Venting It would be better for everything to cease to exist.

[Virgo]

A large asteroid would make the world a much better place.

 

[Threads]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sc...18/The-world-ends-on-Feb-1-2019-possibly.html

Scientists had good news yesterday for people concerned about how long their pensions will last. The world could quite possibly end anyway on Feb 1, 2019. Astronomers say a huge asteroid is scheduled to crash into the Earth at 11.47am on that day. If it does it would wipe out an entire continent, plunge the world into a nuclear winter and take humanity to the brink of extinction. However, as seasoned asteroid story watchers will have realised, there is a catch. The odds that the world will end in 17 years' time, were last night estimated to be one in 75,000 and rising.That compares with the one in 10,000 chances of a person being killed in a car crash in any one year, and the one in 100,000 chances of being murdered. The odds of winning the national lottery jackpot are one in 14 million.

I'm rooting for it.

#TEAMASTEROID

 

[Maravillosa]

Well, if the world does end at 11:47 AM (in which time zone? Greenwich Mean Time, since the Telegraph is a UK newspaper?) on Friday, February 1, 2019, I think I would feel relief -- no need to ctb! Everybody would be dying together, which is a comfort to me. My novel would never be published and I would never be remembered by posterity, because there would not be a human posterity to speak of. I would have the opportunity to sincerely confess all my sins and be in a state of grace: God willing, my soul would go straight to Heaven and be far beyond everything that annoys or worries me now.

Now why hasn't this news been better publicized in the 16 years since the article was first published?

 

[Virgo]

Well, if the world does end at 11:47 AM (in which time zone? Greenwich Mean Time, since the Telegraph is a UK newspaper?) on Friday, February 1, 2019, I think I would feel relief -- no need to ctb! Everybody would be dying together, which is a comfort to me. My novel would never be published and I would never be remembered by posterity, because there would not be a human posterity to speak of. I would have the opportunity to sincerely confess all my sins and be in a state of grace: God willing, my soul would go straight to Heaven and be far beyond everything that annoys or worries me now.

Now why hasn't this news been better publicized in the 16 years since the article was first published?

Because it's not accurate.

 

[Maravillosa]

Because it's not accurate.

Oh drat! I was hoping for the asteroid...

 

[Schopenhauer]

I sympathize with the feeling. If an asteroid would hit, I'd like to be at ground zero, drinking whiskey and eating desserts. I'd travel anywhere in the world for that. Free booze to everyone who accompanies me :)

 

[worldexploder]

I have saw news headlines before about close asteroids and got excited. Then dissapointed when hearing it would miss earth. The truth is I'd rather it not happen because it wouldn't guarantee death for everyone and many would suffer. The impactor would have to be huge to cause an instant death. Something like this but bigger.

 

[wxtyubidi7y]

I agree, I think absolute non existence is the most perfect state. Ultimate, flawless neutrality. The fact that there is something rather than nothing is tragic.

 

[Virgo]

I have saw news headlines before about close asteroids and got excited. Then dissapointed when hearing it would miss earth. The truth is I'd rather it not happen because it wouldn't guarantee death for everyone and many would suffer. The impactor would have to be huge to cause an instant death. Something like this but bigger.

That's why you have a large asteroid.

 

[Circles]

I agree, I think absolute non existence is the most perfect state. Ultimate, flawless neutrality. The fact that there is something rather than nothing is tragic.

The fact that this something is filled with so much unnecessary suffering as to make it seem conceivably better just to go back to oblivion.

 

[Trashcan]

There's more suffering than happiness in life. I have a sibling that was miscarried and wish I could trade places with them.

 

[TheGoodGuy]

There's more suffering than happiness in life.

I agree life contains little happiness life is just hard work and once in a while a happy moment comes along spread further and further apart the older we get. As a child I would experience true happiness every day and have such memorable moments then as a young teenager I would maybe have to wait a few days to experience a happiness, as a mid to late teen these happy moment would come maybe once a week but sometimes even a month apart and now as an adult they don´t even exist although I had one of the best days of my life 2 years ago when I was 22yo but that was with the use of MDMA with close friends. Time is the worst thing that happens to a person.

So yeah it would be WAY better if the Earth just exploded no more hardship with working to be able to survive or trying to socialize with people in a desperate attempt to get a tiny bit of the perfect life we once had alive.