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Our New Forums: The Temple Of The Gods - A Thanksgiving Message

AvatarHigh Priest Zevios Metathronos5 min to read
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Greetings to everyone in our Zevist family,

This is a public announcement to announce two things. As you can see with proof in front of you, the Temple now has these phenomenal forums, sitting at the edge of beauty, latest technology and maximal functionality. You will fall in love with the new technology here, which is the gateway to your learning, to your spiritual journey and self elevation in the company of the Gods and our Zevist brothers and sisters.

I want to publicly thank NG Maelstorm for the creation of these magnificent platform and this major upgrade, which will affect all Zevists for years to come. We all owe a thank you for NG Maelstorm for bringing this in manifest form, proving his resilience, hard work and merits in front of the whole of our Community and bringing the Community closer to the Gods through is works.

Further, I would like to announce, that Maelstorm has secured his position as a Temple Guardian [TG] through applied and sustained effort to evolve us technologically with the most recent and cutting edge standards. Therefore, let us both thank TG Maelstorm for his works, and let us also henceforth call him Temple Guardian Maelstorm, for He has both guarded and elevated the Temple of the Gods.

May he be blessed for his works, may he be blessed in his new office, which is both incumbent with major glory and major responsibility.

This post must serve as testament to how a brother or sister in our Ranks, rises on Merit. The core Merit, is giving, creating and uplifting: There are many means, yet our Brother here has displayed his creative tenacity and vision to embark on one of the most important topics. We all do our part of the Temple, and when this is done, honor, glory and immortality of name, is etched on the Community which serves the Gods, in great happiness by everyone and with splendor of works.

We must all send him a blessing and a good word, for as we can see, the greatness of all of us is made manifest, we do great acts for others, Gods and people alike.

It must also further be noted, that our brothers and sisters from Turkey are venerated by the works of the people of the region, which prove beyond all doubts, that Turkish Zevists are a great and formidable force in channeling the light of the Gods. May everyone take example of this, for people of all under our wonderful earth, have come together to instate the Gods in front of Man, and bring Man into the path of the Gods.

I also want to take this opportunity to thank every single Guardian and Priest, and above all, the ardent supporters of the Temple who allow these things to occur with their verified and elegant help; we respect you and venerate you. We bless them for all their efforts and their labors, which must be recognized by us all.

The largest proof of recognition, is when all of us can behold something greater and above us all: the Great Gods being venerated and upheld in their presence, bringing the manifest powers of the Gods into the earth, as a blessing upon mankind. That is the blessing of blessings which supercedes us all, and upon which, we must look in divine aspiration, awe and loving-kindness as it descends upon us. It descends upon us, when we rise to it; like all the heroes of the Ancient World alike.

The Temple is creating, curating and growing such heroes who are all in themselves, in their own struggles, arise to draw down as a singular unity, the Light of the Gods, and express it on the Earth. Those who allow, those who give, those who create, those who help, and those who extend their hands for this, may their golden hands and golden souls be blessed always.

In this project, SG ApolloAbove has worked a for it's manifestation and implementation into the actual forums. We thank them both for these implementations and I have to further thank and give credit, to all the team of the Temple of Zeus, who has most earnestly worked to provide purity of content, advanced tools and a pure atmosphere that the Gods deserve in their House.

I would write a book if I had to say, what some people have done for this place, and maybe one day I will: What is for certain, is that, where everyone is concerned, remember that your labors and the rocks you lifted, are observed not only by the men and women here, but by the Gods themselves.

For blessed is the Creator of the Temple above all, even in the land of fall, and his destiny shall be his rise as our divine writings say: "Creation, my daughter, verifies itself. Because we live in a universe where destruction is easy, but creation is infinitely more worthwhile. That was designed in the Universe so that all beings in this world understand the value of creation and that worthy souls discover this heavenly power, which is reserved for the brave and kind-hearted" - Aphrodite's Virtue Γ

May the Names of the Gods be venerated, may the Great King Zeus observe us, and may He and the Esteemed Gods look upon our verified and proven love, and return it back to us, individually and as a whole.

