One Scam on Craigslist that I got caught up in.

There are people out there  on the Internet who do nothing but see how they can make a quik buck in a tried and true way that many fall for. I can't belive one would but I will show you briefly what they do and how they lurer you in to take you to the cleaners.

For sale a 12" bronze Cheyenne Dog Soldier. This is how I started my Craigslist add. I went on to tell some more ablut the piece, I will show you the link at the end of the post. My asking price is $800.00 and so on.

Pretty inocent enough right. Well it is but there are people out there on the Internet who do nothing but see how they can make a quik buck in a tried and true way mail fraud. AS way that many unexpected sellers fall for. I will show you briefly what they do and how they lurer you in to take you to the cleaners.

There I was all happy i got my bronze on the Internet. I wish I had more pictures, I had to barrow a camera while over at a friends house and then I emailed them to myself to use for my add latter.

I got home and started writeing my add. Not bad, not good, but I got the point across and got the thing posted. I posted the add about 11:00 P.M. When i woke up that next morning i got a responce! it said
" Is the above item still forsale"?

Oh my heart swelded with pride this was the best decision I have ever made to post this on Craigslist. There is someone out there who know about the Cheyenne Dog Soldier and apreceats there sugnifacants. Great I can sell this personal favorate of mine to someone who will theroally enjoy it.

I email her back as quickly as i can write and click, send. My heart was full of full fillment.

I did extensive research on the Tribe and the unequeek brave socitiey of the this tribe how they are kind of the Green bery of the Cheyenne Tribe.  I went to the plain Indians museum in Cody Wyoming, I saw one of the last sash that was found back in the Old Western day that the Dog Soldier wore and would stacked themselves to ther ground to fight to the death. I saw other bronzes made by Remington and other on their styles and subjects. Some of the bronzes where so life like. Others where way to abstract. So I decieded to make mine somewhere in the midle. I work on it off and on for months. Then one day it was finished. It sat on my dresser for serveral more months. One day I had some frineds over from a bible research fellowship I belong to and I gave them all the quike fifty sent toure of my place. One guy ask when he saw my sculpture, " is that a Cheyenne Dog soldier?" I told him "yes it was". He asked "what are you going to do with it". I said "some day would like to Bronze it and see if I could sell a few of them". He said that he was interested and told me to work up a price. After a few more weeks I talked with a Bronze foundry in Atlanta Ga. I got him a price and he jumped on it and He got one of the two that where made. I was glad I got two made because the clay gets runioned in the bronze process and the mold was broken, so all we where able to make where the just the two.

A few years went by and I had my bronze on different tables and coffee tables thought out the hose and I still liked it. But thing resently got a little tight around the house finaturaly. I thought it was time for someone els to enjoy this piece so I decied to sell it.

She then send me my next email and this is a copy of it;

Hello
Thanks for the  response to my email.I want you to consider it sold,
pls do withdraw the advert from craigslist to avoid disturbance.i am
ready to make the purchase and consider it sold..My mode of payment
would be in CERTIFIED AND CASHIER CHECK drawn from a local Bank of
America where i will arrange for a local pick up as soon as you get
the check,because my husband will be paying for the item.this is the
only convenient means for me due to my work. I really wish to be there
to check out the item but i  don't have chance cause am very busy
woman (Nurse)but everything will go smoothly .The item will be pick up
from you after you get your payment in hand. Pls let
me know if you are selling to me...all i need to make the payment is
just your  contact info. Get back to me with the follow info below,so
that i can proceed with the payment immediately.

1.Full name to write on the check:
2.Full Physical address to post the check:
3.City :
4.State and Zip Code:
5.Home & Cell Phone to contact you:
6.Total amount for the item :
7 .Available picture:

And as soon as this is provided i will let you know when payment  is
mailed out and i will update you on when you will receive the payment.
The payment will be overnight to you as soon as i get you info...I
hope we handle this in good faith because this is my first time buying
something
on the list. and will like you to know that you will not be
responsible for shipping i will have a shipper come over.

Regards
She had her name and adress here.
She left a phone number here also.
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Do you have the item for sale?
 So I sent her all the information that she need and waited a few days and she sent the next add.

Is God Punishing Us? The Idiom of permission

I recently was talking to one of my co- workers. The conversation of a man who quit his job because God moved him to do so. Something about God was punishing him because of something he did long ago. The punishment was his handicapped child.

