[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)
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| 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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