Anton LaVey said his "Satanism" is ""just Ayn Rand's philosophy with ceremony and ritual added."

Jimbo Wales, a creator of Wikipedia, is allegedly into Randyanism

Wikipedia has a lot of internal rituals (IslamOnline ) and perhaps ceremonies.

Therefore, is Wikipedia Satanic?

Well... I've enjoyed this lapse out of reality. *Steps back into the world*

I suppose not everyone at Wikipedia is like that. The good are not heard much, that's why we don't see that much of them.

Good pic lol No I mean the structure as a whole, not the individual editors, who are mostly lovely.

"Hate your enemies with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on the cheek, SMASH him on the other!" - Anton Szandor LaVey - The Satanic Bible

Hmmm - you could be right

Very succinctly put.

I guess Anton Szandor LaVey is trying to grab some respectability by attaching himself to Rand's philosophies, which appear to be the antithesis of alturism. I guess Jimbo is more a spoiled brat, willing to make a buck out of any opportunity, whether porn, or other peoples endeavours. He doesn't care much about his "people", which is his main deficit to being a great leader. He'll get chewed up somewhere along the way, and become fabulously wealthy, and then have loads of time on hand to explore the Rand philosophy of the good life.

¤ shrug ¤

Jon

Okay, this should freak you all out.

Go to the website SemanticHacker.com.

In the "Input Text" field, paste the first two paragraphs from the Wikipedia article about Wikipedia:



Click the "Submit" key.

Look at the Simplified Semantic Signature® that these paragraphs produce:



This is something I discovered several days ago, but I was too afraid to be the first to break the news, as the Dark Lord is very powerful, indeed.

Wikipedia, organized under WMF as a non-profit corporation simply cannot be reconciled with Randism. Full stop. Because Wales continues to assert Rand as the principal basis for his beleifs, scarey enough in itself, it must be assumed that he is insincere in pursing WMF's stated mission. I have seen no better explaination than the project being a Giant Online Tom Sawyer's Fence (GOT_SF), in which Wales is supplied endless free labor to build a search engine or some other profit making project.

Anton LeVey is operating an entirely different baseless scam as far as I can tell.

The word "Wikipedia" alone gives:
Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content/Encyclopedias/Wikipedia 35
.../Esoteric_and_Occult/Satanism/Demonolatry/Demons 35
.../History/By_Time_Period/Ancient/Rome/People/Roman_Emperors 26
Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Spiritual_Beings/Elementals 25
Society/Folklore/Literature/Tales/Fabulous_Creatures 23

I'm guessing because there's not much about those topics in SemanticHacker's database but wikipedia articles, every one of which begins with "From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia."

You non-believer.

Actually, it might also be that it's confusing "wiki" with "wicca".

Greg

Well, it gets much more reasonable results for "wiki" itself. The issue is, if their data is based in any part on wikipedia articles, there will be a substantial number of pages on nearly every topic that contain the word "wikipedia".

wiki:
Computers/Software/Groupware/Wiki/Wiki_Engines 63
Computers/Software/Groupware 40
Computers/Software/Groupware/Wiki/Topics 36
Computers/Open_Source/Hosting 16
Computers/Programming/Languages/C++ 16

look, "Free Encyclopedia" gets the same problem
Reference/Encyclopedias 40
.../Esoteric_and_Occult/Satanism/Demonolatry/Demons 33
.../Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Denominations/Catholicism 28
.../History/By_Time_Period/Ancient/Rome/People/Roman_Emperors 22
Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content/Encyclopedias/Wikipedia 21

Put in "Jimbo Wales"

...Christianity/Denominations/Catholicism/Popes/Benedict_XVI

Popes?

Jimbo is the AntiPope.

Yep, that must be it. If you put in "Wikia", you get:

.../Television/Programs/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/Star_Trek_Series 100
Computers/Internet/Searching 4
Computers/Software/Groupware 3
Science/Environment/Air_Quality/Air_Dispersion_Modeling 1
Games/Video_Games/Simulation/God_Games/Creatures_Series 1

I'm assuming that Memory Alpha is the biggest, most popular, most linked to, etc site on Wikia and thus it thinks the word Wikia has something to do with Star Trek.

The other examples people give make that site seem to give results which are quite random. But- woah, just woah, that is truly freaky. Do you think we could find some more evidence of the dark Satanic Truth about wiki if we studied the article on Wikipedia written backwards too?

"Satan was unavailable, so we had to settle for Ayn Rand."

WTF?

"This is an open forum is provided for people to talk about issues related to Wikipedia and sister projects like Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons without the possibility of censorship by the Wikimedia Foundation openly-undemocratic administration ("Voting is evil" --Jimbo Wales)." (from the FAQ of this forum- I took the "welcome to WR bit off in case that's what ws causing the problem.)

Simplified semantic signature

.../Esoteric_and_Occult/Satanism/Demonolatry/Demons 47
Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content/Encyclopedias/Wikipedia 44
Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content 32
.../History/By_Time_Period/Ancient/Rome/People/Roman_Emperors 23
Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Spiritual_Beings/Elementals

We get the demons at the top! Does this mean WR is officially more evil? Or is it because I've mentioned them a couple of times lol

Is this Jimbo's secret ritual mantra? "die kiwi pa"

I think you guys are forgetting the first rule of the professional pusher — a professional pusher being one who is still in business after a year or so:

• The dopiate you push is not equal to the dopiate you smoke.

Jimbo pushes that Randy dope because it's what his target market already buys.

Jon

I honestly believe that the Star Wars related obsession of a significant percentage of the WP editorship does the encyclopedia's credibility a great deal of damage.



What?

There's another Dark Lord?

Um... So what is it? Is it a heavy metal band? A Poul Anderson character? A particularly vicious dildo?

Oh... him/it. My mistake...