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Whenever I watch one of Terry's videos, I get highly motivated to program. Not read a blog post comparing frameworks, or a debate about some programming idiom, or even designing some larger project. But literally type stuff into a computer and make things appear on the screen. It is remarkable how watching his TempleOS videos uncovers the fascination I had of computers from my youth, 30 years ago.
Who's Terry? And where can I see one of his videos?
A cult following for the God-given operating system. Huh. Sounds a bit sacrilegious.
I just wonder how long it'll take for some heretical sect to start a fork and add blasphemous features like networking or 32-bit colors... ;-)
A cult following for the God-given operating system. Huh. Sounds a bit sacrilegious.
Isn't that exactly what God would want? I just wonder how long it'll take for some heretical sect to start a fork and add blasphemous features like networking or 32-bit colors... ;-)
Whenever I watch one of Terry's videos, I get highly motivated to program. Not read a blog post comparing frameworks, or a debate about some programming idiom, or even designing some larger project. But literally type stuff into a computer and make things appear on the screen. It is remarkable how watching his TempleOS videos uncovers the fascination I had of computers from my youth, 30 years ago.
You've got me curious. Who's Terry? And where can I see one of his videos?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdX4uJUwSFwiY3XBvu-F_-Q/vid...
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> I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person I don't judge mania, or schizophrenia. But at what point do you stop trying to separate "the person" from the things they believe and say? He's a schizophrenic, and I can't hold that against him. But a racist, homophobic, antisemitic schizophrenic is just an asshole with a reg…
What you quoted is a textbook example of "word salad," a symptom of schizophrenia. Look at it, it's not even close to coherent. Racist delusions are not exactly unheard of in paranoid schizophrenia. Unless we have information about what Terry was like before he developed schizophrenia, it's impossible to tell if this apparent racism is him or the disease. Honestly, I'm inclined to think it's the disease. I've seen hi…
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Can I ask why you decided to do this rather than learning on a more conventional platform?
I was kind of interested in writing something for the temple (well, okay, I spent a bored afternoon contemplating giving it a go and half heartedly booting vms and reading code ....) While I can't answer for the OP, my motivation was specifically that this is kind of an alien environment and the challenge involved in even getting to hello world would definately have seen me walk away at the end the better for the exp…
I initially read that as VMS rather than VMs. Very confusing.
I don't think too many people half-heartedly boot VMS. Reactions tend to be one extreme or the other.
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> I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person I don't judge mania, or schizophrenia. But at what point do you stop trying to separate "the person" from the things they believe and say? He's a schizophrenic, and I can't hold that against him. But a racist, homophobic, antisemitic schizophrenic is just an asshole with a reg…
What you quoted is a textbook example of "word salad," a symptom of schizophrenia. Look at it, it's not even close to coherent. Racist delusions are not exactly unheard of in paranoid schizophrenia. Unless we have information about what Terry was like before he developed schizophrenia, it's impossible to tell if this apparent racism is him or the disease. Honestly, I'm inclined to think it's the disease. I've seen hi…
Imagine you are talking to someone who has been living in the wilderness for a long time, who has stumbled back into civilization and has gained a reputation for being a crazy person, and they point at a cave and say "bear hole makes the rain go away!" and becomes very frustrated that nobody bothers to try and understand them (and instead just repeats the popular opinion about how they are crazy). Are they actually speaking nonsense? I think that's what [some] schizophrenia actually is.
Whenever I watch one of Terry's videos, I get highly motivated to program. Not read a blog post comparing frameworks, or a debate about some programming idiom, or even designing some larger project. But literally type stuff into a computer and make things appear on the screen. It is remarkable how watching his TempleOS videos uncovers the fascination I had of computers from my youth, 30 years ago.
You've got me curious. Who's Terry? And where can I see one of his videos?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you quoted is a textbook example of "word salad," a symptom of schizophrenia. Look at it, it's not even close to coherent. Racist delusions are not exactly unheard of in paranoid schizophrenia. Unless we have information about what Terry was like before he developed schizophrenia, it's impossible to tell if this apparent racism is him or the disease. Honestly, I'm inclined to think it's the disease. I've seen hi…
Terry's "schizophrenia" just means he perceives reality differently than you do. The "word salad" is actually not random nonsense. Your mind is perfectly trained to value political correctness and money, and so you find his thoughts nonsensical or abhorrent. Terry's mind has developed to value art and speaking the truth as he perceives it without any social filter. What you are seeing is a true artist with a percepti…