NEH127 - Stupid, Wordy, Entrapping Terms of Service Contracts vs Simple, Clear, Public, Generational Covenants
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast
Matt Whitman
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Have you sat in thought about how many total words of terms of service contracts you have bound yourself and possibly your ancestors to? |
| 0:30.0 | I've been thinking about it. I mean I bought a TV like just a little monitor to do work on a while back and I had to sign all these terms of service to get it |
| 0:39.2 | I bought a game where you go to like Mad Max Planet in space and you shoot like mean |
| 0:45.6 | mutant monsters and stuff I had to accept the terms of I had to make a |
| 0:49.8 | contract with them that I had to agree to with my name the name that I had to agree to, with my name, the name that was handed |
| 0:54.9 | down to me by my ancestors who carefully cared for it and curated it through the generations |
| 1:00.9 | so that now I would have it. the name that I currently bear the torch of for better or for worse the name I will hand off I had to put that name on my agreement to play the space video game where I shoot purple plasma guns at space |
| 1:16.8 | monsters. That's a lot of terms of service contracting that I have done and it's starting to catch up with me and I'm starting to not feel real good about it |
| 1:27.2 | But it's not just me. I mean this is how society is at this point. We are overly litigious |
| 1:32.4 | So much complexity goes into the contract making |
| 1:36.2 | that no one knows what they're obligated to. Probably because of the way we write |
| 1:40.7 | laws and the way we write contracts, every single one of us is living in a state of |
| 1:46.1 | perpetual guilt before the government, that if at any given point it made sense for them to call |
| 1:50.8 | in that guilt they could, and also every single one of us is |
| 1:54.1 | living in probably some state of perpetual breach of contract with |
| 1:58.8 | thousands of people and companies we don't even remember making a contract with but we just |
| 2:05.0 | wanted to play a game where monkeys pop balloons and so I just clicked some |
| 2:09.1 | stuff and I guess now I'm somehow in breach of contract with you or something. |
| 2:14.1 | This is a weird way to live, and it's a weird way to think about your name. |
| 2:18.7 | It's a weird way to think about your honor and your word. And look, I'm not saying I've always handled my honor and my name and my word |
| 2:27.5 | perfectly I'm not I've regrets like everybody has regrets but when it comes to all the |
| 2:32.2 | contracts I've made I don't even know what I've done wrong, because I don't even know what I signed. That's weird. Contracts used to be much simpler. We see that in the Bible. The idea of a business contract, it's usually pretty simple |
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