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What real serious answer about this, i really want to know how to make a deal with the devil?

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If you find out, let me know. I don't think there is a devil but the way the world is, I think most people are prepared to give up god. If there ever was a god, hes done a shiit job and maybe its time the devil stepped up and started running things.
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  • Sonya by Sonya
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    when you find out please let me know.
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  • robgently by robgentl...
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    The Devil, like God, has never been adequately demonstrated to have actually appeared to anyone.

    But if you've got WAY too much time on your hands... check out the hyperlink.

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  • Dancer_101 by Dancer_1...
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    first of all why would u want to make a deal with the devil i doubt its even possible becus the devil only goes for either bad people or people he needs to do his bidding its way better up in heaven
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  • quickblur by quickblu...
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    Challenge him to a fiddle contest :)

    But seriously, there's no such thing as the devil so it don't bother trying to find him.
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  • icequeen by icequeen
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    My ex is not available for interviews at this time
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  • Rose by Rose
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    Phone him up, his number is 66666 666666. Then say you have his trident, and if he doesn't give you a years supply of baked beans you'll give it to God.
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  • *bubbles* by *bubbles...
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    Well his # is 1-800-SELL YOUR SOAL....you have to leave a message.......
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  • Vess by Vess
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    Please don't! You'll have to sell your soul for your lifetime here on earth for an eternity in Hell. I don't believe that is an even bargain!!!

    Hell is not fun you will really feel yourself burning alive FOREVER....and that never ends. It's not worth it please don't do it.
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  • bannycon by bannycon
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    brother you dont know what you are planning to do. DO NOT trod on satan's ground,he is subtle and u cannot win nor fool him beware.Instead make deal with GOD and you would be better.
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  • Tnia R by Tnia R
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    Why don't you ask good ol' George W?
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  • Ä$§å$§ïñ ÇÇ™ - $t£ãlTh ®êQúÎrèD by Ä$§å$§ïñ ÇÇ™ - $t£ãlTh ®êQúÎrèD
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    You want to go to a crossroad.

    While youre there, tell him hes NOT getting a refund for my soul.

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    :P
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  • im_a_vampire by im_a_vam...
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    first sacrafice a goat on an altair, use its blood to make a large six sidded star within a circle, put a candle on each of the points and then put a round bowl in the center, cut your palm with a switch-blade pour your blood in the bowl then whil your doing that say "oh mighty satan! i ofer you my soul for a tade!"

