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LOL! Thank you

No, I will fix that! Apologies

Hilariously since this video I have entirely returned to emacs and will make a video about why I was wrong - and the comments on this video helped to lead me home! God bless

God bless brother, I too have returned to the Catholic Church after almost a year as an Orthodox Inquirer. The intellectual history and tradition of Catholicism is what finally pulled me back in.

I am starting to use emacs once more for everything - the fact that you can integrate your computer so well is not wasted on me, I will make a video in the future rescinding my comments on this video haha

@ I’ve sub you haha! Waiting for that!

This comment is for comments section, newcomers of emacs, not an answer to the video

I will say - I am actually returning to emacs after this experiment because of the comments section on this video has opened my eyes to much of the possibility and purpose of emacs. I will make a video in the future - but know that I am running emacs full time as my "everything OS" for the last few weeks and I think I get it now.

​​@@JoshuaBlaisgreat to hear that. I am just another linux and emacs enthusiast, I hope I didn't offend you, I was just lettjng people know there is a way to launch emacs faster. By the way, conversely, I use neovim everyday, but for Fortran, nothing beats Emacs, and I use it for Fortran for my engineering and academic work.

I think the learning curve is fairly worth it to go down for tmux as the surface level benefits of splitting terminals is really only the beginning

I believe it is this one from o-cha: www.o-cha.com/loose-leaf-green-tea/sencha/organic-powdered-sench.html I didn't even know green tea could taste this good, importing it direct from Japan was the way to go!

Cheers my man, God bless!

A slightly tweaked nord scheme

I like the P series, do you have a dedicated gpu in yours?

I actually laughed out loud. Thank you brother!

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!