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There are people on the net that
have nothing better to do with their time then be nasty to other
people online. They post rude comments, spend hours a day talking
about sites they hate so much, that they well, spend hours a day
talking about them. (lame) They mock the owners and posters for
their opinions and their right to free speech. They expect everyone
to fit into their narrow-minded little world view or else they throw
a temper tantrum.
To these people I say
grow up.
Here's a bit of info people...the
web is a HUGE place. If you don't like what I say here, or who I am,
or what I do, or talk about, or what I look like, or the color of my
hair, or whatever asinine thing you dwell on, go somewhere else.
It's really, really easy. Honest. You just click the little "x" in
the corner of your browser and *poof* the offending, big, mean and
nasty site has disappeared.
I pay for this site. It's mine.
That means I can use it for whatever the hell I want to. Don't like
it if I'm bitching about something in my life? Oh fucking well. Go
somewhere else. Think I'm stupid for expressing my thoughts? Too
fucking bad, don't read them. Somewhere along the line, someone
forgot this simple fact: Live and let live Don't like me,
cool, fine, whatever, I don't care. This journal is NOT for
you. It's for me. I'm not in it for popularity or fame or anything
stupid like that. I write it because I need to write and express
myself and get things out of my head sometimes. So read or don't, it
doesn't matter, but don't waste my time (or yours) bitching about
it.
*gets off soapbox*
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Want To Buy A Soul? So I was watching Heroes and Studio 60 last night and during the commercials, the local news was showing the quick tease ads with topics coming up at 11pm. One of them was about a guy who's planning on selling his soul. I admit, I was curious to see what it was all about. You can watch the video here as well.
Turns out, it's a local guy. Right near me in fact, who's put up a website called winmysoul.com. The premise is pretty simple. He's offering a chance to enter into a legal, binding contract which entitles you to certain rights over him for the rest of his life. It's a raffle, not an auction, so $1 gets you an entry. Some of the things he'll include is right to name his future kids, right to plan his wedding, percentage of taxable income every single year of his life, rights to a percentage of his intellectual property, right to a portion of his estate upon death and right to put a message on his tombstone. Other things include specific community service and volunteering requirements he will have to perform like donating blood and planting trees. My favorite though is that he will send you a card and present every year on his birthday as owner of his soul. Can't say he doesn't have a sense of humor. He also reserves the right to buy back his soul for the sum of $1 million dollars.
It's quite odd to say the least. He says it's merely a unique business proposal. And I suppose in some ways it is. If you gave $1 and won, you'd get a minimum of at least $500 a year in income. (The minimum he guarantees you for your share of his income.) And should he make a mint off of this idea, you'll make a million for him to void the contract.
Still, there's something disturbing about the whole thing. Not to mention a vague sense of distaste at the concept of "buying" another person's soul and the implications therein. I guess I just value the notion of one's spirit/soul/animating force/Self far too much to propose such an offer. Even if it becomes merely a legal contract. I exchanged a couple emails with him last night after seeing the report out of absolute curiosity. The guy seems normal enough when you converse with him, and yet...this is such a strange way of changing one's life. (Which is, he claims, the reason he's doing this.) I felt the need to warn him, however, that offering up so much to another. Perhaps it's because of my personal spirituality and experiences in the realm of the world's Mysteries, but, the Bard had it right when he said, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
I'm sure you'll be hearing about this in the coming weeks and months as it filters out into the net. But I just felt it was a unique subject to mention and that I'd throw the concept out there for discussion.
Can't say he doesn't have a sense of humor. He also reserves the right to buy back his soul for the sum of $1 million dollars.