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Just arrived and barely alive
December 22, 2015 at 10:54 pm
Just kidding, I'm in good health!
Anyways, I've been lurking this forum for some time figured I'd join. Been irreligious my whole life, but once I discovered the term "Secular Humanist" I knew that the lack-of-faith was the right one for me!
I'm trying to write a book with overtly atheist themes (It's fiction BTW) and my goal is to have it land on the challenged and banned books list so I can celebrate when Banned books week rolls around!
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RE: Just arrived and barely alive
December 22, 2015 at 10:59 pm
Let me be the first to welcome you, thus making me better than the people who welcome you at a later point.
Its nice to have you here. Could you be more specific about the themes?
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RE: Just arrived and barely alive
December 22, 2015 at 11:12 pm
(December 22, 2015 at 10:59 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: Let me be the first to welcome you, thus making me better than the people who welcome you at a later point.
Its nice to have you here. Could you be more specific about the themes?
Well, a purity-obessed theocracy take over a nation, and a rebellious force which advocates education, secular government, and other good things seeks to overthrow them. Naturally, it's more complicated than that, I've got a whole NationStates nation devoted to what happens after the events of my planned story take place. Look up "New Vudnia" on NationStates if you want more details.
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RE: Just arrived and barely alive
December 22, 2015 at 11:24 pm
Quote:Well, a purity-obessed theocracy take over a nation
Ah. Did you use the vatican or saudi arabia as your model?
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RE: Just arrived and barely alive
December 22, 2015 at 11:34 pm
Welcome aboard.
Good goals to get a book banned.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: Just arrived and barely alive
December 22, 2015 at 11:39 pm
(December 22, 2015 at 11:12 pm)Stormcat Wrote: (December 22, 2015 at 10:59 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: Let me be the first to welcome you, thus making me better than the people who welcome you at a later point.
Its nice to have you here. Could you be more specific about the themes?
Well, a purity-obessed theocracy take over a nation, and a rebellious force which advocates education, secular government, and other good things seeks to overthrow them. Naturally, it's more complicated than that, I've got a whole NationStates nation devoted to what happens after the events of my planned story take place. Look up "New Vudnia" on NationStates if you want more details.
I suppose in order to make the theocracy believable you would need to look into techniques to induce mass hysteria and control over a populace.
It would have to use sophisticated psychological programming inorder to convert its followers. Christianity gets most of its converts from children but scientology takes grown adults and uses a combination of cheap parlor tricks and complex methods of manipulation to distort their logic and perception of whats possible.
In order to guarantee conversion on a national scale those techniques would need to be perfected and aimed at high profile targets. Perhaps even employing the use of sophisticated technology to lay claim to powers they do not possess, it would be indistinguishable from magic or some type of mystic power. They would need to be at least mildly convincing to someone like you or me.
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RE: Just arrived and barely alive
December 23, 2015 at 12:06 am
Hi there, welcome 
Best of luck with the book!
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RE: Just arrived and barely alive
December 23, 2015 at 12:55 am
Hello from Tennessee!
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RE: Just arrived and barely alive
December 23, 2015 at 1:10 am
Velcome from se other side
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Just arrived and barely alive
December 23, 2015 at 2:53 am
(December 22, 2015 at 11:12 pm)Stormcat Wrote: (December 22, 2015 at 10:59 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: Let me be the first to welcome you, thus making me better than the people who welcome you at a later point.
Its nice to have you here. Could you be more specific about the themes?
Well, a purity-obessed theocracy take over a nation, and a rebellious force which advocates education, secular government, and other good things seeks to overthrow them. Naturally, it's more complicated than that, I've got a whole NationStates nation devoted to what happens after the events of my planned story take place. Look up "New Vudnia" on NationStates if you want more details.
You might try having someone invent a system that projects religious images and text into the sky. The crowd goes crazy and buys into the lie, and your heroes have to eliminate the central controls or take them over and put up "spoilers". Perhaps tie the generators into a vital system that would have to be taken down as well, Air Traffic Control or something?
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