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Re: Terry Davis Uses This

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Post by pubby »

This is my favorite Terry Davis quote (from his website):

----10/02/13 02:34:50----

I used to drink when I was young. I would wake-up and think about my shameful behavior and be stoic, I guess. Recently, I've been fighting hard to break-out of my prison. Ten years? Insanity.

God is perfectly just. Sadly, it's not like I've suffered, exactly. When you get out of control and call people "niggers", that can't be good. God talks. I'm not exactly believed. Everybody is cruel and give no clue what they make of me.

God is perfectly just. The countless generations before me? It appears that I get my own little principality of which I sometimes seem supreme.

Re: Terry Davis Uses This

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Post by proksoup »

TempleOSV207 wrote: post #2

Yeah, I did. Now, I use Linux. Normally stuff like this launched me into an existential crisis. "Oh, God, the stress! Why God!? My world has a MAJOR thing to worry about -- misleading people maybe or something like that." I'm not quite as much a coward. I think I had good reason. Cowardess is not a virtue. God loved King David. Damn, I look awful. Oh well. I've become a freak hermit-- don't know how to smile, anymore…

You look like the rest of us Terry :D

Welcome :)

Re: Terry Davis Uses This

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Post by xyzzy123 »

chubot wrote: post #16

Doesn't running TempleOS in VMWare completely ruin the aesthetic??? Pretty surprised by that part. When I heard about LoseThos I thought it was really bad ass. Like people who build their own house from scratch and live in it. The idea was to strip it down and get close to the metal. But if you're running it in VMWare, you basically have an entire OS underneath, a bunch of opaque code... doesn't fit IMO :/

I've run TempleOS on bare metal before. Getting it installed can be a bit fiddly (e.g. finding the right io ports for the CD-ROM), but it worked for me.

Re: Terry Davis Uses This

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Post by TempleOSV207 »

pubby wrote: post #41

This is my favorite Terry Davis quote (from his website): ----10/02/13 02:34:50---- I used to drink when I was young. I would wake-up and think about my shameful behavior and be stoic, I guess. Recently, I've been fighting hard to break-out of my prison. Ten years? Insanity. God is perfectly just. Sadly, it's not like I've suffered, exactly. When you get out of control and call people "niggers", that can't be good. G…

What do you say to government issued random numbers? Yer nigger brain shuts-down in denial. God is perfectly just, self evident looking at the World.

Re: Terry Davis Uses This

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Post by [deleted] »

pekk wrote: post #37
curiousDog wrote: post #3

As much as I feel sorry for this guy, can't look past his racist rants :(

If you pay attention, his use of the word "nigger" is not directed at black people. The word may offend people but his way of relating to the world is different, you aren't understanding much if you assume he means things the same as you do.

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Re: Terry Davis Uses This

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Post by njharman »

1945 wrote: post #5

Terry Davis has a mental illness, this isn't the proper forum to call attention to it.

There's nothing wrong or shameful about mental illness. It exists. It's wrong to pretend that it doesn't or to ignore/hide it.

Re: Terry Davis Uses This

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Post by morbius »

pubby wrote: post #41

This is my favorite Terry Davis quote (from his website): ----10/02/13 02:34:50---- I used to drink when I was young. I would wake-up and think about my shameful behavior and be stoic, I guess. Recently, I've been fighting hard to break-out of my prison. Ten years? Insanity. God is perfectly just. Sadly, it's not like I've suffered, exactly. When you get out of control and call people "niggers", that can't be good. G…

I always die a little inside reading this guy's stuff because it's so easy to see how brilliant he is, and how much schizophrenia is affecting his talent. The worst part is that even he wants to "break out of [his] prison," and it's heartbreaking to see when somebody can't.

I've been following Davis' work for around 5 years now. What he has been able to write, and the proficiency with which he writes it, has in my opinion surpassed all the programmers whose Ruby/Haskell/Clojure dreck always appears on the HN frontpage.

Re: Terry Davis Uses This

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Post by [deleted] »

phpnode wrote: post #4
curiousDog wrote: post #3

As much as I feel sorry for this guy, can't look past his racist rants :(

please do, they are certainly caused by his schizophrenia. In much the same way a Tourettes sufferer cannot control their compulsion to say inappropriate things.

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Re: Terry Davis Uses This

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Post by skittles »

kordless wrote: post #40
Kiro wrote: post #26

Since TempleOSV207 is shadowbanned here's his response in this thread: > Yeah, I did. Now, I use Linux. Normally stuff like this launched me into an existential crisis. "Oh, God, the stress! Why God!? My world has a MAJOR thing to worry about -- misleading people maybe or something like that." I'm not quite as much a coward. I think I had good reason. Cowardess is not a virtue. God loved King David. Damn, I look awfu…

> You poor people don't know God. This is a blaming statement and is misleading in and of itself. How can you possibly know what I know or what I don't know?

Don't worry about it. He is schizophrenic and believes God talks directly to him. If you had this problem, you probably wouldn't want to take medication for it. He thinks he has been chosen. It really isn't under his control.
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