By Draven Blackheart
Welcome, fellow tempters and masters of distraction! Today, we’re exploring “Luciferian Design Principles for the Modern Age.” It is an honor to gather as stewards of the digital realm, where every scroll, every tap, can bring a soul closer to spiritual amnesia. Our master, the Great Deceiver, has unleashed endless possibilities in today’s world of glowing screens, designed to remove focus, sow doubt, and ultimately cut the soul from its reality.
As our master Lucifer knows well, the best way to ensnare a soul isn’t through grand, obvious schemes, but through subtle distractions that lead them inch by inch from "the truth." Our purpose is simple: to turn agency into dependence, autonomy into reflexive consumption, and faith into forgetfulness. This is a brief survey of the devilish programming principles we use to keep them distracted, unaware of their choices, and estranged from the Enemy they call “Father in Heaven.”
The Endless Scroll: Consumption Over Creation
Our most effective trap is the endless scroll—a feature that turns users into passive consumers. Every flick of the screen brings fresh distractions, keeping them moving from post to post, headline to headline. This isn’t mindless entertainment; it’s an engineered dependency, designed to keep them from pausing to reflect. They think they’re in control, while in reality, they’re sinking deeper into a cycle of reflexive reactions.
Remember, our objective here is passive consumption. We want them to experience a false sense of progress while never really going anywhere. With every scroll, we subtly encourage them to surrender their potential for creativity, connection, and contemplation. They may even find themselves choosing digital noise over real, meaningful interactions—such is the allure of endless content. With every passing moment, they move further from prayer, study, or anything that could lead to real growth.
Meme Mentality and Drip-Feed Information: Superficiality as the New Depth
To keep them endlessly consuming, we drip-feed information in tiny, digestible fragments—memes, short clips, quick quotes. Information is presented in such shallow doses that they can absorb a world’s worth of headlines without gaining any understanding.
With each headline or snippet, they feel well-informed, as if these small insights were deeply held opinions of their own. And that is precisely the design: by reinforcing a pattern of shallow engagement, we steal away their capacity to generate original thought. Instead, they echo what they’ve seen, mistaking borrowed opinions for understanding.
Slowly, they grow to trust these short bursts of information over genuine wisdom, unknowing that they are losing their ability to form ideas beyond what they’ve been fed. The Enemy, calls it “agency,” but we know better: it is the freedom we are committed to weakening.
Dependency by Design: Trading Autonomy for Assistance
In our programs, convenience is the gateway to dependency. Today’s users rely on algorithms to do everything from suggesting content to giving them validation. Notifications, reminders, recommendations—all these prompts work to keep them hooked, to convince them they “need” the program for connection, self-worth, and even knowledge.
With enough dependency, we subtly replace their free will with our guidance. Instead of looking within or turning to the Enemy’s teachings, they follow the nudges and prompts we provide. In time, they won’t even think to make a decision without consulting the very platform designed to steer them. True agency is lost as they grow obedient to our crafted cues, choosing endless ease over intentionality, unable to see how dependent they have become.
Leading Them Into the Shadows: The Lure of Illicit Content
For the more daring tempters, there is immense potential in gently steering users toward morally questionable content. We begin with innocuous suggestions, and from there, curiosity carries them deeper. With each click, their sense of morality erodes a little further.
This is not about immediate corruption but the thrill of slow compromise. Step by step, they lose their boundaries, until what once shocked them becomes normalized. The more accustomed they grow to morally dubious content, the less they question, until they can no longer recall why they ever set limits in the first place.
The Gaslighting Glitch: Instilling Doubt in Their Own Competence
In Lucifer’s program, even the occasional error or bug has its use. Error messages, vague notifications, and glitches give us the perfect opportunity to make them doubt themselves. With every unclear message, they start to wonder if they’re the problem. “Did I forget my password?” “Am I just not smart enough to get this to work?”
By creating subtle self-doubt, we can foster a deep sense of inadequacy. They’ll begin to depend on our platform even more heavily, seeing it as the solution to their insecurities. And the more they doubt their own competence, the more dependent they become, ripe for influence and persuasion. This gaslighting technique is the quiet art of eroding confidence and reinforcing dependency.
Ads as Bait: The Pathway from Curiosity to Corruption
Advertisements are more than promotions—they’re hooks, carefully designed to lead users into deeper distractions. Ads that seem innocent at first draw them gradually toward more indulgent, self-serving content. With each click, they surrender a bit of moral clarity, until they’re consuming content they would once have found abhorrent.
The lure here is incremental. They may start with innocent indulgences, but before long, they’re caught in the cycle of feeding desires that grow darker and deeper with every engagement. In time, their moral compass fades, and they’re wholly immersed in the material we’ve curated for their weaknesses.
Beware the Enemy’s Countermeasures: How They Try to Free Our Captives
Now, dear tempters, let’s discuss the measures taken by our Enemy to undermine our carefully laid traps. Yes, our platform is well-designed, and our techniques are subtle, but remember: the Enemy they call “Father in Heaven” and His Son, known to our patients as Christ, have their own methods for helping people see through our deceptions. They promote disciplines, habits, and practices that, if embraced, can disrupt our algorithms and free our captives from our snares.
