention hotline, because that's what would happen.

ham + pineapple? you crazy or something? pls hold

if you're paying for an artisinal food order by credit card, it automatically cross-indexes what you've ordered against blowout.xls. diced pineapple is a pre-checkout staple, no way are the retailers getting burned like that again.

If you could push a button and simply cease to exist, what would you do before you pressed it?

Try and seduce a cop, probably

that's what "suicide by cop" means

There's a button which causes anyone who pushes it to cease to exist. You push it and nothing happens. Why is that?

http://www.atariage.com/2600/boxes/b_BrainGames_Color_front.jpg

TOUCH ME

Is it because the button makes it like you never existed & therefore you didn't exist & could not have pressed the button?

It's either that or the doctor was a man

There's a button which causes anyone who pushes it to cease to exist. You push it and nothing happens. Why is that?

because "you" is an illusion, at every moment the "i" ceases to exist and is reformed anew, just like everything else around us, that's called maya in buddhism i think, anyway alan watts told me that

LOL Ive been out all weekend and missed this thread and tbh I'm quite glad. What a shitfit.

Also, ans: hell no. In fact let me live another 100 years (without aging of course). Life's fun and I need time to work more of it out.

Is it because the button makes it like you never existed & therefore you didn't exist & could not have pressed the button?

It's either that or the doctor was a man

Nice, but I didn't mean it as a riddle. I was thinking of the Voight-Kampff questions. No need to overthink it.

yo i found the button, looks like someone has already pressed it.

http://distilleryimage9.instagram.com/2bf769b0161911e29c2d22000a1e9b8d_7.jpg

The vikings defense pressed this button

could never in a bazillion years imagine pressing this button, considering how much my existence has enriched the lives of those around me

another valid perspective!

NO AN INVALID PERSPECTIVE

Pretend it would involve no physical pain to yourself, and no emotional or financial or other repercussions to the people around you. Would you hit the cancel button?

READ THE FUCKING THREAD RULES YOU TWAT

*punches self in face*

also how dare you judge the validity of my perspective darraghmac, you sad little man

TROILUS
What is aught but as 'tis valued?

HECTOR
But value dwells not in particular will;
It holds his estimate and dignity
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
As in the prizer.

Thsi thread:

http://images3.makefive.com/images/news-business/design/top-5-coolest-animated-gifs/the-shiny-candy-like-button---ren-and-stimpy-7.gif

<3 u for that

ps given that I am alive I'd prefer to be so for as long as possible but if there was a pain- and consequence-free way to get off the ride I just might.

pps you all know there's no prize at the end?

http://i.imgur.com/BcJsQ.png

pps you all know there's no prize at the end?

Counting on it!

i'm not ready to totally write off the possibility that there might be a prize at the end

for people who'd press the button there presumably is

you better hope you find that button before i find you, tlg, you waste, you little man

'cease to exist' isn't setting up a pearly gates epilogue

i meant oblivion is apparently prize enough