[OT] USA solar eclipse Aug.21.2017

[Richard Heathfield]

On 23/08/17 21:48, rickman wrote:

Mr Flibble wrote on 8/23/2017 4:30 PM:
On 23/08/2017 20:51, Richard Heathfield wrote:
On 23/08/17 19:41, Mr Flibble wrote:

<snip>

and I certainly am not here for your
personal amusement. This newsgroup is for posts about C++ and C++

C++ is not topical in comp.lang.c to which this thread is cross-posted.

C has no place in modern software development and discourse; it is a dead
language. C++ has subsumed C.

Is this an attempt to return to being on topic?

No, it's an attempt at trolling, and a poor one.

> I suppose you are not a fan of the Forth language either?

Nor indeed the Fith language. Or the Sicth.

--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

 

[David Brown]

On 23/08/17 20:41, Mr Flibble wrote:

On 23/08/2017 08:15, David Brown wrote:

So please take your own advice, and stick to C++.

Correct me if I am wrong, mate, but this newsgroup doesn't exist for
your personal entertainment and I certainly am not here for your
personal amusement. This newsgroup is for posts about C++ and C++
related projects ONLY; not egregious posts about "God" or similar posts
dressed up as posts about fucking eclipses. I will call out Rick and
other idiots who post OT shite including pointing out, using sound
logical, and rational intelligence why the shite is shite.

Equally, the newsgroup does not exist for /your/ egregious posts
encouraging the religious posts here. If /you/ stick to posts about C++
only, then I will be happy. I have no hope of stopping Rick from making
off-topic posts - but you claim to be rational and logical, and to be
interested only in C++ here. Please stop your hypocrisy and stop rising
to every off-topic post here. Your posts are as off-topic and
unpleasant as the ones you are responding to.

 

[Mr Flibble]

On 23/08/2017 22:14, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 23/08/17 21:48, rickman wrote:
Mr Flibble wrote on 8/23/2017 4:30 PM:
On 23/08/2017 20:51, Richard Heathfield wrote:
On 23/08/17 19:41, Mr Flibble wrote:

snip

and I certainly am not here for your
personal amusement.  This newsgroup is for posts about C++ and C++

C++ is not topical in comp.lang.c to which this thread is cross-posted.

C has no place in modern software development and discourse; it is a
dead
language.  C++ has subsumed C.

Is this an attempt to return to being on topic?

No, it's an attempt at trolling, and a poor one.

It might look like a troll but it was in fact an attempt to bypass your
kill file and it looks like I was successful.

/Flibble

 

[rickman]

Richard Heathfield wrote on 8/23/2017 5:14 PM:

On 23/08/17 21:48, rickman wrote:
Mr Flibble wrote on 8/23/2017 4:30 PM:
On 23/08/2017 20:51, Richard Heathfield wrote:
On 23/08/17 19:41, Mr Flibble wrote:

snip

and I certainly am not here for your
personal amusement. This newsgroup is for posts about C++ and C++

C++ is not topical in comp.lang.c to which this thread is cross-posted.

C has no place in modern software development and discourse; it is a dead
language. C++ has subsumed C.

Is this an attempt to return to being on topic?

No, it's an attempt at trolling, and a poor one.

I suppose you are not a fan of the Forth language either?

Nor indeed the Fith language. Or the Sicth.

Looks like I'm adding flibble to my killfile.

--

Rick C

Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms,
on the centerline of totality since 1998

 

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On 08/23/2017 02:49 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
> [snip]
The enemy tries to get us to focus on man's reasoning because he has
victory there. He owns our flesh because our flesh is in sin.

God is spirit and truth. His existence is different than that which
we are familiar with in our flesh. As a result, knowledge of Him
comes a different way than man's reasoning.

-----
It's all I can offer you, Leigh: the truth. I can't make you receive
it or believe it. That's something only God can do from within your
core man, your inmost self.

