Klarinet Archive - Posting 000143.txt from 2001/10

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re:quotes and other stuff......
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:26:57 -0400

Jay, please don't let the disputes of others make YOU leave. We need your
viewpoints here.
Audrey

webler1 wrote:

> ----- 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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