Gordon, please respond to me privately. I need a faith lift: extreme makeover! Gordon -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of gordon stelter Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 6:49 PM To: Pianotech List Subject: Adequate proof of God, for Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! About 1985 I was hitch-hiking in West Virginia, when a man pulled up, rolled down the window, and yelled: "I'm gonna rape you, kill you and throw your body in a ditch! " Well, that didn't sound like fun to me, so I ran into the woods, threw myself on my face, straight out, with my hands clasped together over my head ( and my ankles crossed ) and chanted "God help me! God Help me! ....." as hard as I could. After about 3 minutes of this chanting, a vast wave of calm washed through me, and a loud, firm ( male ) voice spoke within my heart, saying "GET UP!" So I stood up and asked ( aloud ) "What next ?" "TAKE A FEW STEPS!" it replied. "What next ?" "LOOK DOWN!" When I looked down, a wallet was lying at my feet, so I picked it up and looked inside. It had $300 in it which, considering the circumstances, looked like "bus fare" to me! So I put the wallet in a mailbox, got on a bus and came to Georgia, where I've been ever since. After earning the $300 back, I wrote a letter to the owner describing the entire miracle, and sent her a money order along with it. It was Mary Lou Retton's. I could tell you many more, but this isn't the place. Write to me privately, if interested.I'm collecting them all in a book, though, and have even had a "nibble" from Hollywood. Peace, G P.S. Suffice it to say that working alone on pianos all night lets you hear a lot of "inner voices", and when you learn to identify them, some wonderful things may occur. P.P.S. Besides the "New Testament", I strongly recommend Paramahansa Yogananda's spiritual classic "Autobiography of a Yogi". Yogananda was an authentic Indian saint, who was entertained at the White House by Calvin Coolidge, had Amelita Galli-Curci, Sir Harry Lauder, Luther Burbank and many other notables as disciples ( Even Elvis was somehow involved with him. ) When he passed, in America, in 1953, his body did not rigormotise, nor decompose, as certified by an American coroner. The amazing book is at all major bookstores. --- Stéphane Collin <collin.s at skynet.be> wrote: > Hi David. > > About God, I don't know. But about soundboards, we > should distinguish between superstition and > intuition. Then, of course, there is science, with > repeatable controlable and analysable respectable > predictable experiments (on modelised reality), with > the unavoidable pride that goes with it. Yet, even > science history shows that it is intuition that > makes science go further, not other way round. > Intuition, being a female attribute, is not bound to > the male obligation of being immediately efficient > with authority. Therefor, it can be open to a much > larger amount of informations, ones maybe in > contradiction with the others, which much better > reflects the unmodeled reality (yet very reality), > was it of God or of soundboards. > While I agree totally with you about the vanity of > armchair considerations, getting up of your armchair > and doing by authority some scientifically controled > real life experiments makes of you immediately a > self sustaining device tending to prove that it's > action was right (which could be, of course). And > this is good, no doubt. What is less good is that > after that, anything other than what sustains you in > your quest will be treated by you as inimical to > you. This is faulty. Criticism is sane. At least, > as long as it is taken for what it is : giving a > divergent opinion and see what positive science can > be raised by the confrontation of both opinions. > Anyway, I really long to have the opportunity to > hear what you do on pianos and their soundboards. > And you know what ? My intuition tells me that it > must be really great. See : intuition CAN be > efficient. > > Best regards. > > Stéphane Collin. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Love > To: 'Pianotech List' > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 6:02 PM > Subject: RE: Gender of God, and other > piano-realted stuff..... > > > Superstition dies hard. Just witness all the > soundboard discussionsJ. It's a demon haunted world > (thank you Carl Sagan)! > > > > Must be a slow news week. > > > > David Love > davidlovepianos at comcast.net > www.davidlovepianos.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org > [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of > LuisGalvez at aol.com > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 8:24 AM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: Re: Gender of God, and other > piano-realted stuff..... > > > > Remember that the people who wrote the bible > thought the earth was flat. > > > > Luis Antonio Galvez-Alcantara "He was deeply in > love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as > if she were a garbage truck backing up." > www.tenors.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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