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
there are people who do polyphasic sleep and sleep like 30 minutes every four hours. they all go crazy
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
how would you ever reset a bad day, sleep is like a magical button you push when youre not in the zone
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
but that's because they only end up sleeping 3 hours a day! ;)
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
would you push a button and make yrself immortal
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
only if I also stopped aging
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
As to sleep, I think I shall Viking the fuck out of some this weekend.
― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
guys check this out i'm gonna wish for more wishes
― some dude, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
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
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kueb3lb5h51qzv9mho1_500.jpg
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
love to be immortal, always think the downside is philosphically overstated
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
I don't want to die but I also would be freaked out by living for millions of years
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
would you push a button and become a god
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
no one realizes that the average human lifespan was once only 14 hours. people back then, in their final hour, would often think about how crazy it would be live for a month. we ARE living for millions of years right NOW, in a sense, compared to those people, and we're not freaking out. people adapt man
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
but once you get to explore space and hang out with other civs, it would be cool
― wolves lacan, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
with all ur power
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
I also would be freaked out by living for millions of years
Yeah 'cause you'd end up falling in love with Andie McDowell
― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
I wld live for a million years if each month of each year would pass by as quickly as like, say, a second
― 乒乓, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
nah you'd become a starchild and go to a shittily decorated room
people would come up to me and point and say "there stands the slowest person in the world" but of course it would sound like high pitched unintelligible squeaking to me
― 乒乓, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
I think human quest for immortality will have to keep scaling up slowly; Kurzweilian singularity would just upset everyone
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
What about a button, or machine, that when you enter it, you play out the rest of our life in a virtual state where everything plays out in the most positive possible way. You wouldn't even realise it wasn't real and you were guaranteed that everything in your life were to pan out in utter bliss. Would you do it?
― where is el airoporto? (dog latin), Friday, October 12, 2012 1:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
only if the machine also chopped up my body and sprayed bits of me into the faces of everyone who's ever loved me
― there is no dana, only (goole), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, let's raise the stakes here
"Music was so much better in the 2070's. Fuckin' hell."
― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
this must be what life is like for starfish, which are, in a way, "starchildren of the universe"
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
sprayed bits of me into the faces of everyone who's ever loved me
There goes my crush on goole...
― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Friday, 12 October 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link