Chapter 3: Caught In The Net
Good morning, class.
I said in our last class that I would save my lesson on computers for another day, so now I'll show you how one of the humans' greatest inventions can be put to use for our cause. Computers are one of the most complex and useful of all human inventions. They create and store information, they send messages to other computers, and they are some way or another keeping human civilization running. They are in essence, the synthetic equivalent of the human brain, and if something happens in the brain, it can affect the whole body.
Computers have by and large replaced the typewriter, more emails are being sent now than regular mail, are more efficient at storing information than file cabinets; and thus they are of great help to their work. But like all things the humans make to improve how they live their lives, we can corrupt it. For our purposes, computers are just a means to an end. Computers are doorways into a medium of human interaction that we have capitalized on brilliantly: the Internet.
As I said in our last class, the Internet gives the vermin access to all the information they could ever need about anything. Everything they could ever need to know about everything they could ever need to know is at their fingertips. Not to mention the chat rooms and message boards that allows humans to discuss about a million different things. The Internet is a veritable hotbed of learning and socializing; or at least it would be if it weren't for our work. They call it "the net" or "the web" because it connects humans across the planet together, but they forget that nets and webs are also things you get caught in.
To distract the humans from all this information, we've used our human resources to put in things to draw their focus onto something else. We've had the patients that are more under our control set up web sites full of pictures and videos of pornography. Of all the things we use to distract humans, pleasures of the flesh remains among the most efficient. Even walking down the street, if a human sees a man or woman that they find attractive, their attention will immediately leave whatever they were previously considering and become focused on the attractive person. We've loaded the Internet with millions of sites that specialize in showing them naked pictures and movies with people having sex. Even humans who aren't in the porn business put up videos of themselves stripping or having sex on what they call "blogs". Against this forbidden fruit, what chance does the complete works of Aristotle have to get their attention? If they don't fall for our distractions and do start looking online for things they like or things they need, you might want to get their computers infected with a virus. Computer viruses, what a wonderful invention, and they usually hide in such alluring sites. Just like diseases like HIV or Herpes can hide in actual intercourse. You'd think these dimwitted beasts would stay away from something that could affect them or their devices like that, but we keep them ignoring the consequences and keep coming back for more.
Even without appealing to their animal breeding urges, we still have other tactics to use the so-called information superhighway to our advantage. One such advantage of these humans communicating like this is the fact that they are being exposed to so many different opinions. Knowledge has always been a double edge sword. They can access any information they want, but both the Enemy and us have vested interests in what information they're looking at. If they're studying poetry or music then we want to put a stop to it immediately, but if they're reading white supremacist rhetoric or the supposed "proof" that there is no God then the Enemy wants them to look at something else. We've flooded the Internet with such wonderful information. The web is filled with sites that preach our doctrines. We've flooded their major communication system with so many half-truths, innuendoes, propaganda, rhetoric, bias opinions, character assassinations, conjecture, mistakes, generalizations, jargon and bald faced lies that most vermin who, as they say, "serf the web" don't know what to believe. We've turned the Internet into the misinformation superhighway.
You all will notice that there is a strong atheist presence on the Internet. There are many sites that attest to the nonexistence of the Enemy, be it scientifically or philosophically. They are also the majority on many message boards and chat rooms. Sadly, not all of them make a big deal about whether or not the Enemy exists, but since others do, it doesn't matter if one or two don't make a big deal of it. The point is, since there are such a presence of nonbelievers and atheistic arguments in the Internet, we have an advantage. There is something in the humans' psyche that makes them more ready to accept something in writing is true. You've seen in our educational films that there are humans who are more ready to believe anything someone else says if it's all officially written down in books. There are parents for example, that follow that Dr. Spock fellow's ideas so thoroughly they can't imagine not using his methods. So if something is written that says the Enemy doesn't exist in a convincing enough way, the humans will eat it up. And since, as I previously stated, the Internet is full of conflicting opinions and information, it plants the seeds of doubt. What better way to make a Christian doubt their faith than letting them see a host of people saying, in writing, that belief in the Enemy is hogwash?
