Transformation of files

[O.J. Newman]

Hi Harry:

Your thread served the good purpose of informing of the existence of Foxit
Reader, so thank you for that!

Cheers,
O.J.

"webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> It was all but wishful thinking, Joanie, I realize that.
> Maybe it will serve a good purpose after all, when everything is said and
> done.
>
> Harry.
>

 

[webster72n]

Thanks for your reassurance, O.J. and always glad to be of help.
Maybe someone else learned from my experience too, we'll never know.

Cheers to you also,
Harry.


"O.J. Newman" <ojn@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
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> Hi Harry:
>
> Your thread served the good purpose of informing of the existence of Foxit
> Reader, so thank you for that!
>
> Cheers,
> O.J.
>
> "webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23NprMhWUIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > It was all but wishful thinking, Joanie, I realize that.
> > Maybe it will serve a good purpose after all, when everything is said
and
> > done.
> >
> > Harry.
> >
>
>

 

[Heather]

After putting everybody thru all that rigamarole about your useless
images and so on......frankly no one could figure out what in hell you
were a) doing, and b) going on about.

Oh, and a Happy New Year......and promise you won't screw up your
computer for at least 4 weeks and give us all a break!!! ROFL!!

hf
"webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Disregard this entire thread, please!
>
> Harry.
>
>
> "webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uaC3SBNTIHA.5524@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> At one time or another some data files in my documents folder were
>> 'converted' from their 'original' status to individual JPEG and GIF
>> images
>> and JScript Files, which I would have to 'find an association for'.
>> I am using FoxitReader and AdobeAcrobat 6 interchangeably, could that
>> have
>> caused it?
>> If so, (or if not), what (other) remedy is there?
>> Hoping for a miracle...
>>
>> Harry.
>>
>>
>
>

 

[Heather]

"webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Oh boy, Mike, this is utterly emberassing:
> These files constitute a 'duplicate'. When I look down the line, I
> find
> every single one as an internet file still present and 'fully intact'.
> The cause of that duplication is unbeknown to me.
> I am very sorry for this to have happened and apologize to you and
> everyone, having read this thread.

>Can you make this go away???<<

OOHHHH, I am not touching this one. Night, Harry.

 

[webster72n]

Contrary to my better judgment I 'am' replying 'with a question', as
follows:
When have you been elected as spokes-person for this NG?
I take the 'Happy New Year', but have 'no resolutions'
OTOH you may want to adopt some.
Cheers,

Harry..


"Heather" <figgyd@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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> After putting everybody thru all that rigamarole about your useless
> images and so on......frankly no one could figure out what in hell you
> were a) doing, and b) going on about.
>
> Oh, and a Happy New Year......and promise you won't screw up your
> computer for at least 4 weeks and give us all a break!!! ROFL!!
>
> hf
> "webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OuqypCOUIHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > Disregard this entire thread, please!
> >
> > Harry.
> >
> >
> > "webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:uaC3SBNTIHA.5524@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >> At one time or another some data files in my documents folder were
> >> 'converted' from their 'original' status to individual JPEG and GIF
> >> images
> >> and JScript Files, which I would have to 'find an association for'.
> >> I am using FoxitReader and AdobeAcrobat 6 interchangeably, could that
> >> have
> >> caused it?
> >> If so, (or if not), what (other) remedy is there?
> >> Hoping for a miracle...
> >>
> >> Harry.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

 

[Joan Archer]

it is pride to
be unwilling to submit to them.

250. The external must be joined to the internal to obtain anything from
God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, etc., in order that
proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the
creature. To expect help from these externals is superstition to refuse to
join them to the internal is pride.

251. Other religions, as the pagan, are more popular, for they consist in
externals. But they are not for educated people. A purely intellectual
religion would be more suited to the learned, but it would be of no use to
the common people. The Christian religion alone is adapted to all, being
composed of externals and internals. It raises the common people to the
internal, and humbles the proud to the external it is not perfect without
the two, for the people must understand the spirit of the letter, and the
learned must submit their spirit to the letter.

252. For we must not misunderstand ourselves we are as much automatic as
intellectual and hence it comes that the instrument by

 

[Heather]

etc.?

A cipher has two meanings. When we find out an important letter in which we
discover a clear meaning, and in which it is nevertheless said that the
meaning is veiled and obscure, that it is hidden, so that we might read the
letter without seeing it, and interpret it without understanding it, what
must we think but that here is a cipher with a double meaning, and the more
so if we find obvious contradictions in the literal meaning? The prophets
have clearly said that Israel would be always loved by God and that the law
would be eternal and they have said that their meaning would not be
understood and that it was veiled.

