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We all are, but the source of that energy is in God. God bless!

The trajectory of the Western world was defined by philosophy becoming theology. Please do read the early writings to see what I am discussing, but this is not a video to attempt to convert anyone - it is an apologetic for why I saw Stoic philosophy as a stepping stone into theology. God bless brother.

@@JoshuaBlais I would agree with you on those points, but your first point is entirely backwards in that it was theology that was turned into philosophy as science illuminated the world where before the light of a god or gods had shone before only just bright enough to ward off the "demons" of hopelessness, and all emotions that could be associated with it... As your argument applies to Western culture specifically. As it applies to the area where Christianity began, then yes I would agree that philosophy was converted to theology. As for stoicism leading to religion, there are no religious books that don't promote arguably stoic virtues because they are a means to the same end. Religion and philosophy, to be clear. I read it for typos and it felt a little vague.

I believe science is an uncovering of reality - a study of God if you will. For example, at my church there is a guy who is in a graduate program in physics and I asked him "I thought that science was removed from God?" (in a joking way of course) and he replied that his study has only helped to confirm and strengthen his faith. Our modern Western culture, after the period of Enlightenment, has been in continual decline away from Christ - you are correct about that. But the trajectory that built Europe (think the great cities and architecture, the cultures) was entirely driven by a cohesive effort to praise the Creator. I agree that philosophy and theology are seeking one and the same - the purpose of "all of this", the "why" that cannot go any further. I would argue that that answer requires the leap of faith. Thank you for your thoughtful reply!

@@JoshuaBlais Brother those were not done to praise the creator. In that culture, the church held such power over everything that nobody was safe from it. At what point did Christ start dictating who should be put to death, tortured or enslaved? If he did, I haven't read of it. Church centric culture and architecture was a canvas. A medium for great minds to do great things, and thanks to the old systems of patronage, the rich sought tax breaks and a way to pay for tickets out of purgatory. It was architecture and donations made in what amounts to bad faith. Everybody but the top class feared ostracization, death and torture if their faith was found lacking. Obviously, people learned either to fake it or face the consequences. You say we have fallen out of Christ's way, but at what point in history has mercy been more abundant? At what point has charity been given in such volume with a genuine love for one's neighbors and fellow humans? I'll tell you as an amateur historian, never. Not once in all of human history have the poor, down trodden, infirm and disabled had so much assistance as they do now. To make Christianity any more believable than a Dr.Seuss book, nearly every page has to be interpreted on a case by case basis to determine what is literal and what is metaphorical. You picked a religion that you can use to point and internally say "I am better than those people because I know the truth" seemingly right after a brutal lesson in how cruel life can be. That's a major feeling of powerlessness and I understand. I sympathize and understand in my own way. But humans usually find religion in those circumstances, and when the dopamine runs out, you just hope you embedded yourself in the culture deeply enough that you don't lose faith. And if you do, you'll probably fake it because of the social connections you made along the way. There is nothing new about that.

I think he's living his life, still makes contributions to his repositories fairly regularly.

I have heard of it, never tried it! Where would you say it improves on Neovim?

@@JoshuaBlais It does all of the Vim like stuff, but with a simpler interface. I was able to learn it in three days. The UI focuses on selection, it has the Vim cursor movement stuff, but then selecting text is much easier. If you press v to enter select mode, instead of search/replace, you can just duplicate the cursor to search matches and edit it all at once, you can search within your searches. It's really convenient. When you press space you get a menu, when you go into match mode, you get a menu, when you go to window split mode you get a menu, when you type colon you get an autocomplete menu with the typical Vim commands and Helix stuff. You don't need to memory much because there's usually a menu to help you learn it. Once you know the menu, you can just type the keys at full speed and treat it like another shortcut. Helix Editor is really fast. Also to get to the tutorial, just type ":tutor" and it will teach you right there.

Absolutely do so! If nothing else, the Bible is one of the greatest (many would say the greatest) achievements of human literature. The Bible in a Year podcast is a great resource if you want to get in-depth notes. God bless

I entirely agree - whereas stoicism tries to quell the suffering, Christ shows us there is an ultimate end, a higher Good in it. Philosophical understanding truly gives way to the theological if we are seeking that Highest Good. God bless!

Very interesting, why would you say you are happier now than before?

@@JoshuaBlais Because I value truth, and I realized that I didn't like following "commandments" from fictional characters, regardless of how compelling their narratives are, or how strongly other people believe in those stories. Leaving behind the Abrahamic myths along with all other myths (bronze age or older) became a matter of spiritual maturity to me.

I think that as a human being, we all have a master. In making that the Creator of All, we forgo the worldly masters that many succumb to (money, pleasure, power, status, etc.) and look to the Highest Good. Not an attempt to make you change your mind, just how I look at it. I ran the gambit from atheist to pantheist, to "maybe I am it", to ultimately divine revelation. It's been a journey to say the least! God bless.

@@JoshuaBlais I get the idea, but I don't accept the presupposition that there HAS to be something above all, like what a believer would call "God", for instance. The idea of all humans having a "master" is pretty Hegelian, and I also don't like Hegel either, but that's a topic for another time.

haha! you are my guy!

Totally! I am speaking anecdotally - from my personal experiences when there have been arguments made against Christianity the party doing so has not put the time in to study the topic, it is generally from a point of view of "I had one bad experience in Church one time, therefore Christianity is false". Most often the other party hasn't even read the Bible and the things they say are sound bites from atheist youtube channels etc. Whereas the conversation I would want to be having is where the other party has studied the apologists of the last two millennia and we can have a debate on that merit. God bless homie!

