Audience - Wiš'adel

[holyspirits]

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[holyspirits]

I didn't know.

[ ... ]

What are Sarkaz?

[sarkazm]

What I am. My people. 'Devils', if you listen to everybody else!

[holyspirits]

I'm only listening to you. [ headtilt. ] Do you think you're devils?

[sarkazm]

It's useful. If they call us devils... it's out of fear.

[holyspirits]

That wasn't really my question.

[sarkazm]

Then- sure, sometimes we are. I've called myself one plenty of times.

[holyspirits]

So you're devils... sometimes?

[sarkazm]

I just wouldn't say all of us are!

[holyspirits]

So Sarkaz aren't devils.

It's just that some people are devils in general.

[ they're working so hard to understand. ]

[sarkazm]

Ugh, I'm really not the person for this. Where's Hoederer when you need him...

How did they put those stupid word problems. Every devil is a Sarkaz, but not all Sarkaz are devils?

[holyspirits]

That makes sense then. But it was a lot of extra detail when you could have just said "No."

[ but that's okay. ]

Why are people afraid of you? Just because a lot of you are sick?

[sarkazm]

We've been at war with pretty much the rest of the world for I don't even know how long. I don't really care about dusty old conflicts like that-- but the situation now is that they see us as less than them.

[holyspirits]

Then if you were to earn your redemption, would you want to stay in Heaven? Or go back into a war you don't care about?

[sarkazm]

I do care.

[she has to correct that immediately.]

I care about ending it.

[holyspirits]

So it's only how it started that you don't care about.

[ they nod. that makes sense to them. wars are long; whole generations get born into conflicts they didn't start and won't see end. ]

Then you would go back?

[sarkazm]

I would. But before we go in a circle about this, I can still want to go back without wanting any of this redemption business!

[holyspirits]

Well, you can want it, of course. But it won't happen.

[ they shrug! ]

[sarkazm]

Sure, sure, I get it. I still think this god of yours needs to work on their selection process.

[holyspirits]

That would defeat the whole purpose.

[sarkazm]

Why would it?

[holyspirits]

If the goal is to prove that anyone can be redeemed and deserves a grace period to try... then selecting only the candidates you know will succeed negates any meaning drawn from the results.

That would just be how it's always worked until now.

[sarkazm]

So by candidates, you mean they've already decided everyone here needs it. Right?

[holyspirits]

Not necessarily. Your souls were just the first available. Think of it like a group with controls and variables.

[sarkazm]

Okay, but you can get how this whole idea sounds, can't you? Especially if nobody knows which of those they are! Would it just not bother you at all if you turned up dead and someone told you, hey-- whoever you are right now, that's not good enough, better start fixing it!

[holyspirits]

[ help my misfire ] I think many of the people here are already good people. And have told them as much when we discussed the situation.

We've been open about the fact that everyone's journey will look different, and that they should spend their time reflecting on who they want to be for themselves. What they think it takes to be a good person, and if they're already there, or willing to try.

So it isn't telling you that you aren't good enough, exactly. Especially when so much of a person's identity is guided by their surroundings in life.