How much would you take for your soul?

[Missy2U]

@Chronos

A buddy in high school had the best answer ever to this question:
“If you had to make a deal with the Devil, what would you ask for in exchange for your immortal soul?”
“His.”

For some reason, I just love this - I really, really do!!

[Dibbs]

@The Great Sun Jester

Hypothetical: Every living thing has a soul. It’s a fragment of God’s own mind and when you die it (along with all your life’s experiences) gets reabsorbed into His mind.

Hypothetical: While living things are custodians of their soul, it is not a requirement for life or consciousness, or even emotion. It is simply a recording device of sorts. As such, you have the ability to surrender it to any supernatural being capable of assuming possession of it.

Hypothetical: upon your death without a soul, all you experience is “lights out”. Should you die in possession of your soul, “You” cease to exist anyway–your consciousness is a raindrop in the sea of God’s own awareness.
A being approaches you and expresses an interest in your soul. The above is explained to you and you know it all to be true. In exchange you can receive, oh, call it a plausible shortcut to whatever you want–such that if your aspirations are grand, you will be viewed by history as an exceptional individual as opposed to some inexplicable phenomenon. You are shown a path to the things you want, or maybe your mind gets altered to relieve you of fears, or perhaps you seek insight? The gifts are subtle but powerful, and while there may be unintended consequences, there are no tricks–you’ll get the spirit and letter of what you ask.

Are you selling? What do you want in exchange for your soul?

This is cool stuff, I’m in!

What I would want is to be handed the reigns of a mega-billion $ company without having done a thing to have earned the position, save for looking dapper in an expensive suit and being able to cleverly chuck a few fifty-cent words around now and then.

I would become beloved by million within a short time, as I’d quickly hold a press conference and announce that people in my company will be properly compensated; janitors on up will all be paid a living wage that they can be proud of, a wage that’ll let everyone look forward to the future with joy and have some fun along the way!

I would then proceed to blow a fuse by excoriating American business schools for producing so many arrogant brats that have had instilled in them the BS notion that they’re worth 300 times the amount of regular workers!

I would close it out by saying that my own wage would never exceed five times that of those that keep our toilet stalls stocked with tissue … or those that slave over hot stoves in the cafeteria’s kitchen.

Then, with a touch of the dramatic, I would breakdown sobbing hysterically and my legs would become jellow as the room would explode with cheers and applause with people shouting – “He’s a modern day hero!” and “Behold the great working man’s hero!” and “Finally a CEO-walk-in that’s not a totally filthy, dirty-rotten, money-grabbing SCUMBAG!”

I would then be lovingly helped off the stage and, to my everlasting joy, go down in history as the man who in one fell swoop saved American industry by bringing the balance back … as walk-in CEOs would understand that the years of conditioning and brainwashing that their minions and scallywags in the media and universities have been bludgeoning the masses with has been defeated. Totally dead, no more, finished – as corporate boards everywhere would finally put a stop to the insanity!

The words on my tombstone would read: “Here lies The Man Dibbs; a humble man that Slayed the Gluttonous Dragon of Greed that too many CEOs thought they could ride on forever … thinking the Universe unfurled for them to egregiously exploit common folks by taking way waaaay too much of the corporate pie for themselves!”

[purplehearingaid]

I would take world peace for my soul .