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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 kadoban »

throwawaygh wrote: post #24
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.

> You really have to watch a lot of content before your logical brain will let you believe... I can't tell if this is a joke/troll or you're suggesting that religious belief requires brain-washing.

Some/many religious people are remarkably honest about how little sense it all makes, they just don't say it that way. The usual way this comes up is in terms of how important "faith" is to the whole thing, which is another way of saying you need to turn off the reasoning parts and just believe.

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by teeray »

rsyring wrote: post #23

It would be interesting to see the stats on acceptance of this contract if it was used as the terms & conditions of some popular website or the clickwrap agreement on a popular software package.

This is in the iTunes terms and conditions

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by mcbishop »

> The Buyer acknowledges and fully understands that the Seller may...deny the possibility of transferring ownership of said Soul to another party according to their personal belief system.

You could drive a truck through this Seller loophole.

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by noodlesUK »

teeray wrote: post #32
rsyring wrote: post #23

It would be interesting to see the stats on acceptance of this contract if it was used as the terms & conditions of some popular website or the clickwrap agreement on a popular software package.

This is in the iTunes terms and conditions

The sad part is I have absolutely no idea if you’re joking…

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by ByteJockey »

mattnewton wrote: post #16
andrewfromx wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Over 2000, actually.

The the problem of evil, as originally stated by Epicurus (assuming he was the original formulator) has always been weird to me. Dude was in an era where believe in multiple gods was fairly common. In addition, these gods were not generally portrayed as the combo of omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient at the same time that makes this an actual problem.

Don't get me wrong. Huge problem for followers of Abrahamic religions, but not really a big deal for someone in ancient Greece.

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by Igelau »

mattnewton wrote: post #16
andrewfromx wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I came to mine in college. I had been a somewhat casual Protestant. I was away from my church and tried actually reading the Bible. Yikes. Let's start at the Gospels instead. Also yikes.

The funny thing is that religions are incredibly interesting to me: my shelf has several Bibles, a Quran, a Baghavad Gita, a Book of Mormon, just to name a few.

I could almost be Catholic if they'd just stop lying to themselves and everyone else about the semantics of the whole thing. If they'd just throw out the scripture already, let ladies be priests, and admit that they worship a fertility goddess and a Pokedex of demigods -- it's not a terrible choice!

Re: Contract for Sale of Soul

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Post by mattnewton »

Igelau wrote: post #36
mattnewton wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I came to mine in college. I had been a somewhat casual Protestant. I was away from my church and tried actually reading the Bible. Yikes. Let's start at the Gospels instead. Also yikes. The funny thing is that religions are incredibly interesting to me: my shelf has several Bibles, a Quran, a Baghavad Gita, a Book of Mormon, just to name a few. I could almost be Catholic if they'd just stop lying to themselves and e…

Reading the Bible just made me a deist / agnostic at first. It is a wild ride, but I couldn’t write off artistic liberty / nuance haha.

Total agree with your other posts. You can be culturally catholic and think of it as a big book club and still get value out of it- I know some people who do.

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