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Per Terry: >God said 640x480 16 color was a covenant like circumcision. You can be uncircumcised. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mhxc9/templeo

• faissaloo 8y ago
  >The CIA fights dirty and definitly will fight TempleOS. The glow in the darks man, they're up to something
• themodelplumber 8y ago
  That's interesting to me because even seen as a pure negative, circumcision was originally a minor trade-off in a covenant wherein God agreed to make Abraham a "father of nations." And here, essentially, Terry makes a little graphics sacrifice and, according to Terry, gets help from God himself in building the rest of this remarkable TempleOS. Seen from that perspective it makes the graphics seem like a minor deal. This will probably cause the downvotes to rain down, but to continue the Abraham analogy, who knows what Terry's work will go on to influence in the future; maybe Terry becomes a "father" in a long chain of Temple-influenced OS projects.
  • sterlind 8y ago
    I think you're right there. TempleOS is full of Bible metaphors - the root task is Adam, HolyC is a pun, etc. The circumcision metaphor fits. ..I wonder how much more of Terry's seemingly nonsensical musings are actually lucid metaphors. The man needed a translator (or the "holy spirit", metaphorically speaking)