My job with regards to you is complete, Leigh. I have told you the
truth. It is before you. These messages I've written to you can be
searched and reviewed at your leisure. If you have any questions
I'll be happy to answer them.

Apart from that, the rest is on you.

Thank you,
Rick C. Hodgin

 

[Mr Flibble]

On 23/08/2017 23:34, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

On 08/23/2017 02:49 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
[snip]
The enemy tries to get us to focus on man's reasoning because he has
victory there.  He owns our flesh because our flesh is in sin.

God is spirit and truth.  His existence is different than that which
we are familiar with in our flesh.  As a result, knowledge of Him
comes a different way than man's reasoning.

Everything you say is predicated on your belief that the Bible is true.

Well consider this:

Assumption #1: Genesis creation story is a myth/allegory and Adam and
Eve are a fiction.
Assumption #2: Jesus Christ (either biblical or historical) existed.

The Bible (Old and New Testaments) describe the genealogy of Jesus
Christ all the way from Joseph and Mary back to Adam and Eve. Given our
two assumptions at what point does this 50-generation genealogy
transition from fact to fiction and what is the proof of this transition?

IMO the entire genealogy is suspect and assumption #2 is bogus. There
is no evidence contemporary to Christ's existence of his existence: it
all came out in the latter part of the first century in writings from
the likes of Josephus and Tacitus a significant time after Jesus's
supposed death. The Gospels themselves are complete hearsay which
wouldn't hold water as evidence in a court of law.

If you now claim that assumption #1 is false despite all the evidence to
the contrary (e.g. weathering of the Grand Canyon, fossils confirming
evolution and evolutionary time scales) then you really are beyond help
as nothing can be done to mitigate such obtuse stupidity.

[snip]

/Flibble

 

[Ivan Shmakov]

Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> writes:
On 23/08/2017 20:51, Richard Heathfield wrote:

[...]

C++ is not topical in comp.lang.c to which this thread is
cross-posted.

C has no place in modern software development and discourse; it is a
dead language. C++ has subsumed C.

Yeah, as dead as Spanish. I mean, who'd need Spanish when we
have Mandarin Chinese?

--
FSF associate member #7257 58F8 0F47 53F5 2EB2 F6A5 8916 3013 B6A0 230E 334A

 

[Rick C. Hodgin]

This is a post that appeared on comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++, and
alt.os.development, but was not cc'd here.

I include it here as it contains a good teachings worth reading.

-----[ Begin ]----
On 8/24/2017 7:58 AM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

On 8/24/2017 6:02 AM, Rod Pemberton wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 05:35:43 Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
Because we are born in sin, raised in sin, live in sin, know
the things of this world (which are all in and of sin), we think
we have some kind of handle on the state of reality, and that it
falls within the realm of that which we know.

Yet, Genesis says that for everything God created, "God saw that it
was good", including man. So, how did he, an omniscient being, manage
to muck us up with sin, without him being aware of this in advance?

He was aware.

He
must've known that our state of sin would result. If he knew of
this result in advance, since he is omniscient, how is this any
different from him actually planning for it to happen to all of us?

He did plan for it to happen to us. He made a way out of it before
He created the world:


https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13%3A8&version=KJV

8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,
whose names are not written in the book of life of
the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Before the world was created, God had a plan for us for salvation.
It was to take us through school, to establish a baseline for our
creation, to teach us a lesson we could learn no other way.

To expand upon this, look at the entirety of creation. Everything
is built up from things below. We have foundational sub-atomic
particles, which build up to components of atoms, which build up
to atoms, which build up to molecules, which build up to structures,
which build up to assemblies / machines, which build up to factories
of all kinds (biological, mechanical, industrial), which build up
to provide grander constructs.

Our bodies have assemblies. DNA produces proteins which produce
structures which assemble into components which build inner cell
components, which build cells, which build organs, which provide
unique function, which come together to support the body, which
in turn supports our mind and ultimately by God's design also is
driven by spirit.

