I would neither sell my soul, nor anyone else's (you'd be damned for that). People without a soul smell funny.![]()
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Thread: Mephistopheles?
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05-19-2007, 10:12 AM #21Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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05-19-2007, 06:04 PM #22
So basically, the idea of selling one's soul is to give up freedom for knowledge? I wouldn't. Whatever is true about the universe stays that way whether I understand it or not. If I give up my freedom it is gone. If I give up awareness of truth, the awareness may be gone, but the truth remains. Knowledge is a luxury, freedom a necessity imo.
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05-19-2007, 06:06 PM #23"Do not argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." -- Mark Twain
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”---Samuel Johnson
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05-20-2007, 07:06 AM #24for my life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
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05-20-2007, 08:29 AM #25"Do not argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." -- Mark Twain
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”---Samuel Johnson
My blog: www.randommeanderings123.blogspot.com/
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05-20-2007, 08:36 AM #26
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05-20-2007, 02:48 PM #27
What would one do with all that knowledge anyway? I'd like to dispense justice, and ensure peace and harmony.
If I had ultimate knowledge, I'd know how to to it....Tempting.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
-- Unknown
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01-27-2013, 01:28 PM #28
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01-27-2013, 04:02 PM #29
Sell my soul for knowledge of the universe? Hmm...it's a very vague question. I think if I was to gain knowledge, I would be learning more about my soul than actually selling it. The OT story of Adam and Eve losing their place in Eden and being susceptible to (Earthly) death because of gaining knowledge might seem like such a problem at first, but in fact, their soul was sold to ignorant, material existence before gaining knowledge.
But, if you want to know if I would give up eternal life to gain knowledge of material existence, my answer would be No: once gaining knowledge of the whole of the Universe, I would realize that I should have known better.Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Schopenhauer