“And should a person who truly and possibly did believe the end of times was tomorrow and gave his empire away to me should happen I would have no reservations about accepting, as long as it was final and iron clad.”
I understand what you are saying, but it does provide an ethical dilemma. Should a person profit from an action that this person knew would not occur? In other words, your coworker gave you the car because he believed he was being raptured on May 21. You did not believe for one second that this would occur, but took the car anyway knowing full well that when May 22 came around the coworker would still be here. That is like standing with a coworker at the door to the hallway and having him give you his Rolex watch because he tells you when he steps into the hallway he will be on Mars and will not need a Rolex watch. You take the Rolex , knowing full well that when he steps through the doorway, he will be in the bathroom. If he turns around, depressed and disillusioned with nothing left, would you give him his Rolex back? After all you knew he was not going to Mars, but to the toilet. I would think an ethical person would give the watch back. What do you think?
I don’t have any interest in a Rolex personally.
But I did buy from another co-worker years ago a somewhat damaged but ultimately repairable a 12,000 watt (12KW) Onan diesel generator that he found along the Alaska Highway miles from no where and hauled it back onto his truck, I bought it, a welder and an air compressor for $150. He needed fast cash right then and there. I’m not a pawn shop.
The generator is worth at least $2,000, months later he came back demanding I sell everything back to him.
What would you do?