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[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 55 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You've sold your soul for a very slightly better handjob. Nowhere does the contract say it's mind-blowingly better.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The devil has to go first so he won't know how much better to make it.

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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 6 points 3 weeks ago

In my expirience i will always win unless the handjob is within 5-10 days of distance because every handjob after the first one is just not as good in that window of time

If he waits i can just continue until he gets bored or i forget for more than 5-10 days

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Send us both to heaven. The last person to leave heaven loses.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So, you're both in heaven and the last person to leave loses, assuming you mean just out of the two of you (since this is about winning a competition against the devil), the devil would leave immediately and win. Are you assuming the devil can't then claim your soul since you're already in heaven? Why not just make it "the last one to leave wins" and then you and the devil are in a staying-in-heaven stalemate.

[–] RmDebArc_5@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The Devil technically didn't win if you don't leave heaven

[–] xylol@leminal.space 3 points 3 weeks ago

Why would he leave you there after winning if you lost your soul at that point

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[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure they meant first one to leave loses (or last one to leave wins) and just had a brain fart.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

He's a magical being. Any competition is pointless, you'll lose. It's just another way to torture people.

I'd refuse. What's he going to do? Torture me?

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The old story/song, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," isn't about a young man winning a bet against the Devil that he's a better fiddle player. It's the devil tricking poor Johnny into the sins of pride and greed.

The Devil pretended to lose so that Johnny would think that he was the best fiddle player in the world, even better than the all-powerful devil himself. (Pride) And then Johnny claims a reward of a solid-gold fiddle. (Greed) Johnny just cursed his soul to damnation, thinking he could actually beat the devil at his own game. It was a no-win scenario; the devil claims his soul either way.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is emphasized in the song by the fact that the Devil's fiddling is way better than Johnny's.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well the fucker cheated (surprise surprise) by having a band of demons join in.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

That was just for flair. The isolated fiddle part was better alone anyway

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

The interpretation I’ve heard is that the Devil does genuinely lose, because he doesn’t understand the cultural aspects of what it means to “fiddle.”

Like, what’s the difference between a fiddle and a violin? They’re the same instrument, but played differently. The Devil is able to master the technical aspects, but the point of a fiddle is to play songs to get people to dance - standards that they know and love. It’s not about hitting all the notes right, it’s about being the right kind of performer.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It was a no-win scenario

Johnny could have just said "Beat it, dipshit." When the devil offered him a bet.

[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yrah, he could have said "beat it, just beat it."

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

But he didn't want to be defeated!

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[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

Arguably wrath too ("I done told you once, you son of a bitch"). Also, isn't God the only thing you could reasonably call the Devil's parent? Did Johnny call God a bitch?

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[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 10 points 3 weeks ago

People may say, "Well Charlie Daniels beat him."

Charlie Daniels is also a magical creature.

So is Les Claypool. (Primus covered it)

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

The dumbest thing he could do is appear and offer a deal.

If He exists, than so does God, so it makes sense to be good, because you know it's worth it in the end.

Which gives a different slant to the saying 'the best trick the Devil ever pulled was making people stop believing in Him.'

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No, magic stuff is for nerds so it's always some logic puzzle....

....just challenge him to a devil defeating competition. You win, he's defeated. He wins he's defeated. Either way he has to wither and die.

That's just how nerds be.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

damn, if I get to choose.. then it is not a fair game.

first, if he is there threating me to go to hell, then it is safe to assume that heaven is real.

challenge him to do something against his nature.

Challenge him to be the better kindest person, can't be a kind person if he sends people to hell.

Challenge him to enter heaven by merit.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The devil doesn’t send people to Hell. God does. The devil is just there to receive and punish the people God determined weren’t good enough for Heaven.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"He's sending us to eternal damnation because he loves us!"

-Christians who are in an abusive relationship with their god.

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[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hell, I don't even think canonically he has any kind of official position. The Devil isn't Hades. Hades has an official position - he's Lord of the Underworld. He's just as much a deity as any of the other Greek pantheon.

But the Devil? I imagine Hell as just a giant hole in the ground where God throws things he doesn't like. As the oldest and most powerful being in Hell, the Devil ends up running the place by default, but it's not a position of divinely-granted authority. He's just as much a prisoner there as anyone else. The jail just has no guards, so the prisoners end up running things.

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

First, the existence of hell does not necessitate the existence of heaven. The existence of the Devil doesn't even require a God. Maybe that's just the story we tell ourselves because the truth is too bleak.

technically true, based on pure logic.

but lets face it, if I see a creature from the lore of certain religion, it would be a reasonable assumption to expect other aspects of their mythology.

finding a bit of gold in a river could mean that I have found all the gold in that area and there's no point in searching. but come on.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I challenge the devil to end world hunger forever. First one to feed the world wins.

I suppose there could be some monkey paw-esque shenanigans killing billions, but at this point we might as well let a non-human cosmic being do it.

If he feeds everyone great, if he kills a ton of people at least the climate crisis is sorted and thousands if not millions of animal species are saved. I avoid the moral implications since the intent was to feed people and the devil picked the evilnest option. But honestly I think they would just solve world hunger a more normal way.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Just one catch: the reason we have world hunger is not the number of people or a shortage of food. It's just politics, power abuse and warfare. Unless those dynamics change we could be a tenth of the current world population and still have famine.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh I'm aware, but we're talking about the devil here.

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[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A humility competition.

I'm not the most humble person in the world, far from it. But I think I can (probably) at least beat the Devil in that. I mean, the dude thought he was better than God. He is, literally canonically, the most prideful being in existence.

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[–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Apparently his fiddle game is trash, or so I hear.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

Why does this post feel like someone applied the Facebook CSS to the 4chan HTML?

[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Or you get your hands removed

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't think I could do it with 2 nubs?

[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Would be a nubjob, and wouldn't be as hard to be better than.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

So you say...

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

But then you could get robot devil hands and play the shit out of a holophoner to win the love of a one eyed alien babe

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A philanthropism challenge. Improve the world the most. I'll lose, but whatever I do, he'll top. And then it'll trigger the self sacrifice clause (which I can't know about beforehand) and I'll win anyway.

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[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

Long jumping… through the pearly gates.

Presuming the existence of ‘the devil’ confirms a certain mythology.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Whoever dies first wins. At least he wouldn't get your soul!

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think I'd beat him in "self-loathing". /s

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 3 weeks ago

Considering that Lucifer was basically a narcissist, that tracks.

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