re: What does it mean to “sell your soul to the devil?”

This guy gambled with his and won a fiddle of gold.

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How much does a soul weigh?

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A guilty man's is as heavy as gold,
A child's as light as a feather.

Typically done for money .

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What does it mean to “sell your soul to the devil?”

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I don’t think this is possible, but I assume it means to live a life that glorifies the Devil instead of God.

It’s impossible to sell your soul because that is the essence and reality of who you are. The human egoic personality is just the costume that you wear in this particular incarnation of your soul. As the Buddhist and Hindu religion teach, this dimension is ultimately an illusion or waking dream where you evolve spiritually. Earth school. And everyone has a different curriculum based on your karmic requirements.

Ask Ted Cruz,senator from Texas. Trump insulted his wife and family. In return , he knelt and kissed Trump's arse. Then you have Lindsey Graham. Tells the nation Trump is incompetent then kneels to kiss his arse. Finally you have all of the Republicans who put their party over their country in denying the results of the 2020 election. They can all join Faust in hell.

It’s like when Trump let Fauci do what he wanted to and started talking up the jab. I’m pretty sure he traded his soul for another term but the devil reneged, took his soul but didn’t give him another term.

Ask Joe Biden, ask Hitlery Clinton, ask Obama.

Robert Johnson was born to a sharecropper in the Mississippi delta in 1911. His family was among the poorest of the poor in the Delta and Robert took up playing Juke Joints to make ends meet. His wife had moved away to have their first-born baby and both she and the baby died before he could get to them.

He was a fellow bluesman to Son House and Willie Brown and made 29 blues recordings before he died. He was pretty much an unknown as were many bluesmen until the music industry "Discovered blues" in the 1950s.

He never had any success playing after Son House and Willie Brown in his early days. Then he disappeared for 18 months and showed up one night at a juke joint where they were playing and blew the doors off the place with his playng and singing the blues. From that point on, he was pretty much considered a master of blues.

Those who played around him before and after questioned how he gained such talent in such a short period of time.

The story grew that Johnson went "Down to the Crossroads", which is the intersection of Highways 61 and 49, just east of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he met the Devil one night. He handed his guitar to the Devil, who tuned it and handed it back to him, promising fame as a musician of the blues if he would give up his soul.

It supposedly happened just before that eventful night when he showed back up to play and sing as no one had ever heard him before.

Johnson never tried to stop the story. IN fact, he played on it in his music and songs he wrote.

HIs family says that rather meeting the Devil, he met a bluesman named Ike Zimmerman in Hazelhurst, MS and learned from him over the 18 months.

Did he sell his soul? After returning to the Juke Joints in the Delta, he met a girl from a very religious family and got her pregnant. Her family had heard the story and forbid her from seeing him ever again.

When he lost his second wife and child, Johnson hit the whisky, women, and juke joints with tenacity. He recorded 29 songs. In August 1938, Johnson died near Greenwood, Mississippi at the age of 27.

While his death certificate states he died of complications of syphilis, his family, storytellers and researchers allege that his whisky was poisoned at a bar called Three Forks in Banks, Mississippi, after Johnson was found to be in an affair with the wife of one of the owners.

Here is a funny suspicious thing about selling your soul.

Johnson’s death at 27 years old, coupled with the myth of the crossroads, is said to be the basis of the infamous “27 Club,” which is a collection of troubled music artists who died at the age of 27 after dealing with their various demons. Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse are all among the group of very talented musicians who met an early death at the height of their careers.

There is a Robert Johnson Blues Museum in Crystal Springs, MS, just south of Jackson, honoring the legendary immensely talented artist who is largely credited with bringing the blues to what it is today and influencing hundreds of bluesmen and modern rock musicians.

I would say, Be careful, lest you find yourself "At the Crossroads".