• GreenShimada@lemmy.world
    31·
    9 days ago

    People have tried this for years. I had a friend that tried this back when ebay was new and you could sell nearly anything. No one bid on his piece of notebook paper with “The eternal soul of Jimmy _______” and ebay took it down without any explanation at all.

    That being said, I also had a friend that tried to sell a bunch of stuff an Ex had left at her place, and she got a very personal email from someone at ebay that said something like “Don’t be like this. Be better than this. Also, this violates our TOS, but really, you’re better than him, gurl!”

  • rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    9 days ago

    But the whole point of the soul is that it’s not a body part.

    It’s literally the defining characteristic of the soul, which differentiates it from the physical body, which rots once it’s dead, while the soul presumably does not.

    • Farid@startrek.website
      17·
      9 days ago

      The soul is currently part of a body. And I guess if you’re selling it for after it leaves the body eventually, it’s a pre-order, and possibly also against the eBay policy?

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
      11·
      9 days ago

      Yeah, bad mistake there. Also, you can buy allegedly haunted relics on eBay, so apparently it’s cool as long as the soul has been laundered. What’s the harshest non-slur word for stupid these days? Because this is that.

      Sidebar, apparently you can also pay to have people cast spells for you. My favourite was a $100 service that allegedly involves a nine-witch coven spending hundreds of man hours to cast anything you wish. If that’s not some kind of money laundering scam I’ll be severely disappointed.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 days ago

        What’s the harshest non-slur word for stupid these days? Because this is that.

        now now, don’t be derogatory over a definitional issue. people of different cultural traditions define the soul differently. also i hear etsy has taken witch spells off the menu because of captain popsoff, but that might have been that specific coven having an oh shit did we actually do this moment. i bet you could place a personal on craigslist or something tho

    • Fushuan [he/him]
      5·
      9 days ago

      That’s Plato’s viewpoint, Aristotle’s is that soul and body are one, not separate.

      Most philosophy about souls evolved from those two viewpoints and they are still valid concepts since we can’t really know yet.

    • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      It is still something a human needs to live, so in spirit I’d say it would be against ToS to sell it (presuming it was real, of course)

  • SSETranquility@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 days ago

    One of my favorite things to do is peruse the haunted dolls on ebay. Authentically haunted. It gets complicated, but the website navigates the red tape really well.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      It’s a Tumblr thing. You can’t edit posts but you can add hashtags

      • a_random_fox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        You can edit posts, adding tags like that is done to provide commentary on the post that doesn’t get attached to further reblogs (unless someone copies it into their own reblog addition like in the screenshot here)