 God is punishing us, is a concept that I hear more and more, and this concept, could not be more wrong. When you or I are reading God's Word and you do not take note what God is revealing in His Word, and just guess what it means. God calls it "Privet Interpretation". We just made God of none effect for ourselves, and those who maybe following us, in that category. Whether it is a individual, or a major Denomination, it is still privet interpretation.

II Peter 1:21
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any privet interpretation.
For the prophecy came not in old times by the will of man: but by holy men of God spake as they where moved by the Holy Spirit.


 When the Bible is researched, the Word of God shows us that we have been wrong about that God punishes!  I know, we have all read about Solomon and Gomorrah. How it seems that God torched the place because of the sins that were committed. We have heard that God put all kinds of plagues on the Pharaoh and his people when they did not let Mose's people go. You could probably come up with many other examples yourself.

 But we have to let the Word of God interpret it self. Bring ourselves up to level of God and His Word. Not bring God's Word down to our level, making Him comply with whatever we think something means. We have to show ourselves approved of God, a workmen. Like it says in II Timothy;

II Timothy 2;15 
 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman, that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

Have you ever heard the term: "Idiom of Permission" of course you haven't, most Americans haven't. We just read and teach God's Word with our western concepts and thoughts and force them into the scriptures.  We maybe even tell our self we are doing the "Lords work". We proclaim that God is punishing us because of this and because of that. But what we are doing is not realizing what this book really is, beside the Word and Will of God.

The Bible, is a Eastern Book, authored by God, given to men of God by revelation. Then written by the writers free will manner, and inspired figures of speech, writing the flowing Will of God on paper.

We unknowingly read right over thousands of these Eastern manners, and customs, and figures of speech. We take no thought that these laws of language actually mean something to a culture from which they are translated. This is why God has to say in His Word,  knowing this first ... there is no privet interpretation.  II Peter 1;21

Man kind, when left on his own, will screw up anything he gets his hand on, and the Word of God is no exception.  Privet interpretation is one of the main reasons we don't understand God's Word. Why we fall short in so many categories when we try to walk by the principles written in the Word of God. Also one of the main reasons we as Christians are so divided as a group. We privet interpret the Word of God to the point that we say we got our beliefs, and you got yours ( just silly). Wars are being fought because of
privet interpretation. We are all suppose to be all under one God, not under 20,000 different kinds of brand named denominations, with their own take on any given passage of scripture.

If you look at the History of most denominations, you will find a skism, a disagreement. One side of the aisle of the church will say the Word of God means this, and the other side of the aisle the members say the scriptures say that. In time they split and move down the street to build their own building. After a time passes, enough people buy into the new found church doctrine or agreement to a man made concept, you got another denomination. Ta-da!

You would think along the way we would learn something about our relationship with God, and how much He thinks of His Word. What does it say in Psalms 119;11?  God has magnified His Word above all His name!   How we should of learned to make the Word of God the only true way of faith and practice.


So why are we just grinding away saying we are Christians, "the right ones". I say ego, I say for power over our fellow man. We never think God has His will for us. He has lit the way to a move than abundant life. His has the best way to live so He can bless us. So we can navigate through this crooked and perverse World.

All right, what is a idiom, and is God punishing us?  A idiom, is a usage of words particular to a language or a culture. In this case not our culture. Words used as a idiom are not to be taken literally. Example, that car is sweet, or the sky is angry, don't beat around the bush. To an Eastern man these are very strange sayings, theses are Western figures of speech , some are idioms.

Our idioms would not make since to the Eastern man, he would read right over the meaning and insert what he knows to be true and even make decisions and or judgements accordingly. If he was smart, he would ask someone who lives in America to explain these terms. Then he would see what they meant and maybe appreciate them.

Idioms are almost lost in our society. But you can find very helpful books to help us research the Word of God. And it it is very interesting and can give the reader new levels of understanding when reading the Word of God. A work that is pleasing to God because we are tracking with God for once. Is not this what we want? "doing the will of God". Or are we doing our will using God's terminology to act out what we think we or others should do?

For the Eastern man in the time the Word was written, he used words particular to his Hebrew language, and his time. For him, there was one called, idiom of permission, where active verbs are somethings used to express not the doing of the action, but the permission of the action.

