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

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?

xpost but only your ass, djp

i think this might be it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_and_Hell_(video_game)

I mean, any hypothetical that starts with "assume heaven and hell are real" is going to end with "DJP is going to heaven" regardless of the intervening scenario

xpost but only your ass, djp

I am fine with that

:D

nm, that's not it xxp

woo, this was it: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/AfterlifeScreenshot.png/220px-AfterlifeScreenshot.png

to answer the original q : no. absolutely not.

and that's despite (or is that in spite of), the evilness of the last 18 months of my life.

I salute you, good sir

^^^

wish I could send you a gin and tonic, mark e

would not push button just based on family responsibilities and stuff. and basketball.

poorly phrased. Due to family responsibilities and stuff, I would not press said button.

but mostly basketball

here, this should push you towards that button:

ABC's developing a comedy starring Michael Bolton

Alicia Keys to co-star?

ABC's developing a comedy starring Michael Bolton

it actually says this on the actual button

haha

wnp. some sad s.o.b.s on this board.

the bolton button would be a better show

I salute you, good sir

firmest co-sign for this.

these lines from Alan Moore's Miracleman popped into my head when considering the original poser

See, I ain't inta gettin' BURNED. HELL no. Am inta burnin'.

not that I do much true burnin' these days, but it's v difficult for me to think that I'd ever *voluntarily* choose to be scrubbed from existence.

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

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, October 12, 2012 3:24 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The vast nothingness of space and time....in my vagina?

it's more likely than you think

he can't he won't he don't stop

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?

Played the shit out of this game btw. So far from pushing the button that the argument for it is kind of incomprehensible for me.

No offense intended for those that feel that way, I just think that it's prob impossible to have much of a discussion because I imagine that our basic precepts are so far apart tht there's no way to have a meaningful conversation about this.

thread as a whole pretty much bears this out, lol

I feel like there's a part of drunkenness where I feel close to not existing, but it's about a quarter-step from projectile vomiting

push button too hard, vomit comes out

Edgy staples commercial

irl lols

would push bolton

there's two boltons, john and michael -- which do you punch?

yes

Because I am a sap, the do-over would be 24/7 panic as I attempt to reproduce nonsensical / idiotic decisions made by younger me, in order to avoid treading on the nation of butterflies that would prevent me from meeting my lady.

Also confused at the idea that forks wasn't bragging - did you have some wrong-tab confusion and mean to post that into Google Calendar, man?

i prefer using buttons to keep my shirts done up than to cause existential angst

I would be too chicken, although I have wanted to in the past.

I do like the idea of having a dummy-button like this, mounted high on the wall. Like a "break glass in case of emergency" thing, just as a reminder of how fleeting all this is, that we are all blips.....

if you could push your bellybutton and it would simply cease to exist, would you press it?

gasp! no bellybutton? the horror

r.i.p. body shots

boy do i always regret any attempt to ever talk about anything happening in my personal life on this board
*hits the "do not share" button*

you realize this is why we lost tynan, right?

body shots?

U are still yoga flame in my book forks

xp no, that's why we lost momus
go team venture m@tt

hey forks, u get any last night?