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

yeah sorry i got that from yours dlh, xp to mordy

I don't think I could do this because I'd probably trip while trying to press the button and land on my spine and fall into a crevice and wind up paralyzed and unable to move in a place where nobody can discover me

i'm holding out for a leviathan feast w/ the big guy, G-O-D.

shit good point, where's this fucking button, exactly?

I don't think they'd put it in an easy to access place. Plus I have a bad ankle so I've even tripped even tryin to hop in the shower

yeah, the more i think of it the more wary i get of this mysterious button and its murky origins.

Yeah Like who created it? Can it learn...and FEEL?

as soon as you push it the men in white coats burst out from everywhere and sure you're proper fucked then, try telling THEM it's not some form of assisted suicide scheme good luck!

thank you roberto and trayce :_D

Im amazed no one else beat me to that gif earlier tbph

john K sadly must not be an ilxor.

trayce omg i love u

shut up baby i know it

lol you're all dealwithit.gif

a loaded gun won't set you free (so u ssay) - ian curtis

I was deeply depressed from around age 15 to my mid-twenties and I really wanted to not exist, but I never wished to die; all I wanted is to never have existed. I fantasized of being able to eradicate my existence so that no one would miss me because there was never a me to miss.

I'm doing better now, but still there are times when I find consciousness really burdensome even during good and fun times (the idea of an afterlife is horrifying to me - I want to know that one day my consciousness will stop!). Furthermore, I hate that when I die, chances are that my passing will cause others anguish, so while that not-suicide non-existence button isn't what I crave anymore, it still seems interesting.

if pushing the button removes your existence w/out causing distress to others, and not pushing it means that one day you will die and others will experience distress, does that mean you are obligated to push the button in order to keep others from feeling distress? and if you are not obligated to push the button just to save others the feeling of distress, why not? what is the right you have to exist, despite that existence ultimately leading to others feeling sad?

Well yeh, that's what makes the button interesting.

But I guess you shouldn't press it b/c you wouldn't want to seem ungrateful for each of the hundreds gifts of days and days that every person is given.

i was thinking about ren and stimpy and this thread last night honestly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku2wFaaPAzI

The right you have to exist is also the burden you have to offset through your works the misery your passing will cause. Fortunately this isn't that difficult (first step is get off ILX tho)

I don't want to lose my consciousness, I have a vivid imagination!!1!

srlsy, an end to consciousness is the one thing that terrifies me about death

that and a lack of what my equivalent to darraghmac's toffee crisps are