Also, the Devil accepted defeat despite the fact that there were no judges to determine the winner.
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Johnny was just so good that even the devil couldn't challenge it.
Johnny is the best that ever was.
Actually, the devil demonstrated considerable skill with his fiddle. Johnny himself admitted he was pretty good. This poster needs to read the Bible.
I actually like the devil's breakdown better than Charlie Daniels, but music is subjective like that.
steve ouimette has a fucking sick metal cover he did for guitar hero 3
Yeah if you listen to the song the devil actually played a better song IMO, it always confused me how Johnny won.
I think the devil lost on purpose; the devil gets Johnny's soul by making him commit the sin of pride, not by winning the competition.
The fiddle itself is a handicap too, gold is an awful material for an instrument.
It's wild some of the stuff I find out is in the bible, and not just unrelated fiction. I was 14 when I finally found out David and Goliath was in the bible, not just some whacky kids story lol
Book of John, for those curious /s
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He was just trying to get rid of that awful solid gold fiddle. What’s the use of gold in hell?
I dunno why the robot devil specified "solid" gold-- the original song just said gold. You can make violins out of metal, so theoretically a gold one could work.
Liquid, plasma and gas are even worse.
After the diamond industry goes under maybe debeers'll start pushing the plasma gold wedding ring
We already do. You'd know if you weren't so poor.
It would be really soft, so if you ever drop it, the sound would be completely wrecked.
and it would be heavy as fuck. if you held it by the neck it would probably bend. and you couldn't tension the strings.
probably a pretty shitty fiddy
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No way, devil won that shit hands down
He used a full band! That's cause for disqualification.
Johnny didn't read the fine print
I can't find the full bit, but John Oliver is on team devil. ~hes not playing power chords, he brought a live band, his chorus is even better!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=673VdjXHWGs
Johnny committed the sin of Pride when he said that he's the best, and the sin of Greed when he coveted that gold fiddle.
The Devil got what he wanted as soon as Jonny accepted the bet.
The 7 deadly sins are never mentioned in the bible. They were discussed by a few different people but made popular by Pope Gregory 1st in 590 AD. So therefore are an invention of the church and need to be taken with a grain of salt.
Pride especially is the most stupid one. Should Jhonny not be proud of his skills? Should one not be proud of anything to be able to go into heaven? If you earn a gold medal at a sport would you go to hell for saying that you were the best athlete?
And can we be sure that Jhonny accepted the bet because of greed for the fiddle? Could it not be necessity? Could it not be convenience or simply confidence in his skills?
Ultimately it's just a story created for a song so the specifics don't matter.
The point I'm making is that the 7 deadly sins are stupid and people should stop referencing them
And Hell was first mentioned during the Medieval period. Sometime around the 1200s, I believe? The first versions of the Bible said that Lucifer was cast into Tartarus, where the Greek gods imprisoned the Titans.
The Bible itself is a collection of interpretations and stories across a span of hundreds of years. Jesus says that the Old Testament is null and void in the Bible, and then John later on says that the Old Testament is still in effect and that's not what Jesus meant and that he knows Jesus better than his disciples did, despite living over a hundred years later.
The King James version of the Bible was edited to be a piece of pro-monarchy propaganda that was published at a time when many monarchies were literally losing their heads. The history of Christianity can essentially be summed up as hundreds of years of groups arguing over whose head-canon is right.
Regardless of what you and I think of the 7 deadly sins, they are an established part of the religion and make this contrarian interpretation of the song work. Personally, though, I much prefer Jesus's mindset of throwing tables, beating up the rich, and telling people who blame women wearing revealing outfits for their own moral failings to tear out their own eyes so they stop.
So therefore are an invention of the church and need to be taken with a grain of salt.
As an outsider it’s funny how religious people pick some invented stories to be better than other invented stories even within the same belief.
I've studied the bible to see what the fuss is about but I'm not religious. Now I have this knowledge in my head that I'm compelled to use when I'm bored.
So yeah, I'm basically pulling an☝️🤓 AcShUaLlY on this sort of discussion because I have nothing else to do right now
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"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall"
Lucifer was cast out due to pride.
Johnny said, "Devil, just come on back if you ever wanna try again I done told you once, you son of a bitch, I'm the best there's ever been"
The devil didn't lose, not in the long run.
Traded his soul for a golden fiddle and the right to say he beat the devil in a fiddlin' contest. Pretty cheap, as souls go.
"Oh no, you beat me, whatever shall I do! Anyway, see you in a few decades. Enjoy your earthly possession while you can!"
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Devil probably just wants to keep it interesting, it's not exactly like the stakes were very high for the Devil
be Satan
immortal being
so bored 👿
challenge mortals to contests for their souls
give them stupid garbage as prizes
can't even actually collect sold souls!
just hope they turn into arrogant, debaucherous assholes after "beating the devil"
plan successful 😈
inspired a few kickass rock songs too
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Good guy satan: Gives people knowledge and then acknowledges when they're better than him at something.
Hmm, so I'm basically Satan as a parent when I give my kids compliments? I guess it's time to get a pitchfork and make it official.
That's... kinda the whole point. If the devil challenged me to a writing-your-name-in-the-snow contest, I might try it. If he challenged me to Fortnite, I'd just laugh at him.
The devil lost because he was using a fiddle made of gold.
The trick was actually that Johnny joined the competition in the first place. I reckon folks'll get mighty suspicious and jealous when you're lugging around a golden fiddle.
We hear about Johnny's triumph, but I suspect that the story plays out in the devil's favor afterwards. He just wanted to make sure that this fantastic fiddler was at the center of the mayhem - taking a musician meant to spread merriment and turning him into a tool for chaos, maybe even rending him from this mortal coil in the process.
He shows up in Oh Brother Where Art Thou doesn't he?
I mean with all the souls he's been through I figure he's just having fun with it at this point. Why not a fiddle contest? Maybe the next soul I'll do a doodle contest!
Good enough for government work.
Not even a band of demons can quite fully hide the inferior shredding on that fiddle faddle.
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