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~proteus

Hello there!

I am Proteus, and I'm an infant when it comes to the small web. I discovered gemini and gopher within the last year and a half, and it captivated me almost instantly; however, I quickly realized that in this realm I am technologically a complete imbecile. That said, everyone here seems passionate about the small web and eager to help new people like me get involved, so I am thrilled to get engage with you all, read your content, and share my own.

I suppose I'll use this first post as a way to say a bit about myself. I'm an American male, currently in my mid-twenties, who graduated from a Master of Arts program for English. My concentration is in rhetoric and composition, and my committee told me that I ought to consider myself a specialist on hate speech and digital rhetoric. I don't know if I am worthy of being called a specialist, but I know that I love to discuss the nature of belief and find myself fascinated by digital/virtual spaces.

Aside from my "haughty intellectual interests," I am also a Confessional Lutheran, which I am sure doesn't interest many people, but on the off chance that it piqued your interest, I am always eager to discuss it. Speaking more broadly, I generally enjoy talking about any and all religious creeds a person confesses, probably why I was so interested in epistemology and how it desperately informs our rhetoric.

That covers the academic, the religious... Oh yes, mundane hobbies. I'll just list those for you quickly:

... Well, I develop them for tabletop, but my lack of any coding talent has kept the door tightly shut on developing a video game.

There you have it! I am your typical internet nerd looking for a higher quality experience on the internet, and here I am, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, hoping to find that experience here on the small web. That just leaves one thing, hope that I managed to format this post correctly!

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~eaplmx wrote:

Hello proteus, what do you want to drink today? 🥤

I like Game Dev as a hobby and profession, and I try to play as much as I can. Nice!

I'm a Mexican male in my mid-30s, doing science and designs, trying to understand life, arts and creativity :)

I'm not into religious stuff, more on research of the 'isms' that guide our life, but I'm always to discuss ideas, mechanisms, tools for progress and fun ways to live.

Welcome!

~tetris wrote:

Hey!

Confessional Lutheran

I went down a deep rabbithole just now trying to work out what this is, and I stumbled upon the **tree of all religions**¹ where I think found you at the 2pm position:

    Ancient Israelite Religion (~1 BC)
    |_ Christianity (~1000 AD, up to the Great Schism)
       |_ Western or Roman Catholic Church (~1500s, up to Martin Luthor Reform)
          |_ Unnamed Lutherian Branch (~1820s)
            |_ Unnamed Lutherian Branch2 (~1980s)
               |_ Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference

(I hope I got it right...) I love these kind of trees and hierarchies because they're driven entirely by ideology, and it's like watching the operating system distro wars of the 1990s-2010s play out, as they split off from one branch or root due to one reason or another on a hill that someone is willing to die on.

It's a rich tapestry of decision making weaved into fabric of humanity

¹: http://the40foundation.org/world-religions-tree.html

~inquiry wrote:

Pleased to meet ya!