Trust me or fall into hell

[rickchod...@gmail.com]

Psalm 100

http://biblehub.com/kjv/psalms/100.htm

Shout for Joy to the Lord, All You Lands!

1 {A Psalm of praise.} Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.

2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not
we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with
praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth
endureth to all generations.

-----
There is love, peace, and joy in the house of the Lord, but only when
you keep your eyes focused on Him. If you begin looking around at the
things of the world, they will quickly pull you under. But when you
look up to Him, and keep looking up, there you find your peace, because
only there is your salvation.

Remember also ... Peter walked on water too, but only when he was
looking at the Lord!

http://biblehub.com/kjv/matthew/14.htm

28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me
come unto thee on the water.
29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship,
he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning
to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him,
and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou
doubt?
32 And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying,
Of a truth thou art the Son of God.

Jesus will save your eternal soul, and give you eternal life. All you
have to do is trust and believe.

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin

[Real Troll]

On 12/11/2017 12:22, rickchod...@gmail.com wrote:
> P


This fucker has changed his FROM address so it is time to change the
filters again. I never received anything from this idiot until today
and on close examination, the FROM address is changed. Filter now added
and hopefully no more fucking Jesus stuff here.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 12:21:43 PM UTC-5, Real Troll wrote:
> On 12/11/2017 12:22, rickchod...@gmail.com wrote:
> > P
>

> This .. has changed his FROM address so it is time to change the

> filters again. I never received anything from this idiot until today
> and on close examination, the FROM address is changed. Filter now added

> and hopefully no more .. Jesus stuff here.

Someone is impersonating me. I only post under my normal and
long-standing email address.

I did not post this post today. It is a reference to an older
post of mine with a different subject, made presumably by Peter
Cheung. He has been spamming me, my family, and the groups I post
to online:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.os.development/onsW08u4DJw/SslLCSkzBAAJ

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Paul N]

On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 5:21:43 PM UTC, Real Troll wrote:
> On 12/11/2017 12:22, rickchod...@gmail.com wrote:
> > P
>
>

> This [] has changed his FROM address so it is time to change the
> filters again.

Rick denies that this particular post is from him, and I'm inclined to believe him.

[David Brown]

Many bad things have been said about Rick and his posts, but I have not
seen him change his posting address - nor have I known him to lie.
(Whatever you may think about his religious posts - and I don't think
highly of them myself - he believes in what he is writing, so it is not
lying.)

Impersonating someone else on Usenet really, /really/ annoys me. I find
it much worse than posting about religion or politics in a technical
newsgroup, or top-posting, or scrambled quoting and attributions, or
pretty much any other misuse of the medium. I hope this imposter goes
away, or has the decency to post in his/her own name instead of Rick's.

[Öö Tiib]

On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 10:08:43 UTC+2, David Brown wrote:
>
> Impersonating someone else on Usenet really, /really/ annoys me. I find
> it much worse than posting about religion or politics in a technical
> newsgroup, or top-posting, or scrambled quoting and attributions, or
> pretty much any other misuse of the medium. I hope this imposter goes
> away, or has the decency to post in his/her own name instead of Rick's.

Achieving attention through annoyance (and worse) is seemingly the goal
of most advertisers, spammers, annoying kids, "men of God" and other
trolls. It is active-destructive path (by Alfred Adler's behavioral pattern
typology) for gaining attention. So you being really, *REALLY* annoyed
and announcing it is 10:10 and success checkbox filled for those types.

[David Brown]

I don't think getting attention through annoyance is Rick's (the /real/
Rick) goal with his religious posts. It is certainly the effect he has,
but not his goal. He sincerely believes he is "teaching" people, even
though everyone else, religious or not, knows he is just pissing people
off and making sure they would never consider joining his particular
cult version of Christianity.

As for this new fake Rick - I have no idea what his motivations might
be. I suspect he is only interested in annoying the real Rick. But no,
he does not receive attention from me.

I made my post because I think it is important to make it clear that
impersonation is not something we should tolerate or accept - no matter
whom the target is. It does not matter how much people may dislike the
real Rick's religious posts, it is /still/ wrong to make posts claiming
to be him.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

I believe you. Btw, thank you for taking a look at my vector field
algorithm in ShaderToy.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

I concur.

