# Would you sell your Soul? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 15, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192 "2016-01-15T04:06:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/81 "2016-01-17T22:03:26Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > So how would I feel about benefiting from the gullibility of a being who by definition deserves no consideration? The reality is that a powerful angel is much less gullible then any human. The offer comes to most of people at intervals ranging from several a year to hundreds a day. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/82 "2016-01-17T22:09:24Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > The reality is that a powerful angel is much less gullible then any human. The offer comes to most of people at intervals ranging from several a year to hundreds a day. _In legend_, angels are more powerful and less gullible than humans, and how often these supposed offers come depends on who is telling the tales. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/83 "2016-01-17T22:11:26Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > and how often these supposed offers come depends on who is telling the tales. Any drug user had the following offers – Try a new drug just once, and everything will be better. – Try some drug just one last time. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/84 "2016-01-17T22:25:16Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > Any drug user had the following offers > > – Try a new drug just once, and everything will be better. > > – Try some drug just one last time. Once again I ask: Where are you getting this stuff? ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/85 "2016-01-17T22:28:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > _In legend_, angels are more powerful and less gullible than humans, and how often these supposed offers come depends on who is telling the tales. “The tales” being the key words here… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/86 "2016-01-17T22:32:04Z")
> [@scootergirl](#): > > “The tales” being the key words here… Exactly. For instance, we supposedly have a hyper-smart Satan that we couldn’t _possibly_ outmaneuver…but is too stupid to read the script(The Bible) and know how the story is going to end. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/87 "2016-01-17T22:33:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Once again I ask: Where are you getting this stuff? Angel Samuel known by many other names talks to me hundreds of times a day. He/she talks to every person from hundreds of times a day to a few times a year. Humans accept some of Samuel’s offers and reject others. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/88 "2016-01-17T22:35:15Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Exactly. For instance, we supposedly have a hyper-smart Satan that we couldn’t _possibly_ outmaneuver…but is too stupid to read the script(The Bible) and know how the story is going to end. An archangel knows all of Talmud and millions of books humans have never heard of. But Samuel has no free choice. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/89 "2016-01-17T22:42:20Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > Angel Samuel known by many other names talks to me hundreds of times a day. He/she talks to every person from hundreds of times a day to a few times a year. Humans accept some of Samuel’s offers and reject others. Yeah. Okay. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/90 "2016-01-17T22:46:14Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Yeah. > Okay. You may not think that it is the voice of angel Samuel, but every addict has some voice constantly telling them to give in to wrong decisions. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/91 "2016-01-17T22:56:44Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > You may not think that it is the voice of angel Samuel, but every addict has some voice constantly telling them to give in to wrong decisions. Might there be the _smallest_ chance that others do not hear the same voices you do? ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/92 "2016-01-17T23:00:01Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Might there be the _smallest_ chance that others do not hear the same voices you do? Every addict does hear these voices – I am addicted to reading Social Media, and I have 12,000 posts on many forums. Alcoholism and drugs are much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/93 "2016-01-18T00:10:50Z")
Again - getting back on topic - how does \*any \*temporary pleasure - make forever, nonstop, infinite, un-ending suffering worth it? ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/94 "2016-01-18T00:17:17Z")
How much experience do you have with addiction (besides Internet addiction) and addicts? I am curious because you keep bringing this back to heroin or other addictive drugs, and you say that all addicts have the voices whispering to them. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/95 "2016-01-18T00:31:19Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > How much experience do you have with addiction (besides Internet addiction) and addicts? > > I am curious because you keep bringing this back to heroin or other addictive drugs, and you say that all addicts have the voices whispering to them. Talking and reading [Social Media](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_addiction_disorder). Fortunately, I have never been an alcoholic or a drug user. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/96 "2016-01-18T02:12:55Z")
I’m struggling a bit to understand the drugs hijack in the middle of a thread about soul selling. But if there’s some yokel dumb enough to give me money for something imaginary I’m glad to take his money. In fact I almost consider it my duty as part of his education into a reality-based worldview. It’d be mean to pick on a fool like that by seeking him/her out. That would be unethical; like kicking a dog for no reason. But if they approach me, their soul-buying money is all mine and rightly so. If they believe in souls, clearly they don’t have my best interests at heart by offering to buy mine. So it seems only right to return the favor by not having their best interests in mind as I sell. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/97 "2016-01-18T03:13:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’m struggling a bit to understand the drugs hijack in the middle of a thread about soul selling. > > But if there’s some yokel dumb enough to give me money for something imaginary I’m glad to take his money. In fact I almost consider it my duty as part of his education into a reality-based worldview. > > It’d be mean to pick on a fool like that by seeking him/her out. That would be unethical; like kicking a dog for no reason. But if they approach me, their soul-buying money is all mine and rightly so. That’s quite a gamble - we’re talking _eternal, never-ending_ suffering. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/98 "2016-01-18T03:43:22Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > That’s quite a gamble - we’re talking _eternal, never-ending_ suffering. To me, it would be the same thing as saying “Would you be willing to suffer eternal torment being tickled by balrogs and never getting to visit Wrigley’s Pleasure Planet if I give you this bag of diamonds?” Give me the diamonds-I’ll take my chances. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/99 "2016-01-18T04:04:45Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > I understand that most of people here are Christian . . . Cite? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-your-soul/743192/101 "2018-06-11T10:43:35Z")
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