[Tfug] Apple Mac OS X: tool of Godless Darwinists and Communist

[erich]

In a religious war, sides are taken because they feel threatened: No one 
wants their faith destroyed.
It's kind of amusing that personal beliefs on how a computer is to be 
configured/used take on "religious"
proportions. But you have to recognize that some kind of threat is the 
motivator.
       A la Mark Twain we could put an Emacs user in a cage with a Vi 
user and see if
it would come to a fist fight. Twain says that would happen if you put a 
Salvation
Army Colonel in a cage with a Buddhist priest or whatever. But it's all 
theoretical
We can't be sure.

                                                                        
                                         Erich
Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:
> On 20 Jun 2009 at 10:11, Matthew Patenaude  wrote:
>
>   
>> These web sites make real Christians very angry. I am one (Baptist, to 
>> boot), and these idiots disgust me. I know a lot about these guys, and 
>> they have essentially no knowledge about the Bible, and about the Lord 
>> Jesus Christ. But then, every ideology can and tends to be hijacked by 
>> people who desire to use it for their own perverted ways.
>>     
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> ------- Included Stuff Follows ------- 
> holy wars
>
>     Great holy wars of the past have included ITS vs.: Unix, Unix vs.: VMS, 
>     BSD Unix vs.: System V, C vs.: Pascal, C vs.: FORTRAN, etc. In the year 
>     2003, popular favorites of the day are KDE vs, GNOME, vim vs. elvis, Linux 
>     vs. [Free|Net|Open]BSD. Hardy perennials include EMACS vs.: vi, my 
>     personal computer vs.: everyone else's personal computer, ad nauseam. The 
>     characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes 
>     is that in a holy war most of the participants spend their time trying to 
>     pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective 
>     technical evaluations. This happens precisely because in a true holy war, 
>     the actual substantive differences between the sides are relatively minor. 
>     See also theology.
>
> --------- Included Stuff Ends ---------
> More here with links: http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/holy-wars.html
>
> See also http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acatb.org+wars
>
> See also, "One Microsoft Way -- not just an address, a way of life!"
>     http://www.google.com/search?q=One+Microsoft+Way
>
>   
>> Did anyone note the "an older, obsolete OS called BSD" crack? :) And 
>> 'open source is just another name for communism'? These guys are wacko.
>>     
>
> You just can't make this stuff up!  Or at least you don't need to ....
>
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