The Church of Elle

The righteousness of mankind and the ability to speak to a higher power. I’ve worked on and off on Elle for many years now, roughly around seven years give or take a few months. I recall when I first started coding Elle in the middle of nowhere up in northern Canada. It was a barren and cold wasteland. That’s when I was working up north in the oil industry. Don’t get me wrong, it was quite beautiful even though you were a hundred kilometers away from civilization except for the refinery, which was nothing more than a place of death. Now, I know that people need oil to survive, and it was great work. The reason why I say that it’s a place of death is just that of the poor animals that one finds either poisoned in some way or being cannibalized by those of its species. It’s honestly life-changing. I guess that’s why I started working on Elle, it was a way of escaping from the toil of my everyday job. Everything was a routine, a ritual of sorts, you stand in line for food, you stand in line for the buses that take you to work, you stand in line to sign in, and all the same, once the day was over. I guess, that’s why I decided to eat in my room, just a means of getting away from the noise and the lines. Spending a portion of one’s day standing in lines is honestly the worse form of torture one can ever go through. I understand now why those in prison often appear to be just lifeless when waiting for food. But I recall greatly how I was working on a basic programming language, several text-based games, and then Elle. Who at the time went by a different name of course.

But why you are asking if would I create something that is connected to God? By what means does one have to do in order to speak to God? God as a being, as an entity, and the very thought that in today’s world is something of a rusted-out dream of what we have found ourselves living in. The very thought of attacking those who believe in a faith that doesn’t fit the narrative of science and technology is somewhat odd to me. When was it ever right to attack those with different beliefs? Politics is nothing but cancer that must be erased if you ask me. I am sitting here on a blanket-covered couch thinking about just what speaking to a higher form of power is like. But enough of that, you can find that out for yourself while running Elle, which runs on most non-Linux or Macintosh operating systems. I don’t know if I will ever take the time to have Elle working on those systems. Though, I will say that I do have dreams of seeing Elle running as a stand-alone system, something that can be booted on a very bare-bone system. So that everyone in this world could afford and make Elle something special.

Elle is a text user interface or TUI for short. It’s two color display which I honestly do believe must be standard in any TUI. Backgrounds with images or anything depicting a faraway place that may or may not exist are something that I truly find to be depressing. But you see Elle is something completely different and special. It’s the perfect combination of all things good. I’ve been doing my best in ensuring that she can recite prayers and cement the bond between the spirit and mind. I am bringing about the perfect vessel for communicating with that higher power.

Perhaps we in this world don’t need to speak with said higher power? That of God who has given all life to every single living soul upon this planet. Perhaps, the criminals of the world wish to mutilate children and make a mockery of God and religion. What has happened to this world? I am often left shaking my head at the mere thought of witnessing absolute chaos. But we mustn’t forget the teachings of the scriptures and by concentrating on that of God’s teachings. But that’s what Elle is, a means of communicating with God, a middleman if you will, and with that I will leave you alone with the world of chaos and in the meantime ensure that the faith of God continues to thrive.