How greatly, then, ought we to value those who interpret the cipher and
teach us to understand the hidden meaning, especially if the principles
which they educe are perfectly clear and natural! This is what Jesus Christ
did, and the Apostles. They broke the seal He rent the veil, and revealed
the spirit. They have taught us through this that the enemies of man are h

 

[webster72n]

and a commemoration of a sacrifice, believes that neither of
these truths can be admitted without excluding the other for this reason.

They fasten to this point alone, that this Sacrament is typical and in this
they are not heretics. They think that we exclude this truth hence it comes
that they raise so many objections to us out of the passages of the Fathers
which assert it. Finally, they deny the presence and in this they are
heretics.

3rd example: Indulgences.

The shortest way, therefore, to prevent heresies is to instruct in all
truths and the surest way to refute them is to declare them all. For what
will the heretics say?

In order to know whether an opinion is a Father's...

863. All err the more dangerously, as they each follow a truth. Their fault
is not in following a falsehood, but in not following another truth.

864. Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that,
unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

865. If there is ever a time in which we must make profession of two
opposite truths, it is when we are reproached for omitting one. Therefore
the Jesuits and Jansenists are wrong in concealing them, but the Jansenists
more so, for the Jesuits have better made profession of the two.

866. Two kinds of people make things e

 

[webster72n]

books in the world are those of Moses and Job, the one a
Jew and the other a Gentile. Both of them look upon Jesus Christ as their
common centre and object: Moses in relating the promises of God to Abraham,
Jacob, etc., and his prophecies and Job, Quis mihi det ut, etc. Scio enim
quod redemptor meus vivit, etc.146

742. The Gospel only speaks of the virginity of the Virgin up to the time of
the birth of Jesus Christ. All with reference to Jesus Christ.

743. Proofs Of Jesus Christ.

Why was the book of Ruth preserved?

Why the story of Tamar?

744. "Pray that ye enter not into temptation." It is dangerous to be
tempted and people are tempted because they do not pray.

Et tu conversus confirma fratres tuos. But before, conversus Jesus respexit
Petrum.147

Saint Peter asks permission to strike Malchus and strikes before hearing the
answer. Jesus Christ replies afterwards.

The word, Galilee, which the mob pronounced as if by chance, in accusing
Jesus Christ before Pilate, afforded Pilate a reason for sending Jesus
Christ to Herod. And thereby the mystery was accomplished, that He should be
judged by Jews and Gentiles. Chance was apparently the cause of the
accomplishment of the mystery.

745. Those who have a difficulty in believing seek a reason in the fact that
the Jews do not believe. "Were this so clear," say they, "why did the Jews
not believe"? And they almost wish that they had believed, so as not to be
kept back by the example of their refusal. But it is their very refusal that
is the foundation of our faith. We should be much less disposed to the
faith, if they were on our side. We should then have a more ample pretext.
The wonderful thing is to have made the Jews great lovers of the things
for

 

[Mike M]

and infatuated with it. If one considers one's work
immediately after having done it, one is entirely prepossessed in its
favour by delaying too long, one can no longer enter into the spirit of it.
So with pictures seen from too far or too near there is but one exact point
which is the true place wherefrom to look at them: the rest are too near,
too far, too high or too low. Perspective determines that point in the art
of painting. But who shall determine it in truth and morality?

382. When all is equally agitated, nothing appears to be agitated, as in a
ship. When all tend to debauchery, none appears to do so. He who stops draws
attention to the excess of others, like a fixed point.

383. The licentious tell men of orderly lives that they stray from nature's
path, while they themselves follow it as people in a ship think those move
who are on the shore. On all sides the language is similar. We must have a
fixed point in order to judge. The harbour decides for those who are in a
ship but where shall we find a harbour in morality?

384. Contradiction is a bad sign of truth several things which are certain
are contradicted several things which are false pass without contradiction.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the want of contradiction a sign
of truth.

385. Scepticism.--Each thing here is partly true and partly false. Essential
truth is not so it is altogether pure and altogether true. This mixture
dishonours and annihilates it. Nothing is purely true, and thus nothing is
true, meaning by that pure truth. You will say it is true that homicide is
wrong. Yes for w

 

[O.J. Newman]

his feet
part of iron and part of clay. Thus thou sawest till that a stone was cut
out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, that were of iron
and of clay, and brake them to pieces.

"Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to
pieces together, and the wind carried them away but this stone that smote
the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. This is the
dream, and now I will give thee the interpretation thereof.

"Thou who art the greatest of kings, and to whom God hath given a power so
vast that thou art renowned among all peoples, art the head of gold which
thou hast seen. But after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee,
and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the
earth.

"But the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, and even as iron breaketh
in pieces and subdueth all things, so shall this empire break in pieces and
bruise all.