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    i dont recomend this though
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  • David W by David W
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    this is serios, anything can happen if you make a deal with the devil! dont do it! you could ruin your entire life! besides the devil would have to come to you, im sure he messes with other peoples minds, and can be tricky and may kill your own family. sometimes more worse things will happen.........
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  • kilroymaster by kilroyma...
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    First can you tell me as to what is going on in your life that is so bad that you wis to make a deal with the devil... I know that very pew people understand this fact... But you can not sell your soul to the devil for you don't have owner-ship of your soul... Yes believe this or not your soul is only on loan to you from God.... So what do you think that you have that is worth Satan taken the time to make a deal with you................. And for those of you that believe that you have made a deal with Satan... Will realizes that your pack with Satan will shorten your lives more than you may be willing to believe or accept.....................
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  • ancient by ancient
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    i answered this before. i will give you to the devil if you dont follow my other advice. but that is your decision. you will meet him, you will make a 'deal' with him, but you wont come back. you wont believe me, but you will....when you meet him. i can help you. but you will pay.
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  • The Grey Werewolf by The Grey Werewolf
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    I can help you but im not saying anything here in public veiw.
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  • Blackangel by Blackang...
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    It's never the devil, because it doen't exsist, there are powers out there that can be called for what you would ask.
    Often they are other entities using the name of the devil.
    I suggest you email The Grey Wolf for advice, because you don't want to know what I know.
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  • sunny by sunny
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    A deal with the Devil, pact with the Devil, or Faustian bargain is a cultural motif widespread wherever the Devil is vividly present, most familiar in the legend of Faust and the figure of Mephistopheles, but elemental to many Christian folktales. In the Aarne-Thompson typological catalogue, it lies in category AT 756B – "The devil's contract."
    According to traditional Christian belief in witchcraft, the pact is between a person and Satan or any other demon (or demons); the person offers his or her soul in exchange for diabolical favours. Those favours vary by the tale, but tend to include youth, knowledge, wealth, or power. It was also believed that some persons made this type of pact just as a sign of recognising the Devil as their master, in exchange for nothing. Regardless, the bargain is a dangerous one, for the price of the Fiend's service is the wagerer's soul. The tale may have a moralizing end, with eternal damnation for the foolhardy venturer. Conversely it may have a comic twist, in which a wily peasant outwits the Devil, characteristically on a technical point. Among the credulous, any apparently superhuman achievement might be credited to a pact with the Devil, from the numerous European Devil's Bridges to the superb violin technique of Niccolo Paganini.
    It was usually thought that the person who had made a pact also promised the demon to kill children or consecrate them to the Devil at the moment of birth (many midwives were accused of this, due to the number of children that died at birth in the Middle Age and Renaissance), take part in Sabbaths, have sexual relations with demons, and sometimes engender children from a succubus, or incubus in the case of women.
    The pact can be oral or written. An oral pact is made by means of invocations, conjurations, or rituals to attract the demon; once the conjurer thinks the demon is present, he/she asks for the wanted favour and offers his/her soul in exchange, and no evidence is left of the pact; but according to some witch trials and inquisitions that were performed, even the oral pact left evidence, namely the diabolical mark, an indelible mark that could be used as a proof to determine that the pact was made. A written pact consists in the same forms of attracting the demon, but includes a written act, usually signed with the conjurer's blood (although sometimes was also alleged that the whole act had to be written with blood, meanwhile some demonologists defended the idea of using red ink instead of blood and others suggested the use of animal blood instead of human blood).
    These acts were presented often as a proof of diabolical pacts, though critics claim there is no proof of whether they were authentic, written by insane persons believing they were actually dealing with a demon or just were fake acts presented by the tribunals of the Inquisition. Usually the acts included strange characters that were said to be the signature of a demon, and each one had his own signature or seal. Books like The Lesser Key of Solomon (also known as Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis) give a detailed list of these signs, known as seal of the demons.
    According to demonology, there is a specific month, day of the week, and hour to call each demon, so the invocation for a pact has to be done at the right time. Also, as each demon has a specific function, a certain demon is invoked depending on what the conjurer is going to ask.
    The meaning of the term deal with the devil has expanded its meaning to include exchanges which do not involve the devil, but involve pursuing a goal (e.g. revenge) by taking actions that are evil (e.g. murder).
    Theophilus, servant of two masters
