I was coming to the comments to write this reminds me of Terry Davis, may be rest in peace. It might sound strange but Terry provided me with inspiration and a reminder that anything can be created or “Willed into existence”.

Given an infinite multitude of parallel universes, perhaps one exists where TempleOS was in fact the sole and exclusive conduit to divinity and Terry was it's prophet. I hope that is the case.

This instance was that timeline.

Well yes and in that timeline and shall we say warped logic, Terry stated that the random number generator is the direct connection to god in his TempleOS.

fun fact, last year I had a contractor come to my house. He was a very nice guy. After he was done we were talking and it turned out he was terry’s brother… He told me a lot of stories about him and his life, mental health and death. Pretty sad and interesting..

Just out of curiosity, how did that get brought up?

Amazing, if you would at all be interested in sharing any I am all ears.

Holy C, no less

Holy C is hard to code without crashing Adam. If you type the wrong kind of indirection, the whole OS freezes.

Yes there was no memory protection or anything. All ring 0!

ZealOS is TempleOS but with support for some modern functionality, however this detracts from the proper TempleOS experience

Be careful, you don't want to start a religious war about ZealOS' use of 32-bit colour.

I mean, look at the East-West schism. The stated reasons for the split are just as stupid.

That's a rather odd take. The ecclesiastical differences alone are irreconcilable, not to mention the theological disputes.

They worked together for a thousand years. Ecclesiastically, the only problem is everybody's refusal to share power again.

It's not like someone had a bad day and the other side isn't over it. The schism of 1054 was centuries in the making, and even at the time it was largely not in any way impacting lives of average Christians. In the centuries that followed, there were brief periods of reconciliation and further rises in tension.

The sacking of Constantinople in 1204 and its later fall a few decades later made reconciliation far harder, and the ultimate shift of power to Moscow made it practically impossible. The final separation of the churches was formalized in the 1700s.

In all the intervening years, the Roman Catholic Church has doubled down on Papal supremacy and infallibility, something that is anathema to Orthodoxy. Beyond that, centuries of diverging traditions have further entrenched theological differences.

There really isn't any separating the ecclesiastical and theological differences at this point. Even the Protestants, who at first largely opposed the Pope rather than the Roman Catholic Church itself, sought to unify with the Orthodox Church in Moscow and found it to be too different to their liking.

This is the kind of quality comment I've come to expect from HackerNews! Well done.

I'm a cradle-Catholic-turned-Atheist, and I still find all of early church history fascinating.

I watched a few Terry's streams and TempleOS seems to be something pretty fluid to use. You literally navigate in the console, or whatever it is called, and can open any file the current cursor points to.

It even has games

This is the best rabbit hole I’ve gone down in awesome. Thanks for sharing!