for those who have a spiritual belief or an honest answer, i was wondering what your thoughts were...
Hiya Pino, welcome to the RF. I hope you enjoy your stay.
I will be happy to give you an honest answer.
which is worse:
selling your soul to the devil to get what you want
There are a few problems with the concept to begin with. Given the fact that neither the devil or the soul have been proven to exist, one might possibly question the logic of playing off one illusion to another for some hypothetical gain.
From a spiritual stance, the soul is not something you own, but rather, the soul is what you already are. That being the case the soul not something that can be used as collateral in a negotiation with any real or imagined being. In those terms why would you give yourself (and presumably your free will) to another for some personal gain? In my view, it is a self-defeating premise to begin with.
In my view and perhaps my view alone, there is nothing inherently bad in the act of suicide, however running away from reality is never the best way to deal with reality. In those terms, suicide is perhaps the very last option when all other avenues have been exhausted. The bottom line is, as a personality with goals to achieve you have already invested a tremendous amount of energy to get where you are right now. It would seem a bit pointless to toss it all away by giving into despair. In situations where a terminal patient is kept alive soley by modern medical techniques this line blurs considerably as without the medical support the patient would surely die. If a person cut off their meds knowing that doing so would result in their death, in this case, is it really suicide, as they are already living on
borrowed time.
i know from what i am taught, both are bad, but is one more of a mortal sin than the other?
I have no use for the concept of sin and am not terribly interested in questions of imagined morality.
if you have any notes/books/links online you recommend on this subject, it would be appreciated tremendously if they were marked. thanks!
I don't, no, but in theory some posters will paste links that support their imaginary lines of thought.
The bottom line is that both options given in the OP are not especially wise moves.