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

if you could push a button and become bob marley, would you?
-bob marley

what about if you could push a button and the button ceased to exist?

"people who have suffered losses which they feel they cannot bear"

this is interesting, because the statement isn't connected to whether the person can or cannot bear the loss, but rather their perception of their ability to bear the loss and how that perception becomes reality

it is particularly interesting in the context of our current round of political theater, where the demeanor of our candidates appears to be more important than the positions they take; you could use both to extrapolate an argument that questions the actual existence of "facts"

An Unfortunate Dualist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKbpjw3_EZM

aero very much otm 8 million posts back on this freight train of a thread

what if to the world it looked like you ceased to exist, but to you it looked like the rest of the world ceased and you're in the void, alone with only your own thoughts?

this is interesting, because the statement isn't connected to whether the person can or cannot bear the loss, but rather their perception of their ability to bear the loss and how that perception becomes reality

well - the concept of being able to bear something is entirely subjective. strictly speaking, anybody can bear anything that won't literally kill them. the question is whether the thing in question makes that person's life feel as though it is not worth living.

and you're in the void, alone with only your own thoughts?

This reminds me of Borges' desert 'labyrinth'.

well - the concept of being able to bear something is entirely subjective. strictly speaking, anybody can bear anything that won't literally kill them. the question is whether the thing in question makes that person's life feel as though it is not worth living.

on a daily basis, American society makes me feel like life isn't worth living; however, because I am an egotistical, contrary bastard, this just makes me want to live forever so I can continue to sneer at it

^^^ posts by people who have figured out how to live imo

How many of you would want a button that lets you nap instantly? because you'd just need to put some duct tape over that button...

holy fuck DJP I just noticed your display name and it has literally improved my will to live, thank you

yeah I'm not leaving this world without shitting on a few dozen more people

most of my worldview is a strange mishmash of "Do not go gentle into that good night", "Fight" by The Cure and "Kerosene" by Big Black, with occasional dashes of "I Wanna Fuck You in the Ass" by The Outhere Brothers

no fucking way am I touching that button

because I am an egotistical, contrary bastard, this just makes me want to live forever so I can continue to sneer at it

This is my rearguard answer to the Camus question

djp otm - cf: goole spraying the faces of those he loves

also i misread alfred's comment as 'shitting OUT a few more dozen people' lol

I Want To Spray You In The Face

I'm merely hoping that button consists of an inadvertant OD of morphine when I'm 92 or whatever.

can i ask to have something clarified about the button?

"and no emotional or financial or other repercussions to the people around you." -- how precisely is this magic effected?

is it numbness? all others who have any relation to you at all register your sudden disappearance but find they just don't feel anything one way or another (this seems tyrannical and monstrous to me btw)

is it forgetting? their minds and institutional records are wiped, any debts are written off as an accounting mistake, memories of you come up blank, etc. you become a hole, but one so complete there's no pain to be felt.

is it rewriting history? ie the "it's a wonderful life" option. the clock is rewound. i suppose this is the most attractive option if you want to hit it.

haha i was just trying to fuck with dog latin's un-trolly rosy option, i don't want bits of me anywhere thx

tho i have joked that when i die i want to be cremated and have my ashes sprinkled in the food of people i didn't like.

(the unspoken, disappointed egotistical optimist component of my cynicism is the not-so-hidden hope that some day my sneering will cause society not to suck so much)

i suppose this is the most attractive option if you want to hit it.

and it's off to the out of context thread we go

basically I won't push any button ending my life unless I can push a button that keeps Alicia Keys from singing another note.

everyone you knew is instantly granted religious certainty that you are with God. they all become believers of the hardest core and are glad that you have gone home. several of them become priests

very powerful button, this button

don't hit that button man! do not want!

goole flakes!

would now be a bad time to reveal that I have been mentally replacing the word "button" with "clitoris" as I read this thread

loooooool

aero i already expect my death to send several into a nunnery, you're not telling me anything here

i've been saying "in bed" the whole time too

would now be a bad time to reveal that I have been mentally replacing the word "button" with "clitoris" as I read this thread

no, but it would be a better time to admit that "anus" was also in play HELL YES DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE.

http://catholic-magazine.excerptsofinri.com/images/nuns.jpg

sisters of the blessed goole (rip)

if you could push my nuts and simply caused Alicia Keys to disappear, I will make waffles and mimosas for you the rest of our lives until you push another button and make me disappear

everyone you knew is instantly granted religious certainty that you are with God. they all become believers of the hardest core and are glad that you have gone home. several of them become priests

you know what, as long as we're talking about the magisterium here: what if everyone is granted the righteous satisfaction that you are in hell? (this is what is supposed to happen now afaik)

if you could push a button into my anus I would sing like Morten Harket.

when I'm hungry I eat

thread delivers

thread pushes buttons

thread delivers buttons to your asshole?

thread sprays u face

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Three_holes_buttons.jpg/200px-Three_holes_buttons.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/VepYa.jpg

thread feels like a Douglas Adams book.

thread feels like Friday before happy hour

^^^

Suppose that heaven and hell are real and they're as good and bad, respectively, as you can possibly imagine. Every soul gets sent to one or the other forever. You can't be certain where you're going. The religions all have conflicting opinions about what the criteria are. Do you push the button opting for total non-existence instead?

what? hell no, my ass is going to heaven

i kinda vaguely remember an old sim game where you build heaven and hell and sent souls to either one? any ideas what game this was?