Even when not pertaining to the Enemy, Internet conversations can become arguments in less than a minute. As I said, this system of connected computers allows them to talk with people all over the world, and thus we can connect with them too. The Internet is the new melting pot; it brings humans of all kinds together talking about things they have in common. If different people are being brought together because things they all like, our job is, find things to drive them apart. You must bring the focus onto other subjects, sore subjects. Always try to turn any discussion into an argument. Even if they are virtual friendships, any time we can turn them against each other is a victory. All it takes is a word in the wrong place, a joke at the wrong time, and two vermin will be typing insults to one another for hours. They argue over everything from philosophy to what TV is better. These arguments can be full of vitriol thanks to another impulse in the human mind: The "I'm right" supposition. The "I'm right" supposition is the frame of mind that makes humans believe that whatever they happen to think is true and that any person or theory who disagrees with them is stupid, ignorant, or insane. The thing I love about the "I'm right" supposition is it's most common among humans who say that other people should be more open-minded and less judgmental. There are even humans on the net that require no provocation whatever to verbally attack others. They intentionally insult other people and get into fights for no reason but to annoy others. These are called "trolls", and they are of use to us. They're mischief-makers, and Hell loves mischief-makers. The vermin have the opportunity to socialize, but that doesn't stop us from ruining it.
Humans are now able to go shopping online, which is good, because the less they're out and around actual human beings the better. Humans are easier to pick off when they're isolated. The vermin do it to save on gas money they use driving around looking for something, and of course not having to deal with those stupid employees. Bottom line though is that now the class of consumers I told you about in the last class now have a new venue to consume new things. And with every new way of doing something there's a new wrong way to do it. Credit card fraud, identity theft, illegal music downloading, the list of crimes goes on and on. As usual, humans can be persuaded to do something easy instead of doing what's right or honest. They want something they want for free, but nothing's free, even the Enemy says that. They may be able to receive the Enemy's gift of salvation with no cost to them, but it sure cost Him a lot to give them that chance.
The thing I love most about the Internet isn't what's on it, but who is on it. We've got plenty of patients waiting on the web to catch a fly. So many stalkers, so many potential victims, and so little time. They talk with other humans but have no idea who they're really talking to. That's the beauty of talking online, you can say whatever you want without anyone ever finding out if it's true. Humans put pictures of themselves on the net, but not all of them are real. A 10-year-old boy can say he's 25 and most people would never know, likewise a 50-year-old man could say he was a teenager and nobody could know it wasn't true. I remember an amusing, though unfortunately nonviolent instance where a teenage boy met a girl online and he sent her a fake picture of himself as a handsome young businessman. The girl sent him a very sexy picture of herself back, and they set up a meeting. Imagine the surprise when he found out the woman's picture wasn't her real picture, and that the girl he had arranged a meeting with was his MOTHER! I know it's amusing, but not our kind of amusement. But here's one you'll all like: Another young boy arranged a meeting with a woman met online, and this woman did look like her picture. Unfortunately for him, the woman was a patient of mine. They rented a motel room and they fornicated. It was the best night of his life, and the last. She slit his throat while he was asleep. He wasn't the first or the last one she killed under my guidance. Yes, I thought you'd all enjoy that story. I'm happy to say that both the boy and my patient are now safe in Our Father's House.
So, let's review. Through the Internet, we can immerse the humans in a sea of lust, disbelief, conflict, petty crime, deception, and other kinds of trouble. More human cockroaches do their socializing online than in the real world. But actually, the Internet is the world. You should all know from past lessons that the world doesn't refer to the actual planet Earth. The planet is just a hunk of rock and water; the world is all of human society. The planet is natural and takes no sides in the war, but the world has been our ally since the fall of man. The Enemy Himself warns the vermin in His Book that the world is full of wickedness, and thanks to the Internet, we can expose them to the world without them ever leaving their homes. Some parents have realized this however and removed their Internet connection. This removes the temptation, but it also cuts them off from all that knowledge we try to distract them from. For some humans, the Internet is the only exposure they get to the Enemy's message, so if these mortals are cut off from the web they're cut off from Him. Either they go online and are exposed to our pitfalls, or they shut it off and shut themselves off from the virtual society. This reclusive behavior is seen in real life too; humans who don't go out into the world don't usually get hurt, but they don't usually help others much either. Damned if you do and damned if you don't, our kind of dilemma.
The Internet has its dangers however. There are countless sites about the Enemy, as well as all that knowledge it contains. This is dangerous in and of itself because it leads the humans to thinking. If you want to get a good hold on the humans you're assigned to, keep them from doing serious thinking. In fact that's something to keep in mind in general, not just as computers.
Class dismissed.