@@JoshuaBlais Thank you for the thoughtful reply - I understand what you’re saying. I found you via your tech videos. I’m usually not compelled to listen to religious topics on TH-cam, but your tech videos have been insightful and this video piqued my interest. It’s just that, as someone who grew up and spent a lot of time in the church, that particular part of the video stuck out to me which is why I left a comment (another rarity for me). Keep up the good videos!

I really appreciate you commenting, it helps me get better too! I will definitely make mistakes on the path, and it helps me to get better for you guys that at the end of the day are the people that matter. Thank you so much!

You bet I will, glad you enjoyed it! God bless!

back panel is just like the sides with how it clips in, tooless!

@@JoshuaBlais Thanks

God bless brother

Thank you for this, Framework has been on my radar for some time! I think I may wait to go ARM when Linux has better support in the coming year or so - although intel has been doing some interesting stuff recently with their optimizations that take battery life into massive consideration.

I agree that the ultimate Truth is Love. God bless!

Agreed. However my argument is that the actual Stoicism we are talking about is a progression in the revelation of Christian understanding. The stoics made statements about "the Logos" and Christ was the Logos incarnate.

Agreed, Leo is super responsive and generous, highly recommend to anyone!

I think there is a nostalgia about emacs. That is not to say I won't go back to it at some point, it is becoming apparent that I didn't use emacs to the fullest potential as a LISP machine

God bless!

@@JoshuaBlais I've used emacs somewhat extensively, too. I started in vim a decade ago, thought "am I missing something?" and thus tried emacs for a while, and then finally switched back to vim and then neovim. Neovim is the way. Periodt.

I may give a vanilla emacs config a try, people are saying my issues stem from doom and the plethora of packages it introduces!

Science and Christianity are not opposed - the Church has a massive history in science (the creators of the scientific method were Catholic scholars) and the first universities were founded by the Catholic Church.

I will be watching how I get on without org mode too, so far it has been a little less organized, so we will have to see if I can get the system to a place that replicates the functionality! Cheers

I will make a video about my note taking in the future! Thanks for the idea, God bless!

Cool. Looking forward to that.

About that directory thoing. Dired exists + you can run it on terminal.

Issues with v-term whatever it is. There is default "term" that works well for me.

Ssh problem: tramp

I feel like you didn't learn emacs, you use some weird plugins instead of using emacs itself.

Why would you write org and convert it into markdown if you can use markdown-mode?

Haha, if only!

I've never heard of it, I'll look into it!

I use NVChad as a base config for Neovim and I believe that is a default

Not sure about nvchad, but a popular way to do it is using folke's noice plugin

I have put too much time into configuring my editors, that is the truth! Never heard of Acme, I'll check it out

@@JoshuaBlais You could also look at wily editor.

Totally fair opinion and something I knew I would hear from the emacs diehards! What would you say are the benefits of using the emacs keybinds over the vim editing style?

@@JoshuaBlais Oh.. No benefit at all. It's just Apple and Orange - Also nothing wrong with you get back to Vim. Probably the problem you had is also problem I am having now. Recently I use Zed a lot with my Emacs. Occasionally I use Vim binding in Zed (but mostly Emacs binding).

I probably never got there with the LISP machine. Do you have any resources I could study about the philosophy? The meme of emacs being a machine ontop of the underlying machine seems to be true

Cheers bro, God bless!

Cheers man, means a lot! God bless!

Counter-intuitive, hey? Perhaps I want the apps to load faster so I have more time to live slowly 😉

Fair statement, and in another comment the LISP machine was mentioned - I probably never got far enough down the rabbit hole to "get it" - if you have resources I could study about how to truly use emacs, I would love them!

@@JoshuaBlais I don't think there is such a thing like "how to truly use emacs". And for you I think it made total sense to switch to neovim. If you didn't use TRAMP, org-mode usage was limited enough so you could easily switch to markdown, etc, you probably were not get enough benefits from emacs to still deal with some annoyances it has. I recently ditched my terminal emulator for eshell+eat-eshell-mode and just cannot be happier. Just cd-ing to any environment and having everything with my config feels like magic and I much prefer navigation/search/etc that emacs buffers provide to terminal emulators. Delay on command execution over network is noticable though.

I'd be super interested in a video of that workflow! I agree - I think the fact I never was a "purist" in emacs is why it was easy for me to consider the jump back to vim (always an evil user etc). Vterm for me wasn't capable of replacing a terminal emulator, never tried eshell!

Try using different configs for different use cases

I have the (unhealthy) mind that if I put the time in once to configure something, it will always be there for posterity's sake, haha

I do keep hearing about zellij, but I have a sunk cost fallacy with tmux - I also don't know if you can start up pre-defined sessions for a project in zellij, if you can let me know!

@@JoshuaBlais yes zellij attach session name-of-session

I have only used it in the curl trial command, so I don't have enough use to really comment - tmux does everything I need it to do, and I am not sure if I could quickly start up pre-defined sessions for projects and save them in a project specific config al la tmuxp in zellij. If this functionality exists please let me know!

i3 was my first window manager, then moved to BSPWM, and now on hyprland really enjoying it! That is hilarious, doom is a pretty sane default, I like it!

I am a shiny guy! Kidding - I have some other comments about how I didn't really get the core emacs experience because I used evil from day one, and I think that the first point I make about being a vim user is probably where I fell off the train the most.

That is a solid workflow, respect!

I haven't used zellij enough to have an opinion, it appears to solve the same problems as tmux, no?

@@JoshuaBlais Correct.

I tried to keep it to as few layers as possible, but totally valid! The email macro is a Godsend haha