The first is a comic called A Softer World, which is one of my favourite sites when it comes to witty commentary, good visuals and its often bizarre non-sequitur final panels.
This one took me by surprise. I honestly have no desire to kill myself, but I actually agreed with this comic. It reminded me of a blog entry I read once.
"Here's the Plan. One day out of every year, we stop the whole thing. For 24 hours, we get to ignore time entirely. We'll pick up exactly where we left off. Most of us won't even know it happened. We'll go from tuesday, to the void, straight on into wednesday. No one can possibly complain about this. Except for a couple astronomers, but fuck them, nobody cares what they think anyhow. Just think of the magic of it. For one day, you don't have to sleep, you don't have to eat, you don't have to fuck, you don't have to work, play, love, hate, stress, relax, everybody just gets to stop."
Why is this idea of just stopping - for an hour, a day, forever - so attractive? And is the fact that I welcome this prospect one reason for never becoming religious? It hardly makes death an unattractive prospect, just an inevitable end. In Final Fantasy IX, the 'black mages' manufactured by the main antagonist as a fighting force develop consciousness and form their own society away from the already 'civilised' areas, living a peaceful, curious and investigative life. One day they realise that some of their group are 'stopping', and that their lifespans are drastically shorter than those of the other races. They don't react badly to this, they just accept it and carry on with their lives until that final moment. Why doesn't humankind do this?
It would be nice to have a discussion on this, but I most likely couldn't articulate my sentiments verbally, so this will have to do.
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