Stealing Souls, Satan can do it..can we? Options

I am curious, not because I am a satanist but because I really would want to do this. I always here of people (usually satanists) selling their souls or making a pact with a demon or something but is it possible for another human to infact give away their soul to another? My reasons for wanting to know your opinion are quite private but I just am wondering what you think.

Wha...? Let's consider that phrase for a second... you can steal a soul... for the purpose of evil certainly... but the purpose of good?

That's contradictory. If it were a 'good' purpose, why would you need to steal it? Stealing implies taking what is not yours, what is not owed, secreting it away from the person/place/thing who owned it. What good purpose could you have to steal a soul?

That sounds a bit like the idea of 'the ends justifies the means', which is an evil statement in and of itself, according to most philosophies.

care to explain that viewpoint?

peace

Well vagrant, what about someone who is already evil? Say a child murderer, and you stole their soul.....I mean doesnt the ends justify the means....A totally unlikely situation I confess but then again so is stealing souls to begin with.

Well vagrant, what about someone who is already evil? Say a child murderer, and you stole their soul.....I mean doesnt the ends justify the means....A totally unlikely situation I confess but then again so is stealing souls to begin with.

mmm, having never been in the presence of a person who was that evil, I can't confirm it for sure, but somehow I think those people have already given their souls up to the void, hence the twisted purpose they have taken into themselves.

And even if they do still have an intact soul, i'm not sure that's the sort of soul you want any sort of attachment to.

And in most cases, the ends does not justify the means. It is the means, not the end, that will usually mess you up by the time you get there.

What it comes down to is that 'stealing' a soul, comes from a position of ego. Stealing implies taking from someone/something for oneself, for whatever purpose. Outside the ego condition, such an action does not exist. Even if it is from someone judged 'evil' by those, it is also worth mentioning, inside the ego condition.

There is a better way to deal with that situation. If you are going to attempt to steal a soul, you're going to be fortifying the ego, seperating yourself from the divine, and thus pushing yourself to a lower density. Ultimately, it does you more harm than good.

You could argue the altruism of sacrificing your own nearness to divinity (in whatever form you choose to see it), by incurring such a condition on yourself by stealing the soul of someone you've judged to be evil, but in the end it's just selfish martyrdom, and what happens when you aren't rooted to a body anymore? The weight of that stolen soul is going to be a more realistic hinderence then.

You could say the ends justify the means in that case, but realistically there are other ways to go about meting out justice to evil doers, that would be just as effective, and far more selflessly altruistic.

peace

What it comes down to is that 'stealing' a soul, comes from a position of ego. Stealing implies taking from someone/something for oneself, for whatever purpose. Outside the ego condition, such an action does not exist. Even if it is from someone judged 'evil' by those, it is also worth mentioning, inside the ego condition.

There is a better way to deal with that situation. If you are going to attempt to steal a soul, you're going to be fortifying the ego, seperating yourself from the divine, and thus pushing yourself to a lower density. Ultimately, it does you more harm than good.

yes. good point. Appropriation of the soul by bully-boy tactics (usually cowardice). Usually an employer who has you by the short and curlies but more often than not, politicians who steal the identities of an entire country to satisfy and puff up their little selves.

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