    The predecessor of Faustus in Christian mythology is Theophilus ("Friend of God" or "Beloved of god") the unhappy and despairing cleric, disappointed in his worldly career by his bishop, who sells his soul to the Devil but is redeemed by the Virgin Mary.[1] His story appears in a Greek version of the sixth century written by a "Eutychianus" who claims to have been a member of the household in question. A ninth-century Miraculum Sancte Marie de Theophilo penitente inserts a Jew as intermediary with diabolus, his "patron", providing the prototype of a closely-linked series in the Latin literature of the West.[2] In the tenth century, the poet nun Hroswitha of Gandersheim adapted the text of Paulus Diaconis for a narrative poem that elaborates Theophilus' essential goodness and internalizes the forces of Good and Evil, in which the Jew is magus, a necromancer. As in her model, Theophilus receives back his contract from the Virgin, displays it to the congregation, and soon dies. A long poem on the subject by Gautier de Coincy (1177/8 – 1236), entitled Comment Theophilus vint a penitence provided material for a thirteenth-century play by Rutebeuf, where Theophilus is the central pivot in a frieze of five characters, the Virgin and the Bishop flanking him on the side of Good, the Jew and the Devil on the side of Evil.
    Alleged diabolical pacts in history
    Musicians
    The idea of "selling your soul for instrumental prowess/fame" has occurred several times within music usually in guitar dominated genres and more specifically in heavy metal. Blues mans cross roads, located in Tchula Junction, Mississippi, is said to be the universal meeting grounds for such exchange. It was said that in your twenty-seventh year the devil would come to collect his property.
    • Niccolo Paganini, Italian violinist, who may not have started the rumour but played along with it.[3]
    • Tommy Johnson, blues musician[4]
    • Robert Johnson, blues musician, who claimed to have met with Satan at the crossroads and signed over his soul to play the blues.[5]
    • Tommy Davis, blues musician, who likely cribbed the same story from Robert Johnson.[citation needed]
    Non-Musicians
    • Urbain Grandier A notorious case of a diabolical pact was the one that cost Urbain Grandier his life. One of the pacts was redacted in Latin; the other is written in abbreviated, backwards Latin (which is readable when reversed), and signed by several "demons", one of them Satan, whose name was clearly written "Satanas" (see the article on Urbain Grandier for the original pact).
    • Gilles de Rais (executed)
    • Johann Georg Faust Likely source for the Faust legend.
    Diabolical pacts in films
    • The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
    • Doctor Faustus (1967): a film based on Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Andreas Teuber.
    • Bedazzled (1967)
    • Rosemary's Baby (1968): Guy Woodhouse offers his son to the devil for wealth and success.
    • Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
    • Crossroads (1986)
    • Angel Heart (1987)
    • The Little Mermaid (1989): Ariel, the little mermaid, trades her voice to Ursula, the sea witch, for a chance to interact with humans.
    • The Day of the Beast (1995):
    • The Devil's Advocate (1997): A Florida attorney begins working for a law firm that is run by the Devil.
    • H-E Double Hockey Sticks (1999): A devil-in-training convinces a rising hockey star to sell him his soul for the Stanley Cup.
    • Bedazzled (2000)
    • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
    • Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006)
    • Ghost Rider (2007): A young stunt rider sells his soul to the demon Mephisto to cure his father's cancer.
    • Faust (1926) Faust makes a pact with the devil to save the town from plauge, with disaterous results. Directed by F.W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman and Camilla Horn.
    In print
    • The Malleus Maleficarum has plenty of allusions to these pacts, especially concerning women. It was considered that all witches and warlocks had made a pact with some demon, especially with Satan.
    • In many variants of the Aarne-Thompson type 361, of which Bearskin is an instance, the hero escapes, but the devil still comes off the better: the heroine's sisters have killed themselves, and he has gained two souls instead of one.
    • The story of Theophilus of Adana, a saint who made a deal with the devil, predates the Faust legend and is a likely partial inspiration.
    • The compact between human hubris and diabolical intelligence raises the old tale to its cultural peak in Goethe's Faust.
    • Spider-Man made a deal with Mephisto, a demon in the Marvel Universe who is often mistaken for Satan. In exchange for the dissolution of his marriage with Mary Jane Watson, Mephisto promised to save his Aunt May. This happened in the storyline "One More Day".
    Other works depicting deals with the Devil include:
    • The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe.
    • Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
    • Faust, opera by Charles Gounod.
    • Mefistofele, opera by Arrigo Boito.
    • Mephisto, novel by Klaus Mann
    • The Master and Margarita, novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
    • "The Devil and Tom Walker", a short story by Washington Irving
    • "The Devil and Daniel Webster", short story based off of the Washington Irving story; by Steven Vincent Benét.
    • "Pan Twardowski", poem by Adam Mickiewicz
    • "Gimmicks Three", by Isaac Asimov
    • "That Hell-Bound Train", by Robert Bloch
    • Rosemary's Baby, novel by Ira Levin
    • Jack Faust, novel by Michael Swanwick
    • Damn Yankees, musical theatre production and film by George Abbott and Stanley Donen
    • "The Bet", by Anton Chekhov
    • The Lost Kings, by Andrew Reimann
    • Memnoch the Devil, by Anne Rice
    • Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • The Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde A man makes a pact with the devil. His portrait shall grow older, but he shall not.
    In music
    • "Devil Went Down to Georgia" by The Charlie Daniels Band, a song about a fiddle conte
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  • 3sa by 3sa
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    ever heard of the 'crossroads'. great story. it just may work
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