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Fanboy Folly
Computers are just a tool, not the prime mover of human future. If we could stuff a soft, fat rubber ball in the mouths of the world’s mindless fanboys, the silence would be suddenly deafening. That includes the vast majority … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, culture, fanboys, game, linux, Open Source software, philosophy, psychology, religion, windows
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Dead Game
There is devastation all around me. On the one side, I see vast nations of men who languish under the lash of feminism. Worst of all, a vast carpet of Christian men who cannot possibly walk fully in the power … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged civilization, culture, divine revelation, fundamental assumptions, game, intellect, oppression, propaganda, religion
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GUI Races (Updated)
I’m watching. The current trend in computer user interface is racing up a dead end street. I could be entirely wrong about this, but we’ll see. I am certain the current leadership in development projects are almost uniformly stupid about … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, culture, economics, eldercraft, linux, marketing, psychology, technology, windows
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Death of the Internet Revisited
This builds on a previous blog post, Death of the Internet? The surge in smartphone and tablet computing is not entirely consumer directed. It is in part the result of long hopes and dreams held by plutocrats everywhere. The Internet, … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, culture, gospel, oppression, propaganda, resistance, social sciences, spirituality, technology, XFCE
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Short Clarification on Shepherding
I call myself an Internet Pastor. The term “pastor” is a synonym for shepherd, but carries a lot cultural and social baggage that really isn’t appropriate. Were I more precise with biblical terminology, I would use the label Internet Elder. … Continue reading
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Tagged biblical terminology, civilization, culture, government, mysticism, religion, scripture, western christianity
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Truth and Humor
Humility generally means not taking yourself too seriously. Humility is the inheritance of not taking the rest of this fallen world too seriously. It stands on the ultimate importance of truth, something rooted outside this realm of existence. Truth cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, Humility, mysticism, philosophy, propaganda, psychology, resistance, spirituality
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Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 9)
(The updated version of this series can be found here.) As noted from the start, this is DIY computing, but you aren’t alone by any means. Ideally, you would make friends with a Debian user in meat space. There’s nothing … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, culture, debian, linux, philosophy, psychology, technology
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The Business of Prayer
Context is everything. A key element to all my religious babble on this blog is recognizing that you cannot blindly inject your own cultural prejudices into the process of reading the Bible. Scripture arises from a radically different mindset than … Continue reading
Internet Unrealities
Perhaps you’ve met one like him. He asked me to come over to his apartment and look at his computer, saying only that it had a problem. Some charitable agency had given him a decent system with Ubuntu installed. He … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged civilization, computers, culture, government, internet, Internet traffic, NSA, oppression, technology
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Quantum Culture
Even today, we have little comprehension of what the ancients did, much less what they knew in order to do it. Part of it is our complete failure to grasp how they understood their world. We speculate with very little … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquities, civilization, culture, history, math and science, mysticism, science, technology
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