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

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?

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onMQDyWsmX0

http://make-everything-ok.com/

Yes i would push it.

Pretty much the ultimate 'going off the grid'.

Do you get to reincarnate though?

That would kinda defeat the purpose.

the maths of you should push the button because you wouldn't know what you were missing - like you-can't-lose - always seems wrong to me. it was in that derek parfait nyer profile a while ago, the idea that any amount of potential joy has less currency than the avoidance of any potential suffering. those things are on way more of a continuum ime, & are related & transform each other. sometimes i think about when you can't sleep very well, & you spend a whole night staring, your mind racing. some of the times you remember that and some of the times you forget it, it is time that has gone, it was real but it doesn't exist anymore. other times it informs your actions, you remember it, maybe you work out a way to avoid it. i am also not crazy on sharing here but joy can be really contingent on, or enabled by, down periods, too. as a contrast, or relationally. there's something about well you wouldn't know you were missing it that makes this debate too fingers-in-your-ears alternate-reality, to me, like you are literally having to discount all of your lived experience as a human. it sets such a low baseline for satisfaction. for me it feels more like one of the situations that come up when you have to decide whether or not to ask someone out or not, w/the knowledge of how terrible that process is going to be but how much is dependent on it - in any situation there is an option to just neuter the risk & opt for the quiet, but part of the experience of life being okay is wrapped up in it having unfolded, i think.

ps i am listening to phil lynott solo jams while i type this

the maths of you should push the button because you wouldn't know what you were missing - like you-can't-lose - always seems wrong to me. it was in that derek parfait nyer profile a while ago, the idea that any amount of potential joy has less currency than the avoidance of any potential suffering.

yeah it's basically "better to have never loved at all than to have loved and lost"

it's cool if you write some cool plays w/yr pent up emotion

Kinda workin' on that angle in lieu of inventing and pushing the button.

I have an inkling that this desire for self-termination is rooted in a belief that "the future is here" and there's nothing beautiful to look forward to, like, on a technological or political level, and that's kind of interesting

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

The thing I don't get is why not just run up like a zillion dollars on a credit card going to hawaii or something and eat expensive pizza everyday before you press the button?

think of the embarrassment of ordering artisanal hawaiian pizza and being put on hold then autotransfered to a suicide prevention hotline, because that's what would happen.

ham + pineapple? you crazy or something? pls hold

if you're paying for an artisinal food order by credit card, it automatically cross-indexes what you've ordered against blowout.xls. diced pineapple is a pre-checkout staple, no way are the retailers getting burned like that again.

If you could push a button and simply cease to exist, what would you do before you pressed it?

Try and seduce a cop, probably

that's what "suicide by cop" means

There's a button which causes anyone who pushes it to cease to exist. You push it and nothing happens. Why is that?

http://www.atariage.com/2600/boxes/b_BrainGames_Color_front.jpg

TOUCH ME

Is it because the button makes it like you never existed & therefore you didn't exist & could not have pressed the button?

It's either that or the doctor was a man