Who I am and what I do.

Photo by Norberto Machado Fagundes

I am an autodidactic system analyst, member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP), being one of the IBM's Team of Developers towards the OS/2, writing, illustrating, sketching and printing books by computer, beyond of rendering information about science computers to PC users. I don't possess anything of mine and not even my body belongs to me: I am a monk of The Order of Saint Benedict (OSB), under promise of silence (strict observance of the RB; note that I'm not OCSO member or oblate: I'm hermit) and my aim is to go to the Eternal Life to share with Jesus Christ together with my brothers, as a single soul. Thanks God a work hard, for St. Benedict exhorts us to that in its Holy Rule, reminding us what contains in Bible's text:: You will win each every day's bread with the perspiration of your face. The life of a monk that follows the Saint Benedict's Rule is therefore organized for each 24 hours period: 8 hours of working including cleaning and kitchen services; 8 hours of prayers (Divine Office that includes the recitation, in Latin, of the 150 Psalms in elapsing of one week, being followed by the Psalterium Monasticum); 5 hours of studies; 3 hours of rest. I have already had a dissolute life and during 32 years exercised the journalist's profession. I have been married for 28 years. My wife, Iolanda Therezinha Marcier, was a good and saint woman, she was a practicing Roman Catholic Apostolic Faith and thanks to her permanent support I had a lucky life in this consumption society. She worked 20 hours a day, helping the poor persons and she was always smiling, seeing only the people's qualities had and never looking for that could be considered as imperfections. By imposition of hands she also cured people and animals and, when she went to the Eternal Life, I decided to follow her example by entering to the monastic life. My present contact with the external world is done through the Internet. I have defined personal opinions: I am against the oppression, exploration, discrimination, intolerance, fanaticism and monopolies, however I am not devoted to any campaign against any institution that doesn't work well, but I think valid the honest and ethical boycott as a weapon to fight impositions. I am sure that science of computing helps humanity's evolution but I disagree with those that refer to computer as a demoniac thing. I do also disagree from many people of informatics's world that assure theology and computation are incompatible matters. I want to explain that the greatest part of monks are not composed by priests; they are only monks that search in the asceticism a way to serve God helping our brothers that live next to us, aiming the evolution of our conscience, that is to say, the transposition of perceiving and the self perception to a higher plane. In older times the monks accomplished a lot of scientific discoveries. Today there are monks in the Internet. In the desert of New Mexico, without water and electric energy, Benedictines monks had built machines that caught the energy of the sun and so they get electricity. This energy is used to work bombs that pull water from the profundities of the arid soil and also to put on the computers on which they work. They maintain this Christ Monastery in the desert creating sites for companies. They can be visited at their home page in the Internet by: http://www.christdesert.org/pax.html. However it is necessary a persistent auto policy in order that PC does not become a purpose by himself: it must be used to accomplish works that create better conditions of life and promote prosperity, creating employment and decreasing the time wasted in repetitive routines. Acting so this time may be used in creative activities, in a technological or artistic manner. Since 1990 I have been using the operating system OS/2 for it is a very efficient and practical 32 bits system that assembles a community of users that have the sense of solidarity. I consider that it is the more adapted system for your PC.

Books Made by Macarlo Using OS/2 Warp

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