Klarinet Archive - Posting 000136.txt from 2001/10

From: "webler1" <webler1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re:quotes and other stuff......
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 04:20:34 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Pay" <Tony@-----.uk>

> It's about time that we took him on. >

Tony,

What reason would I have to "take him on". Will this help me to play the
Mozart with greater fluidity? I think not. My greatest improvement on the
Clarinet happens when I practice and listen to good music, not when I engage
in debate on this list. Will I be able to speak more freely if I take him
on? Again, I think not. There is not one thing keeping me from saying
anything I want, at least once, except for my conscience before God; for, if
the only reason I temper what I say is because I fear what my fellow man may
think I have made myself a slave to man. I am almost 50 years old and I
think I have learned, by now, to sift through someone's rhetoric and
determine if it is something I will accept or reject. I don't need a baby
sitter telling me what I should and should not listen to.

Roger mentioned the twin towers incident; to which I would like to add the
following. When we listened to the calls that the people in the planes and
the towers, over their cell phones, to there loved ones; we didn't hear a
request to make sure the Porche is washed, or to find out if the Symphony
tickets have been bought, or to find out if the new Clarinet has come in.
We heard the voices of people who knew that their end was coming quickly,
and they wanted to take one last chance to tell the ones they loved good
bye. We don't know when our time will come, but perhaps if we lived as if
the next breath was our last we might think twice before we spend our time
trying to straighten all the mundane problems in the world. What ever Roger
has done to make you angry, or vice versa, I can assure you God is perfectly
aware of all the hidden motives, and being the infallible interpreter that
He is, He will most assuredly straighten it out in the proper time.

Now that I violated a fundamental tenant of any email list: Don't discuss
politics or religion, I will remove myself from the list. Life is just too
short to engage in this kind of rhetoric.

Jay Webler

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