The goal was the person inhabiting the body, not the body, yet
everything of marvelous design and assembly was put together to
produce that final form which we are able to inhabit and enjoy.

We look at the universe. We see things on our planet comprising
that which is here. Our planet is one of several around a sun.
Our sun is one of many around the galaxy. Our galaxy is one of
many around clusters. Our cluster is one of many in this immense
universe. And the Bible teaches us there is an existence beyond
what we can physically see here in matter, into the realm of the
spiritual world, which the Bible records is not inhabited by the
same decay we see here in the material world.

Even the New Jerusalem that is coming down is a 1500 mile cube!
Why a cube? It has occurred to me that a cube is like a block
or brick, a component of a larger structure. Perhaps there is
a plan for mankind to continue our education beyond this first
existence on the Earth.

We are not taught in scripture what is coming for us after we
leave this Earth, but we do know some interesting things. God
gave man the covenant of circumcision, where the excess flesh
is removed on the 8th day. It is to be an everlasting covenant
between that male child and God in the faith.

We see a similar plan in God's plan of a 7-day creation, and
then the 8th day begins, which is the eternal or everlasting
day. And, it is after the 7th day is complete that the final
judgment occurs, and the "excess flesh' is removed. All who
are judged are cast into the lake of fire, and all who are
saved are given new bodies and they begin the rest of their
eternal existence.

What is coming on that 8th day? We see here on Earth that a
child is given circumcision on the 8th day, but that child then
goes on to grow up and learn the traditions of his family, to
learn whatever trades and skills are of interest to him. He's
able to demonstrate his unique prowess in this world, such as
to create art or poetry or music or whatever...

So if we translate this Earthly pattern to something that
would be in Heavenly terms, we would see our creation here is
an initial sifting, a proving ground, a place where those who
are Hell-bent on destruction are removed. From there, all who
continue on go through additional learning about God's vast
universe where they make their mark as their unique creation
allows them, and in the manner of their interests and form and
function and in working with others, etc., and without limits
as to available tools or resources, but with the fullest of
possible expressions given in Heaven where even the streets
are paved with gold, and there are no limits to what one can
possess and use (remember Moses and the burning bush, fire
without consumption of the fuel, and Jesus who was able to
replicate a few fish and loaves out to thousands ... this
design is also something we in computers can understand as we
can create a file, possess it, use it, and share it with
literally everybody on the Earth, and the sharing does not
diminish our copy, but simply spawns a new one).

God has given us all of these examples in scripture, such that
He has revealed in parts and piecemeal across the totality of
the Bible portions of what may well be His plan for us, even
beyond this Earth. But, He never comes right out and says
categorically, "After the 7th day, then thou shalt do ..."
and so on.

-----
The Bible is a most comprehensive document. I do not claim
to understand all of it, but I have studied it at length, and
gone to Sunday School and listened to sermons instead of
watching new episodes of the latest reality TV show. As a
result, I am constantly learning with regards to its teachings,
and there is an internal confirmation which I get when I hear
things which are significant.

I am also convinced that the baptism we go through in Jesus'
command in the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18+ is not just
a water baptism, but it is to be an immersion in our lives in
the teachings of God, because it is framed before and after
by the command to teach and make disciples.

We must hold all things before God, such that we are then re-
examining all aspects of our lives in light of His guidance.
It helps us trim away that which harms us, and enhance that
which aids us, much the way a botanist would do to their
plants, to maximize the fullness of it all.

It's all there, Rod. It is evident and complete and really
astounding beyond words. The Bible is not just a book of
stories. It is a real teaching of God, of man, of sin, of
salvation, and it provides hints at things which we can see
here on Earth, which may translate into Heaven, as there
are known correlations, such as we have horses here, and
there are horses in Heaven, we have streets here, and there
are streets in Heaven, etc.

Seek the truth in your considering, Rod. It's all God asks.
Seek the whole truth, and He will do the rest in your life.
-----[ End ]----

Please consider these words. Read them with scrutiny. And
please ask any questions or add any comments.

