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#21
Atheists' Corner / Re: Is God's house a urinal?
March 08, 2012, 11:21:38 AM
Dear MM

Firstly thank you for joining this forum and bringing both your sense of humour, exciting desire to shock, and stimulating thoughts to discussion.

Personally I'm not sure that as yet I understand your first proposition in its analogy entirely; perhaps it's better not to go there, but it's certainly a grabbing headline!

How serious is your assertion that we should have an agnostic area? Being a bit neither one thing nor another I'm not at all sure how exciting it might turn out to be.

Your analysis is certainly on the ball and in view of your starting at both the believing end and from the non-believing end and arriving at the same conclusion, is there really any room for the third corner of the forum that you propose?

Humility . . . obstacle to whatever you like to call it . . . no doubt many will feel that you are hitting the nail on the head.

Best wishes

Forum Admin

#22
This topic has been moved to Inspirational instruments.

http://www.organmatters.com/index.php?topic=1173.0


I have taken the liberty of removing some posts of the nature of banter otherwise capable of diverting more relevant discussion.


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#23
Quote from: AnOrganCornucopia on January 15, 2012, 05:00:11 PMIf I had stumbled across that on YouTube I'd have assumed it was a (good) toaster.


It just goes to show how easy it is for people to get the wrong end of the stick. Nothing replaces actual experience of the physical reality . . .
#24
Quote from: AnOrganCornucopia on January 10, 2012, 06:04:13 PM
. . .  near the Botanic Gardens.  . . . I hope that's not too exhausting a list!


WOW - an encyclopaedic contribution - thanks so much. Does read like the plant list of Kew too . . . !


Best wishes


Forum Admin
#25
Miscellaneous & Suggestions / Re: To our new members
January 07, 2012, 04:32:09 PM
Hi!


Tony's suggestion is really welcome.


Often, sadly, new members "join" the forum only never to visit again and merely to use the members's list of the forum as a SEO link farm to provide "google back links" to other sites . . . and I usually delete them rapidly . . . and ban their IP range from joining . . .


and hopefully don't make mistakes!


So it's really great to welcome real organ enthusiasts rather than merely SEO link slaves in India!


Best wishes


Forum Admin
#26
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Church-Chapel-Pipe-Organ-Restoration-very-large-and-beautiful-/280799830348


Might someone be able to contact the seller and draw attention to this forum . . . and perhaps suggest incorporating it into the developer's scheme?


Best wishes


Forum Admin
#28
Atheists' Corner / A member's signature
December 31, 2011, 03:34:59 PM
Hi!

A particular member's signature has just been drawn to my attention:
QuoteChristmas? Bah humbug! Can't stand Christmas! Christ wasn't born in December anyway - if he ever existed, which is doubtful.


New Year? New beginnings? Rubbish! New beginnings my foot! The world is just as bad as ever.
with the question as to whether it is offensive to anyone on the forum.

Perhaps that's why areas for faith and disbelief exist in their own section of the forum. Doubting the physical existence of Christ somewhat contradicts rather a weight of documentary evidence which would simply not exist were he not to have existed . . . and perhaps the member concerned might simply contribute in this area of the forum confined to such matters rather than raising it through a signature on all posts throughout the forum . . . ?

Perhaps the signature has a poignant relevance. New beginnings are possible and the world is only as bad as ever if new beginnings aren't embraced . . . and isn't that why we celebrate the coming to earth and making of flesh of "The Idea" . . . the idea of bringing order out of disorder, the idea that new beginnings are possible, that the mind can be born again in order to make those new beginnings, the idea that Heaven can be created on Earth.

But if new beginnings aren't acknowledged, if we shut our eyes to rebirth and to "The Idea" being made flesh to teach us, then earth will remain the animal jungle that it can be without "The Idea" taking hold in flesh.

Christmas is the time when we celebrate such an idea and at a time too when the shaft of celestial light at mid-winter solstice hit the shrines of the Earth Mother in ancient stone structures and brought her to life, heralding the spring and new growth. The Greek mythology likewise has Hades capturing Persephone, daughter of Demeter, Mother Earth, and Zeus, the Sun, negotiating her return to the land of the living for two thirds of the year. Similarly,  Apollo (god of Light) abandoned his temples for half the year, leaving them to the tender mercies of Dionysus.

All of this symbolism was embodied in Christ by the early Christians, to whom it all made perfect sense with all of its festivals, but in an age bereft of its past, the timeless understanding of Christmas can be viewed as patent nonsense in itself in absence of the heritage which it subsumed . . . but in coming to terms with the ancient agricultural understanding (on which we still depend whether we like it or not), its meaning in terms of birth, rebirth, and new beginnings might be better appreciated and taken to heart . . . 

So perhaps the member's signature might be removed from elsewhere and possibly be enshrined merely here?

Best wishes


Forum Admin
#29
Quote from: AnOrganCornucopia on December 31, 2011, 12:47:06 PM
My apologies for being so brutally frank. Has Admin been up there himself, do I take it? My only encounter with it, if you can call it that, was walking past it en route to St. Augustine...


