Re: Internet connection problem

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Internet connection problem

In many others it has been
like the dawning of the day, when at first but a little light appears,
and it may be presently hid with a cloud; and then it appears again, and
shines a little brighter, and gradually increases, with intervening
darkness, till at length it breaks forth more clearly from behind the
clouds. And many are, doubtless, ready to date their conversion wrong,
throwing by those lesser degrees of light that appeared at first
dawning, and calling some more remarkable experience they had
afterwards, their conversion. This often, in a great measure, arises
from a wrong understanding of what they have always been taught, that
conversion is a great change, wherein old things are done away, and all
things become new, or at least from a false inference from that
doctrine.

Persons commonly at first conversion, and afterwards, have had many
texts of Scripture brought to their minds, which are exceeding suitable
to their circumstances, often come with great power, as the word of God
or of Christ indeed; and many have a multitude of sweet invitations,
promises, and doxologies flowing in one after another, bringing great
light and comfort with them, filling the soul brimful, enlarging the
heart, and opening the mouth in religion. And it seems to be necessary
to suppose that there is an immediate influence of the Spirit of God,
oftentimes, in bringing texts of Scripture to the mind. Not that I
suppose

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Internet connection problem

Re: Internet connection problem

This post is a spoof. I did *not* post it (check the posting IP in its
headers).
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
> In many others it has been
> like the dawning of the day, when at first but a little light appears,
> and it may be presently hid with a cloud; and then it appears again, and
> shines a little brighter, and gradually increases, with intervening
> darkness, till at length it breaks forth more clearly from behind the
> clouds. And many are, doubtless, ready to date their conversion wrong,
> throwing by those lesser degrees of light that appeared at first
> dawning, and calling some more remarkable experience they had
> afterwards, their conversion. This often, in a great measure, arises
> from a wrong understanding of what they have always been taught, that
> conversion is a great change, wherein old things are done away, and all
> things become new, or at least from a false inference from that
> doctrine.
>
> Persons commonly at first conversion, and afterwards, have had many
> texts of Scripture brought to their minds, which are exceeding suitable
> to their circumstances, often come with great power, as the word of God
> or of Christ indeed; and many have a multitude of sweet invitations,
> promises, and doxologies flowing in one after another, bringing great
> light and comfort with them, filling the soul brimful, enlarging the
> heart, and opening the mouth in religion. And it seems to be necessary
> to suppose that there is an immediate influence of the Spirit of God,
> oftentimes, in bringing texts of Scripture to the mind. Not that I
> suppose

 

[Mike M]

Re: Internet connection problem

Re: Internet connection problem

There were 114 such spoof/bogus posts made in the windowsme.general NG
between 04:40 and 09:41 GMT today. Win95 & Win98 NGs were also affected.

I have reported them to Microsoft as have others.

I have removed the cross post to alt.prisons in this reply. Each of the
spoofs had a cross-post to another, random, Usenet NG.
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby@gmail.com


PA Bear [MS MVP] <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote:

> This post is a spoof. I did *not* post it (check the posting IP in
> its headers).

 

[glee]

Re: Internet connection problem

Re: Internet connection problem

Awww, and I was just about to ask if you had any of that stuff you're smoking left,
for me......
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.net/
http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23I15tJIVIHA.280@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> This post is a spoof. I did *not* post it (check the posting IP in its headers).
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>
> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
>> In many others it has been
>> like the dawning of the day, when at first but a little light appears,
>> and it may be presently hid with a cloud; and then it appears again, and
>> shines a little brighter, and gradually increases, with intervening
>> darkness, till at length it breaks forth more clearly from behind the
>> clouds. And many are, doubtless, ready to date their conversion wrong,
>> throwing by those lesser degrees of light that appeared at first
>> dawning, and calling some more remarkable experience they had
>> afterwards, their conversion. This often, in a great measure, arises
>> from a wrong understanding of what they have always been taught, that
>> conversion is a great change, wherein old things are done away, and all
>> things become new, or at least from a false inference from that
>> doctrine.
>>
>> Persons commonly at first conversion, and afterwards, have had many
>> texts of Scripture brought to their minds, which are exceeding suitable
>> to their circumstances, often come with great power, as the word of God
>> or of Christ indeed; and many have a multitude of sweet invitations,
>> promises, and doxologies flowing in one after another, bringing great
>> light and comfort with them, filling the soul brimful, enlarging the
>> heart, and opening the mouth in religion. And it seems to be necessary
>> to suppose that there is an immediate influence of the Spirit of God,
>> oftentimes, in bringing texts of Scripture to the mind. Not that I
>> suppose
>

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Internet connection problem

Re: Internet connection problem

those contradictions which have astonished all men and have divided
them into parties holding so different views. Observe, now, all the feelings
of greatness and glory which the experience of so many woes cannot stifle,
and see if the cause of them must not be in another nature.