The goal here is to educate you in things regarding God and
the Bible you may not know. There is a real enemy at work
in this world to teach people wrong things. What I offer
you here is an honest teaching and conveyance of that which
God has given us through the Bible. It is to give you the
account accurately from the source. It allows you to then
go and examine the claims made for yourself.

Thank you,
Rick C. Hodgin

 

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Cross-posted from another group.

On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 12:34:38 PM UTC-4, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 12:30:20 PM UTC-4, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 9:41:08 AM UTC-4, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
PS - Look at the complexity of DNA, and this video is a few years
out of date. The author (Don Johnson) continues to educate
others through talks and seminars across the country. If
you are interested in learning more of the newer findings
then please contact him:

"Programming of Life"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00vBqYDBW5s

Note: How it operates is so complex it'll boggle your mind.

The first time I saw how DNA replicates itself, I knew immediately
it could not have been evolution. In fact, it's such an operation
that I don't think anyone could look at it and say "Oh yeah, that
could just happen from random chance over billions of years."

Have you ever seen how it unzips the double-helix into two strands
and then copies each strand separately? One side does it normally,
and the other has to do it ahead and backward of itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqESR7E4b_8&t=1m41s

I could never look at that operation and say "natural processes."
There is not only a design there at work, but it of such a truly
incredible design that it's stunning and breathtaking.

And the process of winding and unwinding DNA from the spools it
stores itself into, and all by things designed into the DNA itself,
creating the proteins and subsequent protein structures which feed
into protein machines that do the work.

There is so much information at work there it's impossible to be
anything other than design. And it is of such elegance and sheer
complexity when you view all of life, the wide range of cells and
unique forms for each kind of life that exists, all of it conducted
by this DNA operation ... it's just staggering beyond words.

Here's another video which shows the operation in stages:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bjerYxOTbU

I hope you realize what the whole concept of evolution actually
means. We look at the complexity-beyond-words involved in the
information contained within our DNA, coupled to the actual
physical construction mechanisms of those encodings in the form
of proteins which then build biological machines which are able
to read and replicate and utilize the information, and to such
a degree of accuracy that a single mistake in a gene sequence
can produce a completely non-viable offspring, or give them a
particular disease (http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/disorders/singlegene/),
then you realize that evolution theory basically says that by
tweaking a few genes here and there, a thing is able to evolve
from something it wasn't previously, into the new thing.

Has this ever worked with you in computer code? You take a
large group of fundamental abilities (like assembly instructions
which correlate to DNA gene encodings), and start randomly put-
ting them together until a program works. And then you throw
in some random mutations to that program to try and produce a
better program?

By this standard, we would start out with uncorrelated binary
code, which later produces a reasonably bug-free operating
system, office suite, web browser, communication mechanisms,
and so on.

It simply is not possible.

The information contained within DNA, some of which provides
for up to 12 dimensions of use in our (man's) research so far,
means that a single gene has to work in the equivalent of a
12-way crossword puzzle, and be viable in all 12 uses at the
same time ... a single mistake in that kind of system would
cause the entire thing to topple, and that's what we see in
DNA.

It is not only designed, it is so solidly obviously designed
that it really requires overt blindness and stubbornness to
not see the design, the beauty, the complexity, and in addition
the underlying love of the One who created that design, because
it exists in so many different species on this planet, and each
of them is so beautiful and distinct and, as the Bible says with
regards to us people, "Wonderfully and fearfully made."

-----
There is no evolution. There is no random chance. There is no
universe without God.

God created all things. He created everything within it. He
brought it all into existence. All of creation speaks of a
common designer (things built up from lesser things into more
complex things, in stages, each drawing on that which is below
it, and providing for that which is above it).

When you read the Bible you learn that Jesus Christ is that God.
It is literally by Him and through Him that all things were made.
He is God Almighty, and He stepped down out of Heaven to come
here as a man and live by our laws (His own laws) to save us from
ourselves.