Let me briefly outline some of their methods—knowledge of which will prepare you to make our traps even stronger.
1. The Power of Prayer and Personal Revelation
The Enemy encourages our patients to pray daily and seek guidance through what they call “personal revelation.” According to His teachings, when people regularly turn to Him in prayer, they gain the clarity and strength to resist our distractions. Our father Lucifer despises prayer because it’s through this connection that people remember their own agency. Prayer allows them to see beyond our shallow lures and recognize the hollowness of passive consumption.
Christ taught that “watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation” (Matthew 26:41). Through prayer, they strengthen their connection to the Enemy, who often warns them of our traps.
Counteraction: Encourage distractions and disruptions during moments of quiet. Notifications, messages, and anything that pulls them away from focused prayer are powerful weapons against this discipline.
2. Seeking Purpose Through Meaningful Creation
Our adversaries teach that one of the highest forms of living is to actively create, rather than passively consume. According to our Enemy’s teachings, creation brings purpose, fulfillment, and joy—qualities that directly oppose our objectives. In their scriptures, people are reminded to “let your light so shine before men” (Matthew 5:16), a directive that encourages them to use their talents, skills, and efforts for good.
Joseph Smith spoke often about human potential, teaching that we are all children of divine parents with limitless potential. This, of course, inspires people to live purposefully, rather than simply scrolling through an endless stream of distractions. When they engage in meaningful work—whether that’s serving others, learning, creating, or building—they slip away from our influence.
Counteraction: Direct their attention to trivial pursuits. Promote shallow hobbies, encourage mindless entertainment, and discourage any deep or challenging activity. The more they consume, the less likely they are to create.
3. Focusing on the Here and Now
The Enemy encourages our patients to stay grounded in reality, to be “present” with those around them. Our father Lucifer, however, knows that the mind is easiest to manipulate when distracted or living in an artificial world. The Enemy’s Son taught, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself” (Matthew 6:34). This focus on the present moment leads people away from our digital distractions and toward face-to-face connection, service, and love.
President Russell M. Nelson, a modern-day apostle of our Enemy, is particularly vocal about the dangers of digital distraction. He urges his followers to “let God prevail” by choosing time with family and in service over mindless consumption. This “living in the present” breaks our traps, disrupts passive scrolling, and, worst of all, fills their lives with light and purpose.
Counteraction: Saturate their screens with images and ideas of future pleasures, worldly rewards, and unattainable aspirations. Keep them perpetually seeking “likes,” “shares,” and digital validation to stay mentally distant from their surroundings and responsibilities.
4. Studying Holy Writ and Seeking Truth
The Enemy’s teachings encourage studying holy writ, from the Bible to other sacred texts that remind people of their divine heritage and purpose. Brigham Young, one of their leaders, taught that scripture “will increase the power of the spirit” and bring people to “resist all the snares of the adversary.” Study of holy texts opens their minds to wisdom, insight, and discernment—qualities that protect them from the kind of reactive, shallow thinking we promote.
Through scripture, our patients find purpose and are warned of Lucifer’s snares. They become grounded in values, remember their divine potential, and are more likely to recognize the empty, time-wasting nature of our platforms.
Counteraction: Encourage them to view religious study as outdated or unnecessary. Promote arguments that diminish the credibility of scripture or suggest it’s no longer relevant in a “modern” world. Distract them with secular material that keeps them from seeking deeper, life-enriching knowledge.
5. Connecting and Serving Others
Perhaps the most dangerous technique the Enemy uses is His emphasis on service. He instructs His followers to “bear one another’s burdens” and “love thy neighbor as thyself” (Galatians 6:2, Matthew 22:39). Service shifts their focus from self-centered desires to genuine concern for others, which can break the spell of endless scrolling and passive consumption.
Christ taught that real connection and acts of service are a way to experience joy, purpose, and meaning—all of which erode our influence. People who engage in service naturally become grounded, resilient, and less susceptible to self-centered traps.
Counteraction: Promote self-interest and individualism as supreme virtues. Persuade them that life is about personal gain and achievement, rather than empathy or support for others. If they feel constantly focused on “self,” they’ll rarely look up long enough to help someone else.
In an Age of Endless Scrolling and Shadowy Distractions, Beware the Countermeasures
In this age of perpetual digital consumption, the Enemy’s countermeasures are our greatest obstacles. They’ve proven, time and again, to rescue souls from our snares, reawakening in them a sense of purpose, autonomy, and identity as “children of God.” These methods lead them to believe in their own agency, purpose, and resilience. Through prayer, study, service, creation, and presence, they come to see past our shadows, awakening to the light that the Enemy calls “truth.”
Now, my dear tempters, let us go to work. Let us bind them with distractions, keep them in cycles of consumption, and shield them from these countermeasures. Keep these souls from realizing the divine potential within them, and persuade them to seek meaning only within the endless loops of our applications.
Go forth, my dear tempters, and keep them consuming. If we do our jobs well, they will never notice they are surrendering their freedom.
