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

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

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

i waste so much time as is i doubt id do anything too compelling w/those extra hours

yeah same here

there are people who do polyphasic sleep and sleep like 30 minutes every four hours. they all go crazy

how would you ever reset a bad day, sleep is like a magical button you push when youre not in the zone

xpost

but that's because they only end up sleeping 3 hours a day! ;)

i like the downtime my brain and body get from sleep. i often don't get enough, though, because there's too much to do -- i'd prefer a 28-hour day so that there's more time to sleep if necessary.

I would never not live it

Unless I've missed an ILXor being an immortal, this is not an option. I didn't mean to imply above I'd push it anytime soon, but it would be nice when one were old and fading fast to pick a good day for dying.

would you push a button and make yrself immortal

only if I also stopped aging

As to sleep, I think I shall Viking the fuck out of some this weekend.

guys check this out i'm gonna wish for more wishes

I'd only want to be immortal if I also got to go hang out in some sort of transcendental plane where everything was awesome all the time and there was no heat death of the universe to worry about

http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kueb3lb5h51qzv9mho1_500.jpg

love to be immortal, always think the downside is philosphically overstated

al this is a scarcity problem you can't just go oh i'd like to live for 100 billion years i think that'd be ideal i'd nap every other millenia

i enjoy sleep but if i were someone who didn't i think it would be nice, it always takes me too long to finish books & if i could just blast thru them overnight without suffering repercussions the next day i would take the opportunity