-High Priest Zevios Metathronos

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Ison - Redshift

"We will destroy the lie"

#61

I'm feeling stupid, when I don't know people like you Mealstorm, Like Mr. Cobra; Miss/Mrs Lydia I can't even measure when we are together so close and we can't even just drink a pint of a beer or Rose Tea....

A Henu, Apollo and others , I feel like a donkey. But If I will be alive I just appreciate it.

#63

The new features and aesthetic upgrade are absolutely amazing. Massive props to TG Maelstrom for this, it is next level.

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"That light, He said, am I, Nous, Thy God, who is before the hygra physis borne out of Darkness. The Logos, from Nous, is the Son of God."
- Θ Lord Thoth Θ

#64

May the Gods bless you NG. Maelstorm for such great works.

Stay blessed

#65

Congratulations TG Maelstrom for making this happen!

The amazing forums, the new features, the work you put above all is phenomenal!

A big thank you to our family in the Gods, HP ZM, SG ApolloAbove and most of all, TG Maelstrom!

I wish that you keep climbing the ranks and Gods bless you!!

Άβε Δϊα πατέρα ανθρωπότης

#66

Thank you to everyone who has helped build the Temple of Zeus!!!!

Hail Zeus!

Hail Astarte/Artemis!

Hail Saloes!!!

Hail Felix

Hail Hekate!

Hail the Gaurdians!

Hail the Gods/Goddess/Deamons/Deamoness!

Hail Zeus!
Hail Astarte/Artemis!
Hail Saloes!
Hail Felix!
Hail Gaurdian Demons!
Hail the Gods and Goddess!

#67

It looks great. But it is not easy to use. There are a lot of new problems which make everything much more difficult. Are these problems going to be fixed, or are they a permanent part of the new software?

It is very difficult to log in now with having to go to the email for an access code every time. That is one of the biggest problems. Most of the times that I come here, I am in places with very bad phone service or I may also have only a minute or 2 to look at it while I am working. So having to take several minutes every time to try to log in is much more difficult than it used to be. It is a deterrent from me coming here as much as I want to or as much as I did before because instead of being able to put in my password and glance at it in 5 seconds, now it takes several minutes.

There is also is no page anymore for all Unread Topics so I can't see any of them except for maybe 10 at a time that are shown. This is probably the 2nd biggest problem.

The last big problem for me is a medical problem that might not matter to anybody else. But I have a physical problem with my eyes that makes it very difficult for me to read anything in dark mode. In perfect lighting, dark mode is difficult and painful to read. In worse lighting conditions, it may be impossible. This medical problem developed in the last few years, so I did not have this problem when I was younger reading the old Temple of Zeus website.

The background looks great. The images look great. But these problems are serious that it is much more difficult to use and much less functional than it was before.

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Thank you, we are adding this to our list and will do the necessary improvements for this.

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Thank you, we are adding this to our list and will do the necessary improvements for this.

Another problem with replies going under a message instead of going to the end of the topic. We can't even see them at all if there is more than a few replies. The new ones are hidden. We have to go to some 2nd page that only lists the replies under that one comment and then see the rest. All of this is unnecessary and making everything more difficult than it should be. And is probably contributing to everything being slow because it is trying to load so many different pages.

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All of this is unnecessary and making everything more difficult than it should be.

We introduced replies for a reason, that is to bring another layer of organization to the threads. Before replies, you would see 10 different things being discussed in a thread. It was impossible to keep track of the discussions because there were 10 different things going on at the same time, members quoting each other, and after a point, you would lose the context. It was also making threads useless in the long term, as you would have had to read all of the posts just to find what was valuable to you. We thought about this feature very carefully and decided to bring it.

I understand, at first, this brings a mental overhead because you need to adapt to this new reply system. It can feel easier to just send your messages and come back to them. But think about this, we are now discussing under a message and with this reply, we have 8 replies here. What would happen if all of these were sent as messages and not as replies? Total chaos in the thread, because this is a side discussion, not the main point of the thread.

Now think about this for even more complex sermons, that would require members to ask High Priest countless questions. Now you can basically read the answer from HP as a reply, rather than trying to find it inside the thread, who knows on which page.