[Öö Tiib]

On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 12:18:49 UTC+2, David Brown wrote:
> On 14/11/17 09:34, Öö Tiib wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 10:08:43 UTC+2, David Brown wrote:
> >>
> >> Impersonating someone else on Usenet really, /really/ annoys me. I find
> >> it much worse than posting about religion or politics in a technical
> >> newsgroup, or top-posting, or scrambled quoting and attributions, or
> >> pretty much any other misuse of the medium. I hope this imposter goes
> >> away, or has the decency to post in his/her own name instead of Rick's.
> >
> > Achieving attention through annoyance (and worse) is seemingly the goal
> > of most advertisers, spammers, annoying kids, "men of God" and other
> > trolls. It is active-destructive path (by Alfred Adler's behavioral pattern
> > typology) for gaining attention. So you being really, *REALLY* annoyed
> > and announcing it is 10:10 and success checkbox filled for those types.
> >
>
> I don't think getting attention through annoyance is Rick's (the /real/
> Rick) goal with his religious posts. It is certainly the effect he has,
> but not his goal. He sincerely believes he is "teaching" people, even
> though everyone else, religious or not, knows he is just pissing people
> off and making sure they would never consider joining his particular
> cult version of Christianity.

Ok, but he sometimes displays capability of thinking rationally. Given
that it is so difficult to give him benefit of the doubt, I'm sorry.

> As for this new fake Rick - I have no idea what his motivations might
> be. I suspect he is only interested in annoying the real Rick. But no,
> he does not receive attention from me.
>
> I made my post because I think it is important to make it clear that
> impersonation is not something we should tolerate or accept - no matter
> whom the target is. It does not matter how much people may dislike the
> real Rick's religious posts, it is /still/ wrong to make posts claiming
> to be him.

Yes, I agree with you that it is worse. It wasn't my point to disagree
with you. I also do not know for sure the true motivation of anyone.
My best guess is that annoying us in relation to Rick is the goal of
particular identity thief. What else?

[James R. Kuyper]

I agree. These new messages are clearly intended as parodies of his. His
attitudes invite and justify parody, but they don't justify identity
theft. And nothing that anyone else has done on this newsgroup justifies
forcing us to deal with either his original messages, or the parodies.
However, just as there's nothing we can do to stop his off-topic posts,
there's also nothing we can do to stop the parodies of them.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 5:15:05 PM UTC-5, Öö Tiib wrote:
> Ok, but he sometimes displays capability of thinking rationally. Given
> that it is so difficult to give him benefit of the doubt, I'm sorry.

I always think rationally, even in the area of Christianity and teaching
about sin and Jesus Christ.

The difference in our perceptions regarding that end are this: I have
been changed from within by God to be able to understand the things of
God. I therefore pursue them as He has given us guidance in the Bible.

You have not yet been changed on the inside, so you are only able to
examine my actions through those facilities you know and understand,
which come from your corrupt-in-sin flesh-based mind.

It is only when God augments you that you can understand spiritual
things through the new spiritual discernment. Until then, it would
be like trying to see with your skin. It's not designed to do it,
even though far more light hits your skin than your pupil, it's just
not equipped to see.

The same thing for spiritual things: your flesh-based mind is not
equipped to understand it properly. And ask with your skin you can
feel heat and you could know the direction of the sun with your eyes
closed and blindfolded, but you could not see. For that you need an
eye. And while some of what I teach to you you can understand, it's
not going to fully register within you until you have spiritual life,
and that's something only God can do for you. Until then, you will
only have hints and glimmers of some of it, but enough won't make
sense that you can conclude easily it's gibberish.

But if you are willing to pursue the truth, to seek it ahead of just
assuming you're right, and I'm a lunatic, and that maybe there is some
things more than you already know, THEN God will reach in and make it
possible for you to know it.

It's all an act of God working in people, but these messages are given
for those who will be saved, for those who will at some point be changed
in that way so they can understand.

These lyrics were not written by accident:

"I once was lost, but now am found.
Was blind, but now I see."

It happens when God changes you. Consider the other lyrics:

"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,
that saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now am found.
Was blind, but now I see.

