[HN Gopher] Contract for Sale of Soul
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       Contract for Sale of Soul
        
       Author : abecedarius
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-11-05 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (liminalwarmth.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (liminalwarmth.com)
        
       | andrewfromx wrote:
       | before some smart atheist goes ahead and signs this as "a joke"
       | with a friend and collects the $10, just spend a few hours on
       | this youtube channel first
       | https://www.youtube.com/c/FoolishFishBooks/videos and try, try to
       | be agonist vs atheist just this one time.
        
         | mattnewton wrote:
         | I clicked through, skimmed a video, and I am missing your
         | point. What is your takeaway from this channel / hopeful
         | takeaway for me?
        
           | andrewfromx wrote:
           | 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.
        
             | bserge wrote:
             | 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.
        
             | st_goliath wrote:
             | > 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
        
             | seph-reed wrote:
             | > You really have to watch a lot of content before your
             | logical brain will let you believe
             | 
             | Textbook indoctrination
        
             | andrewfromx wrote:
             | 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
        
               | mattnewton wrote:
               | 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...
        
       | analog31 wrote:
       | Maybe Doctor Faustus invented the NFT.
        
       | jdofaz wrote:
       | Reminds me of the 1995 "Bart Sells His Soul" episode of The
       | Simpsons
        
       | clejack wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | abecedarius wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | teeray wrote:
       | I'm surprised there's no binding arbitration clause in here
        
       | zrail wrote:
       | No binding arbitration clause? Psh.
        
         | crate_barre wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | stevespang wrote:
       | This contract is most applicable to the entire country of Mexico
       | - - where judges, police officers, most everyone is sold out to
       | the drug cartels . . .
        
       | jessaustin wrote:
       | TIL the devil prefers PayPal.
        
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