I most definitely would push the button. When, is the question.
― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Friday, 12 October 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
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
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, 12 October 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
You guys should look at more ricky rubio gifs
― rap game klaus nomi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 October 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
What if the button were a cat's anus?
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Friday, 12 October 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 12 October 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 October 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
didn't the chemical brothers have a song about this?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 12 October 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Friday, 12 October 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
"fuck it, I'm out"
-- actual label on the button?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 12 October 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 12 October 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― Old Lunch, Friday, 12 October 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Nhex, Friday, 12 October 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 12 October 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
i would like for you to be reincarnated as a rock
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 12 October 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
Life is the best, I would never not live it
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 12 October 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― flopson, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
This button is impossible and should stay so
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
I mean if it erases everything you are, were and could be
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
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)
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
language is violence, bro
― flopson, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
language is a virus
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure everyone has pushed a snooze button before on their alarm which amounts to about the same thing but only lasts 10 minutes.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
OP has taken ball and gone home at this point so that's not even the issue at this point xp
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
ce n'est pas sur le suicide
- René Magritte
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Life is precious in the same way that minerals are precious. An unusual occurrence, cosmologically speaking.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
"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, 12 October 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
why are you people so violent, throwing pottery all over?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
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?"
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
― flopson, Friday, October 12, 2012 3:15 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― some dude, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
cancel yes.
― wolves lacan, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
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
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
so you guys answering no, would, given the choice, never sleep?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
"There are all sorts of unimagined things lurking out there. Pretty intense!"
-- Bob Marley --
― Aimless, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
If I could remove my need for sleep without going insane, I would do it in a heartbeat.
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
sleep is awesome, fuck the haters
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
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
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
i like sleep, and eating, feel like theyre p central to the feeling of being alive, might be kinda effed to give that up
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
would u replace your sleeping hours with leisure tho? or split it b/w work & leisure? extra eight hours to chill out or read every day would be cool but u might just end up using it like doing chores
― flopson, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
i waste so much time as is i doubt id do anything too compelling w/those extra hours
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah same here
― flopson, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link