Back in the Old testament times, people knew of the devil (the adversary), and his spiritual influences. The people endeavored to express what was going on by using idiom of permission. They also knew from the scriptures they were not to glorify the adversary, or false gods. (Exodus 23:13, Joshua 23:7) Therefore, instead of saying that the devil did something, the people would say that the Lord permitted it. This explained what was going on, but still showing that God is sovereign and in control.

Just as an analogy, lets just say it is raining, and you have a umbrella. If you steps out from under the umbrella, you will get wet. Same way, if a person step out from under God's protection over and over, the adversary can have access to that person.  I think of  book of Job. You read Job chapter one, verse 6 through 12, and then come back, and read the rest of what I have.

God can not over step our free will. If we decide to do the will of God, God can provide for us. It we choose to go it alone, or compromise, then there is another god that will provide a different kind of outcome.

In the Gospels of John, chapter 10, verse 10, it say in this case the thief (adversary), steals, kills and destroys. This is what we don't need in our lives, stealing our time and energy, killing our lives and our love ones, and destroying the impact in our lives, this is not good. ( "sickness" is death in part, so sickness falls under the kill category)

Take a look at our world today. The adversary seems to have access to many people, many cultures and various demographic, some more than others. Why? Because by their free will, they step out from under God's umbrella over and over, which will give access to the enemy. They may not understand why, but that is why it says in the Word of God "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge". God knows why, and God has made it clear how He can love and provide for us. If we don't understand the power, and the hedge of protection we have as a believer's, we will fall short. The adversary will always be there to steal from "whomever" gives him access, people that are bad or good. They have a saying, and a song that says, "only the good die young". The good don't die young, they die because they don't understand how to get under God's umbrella. It is not a life of fear, It a life more than abundant, as it says also in John.

John 10:10
The thief cometh not but for to steal, kill and destroy. I am come that they might have life and have it more than abundantly. 
(Then Jesus taught them.)

We can blame God all we want, but it is not God that is punishing us. We are actually being attacked because we allowed it. I can tell people all I want that God is punishing them. But the Word of God does not say that, if you are a workmen of the Word and understand the idioms.

One more little note; The word  "FEAR" in old English it means, "to respect". So if a man is a God fearing man, it should mean, he respects God and enjoys His blessings, He is our sourse of all that is good.

 Man made religion will unknowingly promote these doctrines. Sincere, yes, but wrong. The only way to correct wrong teaching, is instruction. We can learn how to be and stay in His loving arms, and under His will. And have a hedge about us, as it says in Job.

You can take each record in the Bible and see for yourself that this to true. It is difficult at times, we so want to blame God, but we have to let God's Word interpret itself according to its "Biblical, and cultural meaning".

There are tons of verses on how God so loves us, provides for us. How He saves us, protects us, knows us.   Then He Kills us?.............Come on!
This is just a skimming of the surface on this subject, but before you blame God,  just slow down and think for a sceond. God is love and no darkness at all.
Enjoy, and God Bless You,
Patrick Patterson

What is a Ponzi Scheme?

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Bernie Madoff--Ponzi Scheme/ The Middle Class is the Rich man's dipping pool.

The word Ponzi comes from Charles Ponzi who made this type of scheme well-known.

Dictionary definition of the word "SCHEME" (skeem)... a plot, a evolved program for attaining some end. A secret plan;



A Ponzi scheam is an illegal investment scheme that involves paying returns to investors out of the money paid in by later investors, rather than from net revenues generated by any real business. According to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), “…there is an expression that nicely summarizes this scheme: It’s called “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul.”

Charles Ponzi’s basic idea was that he would take money from person #1 and tell him that he will give him  high rate of return on his money. When person #2 gave Ponzi money, Ponzi would take part of that money and give it to person #1 - thereby fulfilling his obligation to give him a high rate of return on his money. When person #3 comes in, Ponzi would take some of the money of person #2 - thereby fulfilling his obligation. If there were no #4, then Ponzi could not fulfill his obligations to #3.

The government claims that these schemes, when they run out of people or someone in the chain gets caught, or the scheme gets to big, the scheme collapses.

In some ways Banks operate this way to some degree. Most loans are done on paper and the money is far behind the paper trail, but it is highly regulated and insured.