-----
There is only God's design. And it's not even about the design,
but it is exactly about us people.

We are not insignificant, we are significant.
There are no disposable or worthless people, we all have value.
It is not a choice to abort a child, it is an abomination before God.
It is not right to hate anything except sin.
It is right to love all people, even those who do sin.
And we do not have a single enemy who is a person.
All of our enemies are evil spirits operating in this world, and
they are the driving forces behind people doing bad things.

-----
Jesus Christ leads the way out of this muck and mire here in this
sin-filled Earth. He calls out to all people with the words,
"FOLLOW ME!" He knows the right way. He knows the path. He's
willing to lead everybody. All we have to do is trust Him. And
when our science provides so much information about how balanced
this universe is on a razor's edge of mathematical constants and
the physical construction of its physics, and the complexity seen
in DNA and how even the simplest single-cell organism operations...
it's not hard to see.

I could not see it before I was born again. But now that I am
born again, I see it so clearly.

There really is a binary division of people in this world:

(1) Saved
(2) Unsaved

Which category are you in? You can become #1 if you want. Just
ask Jesus to forgive your sin. Ask Him to teach you the truth.
Ask Him to save you from the wretched things you've done which
will cast your soul into Hell. He did this for me, and countless
other people who have done everything imaginable. He can do the
same for you right now.

"Jesus, I need to be forgiven for the things I've done. I don't
want to go to Hell. I want to live on in eternity in Heaven."

Pray that prayer with sincerity, and HE will do the rest.

Love you,
Rick C. Hodgin

 

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 3:37:02 PM UTC-4, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

There really is a binary division of people in this world:

(1) Saved
(2) Unsaved

Which category are you in? You can become #1 if you want. Just
ask Jesus to forgive your sin. Ask Him to teach you the truth.
Ask Him to save you from the wretched things you've done which
will cast your soul into Hell. He did this for me, and countless
other people who have done everything imaginable. He can do the
same for you right now.

"Jesus, I need to be forgiven for the things I've done. I don't
want to go to Hell. I want to live on in eternity in Heaven."

Pray that prayer with sincerity, and HE will do the rest.

Here is an explanation of this from someone who is not me (begins
at 28:22):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LCyDGuA8QI&t=28m22s

You can hear how he got saved in a drunken stupor where he slurred
his speech on the prayer, even passed out while praying. He did
not want to go to Hell and even in his stoned drunkenness he had
enough sense to cry out to Jesus and ask forgiveness (at 31:10):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LCyDGuA8QI&t=31m10s

I love you enough to teach you the truth. I love you enough to
teach you there is only one way to Heaven. I love you enough to
teach you that you will go to Hell for all eternity, which is in
the lake of fire that never ends, unless you ask Jesus to forgive
your sin.

I don't do this for nothing. I do it for you, and you are most
amazingly something.

Ask Jesus to forgive your sin, and gain eternal life today.

Love you,
Rick C. Hodgin

 

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Each of you has Christian friends, or live somewhere with access
to Christian churches.

Go to those people and ask them explicitly this:

"Is there anyone here who is truly born again?"

And then go to that person / those people and ask them to teach you
personally these things I'm teaching you. Go to them and ask them
questions interactively and find out from their own mouths, and their
own unique experiences and backgrounds this information I'm teaching
you.

Do not rely upon me or my advice. I give a single testimony, which
in and of itself is not to be trusted. But if you go to more than
just me, and go to two or three or five or 30 people, and they all
reveal to you the same general teaching and explanation about what
happened to them ... then you must take it more seriously.

-----
I urge each of you, with everything within me, go and see for your-
self. Go and see if these things I've been teaching you are the
truth or not. Go and see the lives changed by the born again nature
which comes when you ask forgiveness for your sin.

You'll feel a weight come off you like you've been paroled from
prison or something. It will be the most amazing change in your
life, and God and His angels will be with you from that time for-
ward, but the enemy will also show up and try to derail your walk.
A lot of born again people go through the immediate change and
everything in their lives is undone and submitted to God, and they
change top-to-bottom very quickly, but then the enemy comes and
begins to exert influence into their flesh again, trying to take
their eyes off a focus on the spirit, and put it on the flesh.

