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[envy_the_sinners]

[Scar is discovering the magic of nightblogging. Perhaps not the best idea in the world, but his conversation with Ib a while back has left him thinking.

Is there actually a purpose to this second chance?]

I am curious. Do you view coming here as a bump in the road, or as a second chance for something?

[Because let's be real this can't possibly just be a giant afterlife serial killer rehab universe.]

Were we brought here for a purpose? For our own benefit?

((OOC: All of Scar's responses will be anon unless otherwise indicated.))

Comments

[ossifragant]

Depends how your situation was back home.

Was it shitty? Then yeah, I'd say it's for your benefit to be here.

[envy_the_sinners]

It wasn't as relaxed as this.

[Code for yeah, it was really, really shitty. But he's not going to say that.]

[ossifragant]

Same for me.

Sometimes I wonder if this place is too relaxing.

[envy_the_sinners]

Meaning that you are off your guard?

[ossifragant]

Something like that.

I mean, nothing has really happened. There was that weird weekend, but it could have been worse. So far it's been a whole lot of normalcy.

So say we were brought here for the express purpose of giving us all a second chance. I'm not sure I believe that, but we'll assume for the moment that it's true. Surely there would be a reason for it, right? Things don't happen for nothing. There's no vacuum from which things come out of for no reason. That's not how the world works.

We're here because we're here. There's no great benevolent entity that brought us here. What's important is what we do with ourselves here.

[envy_the_sinners]

But you said that nothing happens without reason. Do you mean that you are simply willing to wait and find out what that reason is?

[ossifragant]

[See, Greed, this is what happens when you run your mouth. People call you on your shit.]

I suppose so. But whatever that reason is, that doesn't mean I have to accept it. That doesn't mean I owe whatever brought me here anything. I'm going to live my own life no matter what.

[envy_the_sinners]

You have mentioned that multiple times, now. Living your own life. Making your own choices.

Was that restricted, where you are originally from?

[ossifragant]

I haven't exactly been subtle about that.

[He doesn't do subtlety...]

I had no control of my life back there. It's that simple.

[envy_the_sinners]

Than wishing to live however you can here is a natural sentiment.

[ossifragant]

Of course it is.

[Complex? What complex. Greed doesn't have a complex.]