Have you ever considered selling your soul? Here’s a site that gives you a two-page questionnaire and then calculates the dollar value of your soul, just in case the opportunity to sell it ever arises:
Your soul is worth £22617 ($38,935.17 - Thank God for the weak dollar, sounds more impressive this way!). For your peace of mind, 43% of people have a purer soul than you.
NICE! I could buy a WHOLE lotta bagpipes with this kind a coin!
Wow, I’m impressed. More by the fact that only 13% of the people are above you than by the dollar value. Maybe you could call up Robert Johnson through a medium. I’ll bet he could put you onto something.
Good advice, Wombat. But consider the unfairness.
Aristotle and his Catholic incarnation, Aquinas,
maintain each of us has THREE souls.
A vegetative soul, which enables the animal
to digest food, breathe, excrete. This is still
there in a PVS.
An animal soul, which enables the animal
to locomote and perceive.
A rational soul, which enables the animal to
think and will. This soul alone can survive
the death of the animal, as a truncated remnant,
until it is re-embodied at the resurrection.
Elendil, therefore, can sell all three souls if he chooses.
Or better still, sell the first two,
invest the money in long-term bonds,
keep the rational soul, and collect a fortune
when he is re-embodied at the
resurrection.
I really think this has more to do with what the buyer believes than what you believe Jim. With the right buyer, you’ll do just as well as Elendil. Just keep a poker face through the transaction.
Poker face it is. Do you think elendil wants six souls?
Oh yes, I see, he could sell five. As said above,
Christians have all the fun.
Of course if I’m a HIndu and believe that
each individual’s soul is really the World Soul,
I should be able to makea whole LOT of money
in the transaction. The problem is that we
all have the same soul, so I would need your
consent to sell mine (yours). We would have
to ask for collective compensation, as
when a tribe of Indians is re-imbursed
collectively for land taken by the government.
But could we all keep a poker face?
Actually, I questioned it too, Steve…I’m not that great a person. So I did it again and came up with a value of $48,443, with 38% of people having a purer soul. This sounds much more reasonable to me. I don’t know what the difference was…maybe I was more awake than the first time. I’ll settle for that - it’d more than pay off my debts.
Susan
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? " —Jesus Christ (St. Mark 8:36-37)
I’m neither Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, Pagon, Hindu, Muslum, Bahai, Sikh, Tao, Zorastist, Jain, Zen, Confused, Neanderthal, Zionist, nor any of the primative or modern religions.
I’m just human. How will I know if/when I get one, and how can I tell if someone else has one?
PS: first things first before take the test, unless you’re saying that soul is equivilant to character–I know I’m a character!
Not kidding here:
125487 pounds.
Only 2% purer than me…
hmmm…
In Canadian, that is … a whole heck of a lot of money…
I’d practically be a millionaire.
278,572.41 Canadian dollars
On the other hand… this brings to mind a story I read once of a man who sold his soul to a demon, got a great life (not amazing, but nothing bad happened, good wife family house etc) and when the demon came to collect his soul, the man figured a way out of a puzzle that the demon gave, and ended up telling his former self not to sign the deal, and he got the same life…