Try to see the positive sides of this and you will understand how useful this will become in the long term.

You are always welcome to share your opinions about how we can make this more useful and easier to use. This would be a very constructive act and would allow us to improve this even further for all of the members, rather than rolling back to the previous chaos of the old forums.

And is probably contributing to everything being slow because it is trying to load so many different pages.

We didn't observe speed issues in general, but yes, for certain devices or with slower connections, the forums can feel slower. We will keep improving the speed of the forums, and we are also working on a lite version of the forums, that will be read-only but blazingly fast, to allow members to check the forums even from very old devices or extremely slow internet connections.

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All of this is unnecessary and making everything more difficult than it should be.

We introduced replies for a reason, that is to bring another layer of organization to the threads. Before replies, you would see 10 different things being discussed in a thread. It was impossible to keep track of the discussions because there were 10 different things going on at the same time, members quoting each other, and after a point, you would lose the context. It was also making threads useless in the long term, as you would have had to read all of the posts just to find what was valuable to you. We thought about this feature very carefully and decided to bring it.

I understand, at first, this brings a mental overhead because you need to adapt to this new reply system. It can feel easier to just send your messages and come back to them. But think about this, we are now discussing under a message and with this reply, we have 8 replies here. What would happen if all of these were sent as messages and not as replies? Total chaos in the thread, because this is a side discussion, not the main point of the thread.

This is a valid idea. There is some amount of a benefit from this idea. But I honestly and strongly believe that the harm is larger than the benefit. I respect that you have done a lot of work that was not easy, but I do have real reasons for my opinions based on how things actually are working.

In the old way, when somebody is quoting somebody else, it puts the big quote box in the top of the message. So if you are not interested to see any other discussion or replies to each other, you can instantly and immediately skip past that comment when you see the quote box at the top. I don't think that it takes barely any time or effort to just skip past something and go to the next thing. Anybody who does not want to read any discussion I am having, simply scroll past it when you see a message from me, or a quote box quoting me replying to me.

And anybody who does want to read, it is equally effortless to decide to read it. Each person can instantly make their own choice whether or not they want to see it.

The opposite direction does not exist. With this new system, it is not equally or easily weighted for users to make this choice. I am certain that nobody other than you or Henu will ever see this comment. The three of us who are involved in this discussion will get a notification to know that this comment exists. Nobody else will ever possibly see it.

There are many situations where what is written as a reply to other people are very educational, helpful, and valuable and may contain important knowledge that would help even hundreds of people. I am not saying that every reply is this important, most of them are not like the most important thing ever. But some of them are. Basically the only times where something that is very important and educational and enlightening is the first post in a topic is if it is a Sermon from High Priest Zevios Metathronos.

Almost any other time that a question is answered or some valuable knowledge is shared that can help many people, it is in the form of a question or idea that was said by one person, and was then answered by the valuable and educational replies. And now by default all of the valuable replies will be hidden away where they will never be seen by anybody. It almost defeats the purpose of a forums.

Also very often, there are large conversations and discussions which may have 10, 20, 50 people all participating in and all replying and contributing to the conversation. Not as side tangents or irrelevant things, but as one conversation. This is now absolutely physically impossible by the software. One person may quote another person, but it is not a private individual reply only to that one person. A quote may be used to reply to a specific point or a specific idea, but it is in the context of the larger shared conversation and is really replying to everybody. The software is not able to realize this, and instead every single reply made by every single person is all separated, locked away, and scattered in the wind. It is not a single flowing conversation, it is a 1,000 separate individual boxes where each person's comment is hidden in these other pages and are not together and are not even in chronological order. It is like the tower of babel story. Any large conversation with many people can not exist anymore, where different people have all quoted or replied to each other as a shared discussion. It looks like you have made very few messages, so I wonder how many of these kinds of discussions you have participated in, but these are common.

