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If you don't find the slip-sliding from strangely-worded technical discussion into invocations of the Godhead as explanations for why he only runs at certain monitor resolutions as clear indications of delusion I think you may be trying too hard to be accepting. In doing so you're fooling yourself.

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I resent the accusation. But I do venture south of the "sanity" meridian quite often, so perhaps I have lost perspective. Perhaps I should watch more television.

Do engage the substance of my inquiry, please. If it is "delusional" to invoke the Godhead as an explanation for running only certain monitor resolutions, is it not delusional to invoke same Godhead as an explanation for holding $moral_value or making $public_policy_decision?

Rhetorical, obviously. My point is - if no objective metric is invoked in determination of "insanity", does it not then become a "house rule" of sorts?

A reliable and objective metric for insanity is whether you believe not only that the supreme deity of the universe is telling you how to program, but also that passages in the Bible are coded references to the same written directly to you.

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