With the new year fast approaching I thought it might be interesting to engage in a little fantasizing. A bit of a fantasy never hurts now and then and it can sometimes tell us where we are grounded and where we are not. So here goes. Just answer the question in a million words or less…
If you were approached by the devil and offered a price to sell your soul into eternal damnation, what would you want in return?
To offer some food for thought, I was contemplating something like this: Being returned to the year 1969, with a 20 year old body, one billion pounds sterling tax free and a guarantee I would live to at least 99 years of age disease-free regardless of lifestyle.
What about you?
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Eternal damnation? For that price I would want to be able to make humans more compassionate. The world being a kinder place…yeah I could go to hell for that.
Interesting question noz.
It’s interesting that you would go for the bigger picture. Not many people would think about making a difference that ultimately would affect a positive change beyond themselves. Pain tends to get us lost in our own little world and it’s one of the things that I hate about being in pain. It isolates us from everyone else and I damned sure don’t concern myself with the rest of humanity much anymore – and that isn’t what I want to be.
It was a tad selfish on my part. I have people and pets I love. I’d like a world where they can be safe and happy.
To be reborn as a mass of amoebas so I could clone myself indefinitely and take over the world.
^ that would be great. With you running the world I would get to laugh everyday. oh wait, I already do when I come here and read your comments/posts! :p
🙂 @ xan
I was going to say something annoy too! Everyone to have empathy for others.. For then so much of the cruelty in the world would end
I would ask for a friend of mine to never hurt again.. I feel eternally damned anyway, but I’d gladly suffer for eternity so my friend didn’t have to suffer ever again…
I would not make the deal. Eternity is a long time – it’s literally forever, infinity, never ends. I am suffering now, but at least I know it’s finite. I hope that when it’s over it’s really over and there is no afterlife. This life has been filled with punishment enough, injustice, abuse, being taken advantage of and I’ve been weak, I haven’t fought back, I’ve had no dignity and that’s my fault. Even if there is a heaven and if that’s where I go I won’t enjoy it anyway because I’ll still be me and I’ll still be an anxiety ridden mess.
I’d like to say something about other people but honestly I think I’d be happy with eternal damnation if I got shit ton of weed, hot women, fuck ton of alcohol, boning time staying power up by about a minute, for the women’s sake, I’m not greedy lol. And the chance to kick the devil in the nuts once a day for the rest of eternity I think that alone would be worth eternal damnation
the devil came up to me one day, returned my soul, and said “get out, your too big an asshole to be here. your kind aint welcome here.” so, being barred from the great reward and barred from eternal damnation, i think i would have to say, i would trade my soul to anybody or anything for just a nice, quiet place to exist until my time comes.
I wouldn’t make a deal w/ the devil (nor do I believe in heaven/hell anymore but that’s beside the point), BUT if a genie popped out of a lamp and gave me even one wish (yea i believe in genies popping out of lamps), I think I would’t wish to be young again because I wouldn’t relish the idea of living all these decades again, but maybe I would if I had a chance at a do-over. Anyway this is the kind of question where the answer changes depending on where you are in life, (of course), and right now honestly, I’d wish to be living in a modest house in the perfect setting w/ just the right amount of money (not too much, not too little) and most of all, w/ the guy who left me 7 months ago.
I’d ask of the genie the fulfillment of the dream that my guy promised but didn’t make good on. Perhaps it wouldn’t be heaven on earth but damnit I want a chance to try. That’s all I effing want.