i would also do it several times, of course, if the first buyer does not want to pay me enough.

any offers welcome

cheers guys

al

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sarcasmo e come un cane mordace che, oltre a mordere, ha imparato a ridere. f.n.

Actually there is one major misinterpretation in the Hungarian language concenrning the soul…

The Holy Ghost in Hungarian is called Szentlélek (Holy Soul), but actually the Holy Ghost is Szent Szellem.

So, be careful about it.

Maybe we can call ’sell your soul’ correctly to ’sell your life’.

I was 18 years old, after the first semester of the architect University. I failed many exams couse the lack of interest towards the profession I have studied. I thought it will be interesting as analitical geometry is, but after a short time of period of studies I realized that my place is somewhere else than this institute of dullness.

So I decieded to withdraw for 3 days to analyse the situation and make a final decision concerning to continue or break my studies. After 3 days of I made a compromise: I have to continue the studies even if I suffer from the really bad environment and pedagogy. Only 5 years, and after that I’ll have a profession of my father. I can continue what he had started, I’ll have even a small company based on this profile.

Even if I thought this compromise is a good decision, in fact I tried to sell my soul…
Fortunatelly my desire was much more stronger to finish this awfull so-called studies, so after a short period of time I have quit. That was a real escape from slavery.

I find this a very interesting article because like you and a lot of people I know, I have often contemplated, what is this thing we keep calling the soul?

So, in my opinion you have two different topics in your article. The first one is “the soul” and the second one is “selling your soul”. To me these seem to be two different topics not closely but somewhat related, especially once you try and put a definition of the world soul.

I would like to examine the topic of the SOUL only here first, because to me “selling ones soul” relates more to compromising one’s principles or scruples.

Lets start by asking the question, does the soul really exist? And, if so, can we explain what it is. As our good friend Attila points out, “You can not sell your soul unless you have the soul”

First let’s get a little help from my old friend Webster’s New World College Dictionary. The dictionary definition of soul: soule is akin to the German word seele, and the Gothic word saiwala….that belonging to the sea, from the early Germanic belief that souls originated in and return to the sea: 1) an entity which is regarded as being the immortal or spiritual part of the person and, though having no physical or material reality, is credited with the function of thinking and willing, and hence determining all behavior 2) the moral or emotional nature of a human being 3) spiritual or emotional warmth 4) vital or essential part, quality, or principal (brevity is the soul of wit) 5) the person who leads or dominates; central figure(Daniel Boon, soul of the frontier) 6) embodiment; personification (the very soul of kindness) 8 ) the spirit of a dead person, thought of as separate from the body and leading an existence of it’s own.

Soulful full of or showing deep feeling.

Soulless lacking soul, sensitivity, or deepness of feeling; without spirit or inspiration.

Thus if I believe I have a soul I would have to say it is my immortal spirit which will live on after it separates from my body when the mortal part of me has reached its end. (one side note here is that no one knows when they will die, so it comforts us to a great degree to think or believe we will exist after we die, thus fearing death less then if we believed the opposite). So, when we talk about someone who has died we say it the nice way,
“have you heard the news, Paul Madacsi passed away/on”.

Will my soul/spirit/mind/will, be/go somewhere after my body has ceased to function? No one really knows the answer to this intriguing question that surely has been asked countless times from the beginning of human existence.

If you believe in the afterlife through the soul here are some really thought provoking questions.

How would you live your life if you knew for certain there is no after life, that death is the end and there is nothing to pass on?

How would you live your life if you knew for certain there is an after life, I like to refer to it as soul life?

What would soul life be like?

What would the soul look like?

Where would the soul go to?

Would all the soul’s who ever existed be there?

Would the soul then exist forever or would it also have a soul span?

My friends, as you can see the list could go on and on and one question can beg many more. I will address the other part of Attila’s question about “selling your soul” at a latter time. To do this however, in my opinion, you must believe the soul does exist and is immortal.

For now my friends, SOUL LONG!