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.
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.
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!
[ 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.
If you think we have to change, then that's basically the same thing?
[she sighs, tail lightly smacking the floor of the cave. not, like, on purpose, it's just swishing and that happens.]
Look, I don't have a problem with reflecting on myself or whatever. Not to get dramatic about it, but I know-- I've seen my whole life from the outside already. All my experiences and whatever, wrapped up together. I've gotten over my shit. I just don't think I have to be a good person to do something good for the Sarkaz.
[and then she groans, leaning back on her hands.]
Gross! You've really got me saying shit like this!
We think that you need to be good people to reside in Heaven. Or to be given the gift of a second chance at life. Whether you need to change to accomplish that isn't what determined your presence here.
[ they consider wisadel's words though, thoughtful. ]
... What did determine your presence here, however, is that you died. So I suppose I hope that you're satisfied with what you accomplished in your life. For the Sarkaz, and for yourself.
Yeah? Then I guess I better get used to the idea of going wherever!
[lmao.]
I'm pretty satisfied with what I did get done... buuuut I don't think anything is gonna make somebody like me a good person. Done too much shit already, you know?
[ that's unfortunate given the premise of the game miss w. ]
We discussed this last time, a little bit. If you're born into a war, participating in that war has more justification than, say, those who began a war themselves. The things that you have to do by necessity to survive, or to achieve a greater good, can't be judged on the same scale as the actions of someone born into peace who chooses violence.
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It's just that some people are devils in general.
[ they're working so hard to understand. ]
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How did they put those stupid word problems. Every devil is a Sarkaz, but not all Sarkaz are devils?
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[ but that's okay. ]
Why are people afraid of you? Just because a lot of you are sick?
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[she has to correct that immediately.]
I care about ending it.
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[ 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?
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[ they shrug! ]
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That would just be how it's always worked until now.
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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.
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[she sighs, tail lightly smacking the floor of the cave. not, like, on purpose, it's just swishing and that happens.]
Look, I don't have a problem with reflecting on myself or whatever. Not to get dramatic about it, but I know-- I've seen my whole life from the outside already. All my experiences and whatever, wrapped up together. I've gotten over my shit. I just don't think I have to be a good person to do something good for the Sarkaz.
[and then she groans, leaning back on her hands.]
Gross! You've really got me saying shit like this!
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[ they consider wisadel's words though, thoughtful. ]
... What did determine your presence here, however, is that you died. So I suppose I hope that you're satisfied with what you accomplished in your life. For the Sarkaz, and for yourself.
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[lmao.]
I'm pretty satisfied with what I did get done... buuuut I don't think anything is gonna make somebody like me a good person. Done too much shit already, you know?
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And do you think that being born into complex circumstances might move where that limit sits?
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[she's not the type for this, man.]
Wouldn't part of it be changing how you're going to do things or whatever? Because I wouldn't.
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[ that's unfortunate given the premise of the game miss w. ]
We discussed this last time, a little bit. If you're born into a war, participating in that war has more justification than, say, those who began a war themselves. The things that you have to do by necessity to survive, or to achieve a greater good, can't be judged on the same scale as the actions of someone born into peace who chooses violence.
Don't you think?
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