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Niilo Paasivirta is a Finnish Internet personality, who has become known for the Internet writings that parody fundamentalist Christian views. In Finland, he's best known for the essays called "Oikeat Mielipiteet" ("Correct Opinions"), and elsewhere for the "Love Thy Neighbor"〔(Love Thy Neighbor ) (Internet Archive)〕 and ''Game of Satan''〔(Game Of Satan )〕 pages, that parody role-playing game moral panic. The pages were written at the time when the moral panic was being discussed, and first in mid-1990s, and the humorous approach was both disapproved of,〔Steve Jackson Games / Daily Illuminator, June 18, 1996, ( Evil Is Afoot! Part I )〕〔Matti Sihvo ja Rami Sihvo, 2003, p. 82, (Hyvää älyllistä pakoa arjesta - Liveroolipelit seurakunnan nuorisotyössä ) (DIAK:n opinnäytetyö, pdf)〕 and later, as the moral panic waned, approved of.〔Religioustolerance, (Role-playing games: Introduction )〕 In several occasions, Paasivirta has said his date of birth is September 3, 1956, which is debatable, as the same interview also had wild claims about his "roots in nobility" and "special skills".〔(Bittivuoto.net, Petri Muhonen 07.01.2004, Niilo Paasivirran haastattelu )〕 == Game of Satan == Game of Satan pages parody the anti-role-playing game movement. According to the pages, the role-playing games are anti-Christian, sinful, make the players worship Satan, practice (among other things) occultism, religions other than Christianity, paraphilias, turn them into members of sexual minorities, commit crimes and go to Hell.〔(Dungeons and dragons (TM) and other fatasy role playing games (RPG) ). Religious Tolerance.〕〔Niilo Paasivirta: (What Happens to the Victims? ) Game of Satan.〕 Paasivirta himself described the page as follows: : ''"I didn't think anyone would take it seriously...Thousands of people...read the page, and a few percent of them apparently took it seriously. They started to e-mail me, and I started collecting the e-mails. I have over 5 megabytes archive...I "enhanced" the page by adding the most outrageous and ridiculous claims I could think of, I added deliberate typos, many contradictions, and silly links, hoping that even the most ignorant person would immediately realize that the page is a joke. It didn't help...More hate mail kept coming no matter what."''〔 The Game of Satan pages have gained some cult following. Many people have understood the joke, and supported the page for that reason, but some have thought the page was a real opinion of a "conservative Christian" and mocked people who had the same kind of views.〔 It has been seen as one of the examples of Poe's law. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Niilo Paasivirta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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