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Contract for Sale of Soul

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Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by bserge »

andrewfromx wrote: post #8
mattnewton wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I clicked through, skimmed a video, and I am missing your point. What is your takeaway from this channel / hopeful takeaway for me?

i said hours. You really have to watch a lot of content before your logical brain will let you believe, wait, omg, maybe i don't want to really sell my soul.

I wouldn't sell my diarrhea for $10 (OK, I would if anyone said they would buy it).

For something that can't be proven to exist or not, but with a high perceived value (based on all the religious bullshit and movies), I wouldn't even try to sell my soul for less than five figures.

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by st_goliath »

andrewfromx wrote: post #8
mattnewton wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I clicked through, skimmed a video, and I am missing your point. What is your takeaway from this channel / hopeful takeaway for me?

i said hours. You really have to watch a lot of content before your logical brain will let you believe, wait, omg, maybe i don't want to really sell my soul.

> maybe i don't want to really sell my soul.

Don't worry, I can sell you a replacement. I have plenty in stock, I swear! So feel free to take one extra, just in case yours goes bad or something.

Btw.: I can also sell you karma if you need some. That would be $10/Gy

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by clejack »

The most amazing thing about this to me is that as conceptually interesting as this contract is at a high level, and given that I started off interested in the document, about half way through my eyes were glazing over ;and I gave up.

I have to wonder how lawyers do their job. I've read chapters of academic text for my own knowledge, but somehow this legal writing style crushes me every time.

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by mattnewton »

andrewfromx wrote: post #10
andrewfromx wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i said hours. You really have to watch a lot of content before your logical brain will let you believe, wait, omg, maybe i don't want to really sell my soul.

also https://youtu.be/dAS-QzWvj8g?t=558 learn the history of the french revolution and how you came to be an atheist in the first place

I came to my current atheism from a long journey starting in a religious household, by first struggling with Epicurus' formulation of the problem of evil. That predates the French revolution by at least 1,000 years...

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by crate_barre »

zrail wrote: post #15

No binding arbitration clause? Psh.

Any tech companies have binding arbitration clauses we all just hit ‘accept’ on the TOS that we need to know about?

If a person signs a contract that has a mandatory, binding arbitration agreement, he or she gives up the right to go to court.

Lol. Sometimes the world truly is just hilarious.

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by abecedarius »

clejack wrote: post #14

The most amazing thing about this to me is that as conceptually interesting as this contract is at a high level, and given that I started off interested in the document, about half way through my eyes were glazing over ;and I gave up. I have to wonder how lawyers do their job. I've read chapters of academic text for my own knowledge, but somehow this legal writing style crushes me every time.

I wonder how many of us who've coauthored a patent ever genuinely read through the final version we signed. I did manage to get all the words to pass through my conscious awareness.

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by curiousllama »

clejack wrote: post #14

The most amazing thing about this to me is that as conceptually interesting as this contract is at a high level, and given that I started off interested in the document, about half way through my eyes were glazing over ;and I gave up. I have to wonder how lawyers do their job. I've read chapters of academic text for my own knowledge, but somehow this legal writing style crushes me every time.

Practice and context. Read nonsense everyday, and you'll get good at it. Assign meaning to the nonsense, and it'll be more palatable.

How do we all just tap away at these buttons-with-letters all day?

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by oh_sigh »

andrewfromx wrote: post #8
mattnewton wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I clicked through, skimmed a video, and I am missing your point. What is your takeaway from this channel / hopeful takeaway for me?

i said hours. You really have to watch a lot of content before your logical brain will let you believe, wait, omg, maybe i don't want to really sell my soul.

Is it ok if I sold my soul 20 years ago to fraudulently sell my soul some more?
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