My religion has evolved during my lifetime.

I suppose I began as a Baptist because my earliest memories of Sunday and church involved the Baptist faith and I consider this the result of my blessed Mother who considered her faith an important aspect of who she was and we were typically scrubbed and dressed up each Sunday for services of one kind or another ... or both.

Later we worshipped in Methodist churches and I view this primarily a function of what was near, usual, and customary in the homelands of my father but steady through it all was my mother's unwavering faith to keep us in there and trying to do the right thing.

Nowadays, I have rejected dominational religion altogether and indeed, some of the apologists like Washington Street United Methodist Church in Columbia South Carolina who embrace abomination and discard the authoritative scripture coming from the very word of God and biblical canon itself.

So now I consider myself a Christian. I do not subscribe to any denominations as they are "that which separates" theology and as such are devisive and subjects faith more and more to the traditions of men and less those communications set forth by The Almighty in the Holy Bible.

Today is National Religious Freedom Day. It is held in commemoration of the Virginia General Assembly's adoption of Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786.

That statute became the underlying foundation for the First Amendment of the US Constitution and led to freedom of religion for all Americans citizens.

Religious Freedom Day has been officially proclaimed each January 16 since 1993 by the President of the US.
 

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16 Holy Bible King James Version

I've never ceased wondering where some of the youtube people get off with their representations of posts whereby they miss the mark altogether. These people who use the words "wonderful" and "best" and "must" in reference to their lame posts in some effort to coerce indulgence from the unsuspecting public.

Nowadays if the descriptors include "must see" or "must hear" ... or some other equally banal lying ass drivel I don't even bother with it anymore. I've deleted mass quantities of files in my collections for these very reasons. In the immortal words of Montgomery Scott in Star Trek, the original series Friday's Child episode "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."

Such misrepresentations in that which is offered are the stuff of hawkers through the eons or some Tiajuana "gold merchant" at the border.

It's rather like my evil inbred white trash aunt saying how "God don't love ugly" when she's the biggest theiving crook and shyster to ever place a cloven hoof on the planet and all I do is sit and wait for her to die so I can go desecrate her grave in as many examples of hatred as my fertile mind can envision.

Actually, I just want her to stop poisoning the air for the rest of us by continuing to breathe it.

So when you choose to speak in lofty terms regarding your creations I do hope you'll take a moment and consider reality prior to posting. "Wonderful" is a term which is subjective and just because you think something is doesn't mean we all will.

Thank you for your kind indulgence and I'll shut my trap now.
 

Disclaimer

I'm not one to tout medical miracles and indeed I have a lot of contempt for the medical profession given my experiences at the local richland county hospital and their incompetent oafs, particularly female DO's who need to stay away from people's loved ones instead of being allowed to kill them along with the criminal richland county EMS who hijacks patients and sends them to a gd hospital staffed primarily with students and then lie to the patient's family regarding the circumstances, lie to the coroner, falsely accuse the family of abusing the patient, and generally are untruthful blebs on society at large which should be terminated with extreme prejudice.

Today we recognize my only skill. Typing. Learning to type from Mrs Marie Jordan at Wagener-Salley High School in 1971 was about the best investment in my future I ever made. It has afforded me the basis for my 'plan b' career (computers, and in particular coding) and has given me the appearance of being much more skilled than I really am.

Were it not for typing I could never had sat at that first dumb terminal and wowed the masses present with my accumen. Proclaimed 'a natural' from the start nobody cared if I didn't attend college because all of the college graduates were unable to write the code, install and troubleshoot systems, repair hardware or any of the other myriad duties I undertook early on with my strong electronics background ... and typing.

Typing Day originates in Malaysia and is an offshoot of a speed typing contest held there. Indeed I once pulled in a strong 120 words a minute on a 'bad day'. Nowadays I settle for whatever speed I attain.

Rest assured though, typing is the main facility which has caused me to endure what is a cutthroat field these days.

So on this 8th of January 2020 I wish you a happy typing day and aren't you glad Mr Hunt and Mr Peck aren't relevant to your keyboarding skills.
 

My mail server suffers a lot of fools anymore. It seems that all too many wish to send mail though they are unqualified to do so ...

First of all, if you don't have a current TLS/SSL certificate you are not going to adequately negotiate my encryption ... though I do support anonymous no cert deliveries for the time being.

Secondly, if you don't have an MX (mail exchange) record in DNS you need to go elsewhere because that is a fatal flaw in your configuration as far as I am concerned.
 

THEN there are the insipid inbred gadflies like internet-census.org and the faker exploitation sites like netsystemsresearch.com who attempt to gain access to and use your resources to appear that you are doing their bidding. I personally don't care if they all die.

The vast bulk of email I receive is handled with my regular expression filters and gets discarded. You may think you're sending something but the server is simply tossing it and not telling you anything.

To think that I actually thought I was going to be able to omit firewall rules from the mail server. You can't be totally open with the internet because of idiots who want to exploit your resources for their own ends.

So I spend a lot of time with custom scripting and control file maintenance which would be unnecessary if these incessant third world spammer morons would simply go away.

Fat chance, huh? Guess I'll just keep right on scripting and configuring stopgap measures.