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I like the idea of a technologically literate pope.
As long as he doesn't end up concluding every sermon with "I use Arch btw"
Archdioces Linux
Certainly not. He uses Pope!_OS
And just like that a new meme distro has ~~been born~~ been ordained.
There's white smoke coming out of my PC. That's normal for this OS, right?
I figured it would have to be temple os
I get the vibe Terry was more of a protestant guy
At the very least he grew up Catholic
he has a ThinkPad with two partitions. one has TempleOS, the other runs Arch with HolyWM
My favorite thing about TempleOS is it's written in Holy C.
ThinkerOS, TempleOS is dead.
Then again, maybe the pope likes an excercise.
You say, his holiness dabbles in APP-cromancy?
He just likes to use the holy window manager under heavenly arches of the temple.
Nice
he has a BS in math. not something you usually associate with the pope 🤷♂️
Pope Francis was a chemist.
interesting, did not know that.
Unlike some Christians, looking at you Baptists, Catholics have long seen science as a way to know more about God.
I'd say he must be very logical except, you know...
Literally René Descartes, arguably one of the most important mathematicians and philosophers in history, spends most of his meditations trying to prove the existence of God. Religious people can be very logical and believe in their religion for logical reasons, even if you and I disagree with those reasons.
Which he couldn't/didn't do, giving credence to my position that you don't come to belief in god through logic.
Look, I spent 40 years working with literal rocket scientists, I understand that smart people can be religious. Literally zero of them were raised without religion and came to it because of logical deduction. Smart people will either try to justify things they were raised to believe, or they'll just say that their religious beliefs come from a faith that isn't tied to logic. But rocket scientists who were raised Hindu will do the same with their pantheon as Christians do with their god.
Our greatest minds were peoplw of faith Plus beliving doesnt make one dumb
I didn't say it made him dumb, I implied that faith doesn't flow from logic. Plus it's a little problematic to say that our great minds were people of faith when, for much of our history, not being a person of faith could mean death. But it's true, there were folks like Thomas Aquinas who were brilliant and more than average religious.
Surprising amount of extemely logical people go full horse shoe into believing "religion is a useful technology despite being mostly quack". To me this is just sociopathy of a different flavor.
One plus one is two and Jesus is God incarnate.
our emissary reports that The Holy Roman Empire entered the Information Era
Ironically, the pope is probably more tech literate than anyone over 50 in Germany's government. I bet Merz doesn't even know how to generate a PDF from a Word document.
The Vatican quests us to destroy a bandit camp near them
Have you read his Encyclical?
There are many things that I disagree with the pope about, but it's well reasoned and argued, you can mostly skip the first two chapters, but three through five are worth a read.
I have not. I was raised catholic and consumed a lot of catholic stuff in my early years. I'm an atheist now and just can't get interested in any of it.
The chapters I said to skip are the religious stuff.
The rest is mostly about AI and why we maybe shouldn't.
Certainly can't disagree with him there
Religious leaders condemning AI will never not be hilarious. "The thought police doesn't like thought machines"
He's really into downloading bootlegs and mixtapes of early punk music.