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

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

i think it might be cherry ripe but i will need to check

otm

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

― Doping Makes Your Arm Strong (King Boy Pato), Monday, October 15, 2012 7:04 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

how do you feel about sleeping

used to terrify me as a kid tbh

I would not push the button. But I also wouldn't trust myself to even be around that button on the off chance that I pushed it.

I get the same feeling about balconies/ledges. Not afraid of heights, but don't trust myself not to just throw myself off of them.

it's amazing how much i don't trust my own future instincts. like you say, i generally avoid high ledges with no barriers in case i go suddenly and briefly insane and decide to just jump off.

leave me out of this

"high ledges with no barriers" heh

i don't get high anymore and have a few barriers so i think i'm safe.

I couldn't find anything worth buying at Target yesterday. Knowing consumerism had failed me, I figured pushing this button might have been a better alternative to such a boring sunday afternoon

I had 5 rehearsals and a concert in the past 48 hours

the appeal of the button is beginning to reveal itself

also, if you're ever really frustrated by the fact there's nothing good on television, the button sounds nice

i would prefer this to be a thread where we discuss our daily itinerary and debate whether we'd rather be doing what we're doing right now or opt for the void

just had coffee, not pushing the button right now.

I haven't experienced anything in life to make me not want to push the button.

Not pushing the button would be a pretty selfish thing to do. Think of how many resources each of us takes up during the course of our lives.