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1798 points jerryX | 2 comments | 30 Nov 18 05:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jules ◴[30 Nov 18 09:50 UTC] No.18567950[source]▶
If your country has "democratic" in the name it's probably not democratic. If your major has "science" in the name it's probably not science. If your company has "don't be evil" in its motto...
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api ◴[30 Nov 18 14:30 UTC] No.18569322[source]▶
So we should start a country called the Totalitarian Empire of Evil and it would be a utopia? I'm in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNhhz1yYk2U

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velcrovan ◴[30 Nov 18 15:22 UTC] No.18569693[source]▶
I think the Satanists actually have this mindset. Seems like I'm frequently seeing headlines about them doing good works and stuff.
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virmundi ◴[30 Nov 18 15:51 UTC] No.18569924[source]▶
Most Satanists do not believe in Satan. They do not worship the individual, directly, named Satan who is found in the Christian religion. Satanists look at Satan, especially Milton's Satan as a literary figure who embodies individualism and free thought. To that end, they are edgy Libertarians.
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1. nybble41 ◴[30 Nov 18 19:16 UTC] No.18571757[source]▶
I ran across an interesting (fictional) variation of this viewpoint once where Satan was cast as the unsung hero of a resistance movement, fighting on behalf of human beings against a tyrannical God. Unfortunately, the resistance lost—and the "history" espoused by most major religions is basically just propaganda on behalf of the winning side. (IIRC this was mentioned offhand as background data for one character at some point in the Empire of Man series by David Weber & John Ringo.)

I have no personal stake in this one way or the other, but it's an interesting thought-experiment. If that version of events were true, would anyone be able to tell? Is it really any less plausible than the "official" version?

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2. api ◴[30 Nov 18 20:20 UTC] No.18572257[source]▶
There's a piece of Lord of the Rings fanfic around that inverts it in the same way -- Mordor was really a democratic scientific place and they just wanted to understand how magic really worked, but were defeated by the autocratic kings of the rest of the world who wanted to keep magic to themselves. The standard history is propaganda, etc.