Satan can only operate against your flesh by using his spiritual
input and tempting. He cannot operate against you in spirit, so
if you will stay focused on God in spirit and in truth, and read
and study the Bible (for the words Jesus gave us ARE spirit and
truth), then will you be on the right path, and you will be
prosperous in service to His Kingdom.

-----
Go and see from other sources who identify as being born again
their testimony. Examine also their life to make sure their
behavior aligns with someone who is a born again person. If you
examine the fruit of their life you will know if they are legit,
or a pretender. Pretenders can appear holy for a time, but there
will be signs which reveal their true nature. And legitimately
born again individuals will seek holiness continually, even if
they occasionally do something which is not in line with what
they want to do in their life's focus, but you will see that
person quickly regroup, apologize, repent, and re-double their
future efforts so as to not make that mistake again. You will
see within them genuine remorse, and feelings of guilt to the
point of weeping over what they did.

These things bear evidence of the born again nature, along with
major changes in a person's life.

-----
Go and seek from others. Ask them. Interview them. Question
them. Demand from them to know the truth about the change that
occurred within them. And then in your quite solitude, ask God
to reveal the truth to you.

BEAR IN MIND THIS EXACT FACT: I am ONLY asking you to seek the
truth. When you are in your quiet solitude, even be willing to
question God over this: "God, I do not know if you are real or
not, or if Christianity is real or not, or if Jesus lived as my
savior or not, but what I do want to know is the truth. I want
to not be deceived by any enemy which may exist, but I want to
know the full truth. This is my sincere desire."

If you can get to that place for real, then God will know this and
He will do the rest in your life. And I should also warn you: You
will never be the same again. When a person asks forgiveness for
real from Jesus Christ, the spirit nature asserts itself and you
are literally forever a completely new creation in Christ. You will
be amazed at the change. Daily.

 

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Do you all realize why I post these things?

I'm trying to teach you the path to eternal life. I'm trying to
teach you that there's an active enemy, conscious and alive, at
work in this world examining you in your life, adapting his attack
strategy to try and keep you from coming to that knowledge of the
path to eternal life.

I'm trying to teach you that you are more than this flesh, and that
our lives go on after we leave this world, and there are only two
destinations: (1) Heaven, (2) Hell fire.

I want you all to be in Heaven, but unless you come to Jesus and
ask forgiveness for your sin YOU WILL WIND UP in Hell fire.

-----
My sole intention is your soul in eternity. I want you to enter
eternity alive and thriving and shining and free from the limits
of this flesh-based sinful material-world existence, and to be a
part of God's Kingdom, even having fellowship with God Almighty,
the one true God, the sole Creator of all things, face-to-face.

These are God's revelations through the Bible about our relationship
with Him, that He makes possible for us through His Son. He teaches
that all who come to Him will not be cast away, but that all who do
come to Him seeking the truth will be saved.

-----
Seek the truth. Ask Jesus to forgive your sin and you will today,
this very moment, pass from death to life in eternity, and you will
see the change manifest in your life ... in most unexpected ways.

And again I reiterate: DO NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT!!! Go and seek
and ask other people who are born again. Find out from them the
truth. Ask them questions. Question them fully. Examine their
responses with scrutiny. Leave no stone unturned in your pursuit
of the truth!

Do this ... and God will do the rest, because He loves you and He
wants to save you. It's why He sends men and women like me into
your lives ... so you can have a chance to hear the gospel message
(the word "gospel" means "good news" by the way).

Love you,
Rick C. Hodgin

 

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Monday, August 28, 2017 at 9:37:41 AM UTC-4, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

People are unaware of the influences in their life because they
only know the flesh. They think everything they feel is only their
own thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc. THAT IS NOT TRUE. There
are real evil spirits pumping their evil agendas and goals into
people's flesh-based mind, filling them with contrary ideas,
thoughts, feelings, THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN! And all of them are
designed from inception to do harm to the person, and others.

