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quotes from the TempleOS charter: * God said 640x480 16 color graphics is a covenant like circumcision. * God said to use a single audio voice -- a single fre
by tessierashpool 11y ago
quotes from the TempleOS charter:
* God said 640x480 16 color graphics is a covenant like circumcision.
* God said to use a single audio voice -- a single frequency with waveforms and,
maybe, amplitude envelope.
(it's linked in the original, but just in case:
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Charter.html http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Charter.html
seems he thinks Jesus was a Commodore 64. I'm not into judging people's religions but I will say that's definitely an unusual interpretation of the relevant texts.)
- ggchappell 11y agoAre there good reasons to think that this is supposed to be serious? It all looks very tongue-in-cheek to me.
- zxcvcxz 11y ago>Are there good reasons to thing that this is supposed to be serious? Yes. The lone author is supposedly schizophrenic. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer If this is all just a joke it's a very elaborate one.
- swasheck 11y agoI can't tell if that's a joke or a legitimately held belief. Reading the rest of the charter (and vaguely from memory), it seems like the developer believed God literally told him about this OS. Also, the KJV-only perspective is misguided given the textual scholarship that renders KJV as somewhat outdated.