Thursday, March 31, 2016
What Good Comes out of Selling Your Soul?
While reading and discussing Dr. Faustus in class we all posed the question "would you ever sell your soul?" This question has been so interesting to me especially with hearing everyone's answers to the question. Some people said they would do it, they don't mind giving them up for anything. Others said that if it were something like a trade for all of humanity, then sure. Then there were people like me who said that they would not do it at all. To me your soul is sacred, and is your way of connecting with your higher power. If it wasn't valuable or worth keeping, then there would never be a reason for anything demonic trying to take it. I think that it is important to keep that connection to better understand who you are. When describing someone with no soul we tend to associate it with being boring, bleak, sarcastic, heartless, and aloof. So why would someone even consider selling it when we glorify the happy, outgoing person in our society? All of those characteristics are also not very good ones; they are at least not something we would want to be described as.
I ended up looking up what other people have said about this subject and I found one I thought was a good way of explaining why not to in terms of people who don't believe in a higher power. It says "If you sell your soul to get ahead it will cost more than you bargained for. When you ean your success and never take something for nothing, no one can lay claim to what's rightfully yours. My biggest investors, now deceased,ask nothing of me. They are the only ones I owe for a debt I can never repay; but it's the only kind that will ever be worth carrying." I thought this quote gave some great insight on to why it would not be a good thing to do besides the fact that it is immoral. It is also a good thing to keep in the back of your mind about anything else because the devil will chip at your soul piece by piece without you noticing, so always do good for yourself and others. The devil has a sweet voice, but just make sure your's is sweeter.
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Good. Just develop societal connection a bit more specifically.
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