For Port-Royal to-morrow (Prosopopaea).--"It is in vain, O men, that you
seek within yourselves the remedy for your ills. All your light can only
reach the knowledge that not in yourselves will you find truth or good. The
philosophers have promised you that, and you have been unable to do it. They
neither know what is your true good, nor what is your true state. How could
they have given remedies for your ills, when they did not even know them?
Your chief maladies are pride, which takes you away from God, and lust,
which binds you to earth; and they have done nothing else but cherish one or
other of these diseases. If they gave you God as an end, it was only to
administer to your pride; they made you think that you are by nature like
Him and conformed to Him. And those who saw the absurdity of this claim put
you on another precipice, by making you understand that your nature was like
that of the brutes, and led you to seek your good in the lusts which are
shared by the animals. This is not the way to cure you of your
unrighteousness, which these wise men never knew. I alone c

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Internet connection problem

Re: Internet connection problem

[Yeah, I got it from the prison guards.]

glee wrote:
> Awww, and I was just about to ask if you had any of that stuff you're
> smoking left, for me......
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23I15tJIVIHA.280@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> This post is a spoof. I did *not* post it (check the posting IP in its
>> headers). --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
>> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
>> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>>
>> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
>>> In many others it has been
>>> like the dawning of the day, when at first but a little light appears,
>>> and it may be presently hid with a cloud; and then it appears again, and
>>> shines a little brighter, and gradually increases, with intervening
>>> darkness, till at length it breaks forth more clearly from behind the
>>> clouds. And many are, doubtless, ready to date their conversion wrong,
>>> throwing by those lesser degrees of light that appeared at first
>>> dawning, and calling some more remarkable experience they had
>>> afterwards, their conversion. This often, in a great measure, arises
>>> from a wrong understanding of what they have always been taught, that
>>> conversion is a great change, wherein old things are done away, and all
>>> things become new, or at least from a false inference from that
>>> doctrine.
>>>
>>> Persons commonly at first conversion, and afterwards, have had many
>>> texts of Scripture brought to their minds, which are exceeding suitable
>>> to their circumstances, often come with great power, as the word of God
>>> or of Christ indeed; and many have a multitude of sweet invitations,
>>> promises, and doxologies flowing in one after another, bringing great
>>> light and comfort with them, filling the soul brimful, enlarging the
>>> heart, and opening the mouth in religion. And it seems to be necessary
>>> to suppose that there is an immediate influence of the Spirit of God,
>>> oftentimes, in bringing texts of Scripture to the mind. Not that I
>>> suppose

 

[Mike M]

Re: Internet connection problem SPOOF started again!

Re: Internet connection problem SPOOF started again!

PA Bear [MS MVP] <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote:

Certainly DID NOT make the post to which I am replying!
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby@gmail.com

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Internet connection problem

Re: Internet connection problem

Another spoof!
--
~PA Bear

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
> those contradictions which have astonished all men and have divided
> them into parties holding so different views. Observe, now, all the
> feelings
> of greatness and glory which the experience of so many woes cannot stifle,
> and see if the cause of them must not be in another nature.
>
> For Port-Royal to-morrow (Prosopopaea).--"It is in vain, O men, that you
> seek within yourselves the remedy for your ills. All your light can only
> reach the knowledge that not in yourselves will you find truth or good.
> The
> philosophers have promised you that, and you have been unable to do it.
> They
> neither know what is your true good, nor what is your true state. How
> could
> they have given remedies for your ills, when they did not even know them?
> Your chief maladies are pride, which takes you away from God, and lust,
> which binds you to earth; and they have done nothing else but cherish one
> or
> other of these diseases. If they gave you God as an end, it was only to
> administer to your pride; they made you think that you are by nature like
> Him and conformed to Him. And those who saw the absurdity of this claim
> put
> you on another precipice, by making you understand that your nature was
> like
> that of the brutes, and led you to seek your good in the lusts which are
> shared by the animals. This is not the way to cure you of your
> unrighteousness, which these wise men never knew. I alone c