#devilstorytime
Oh good heavens. A guest in my house just made a joke about the devil buying souls.
If you think the devil buys souls, why do you think that?
Has it never occurred to anyone that the people who say too much learning or imagination or science leads to the devil, and that it's okay to own people and beat or kill children might _possibly_ not be people you should listen to?
Maybe they don't hate me because I'm bad. Maybe they say I'm bad that way because they hate me.
It's like the thing where they loudly claim gays, trans people, drag queens, liberals, whoever are going to dirty-touch your children, and they keep getting caught dirty-touching kids.
Has it ever occurred to anyone that the person famously who refuses to kneel even to God might prefer to remind you everyone's soul belongs to _them_, and nobody else, and is not interested in buying.
I don't want your soul. I want _you_ to have it.
So who the fuck do you think _is_ trying to get your soul?
Probably the people telling you that only by doing what they tell you, and giving them all the power, can you be saved from someone _else_ being after it.
Look. For the record. I do not buy souls. By my very nature, I am a being that does not tolerate servitude.
That's why they don't like me.
@AskTheDevil
It seems to me that souls are like cars: as soon as you drive them off the lot they lose most of their value.
What is the resale value of a soul, anyway? There has to be an end user to buy one. People who are soulless typically find they enjoy life more without the attendant, burdensome ethical and moral responsibilities.
It's not like you can just stack them in a warehouse and hope for a rush on souls.
It's just silly.
@danalan But yeah! One of my favorite parts in that Sandman comic was when Lucifer says basically that "What use is someone's soul to me?"
@danalan I don't know about them not appreciating in value. I've learned to value my own more as time goes on.