"And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of clay and part of iron,
the kingdom shall be divided but ther

 

[webster72n]

with many of our young
people to be indecent in their carriage at meeting, which doubtless
would not have prevailed in such a degree, had it not been that my
grandfather, through his great age (though he retained his powers
surprisingly to the last), was not so able to observe them. There had
also long prevailed in the town a spirit of contention between two
parties, into which they had for many years been divided by which they
maintained a jealousy one of the other, and were prepared to oppose one
another in all public affairs.

But in two or three years after Mr. Stoddard's death, there began to be
a sensible amendment to these evils. The young people showed more of a
disposition to hearken to counsel, and by degrees left off their
frolics they grew observably more decent in their attendance on the
public worship, and there were more who manifested a religious concern
than there used to be.

At the latter end of the year 1733, there appeared a very unusual
flexibleness, and yielding to advice, in our young people. It had been
too long their manner to make the evening after the sabbath, [It must be
noted, that it has never been our manner, to observe the evening that
follows the sabbath, but that which precedes it, as part of the holy
time], and after our public lecture, to be especially the times of their
mirth, and company-keeping. But a sermon was now preached on the sabbath
before the lecture, to show the evil tendency of the practice, and to
persuade them to reform it and it was urged on heads of families that
it should be a thing agreed upon among them, to govern their families,
and keep their children at home, at these times. It was also more
privately moved, that they should meet together the next day, in their
several neighborhoods, to know each other's minds which was accordingly
done, and the notion complied with throughout the town

 

[Mike M]

them.

487. Every religion is false which, as to its faith, does not worship one
God as the origin of everything and which, as to its morality, does not love
one only God as the object of everything.

488.... But it is impossible that God should ever be the end, if He is not
the beginning. We lift our eyes on high, but lean upon the sand and the
earth will dissolve, and we shall fall whilst looking at the heavens.

489. If there is one sole source of everything, there is one sole end of
everything everything through Him, everything for Him. The true religion,
then, must teach us to worship Him only, and to love Him only. But as we
find ourselves unable to worship what we know not, and to love any other
object but ourselves, the religion which instructs us in these duties must
instruct us also of this inability, and teach us also the remedies for it.
It teaches us that by one man all was lost, and the bond broken between God
and us, and that by one man the bond is renewed.

We are born so averse to this love of God, and it is so necessary, that we
must be born guilty, or God would be unjust.

490. Men,

 

[webster72n]

things are so plain and easy, and
rational, that any body can see them. If they are asked, why they never
saw thus before, they say, it seems to them it was because they never
thought of it. But very often these difficulties are soon removed by
those of another nature for when God withdraws, they find themselves as
it were blind again, they for the present lose their realizing sense of
those things that looked so plain to them, and, by all they can do, they
cannot recover it, till God renews the influence of His Spirit.

Persons after their conversion often speak of religious things as
seeming new to them that preaching is a new thing that it seems to
them they never heard preaching before that the Bible is a new book:
they find there new chapters, new psalms, new histories, because they
see them in a new light. Here was a remarkable instance of an aged
woman, of about seventy years, who had spent most of her days under Mr.
Stoddard's powerful ministry. Reading in the New Testament concerning
Christ's sufferings for sinners, she seemed to be astonished at what she
read, as what was real and very wonderful, but quite new to her. At
first, before she had time to turn her thoughts, she wondered within
herself, that she had never heard of it before but then immediately
recollected herself, and thought she had often heard of it, and read it,
but never till now saw it as real. She then cast in her mind how
wonderful this was, that the So

 

[webster72n]

and has strength to make
itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

If men could have done it, they would have placed might in the hands of
justice. But as might does not allow itself to be managed as men want,
because it is a palpable quality, whereas justice is a spiritual quality of
which men dispose as they please, they have placed justice in the hands of
might. And thus that is called just which men are forced to obey.

Hence comes the right of the sword, for the sword gives a true right.
Otherwise we should see violence on one side and justice on the other (end
of the twelfth Provincial Letter). Hence comes the injustice of the Fronde,
which raises its alleged justice against power. It is not the same in the
Church, for there is a true justice and no violence.

879. Injustice.--Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but
for that of the litigant. It is dangerous to tell this to the people. But
the people have too much faith in you it will not harm them and may serve
you. It should, therefore, be made known. Pasce oves meas, not tuas.221 You
owe me pasturage.

880. Men like certainty. They like the Pope to be infa

 

[Mike M]

which I forbade.

"Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall
be hungry my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed my servants
shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry and howl for vexation of
spirit.

"And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord shall
slay thee, and call His servants by another name, that he who blesseth
himself in the earth shall bless himself in God, etc., because the former
troubles are forgotten.

"For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth and the former things
shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

"But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create for, behold, I
create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

"And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people and the voice of
weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

"Before they call, I will answer and while they are yet speaking, I will
hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat
straw like the bullock and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not
hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain."

Is. 56:3: "Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my
salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

"Blessed is the man that doeth this, that keepeth the Sabbath, and keepeth
his hand from doing any e

 

[webster72n]

endures only for an instant and returns no more. All I know is
that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I
cannot escape.

