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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,609 posts)
Wed Apr 17, 2019, 11:41 PM Apr 2019

This is an interesting thing to watch, people selling their souls to the Devil.

It's been one of those legendary phenomena for centuries and now we get to watch it in real time. I guess a lot of folks don't quite understand what a Faustian bargain is, and why it always turns out to be a bad deal.

"It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... but for Trump?"

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This is an interesting thing to watch, people selling their souls to the Devil. (Original Post) The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2019 OP
Yes. Kath2 Apr 2019 #1
It's happened before C_U_L8R Apr 2019 #2
I wasn't aware that they had souls. BigmanPigman Apr 2019 #3
If they have them, they don't value them very much. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2019 #4
Fascists don't believe in the devil. ooky Apr 2019 #5
II Corinthians 6:2 .... I think defacto7 Apr 2019 #6
The old folks at home used to say "money is the root of all evil". KY_EnviroGuy Apr 2019 #7
Souls were sold HAB911 Apr 2019 #8

C_U_L8R

(44,990 posts)
2. It's happened before
Thu Apr 18, 2019, 12:07 AM
Apr 2019

Many times through history with many atrocities. I fear we're on a freaking hamster wheel.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,488 posts)
7. The old folks at home used to say "money is the root of all evil".
Thu Apr 18, 2019, 02:00 AM
Apr 2019

We're seeing that play out every day on an international scale and in real-time.

Excessive riches and power corrupt the best of men and they always have plenty of excuses and justifications.

Increasing global economic inequality, existing plutocracy hungry for more power, and a genetic human leaning toward self-centeredness and short-sightedness is taking us on a course of self-destruction.

It's a damn shame the planet we live on does not have the ultimate power of the veto......

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