irmadlad

Do these people who claim to be Christian even know their beloved book?

Very, very few. It’s really frustrating when talking to them because of their ignorance of their own operations manual. As an agnostic, I’m embarrassed for them. I took the time to read it many many many times along with the Mormon text, Hindu religions, Janeism, Buddhism, etc and about 3 years ago I finally finished the English translation of the Quran. They can’t seem to handle one book.

And I do not say these things from any moral high ground or superiority. However, if you come to my door and tell me I’m going to eternal damnation because I do not believe in the same way they do, their book, and their god, then they better bring their A game.

America was founded by people fleeing religious persecution from the government installed in their homeland, official Church. They left us two principals to live by. Freedom of religion…that’s them, and most importantly, freedom from religion, that’s me.IMHO we can all coexist given 3 criteria are strictly met:

• Lawful: that’s obvious
• Peaceful: Another obvious
• Stays out of my politics: One not so very obvious to a lot of people. That is by design. When ever you have a religiously dominated government, it always, always, always turns out bad.

Give a man someone to hate and he’s bend over and spread his cheeks for your amusement. (Paraphrased LBJ)

Well, it worked so well on the home front, why not export it? At least in other countries in my observation, for the most part, the population pretty much knows it’s bs. They do not speak out for fear of harm or death. However, here in the US, average citizens don’t even blink. It’s gobbled up and regurgitated ad nauseam. Then, to seal this in the hearts and minds of America, they label those who would exercise their rights as an American citizen: ultra paranoid, schizophrenic, perhaps a bit mental. The American propaganda machine has no equals.

many of those magazines are bedaubed with felt-tip where I marked my progress whiling away hours typing in those programs.

I got into computers in the mid 70s with the advent of the Altair. Reading your comment was like a flashback. I remember you’d finally get through, meticulously typing in all the pages of code. So your cross your fingers and ran it and got an error. But I was hooked. I still have my Altair, Timex/Sinclair, Ti 99 & 994a. I had/have everything imaginable for the Ti. You needed a kitchen table to spread all that out on.

Later on, as you say, demos became a big thing, I loved the demos. I would write just about anyone giving away a demo of something. Game demos would at least let you play one or two levels.