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> after all, is it not Satan who presently rules this world?

Bold claim that anyone is in charge at all, frankly.

not that bold, but I suspect a discussion on the topic would either be unfruitful - or if it was a good conversation, would be shutdown by the site operators

The claim is not about a person.

What is Satan is simply the emergent system comprised of all of mankinds current desires and actions driven by them?

Yeah, I'm overthinking things but it is fun to wonder.

> the emergent system comprised of all of mankinds current desires and actions driven by them?

Not to be too snarky but this does sound a lot like ChatGPT.

a literal interpretation of what I said would be a person, but you could also interpret it more broadly as all demon-kind

both work, and it doesn't really change what I was saying, though my authorial intent was in fact to refer to the person

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