This Berni Madoff thing is a ancient choice, to steal or not to steal, that is the question. There are two reasons why people steal.

#1 Because they think they can get away with it.
#2 Because they think that someone or some group owes them, so you take what you got coming.

When these guys like Bernie Madoff see a loop hole, to really make crazy money. They make money where no body will miss it, no one can trace it. This all falls under the category #1. The problem is that person's I mentioned above #1,2 and 3, represents thousands of people. Money that is in #1,#2,#3,comes form one big giant wad, so to speak, this is deposited each month for these giant groups of people. Their pensions, maybe their savings for collage, it's all in there, grouped in with everybody. So when this scheme collapses, the ripple affect is so extensive, effecting so many good people in so many bad ways, that's why this is so evil. When Berie's Madoff, "makes off" with your money, He wasn't thinking of you and what might happen, but how rich can he can get on this deal. If the scheme goes bad we will move unto the next scheme. Except this time he was sent to prison, finally.

In Berie's case and people like him, they think that the Middle Class are theirs to steal from. The middle class are too stupid so I will relieve themselves of the money that they do not deserve to have. The way that they think really bothers me, and I have thought of this too often, And that is, the Middle Class is the Rich man's dipping pool. With out us, their money stops. I don't have a problem with this per say, I am too far removed. But I find taxing the Middle class to almost a stand still is so harmful to the economy. If they could take their intellects and make our country a place to prosper, the Middle class will spend it's money and the Rich would prosper even more. But instead they impose so much on our money that we are almost frozen. They dipped into the pool so much that the Rich are feeling the pinch now.

Instead of figuring out how to make environment conducive to prosper, they figure out how to take even more. No money here buddy, so lets get the Government to pump money into the plan and the Rich will take that instead. This will work until the Middle Class gets back on their feet and then they will turn back to us. For we are a huge pool and easy pic-kins.

Free up "our" money is so far removed from their thinking. They, the very Rich, need to get up to speed. Provide a prospering environment and we will all make you money.

As far as the stealing thing, I stay in check because I know God looks onto the heart. This is where the rubber meets the road. When in a situation that you are compelled to steal, think how God can honour you by not deciding to stealing. We will always see God work in our lives when we chose our life according to God's Word. God sees the challenges in our life. But when we fold our mind to do what is right and say this is what your Word says what not to do, therefore I will pass it up. Then you will see things happen in your life, you started the steps to being a Disciple.When you do the things of God Word despite what the situation dictates. Temped with out sin, is one of the many ways Jesus fulfilled his earthly duties. He got to sit at the right hand of God, pretty good I would say!

Will see you around,
patbham

Today I am Thinking Solar!

Green Patrick Blog; Today I am Thinking Solar!

I over heard the President today talking of Solar Power, Wind Power, Geo-thermal Power. I really think this is the time to do some of these things. We have the technolgy and we are tired of the Middle East dictating our prices. I live in the South where the wind needs to start given up a breeze now and then, for the hotter it gets the stiller it is. Wind power may be not the power of choice for central Alabama. But Solar, may be a good place to try it out. Geo Thermal would of been a good one, when I lived in Wyoming, Solar and Wind Power to.



Today I am looking into solar power. I think I found a site that seams to be the best way to go, but I have not tried it out myself. I mentioned that I do dabble in Internet Marketing, I do have tools that I can find out how well other Affiliates are doing with this product. I can find out the percentage of how many of any given products are being "returned". From my research, this shows a very low return and people are buying at a good volume. All indicators show to be a pretty good plan.



That is just what it is, "plans". But they are suppose to be easy to follow and if done right you could produce more power than you need! So from what I understand, you make more power than you use. The Power company then has to pay you back for contributing to the power grid. Now that's something. I am going to move to Florida next Spring. When I purchase a place down there, I think this is the way I will go. Even if I just pre-heat my hot water, that should save me quite a bit!



I will leave a link so you can start you own research yourself.
Click Title At Top Of Page That says "Today I am Thinking Solar!" It will shoot you right to the site I mentioned above.
Thanks for stopping by,
Patrick -  Greenpatrick

Monster Trout and Undercuts/ Article Jump Off Point

Monster Trout and Undercuts

Green Patrick Blog; Come by and sit for awhile and lets talk about fishing stories and hunting trips and the good old days.