The idea of it being difficult to remember what page of a topic a valuable educational comment was on. That is true some times. So why make it exponentially worse? Not only you still need to look through all of the pages on a topic to look for the comment, but you will never possibly find it because it is hidden on another page under a different comment. So now you not only need to try to remember the comment that you are looking for, but you need to also remember the original comment that came first that eventually led to the valuable reply. And it may not be obvious how they are related, it might look like it is talking about something else. So you need to look through all of the pages on the topic looking for the original comment that eventually led to a discussion that eventually was replied to with the educational comment. Then again you need to go through all of the separate pages of replies under that first comment to try to find what you were actually looking for. Just to find that it is not there, and it must have actually been under a different original comment so now you are looking through many pages under many different individual comments. It is exponentially worse as now there are recursive groups of many different lists of pages, within each page of the topic. If every single original comment has its own pages of replies under it in every comment in the topic.

A simple solution to all of this is to say that on Sermons from High Priest Zevios Metathronos, nobody should talk about unrelated things and they should be moved to their own topic. Maybe moderators could enforce this or remind people until we all realize to be careful about this. Then the entire problem is solved. And on all other normal topics that are not Clergy Sermons and Articles which is the extreme majority of topics. Just simply leave them alone the way that they have always been which simply works with none of these problems. I do not hate technology and I do not just hate whenever something is changed or made different, that is not what this is about.

#68

I see they have worked on the problem of targetting or routing that it is automatically taking me to the new comment now. Thank you for that. It is a lot better than it was at first.

#69

Congratulations, brother. I'm so happy for you, and the work you've done is truly fantastic.

All the recognition you're receiving is well-deserved, TG Maelstorm 🔥

#70

My sincerest congratulations and thanks for all your hard work, TG Maelstorm and SG ApolloAbove.

May the Gods always smile upon you ❤️‍🔥

Do not fear; the Gods will always recognize their Disciples.🐺⚡️

#71

Congratulations and thank you for this brand new forum TG Maelstorm!

#72

Congratulations TG!!!

Odysee 1, 32-34:

"Ah, how shamelessly mortals blame the Gods!
For they say evils come from us,
whereas they themselves, through their own folly, suffer beyond what is ordained".

Dedicated Zevists are the Real Chosen of God!
Dedicated Zevists are Litteral Saints walking Earth!
Be Blessed Brothers and Sisters!
Walk the Path with your Guardian!

Hail Lord Zeus!!!

#73

Congratulations TG Maelstorm. Blessed be for your incredible work and may you find joy in your new and deserved office⚡️

Thank you SG ApolloAbove for your continued efforts towards ensuring that The ToZ continues to evolve gloriously.

And thank you HP Zevios Metathronos for your continued guidance, encouragement and blessings towards the Temple.

May the Gods continue to love and bless all Initiates of The Temple. This place and all of you are my home. I could not feel more blessed

"The wickedness of the soul is ignorance and the virtue of the soul is knowledge."

- Thoth

#74

My Compliments, new Forum just looks amazing 😍

#75

Thank you, esteemed SG ApolloAbove,

And esteemed TG Maelstorm,

Your work on these new forums is absolutely phenomenal and a true blessing for all of us.

The beauty, functionality, and care you have poured into this space can be felt with every visit.

It is a joy and an honor to walk our spiritual path within such a remarkable forum, crafted with such devotion to the Gods and to the Temple.

With deep gratitude for all you do for the Temple and for our community.

#76

Thank you for this amazing work! The Temple of the Gods starts to feel more and more like home and shows in every way that this is the place the Gods are most present in on this Earth.

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"My own shall not die like the sons of Adam that are without" - Sanat Kumara in Al Jilwah
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#77

Congratulations TG Maelstrom. Clean design and tasteful details/improvements, and the comment reply system is nice touch. I hope your infinitely blessed for your dedication.

Glorious Eternal Satanic Victory!

#78

Thank you @TG Maelstorm for your hard work and dedication! And thank you @ApolloAbove for assisting in this beautiful transition, and aiding us in getting signed back in 🙏 you have my deepest gratitude, may you be blessed forevermore! Hail Zeus ⚡️

#79

Congratulations TG Maelstorm 🥳

And everyone who gives and builds!

"Don't let anyone stop you. Not even your own self."