MetaCatholic

“You will be persecuted” says the good Book, and I have barely reached a decision that I would be better off (though not financially) with a Mac as my next computer when David Ker gives me a taste of the persecution that I might face as a Mac owner. He is followed by Jim West (who learnt his persecuting skills from the murderous Zwingli), and the pot is well and truly stirred by James Crossley in comments, who quotes Charlie Brooker of Arse Screen Wipe fame. How anally retentive is that, to remember a newspaper article over a year old that rants against a make of computer.

As a Christian, I am assured that persecution only confirms that I am walking in the way of righteousness, and that the (Bill) Gates of Hades cannot stand against me. As a common-sensical human being, I can’t quite see how people get quite so worked up about their computing system. Apple fanbois are bad, but it looks like anti-Apple Window gazers are just as bad, if not worse.

It’s a sodding computer. Not a religion. Get over it guys, people will choose what they like. I like Windows. It so happens I think a Mac will suit me better next time, and there’s a lot to like about them too. I don’t think a consumer choice is a Damascene theophany, nor should it be treated like one.

And, Lingamish, please note Macs are beyond cool. When did you last see a movie in which someone saved the world with a Windows PC? But a Mac can even do easy-peasy networking with a vast alien spaceship that baffles the might of the US military super-computers, and it doesn’t even need a modem (and that was back in the nineties!). Add Independence Day to the list of movies you’re considering!

written by doug