Why can't some people stop doing the thing they don't want to do?
They can't stop taking drugs. They can't stop having an affair
with so-and-so. They can't stop drinking alcohol. They can't
stop abusing their children.

We see cases like road rage. A person is driving along, and gets
so caught up in their emotions while driving they do some reckless
thing to another driver, only to wonder afterward how on Earth it
even happened?

These are all evidences of the influence of some other force than
the person alone at work in their lives. It is easy to say it's
just some chemical imbalance in the brain, or there are these
physical or physiological reasons for X, Y, or Z to happen. That
is a side-effect of the root cause. Those markers may be there,
but what caused them to be there in the first place? Science
would teach us it's some as-of-yet-unknown thing that we will
someday nail down, but it is not. It is the presence of an evil
spirit at work, doing something to that person to cause them to
have those feelings in their flesh, which makes them extremely
susceptible to their influence.

THIS IS A WAR THAT'S ON, PEOPLE! There are human souls, eternal
souls, at stake. And the enemy is attacking everybody. God has
given us a way out, and He's made the knowledge of that way out
freely available to everyone. And even when it's in the church
or churches in every town, or through content easily accessible
on the Internet, and even when He sends men and women like me out
to teach people the truth about their sin state and Hell and the
very real salvation offered by Jesus Christ ... still they won't
believe because the influence of sin is that powerful in a person's
life.

Do you remember that line from the movie The Matrix? When Morpheus
is there explaining to Neo about the Matrix. "It's all around you.
Even in this room. You can feel it when you ... or when you pay
your taxes" [I can't remember the exact line, but that's generally
it]. He said, "It is the world pulled over your eyes to blind you
from the truth..."

We do not live in The Matrix. But that is something you can relate
to in understanding what is going on here. There are evil spirits
at work EVERYWHERE in this world. They have influenced our cultures,
our clothing styles, our manner of speech, EVERYTHING. They are
active in our lives attacking us, active in our lives harming us,
and there is no escape from those attacks by everyone. We are
literally born into it. When we enter this world we are already
dead in sin. We have no spiritual life. We are just this flesh,
and the Bible records that evil spirits can enter in and attack
even children (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+9%3A21).

I AM TEACHING YOU THE WAY OUT FROM THAT WAR. THE ONLY WAY GOD ALMIGHTY
HAS GIVEN US TO BE SET FREE FROM DEATH. I AM TEACHING YOU THAT VERY
THING THAT HE FIRST TAUGHT ME, AND HAS REINFORCED IN MY LIFE CONTINUALLY
SINCE THAT DAY.

It is there, from within that area total blindness to their influence
because of sin and our spiritual death through sin, that Satan and his
many demon imps OWN YOU. They gain access to your life, and cause you,
as a person, as a flesh-based body in this world, to move as they guide
you. They've been watching you your whole life, studying you, tempting
you, testing you, seeing what you will respond by, and they attack you
where you're weakest and wiggle their way in to your life there.

It's why you MUST BE BORN AGAIN to be saved. Only then are you alive
and able to discern the matters of the spirit, and see the guidance of
God as true, and the guidance of demons as evil.

I can only teach you the truth. I can only show you the way to go
and learn more than my writings. I can only plead with you and pray
for you and desire earnestly within my heart that you will listen
and be saved. And it is it to my great sadness, yet my ongoing hope,
that I continue on trying to reach each of you.

You are valuable people. You are amazing and astounding and brilliant
and in all ways desirous as the most incredible creation of God He
ever made. But unless you repent of your sin, YOU WILL BE CAST INTO
HELL FIRE FOREVER. And it is that I would save you from by teaching
you that thing HE first taught me.

I love you, and I need you. We all need each other. Please hear
these words.

In hope,
Rick C. Hodgin