"'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
and grace that fear relieved.
How precious did that grace appear,
the hour I first believed."

Those words describe the transformation that happens in a new spiritual
life. When Jesus takes our sin away, we are born again in that self-
same instant. It was fear of God, fear of judgment, fear of Hellfire,
in acknowledging our own sin that brings us to the foot of the cross,
and when we ask forgiveness a real transaction takes place which takes
our sin away and frees us from that burden. You can feel it coming off
you like you've just been paroled.

There is nothing else like it. And for a time, the changed life is so
uplifting, fantastic, everything changes. New believers are on fire
for the Lord. But over time the flesh input comes back and many people
begin to go back to their former ways because they've had decades doing
them, and all their former friends do them, and so on.

It takes a very strong person to stand up to those former friends and
witness to them and deny their former wants and lusts toward sin, and
to say, "No, I am the Lord's now, and I will live my life in holiness."

Very few people can actually do that or very long. And even fewer have
the ability to do it in public, in their jobs, in places where a real
ramification for taking such a stand could alter their life.

But it's within all believers to walk that walk. And it is that walk
that non-believers need to see so they too can know the power of God at
work in a changed heart within a man.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Mr Flibble]

If it is a parody and it is obvious that it is a parody then it isn't
identity theft and I am all for it as the bloke being parodied is
annoying and as egregious as fuck.

/Flibble

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 1:17:34 PM UTC-5, Mr Flibble wrote:
> If it is a parody and it is obvious that it is a parody then it isn't
> identity theft and I am all for it as the bloke being parodied is

> annoying and as egregious ...

Leigh, there is another way to be, a proper way that looks to do
what's right for right's sake.

You are harming people by your ways. I invite you to leave those
harmful ways and come to the Lord and ask forgiveness, and move
toward doing right things to help people.

Jesus will give you a reward, and you'll feel it on the inside.
Peace, love, joy, hope. It will fill you like nothing else.

I urge you, Leigh, to seek the true way. It will be to your benefit.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Daniel]

On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 1:57:33 PM UTC-5, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

> Peace, love, joy, hope. It will fill you like nothing else.
>

I can deal with most things and most situations, but our Mr Flibble radiating Peace, love, joy, hope ... ?

No, leave it be.

Daniel

[Rick C. Hodgin]

The Holy Spirit makes all things new. It wouldn't be Leigh, but
new Leigh, just as it's not Rick who teaches about Christ, but new
Rick.

You can read about the new birth here:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3&version=KJV

Spiritual life is unlike flesh life. It's born again Christians change.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Daniel]

On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 2:30:52 PM UTC-5, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> It wouldn't be Leigh, but new Leigh

Doesn't really matter, he'd still get garbage collected in the end.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Not so. The salvation of the Lord is to the uttermost:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+7%3A25&version=KJV

Dare I say, "Even one such as Leigh can be saved"? Nay. I say, "Even
one such as Rick, so how much moreso one such as Leigh, for of sinners
I am chief."

To the outermost is necessary for each and every last one of us.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Rick C Hodgin]

A dramatization showing the Biblical account:

1) God creates man
2) Sin enters in, separates man from God
3) God enters in, separates sin from man, restoring man to God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyheJ480LYA

Thank you,
Rick C. Hodgin

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 8:01:06 AM UTC-5, Rick C Hodgin wrote:
> [snip]

I apologize for posting this reply to the above spam from Peter Cheung,
but he is impersonating me and I want to make sure people realize I am
not this individual.

He is posting content from prior posts I have posted under completely
different subject headings. He uses the email rickchod...@gmail.com
where as I use rick.c...@gmail.com.

I do not make posts that use my name in the subject, and I do not make
the claims he does.

Here is some more information:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.c++/X9lgo_CquUc/I_-pAWvuAAAJ

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Rick C Hodgin]

FUCK YOU

[Rick C Hodgin]

Daniel, fuck you asshole

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On 11/18/2017 11:18 AM, Rick C Hodgin wrote:
> [snip]

A man named Peter Cheung is impersonating me. Go here to learn more:


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.os.development/lr7c-7kNUxo/qbycC3QUAAAJ

--
Rick C. Hodgin