Anonymous
7/15/2025, 10:14:25 PM No.17844805
If I was the devil, the enemy of mankind, here's what I'd do.
The first thing I would do is create the idea of "God." Why? So that people would listen to me alone. I would say that as the true god I have no form and that there is only one. I would tell them the most soul-crushing, gut-wrenching stuff to lead them into a kind of spiritual nihilism. One God, and this is as good as it gets. Worship me alone and do only what I tell you to do.
The next thing I would do is give them laws. Tons and tons of laws. I don't actually expect them to follow them because humans follow their nature. You drop an apple fifty times you expect it to float mid air? No, that's stupid. So what I do is take the best social engineering and legal mechanisms and create a legal code to threaten them with. I'd pick a small and helpless community, maybe a tribe in an area that's highly contested and gives easy access to many other parts of the world. Since they are always looking for an advantage I would simply tell them that their ancestors followed this law code and disobeyed me and those big scary empires came in and took them away as slaves and concubines. And if they ever disobey me again they'll not just be destroyed by big empires, but one day I will raise all of them from the dead and throw them into a big fire to burn and cry and scream for eternity. I would give them false hope through prophets that speak of a future redemption through a human figure that I myself have promised to bring into the world. And then, I would tell them that it is their duty and obligation to spread this religion, where you have to do silly things like not work on a particular day of the week or not cut the sides of your hair, really funny shit that would point out to everyone that they're real suckers and would fall for anything.
The first thing I would do is create the idea of "God." Why? So that people would listen to me alone. I would say that as the true god I have no form and that there is only one. I would tell them the most soul-crushing, gut-wrenching stuff to lead them into a kind of spiritual nihilism. One God, and this is as good as it gets. Worship me alone and do only what I tell you to do.
The next thing I would do is give them laws. Tons and tons of laws. I don't actually expect them to follow them because humans follow their nature. You drop an apple fifty times you expect it to float mid air? No, that's stupid. So what I do is take the best social engineering and legal mechanisms and create a legal code to threaten them with. I'd pick a small and helpless community, maybe a tribe in an area that's highly contested and gives easy access to many other parts of the world. Since they are always looking for an advantage I would simply tell them that their ancestors followed this law code and disobeyed me and those big scary empires came in and took them away as slaves and concubines. And if they ever disobey me again they'll not just be destroyed by big empires, but one day I will raise all of them from the dead and throw them into a big fire to burn and cry and scream for eternity. I would give them false hope through prophets that speak of a future redemption through a human figure that I myself have promised to bring into the world. And then, I would tell them that it is their duty and obligation to spread this religion, where you have to do silly things like not work on a particular day of the week or not cut the sides of your hair, really funny shit that would point out to everyone that they're real suckers and would fall for anything.
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