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I'm surprised you're comparing it to scientific discovery. Aren't you a priest? Shouldn't you consider this more like playing god?

I am a priest, but this isn't playing god.

Honestly, I'd think playing god would more be like... killing someone and then returning what I took from them after they come back.

And, fun question: do you think the person has any right to be mad at their murderer in that case?

[What a question....]

Well, even if the person comes back fully intact, they still have the memories and experience of having been killed. That'll fuck a person up.

But more important than that is why they were killed. If they deserved it then no, they don't.

Guess that is what it always comes down to, hm? Whether the person deserved it or not.

Although, I think there is probably someone who would say no one deserves to die, but... I suppose they haven't a good and proper psychopath yet.

A person like that's led a really cushy life. I'm sure there are a decent amount of them stuck here.

Do you feel sorry for them? Pity them? Or look down on them, I wonder?

[He clicks his tongue.]

I'd say I think they're mostly irritating for being so sheltered and naive.

[Also, there's a little envy for getting to have a good life where psychopaths weren't a problem, but he's not saying that out loud.]

What about you? What's your opinion on those kinds of people?

They're a reasonably safe investment to make for any beginning endeavor. Until any market fluctuation -- [ He pauses ]

[ INCORRECT BUZZER. ]

They're a safe bet to work with until they experience betrayal.

.....

[He can't ignore it anymore....]

Okay, what's with the fucking financial talk? Normal people don't even like thinking about finances unless they're filthy rich or work in the field.

Well, there you have it... I used to work in that field. I used to think so much about money and finances and investments that it was all I talked about to anyone.

On the positive, I made quite a bit of money... enough to retire comfortably... before I became a priest.

[This answers one question and raises so many others.]

How the fuck do you go from finance to being a priest? That's an even bigger leap than the jump from porn to death costs.

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[ Rude. ]

It's more like I went back to my roots than leapt from finance to priesthood.

[Roots, huh.]

So you grew up in a religious household?

That's right.

A very, very religious household.

What was that like?

[ What was it like?

Vincent can say with confidence he was lucky to not have been born special. Their households were worse than his. Not that spared him the psychological, emotional, or physical abuse but it could have been much worse. It could have been like the children at Wish House. They simply disappeared without anyone caring. No one would look for them and if numbers were off from what they were before, no one said anything.

There was an article written about the treatment of some of the children, but the reporter soon disappeared. Vincent believes the Order had something to do with it, and can only imagine the torturous existence that man lived before his end.

But for him, what was it like?

He keeps it to himself -- not because he feels ashamed or wants to protect his parents' good name, but because he doesn't want to be pitied. He doesn't want to be sympathized with; he doesn't want someone to look down on him because he was treated poorly when he was young.

What right do they have to do that to him? What right do they have to feel sorry for him?! What right do any of them have to treat him like his life was a pitiable existence?! ]

About the same for anyone else with religious parents, I suppose.

Occasionally stifling and irritating with threats of going to Hell mixed in.

[Is that what it's like having religious parents? God, how annoying.]

Growing up religious sounds shitty.

[Yes, he is aware he's saying that to a priest.]

They certainly can make life more difficult than it needs to be.

But enough on that... regardless of my upbringing, I chose to be a priest.

Why?

[A really blunt question, but it doesn't seem like it's worth it, in his opinion.]

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brb inadvertantly giving Vincent a ptsd episode

it's fiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne he says grinding his teeth

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