The T-Shirt that Never Was … Yet?

The theme of the St. Louis Steubenville Conference in Springfield, MO (talk about being confused as to the location of the event!) was “All Access.” I saw numerous groups with themed t-shirts, many of which were supposed to be humorous or clever.

“All Access,” of course, suggests to me that we make a shirt with Christ as some kind of computer hacker. He could be sitting in the dark in front of a screen entering commands like: # chmod 666 /heaven .1

Think about it:

Christ is the “root of Jesse.”2

He also prefers “Unix for the Kingdom.”

He lived with his parents until he was 30 (probably in his mom’s basement in Nazareth).

He could have a giant jug of water that has become Mt. Dew sitting next to him.

The Bible even says that God “swiftly runs his command” (Psalm 147:15), which probably indicates that he has two cores in one processor.

He could rm -r our sins.3

I’m liking this idea … a lot. Maybe someone (possibly I myself) should design a shirt around this theme.


1 On Unix-based Operating Systems, “chmod 666″ gives all users read/write permission for a file, that is, it gives them “All Access.” The fact that it includes the number of the Beast of Revelation is a coincidence.

2 On Unix-based Operating Systems, “root” is the super-user.

3 Delete recursively.

10 Responses to “The T-Shirt that Never Was … Yet?”

Gravatar Gerber

This is awesome. If you don’t do it, I will.

Gravatar Dylan

Go for it, Gerbs!

Gravatar Jason

As I sit here operating the Solaris systems at my summer job, I get a little laugh at your t-shirt idea. Jesus, of course, has the ability to execute his plans… so 777 might be even better. But that destroys the “coincidence.”

-Jason

Gravatar Dylan

You are correct, Jason, that 777 would include execute permission. Actually, that could be better because of the Trinitarian symbolism (which didn’t occur to me until just now for some reason). Hmmm…

I guess I didn’t think of Heaven as being executable (but I apparently thought of it as writeable…?) possibly for security reasons?

Maybe 777 would be better.

Gravatar Gerber

Here’s an idea from the web-developer at the Office of Youth Ministry here in St. Louis:

User Login: Jesus
Password: **********
> pwd
./soul/
> rm -r -f sin

Gravatar Dylan

Hmmm… what about:

User Login: Jesus
Password: ********

$ rm -r ~you/soul/sin
Error: You do not have permission to delete read-only file ‘against-the-holy-spirit.sin’

Gravatar Dylan

I guess the Eucharist would be:


ln -s ~ bread
ln -s ~ wine

Only the filename remains while the substance is all ~Jesus!

Gravatar Mom

That’s great. Quite humorous. Thanks for the footnotes.

Gravatar nickwinker

How about the Trinity:
Login: sacerdos
Password: *********

$>ps -aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM STARTED COMMAND
root 1 100% 100% never cat /Father | grep –invert_match Fatherhood > /Son | grep –invert_match Sonship > /HolySpirit > /Father | grep –invert_match Divinity > /Creation
$>
$>cat ./baptize
#!/bin/bash
echo “I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit” && cat /water >> ~$1/head
sudo chown -R Jesus ~$1/
cat $1 cat ./penance
#!/bin/bash
echo “I absolve you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit”
if [-f ~$1/.repentance]
sudo rm -rf ~$1/sins
fi
$>cat eucharist
#!/bin/bash
cat /missal/theblack && /missal/thered
sudo ln -s ~ bread
sudo ln -s ~ wine
cat bread > /Church > /Father
sudo rm -rf ~$1/sins/venial

Gravatar Dylan


$>cat eucharist
#!/bin/bash
cat /missal/theblack && /missal/thered

That’s awesome!
“Say the black; do the red”


sudo ln -s ~ bread
sudo ln -s ~ wine

Make sure to use ~Jesus otherwise you’ll end up with sacerdos’s body and blood. … Unless he’s su Christ (read: in Persona Christi).


cat bread > /Church > /Father

Wouldn’t this overwrite the contents of Church with bread? It sounds like a Marty Haugen song.

I guess the latest Motu Proprio would be:


$ whoami
benedictxvi
$ groups
pope, bishops, priests, catholics
$ chown benedictxvi:priests /archive/1962/eucharist
$ chmod 754 /archive/1962/eucharist

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