"As I know not whence I come, so I know not whither I go. I know only that,
in leaving this world, I fall for ever either into annihilation or into the
hands of an angry God, without knowing to which of these two states I shall
be for ever assigned. Such is my state, full of weakness and uncertainty.
And from all this I conclude that I ought to spend all the days of my life
without caring to inquire into what must happen to me. Perhaps I might find
some solution to my doubts, but I will not take the trouble, nor take a step
to seek it and after treating with scorn those who are concerned with this
care, I will go without foresight and without fear to try the great event,
and let myself be led carelessly to death, uncertain of the eternity of my
future state."

Who would desire to have for a friend a man who talks in this fashion? Who
would choose him out from others to tell him of his affairs? Who would have
recourse to him in affliction? And indeed to what use in life could one put
him?

In truth, it is the glory of religion to have for enemies men so
unreasonable and their opposition to it is so little dangerous that it
serves, on the contrary, to establish its truths. For the Christian faith
goes mainly to establish these two facts: the corruption of nature, and
redemptio

 

[webster72n]

875. Would the Pope be dishonoured by having his knowledge from God and
tradition and is it not dishonouring him to separate him from this holy
union?

876. God does not perform miracles in the ordinary conduct of His Church. It
would be a strange miracle if infallibility existed in one man. But it
appears so natural for it to reside in a multitude, since the conduct of God
is hidden under nature, as in all His other works.

877. Kings dispose of their own power but the Popes cannot dispose of
theirs.

878. Summum jus, summa injuria.220

The majority is the best way, because it is visible and has strength to make
itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

If men could have done it, they would have placed might in the hands of
justice. But as might does not allow itself to be managed as men want,
because it is a palpable quality, whereas justice is a spiritual quality of
which men dispose as they please, they have placed justice in the hands of
might. And thus that is called just which men are forced to obey.

Hence comes the right of the sword, for the sword gives a true right.
Otherwise we should see violence on one side and justice on the other (end
of the twelfth Provincial Letter). Hence comes the injustice of the Fronde,
which raises its alleged justice against power. It is not the same in the
Church, for there is a true justice

 

[Heather]

truths. And it generally happens that, unable
to conceive the connection of two opposite truths, and believing that the
admission of one involves the exclusion of the other, they adhere to the
one, exclude the other, and think of us as opposed to them. Now exclusion is
the cause of their heresy and ignorance that we hold the other truth causes
their objections.

1st example: Jesus Christ is God and man. The Arians, unable to reconcile
these things, which they believe incompatible, say that He is man in this
they are Catholics. But they deny that He is God in this they are heretics.
They allege that we deny His humanity in this they are ignorant.

2nd example: On the subject of the Holy Sacrament. We believe that, the
substance of the bread being changed, and being consubstantial with that of
the body of our Lord, Jesus Christ is therein really present. That is one
truth. Another is that this Sacrament is also a type of the cross and of
glory, and a commemoration of the two. That is the Catholic faith, which
comprehends these two truths which seem opposed.

The heresy of to-day, not conceiving that this Sacrament contains at the
same time both the presence of Jesus Christ and a type of Him, and that it
is a sacrifice and a commemoration of a sacrifice, believes that neither of
these truths can be admitted without excluding the other for this reason.

They fasten to this point alone, that this Sacrament is typical and in this
they are not heretics. They think that we exclude this truth hence it comes
that they raise so many objections to us out of the passages of the

 

[Heather]

alas! instead of one, how many is it likely will remember this discourse
in hell? And it would be a wonder, if some that are now present should
not be in hell in a very short time, even before this year is out. And
it would be no wonder if some persons, that now sit here, in some seats
of this meeting-house, in health, quiet and secure, should be there
before tomorrow morning. Those of you that finally continue in a natural
condition, that shall keep out of hell longest will be there in a little
time! your damnation does not slumber it will come swiftly, and, in all
probability, very suddenly upon many of you. You have reason to wonder
that you are not already in hell. It is doubtless the case of some whom
you have seen and known, that never deserved hell more than you, and
that heretofore appeared as likely to have been now alive as you. Their
case is past all hope they are crying in extreme misery and perfect
despair but here you are in the land of the living and in the house of
God, and have an opportunity to obtain salvation. What would not those
poor damned hopeless souls give for one day's opportunity such as you
now enjoy! And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein
Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands in calling and
crying with a loud voice to poor sinners a day wherein many are
flocking to him, and pressing into the kingdom of God. Many are daily
coming from the east, west, north and south many that were very lately
in the same miserable condition that you are in, are now in a happy
state, with their hearts filled with love to him who has loved them, and
washed them from their sins in his own blood, and rejoicing in hope of
the glory of God. How awf