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

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?

you're the worst wing man ever

I have to say, just because of your post & the fact that it's always the image of you I think of, I can't help but imagine forks & rakim reenacting the pottery scene from Ghost

ditto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAW8SCkdP0

i would definitely do this!!! i'm not even that miserable and i sometimes have fun it's just given the choice i would not exist. i also think no one should have kids and the human race should go extinct.

like i am not even sad today but if you don't exist you don't even know about fun or happiness, so why not

long as you wanna get matrixy about this; since you're unplugging entirely and will have no connection to anything, a more reasonable question would be "if you could push a button and make EVERYTHING cease to exist with no repercussions" etc.
also, what if our universe is just a cell in a giant's thumbnail whoa hey man pass that shit

i wouldn't do that

There is an old legend that king Midas for a long time hunted the wise Silenus, the companion of Dionysus, in the forests, without catching him. When Silenus finally fell into the king’s hands, the king asked what was the best thing of all for men, the very finest. The daemon remained silent, motionless and inflexible, until, compelled by the king, he finally broke out into shrill laughter and said these words, “Suffering creature, born for a day, child of accident and toil, why are you forcing me to say what would give you the greatest pleasure not to hear? The very best thing for you is totally unreachable: not to have been born, not to exist, to be nothing. The second best thing for you, however, is this—to die soon.”

― dayo, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 04:46 (11 hours ago)

and silenus grew up to be... barack obama

i hate having obligations. i wish i was a housecat.

it's like not existing but you get petted and you eat food

silenus otm and I'm not even sad today either!

one more vote for being a cat, the one from alice in wonderland is so v chill

Silenus I feel you but I just started season 1 of homeland

how is that? worth netflixing?

I dig it enough to not press an imaginary magical button that erases my existence, plus I love Mandy patinkin

two great tastes that go great together

*me pushes button....but button is on vaporizer*

/me winks

If you could push a button and simply inhale a sick rip, would you press it?

Thought experiment. Pretend it would involve no physical pain to yourself, and no emotional or financial or other repercussions to the people around you. Would you hit the vape button?

would you capture it, or just let it slip?