Forum Admin has been there and intends to be welcomed there again . . . and hopes that you might also go with the family of whom you are friends especially in view of your own newfound friendship with cinema organs . . .


Upon what you find there in the religious dimension, it is up to all to experience and to make up their own mind rather than be told about something by someone else and be expected to be told what to think thereby, and therefore up to each to know for themselves rather then merely second hand through comment here.


Our purpose here is to draw attention to an important organ and to encourage its use and preservation.


Best wishes


Forum Admin
#30
I have had to edit AOC's post above and would prefer him to remove it as it strays far beyond the territory of the organ and thereby the bounds of this forum.


I would encourage anyone to visit the church in operation at the cinema where one witnesses a very genuine and sincere congregation: you will come away spiritually enriched even if perplexed at the abandon of conventionality, and perhaps a little deaf if without earplugs on account of the volume at which the Word of God is presented through their amplification.


As there is a Hammond B3 on stage, a leap to the Wurlitzer would be not enormous and one wishes their fundraising well to preserve a building on a stupendous scale for which otherwise an alternative economically viable use would be hard to find. If the organ can be more a feature of the worship then we are likely to see the solution to the preservation of a very important pipe instrument of its style.


Best wishes


Forum Admin
#31
Quote from: Bruise in the Muttastery on December 26, 2011, 06:57:37 AMMy fictional residence (which I use for some of my writing) is the Muttastery of St. Dogmael, a Muttastery being a canine version of a Monastery, which is home for the "munts" (mutt + monk).  In the Chapel of All Hounds we have a 3m tracker built by the firm of Haulen, Barken & Wooofff of Beagledor, Canada.   


Hi!


Thanks for coming to join the forum and bringing with you a sense of humour, without which life can be all too boringly serious. It's also very important to play a part of court jester from time to time as in jest many a truth is said which cannot otherwise be muttered . . .


May organs continue to thrive in woofdom! Thinking about it some 16ft do woof a bit . . .


Best wishes


Forum Admin
#32
Hi!


Perhaps nothing in this venal world can do better for the organ than getting an organ builder ranked on the business ladder . . . and please can you help to do this?


Please can you go to www.lameuse.be/vervietois2011  and enter the voting and choose
Dominique Thomas
Il dirige la manufacture qui est chargée de réaliser le nouvel orgue de la cathédrale de Monte-Carlo
There are a further three people or organisations to choose , , , so you'll have to answer those at comparative random . . .
:-)
Happy New Year
Forum Admin
#33
Miscellaneous & Suggestions / Re: Christmas Greetings
December 22, 2011, 05:46:47 PM
Quote from: pcnd5584 on December 22, 2011, 02:27:23 PM
I would like to add my best wishes and compliments of the season to all who use this board.


Likewise. Thank you to all who have supported the board through the past year: we have achieved much collectively, notably ensuring that the instrument at Crewkerne is not made redundant by capricious electronic replacement and also at Cranleigh where the Mander's retuning into equal temperament has been delayed by a year to academic benefit. No doubt we have done a lot more, raising the profile of the instrument in people's minds as something exciting . . . so that we see fewer instruments sent for scrap or being demolished by bulldozer.


With luck we might have provided some entertainment along the way . . . ?


Barrie - I do hope that you might email your post above to all members as there are many who have not logged onto the forum in a long while.


Best wishes to all and many thanks,


Forum Admin
#34
New Pipe Organs / Re: An American pipe organ in London
December 10, 2011, 04:12:40 PM
Dear Members


AnOrganCornucopia's contributions are often stimulating.


However, as an administration team, it is a nightmare for forum administrators and moderators to find a density of over a dozen messages (17 on this occasion) requiring us to trawl through for issues that we have met before in other posts of which authorship is currently designated as "Guest". Difficulties often relate to subjectivity of opinions, often not derived from first hand experience, willingness to make derogatory comments based on these and resulting issues of defamation.


Whilst humour is an important spice of life and some bantering can always be a bit of fun even in a more serious context, this of AnOrganCornucopia's posts is of a quality of intellect demonstrative of being engaged at 4am at which the posting was timed.


Unfortunately there is no facility to improve postings by enforcing a midnight to 7am curfew upon members and until we can find the appropriate control panel to do that, we have blocked this member from making contributions at this stage. We hope that he will understand this and be willing to undertake to post during hours of daylight only.


If anyone has any comments in relation to this, or this member's contributions to the forum, positive or negative, please do let us know.


Best wishes


Forum Admin
#35
I have just received a Facebook message to the effect that this organ is very fine.


Best wishes


Forum Admin
#36
Organs in danger / Re: Ayr-Cathedral of the Good Shepherd
December 05, 2011, 09:06:58 PM
The mis-spelling of the original post carrying through the thread has sent me mad so I have altered it and hopefully future posts will now carry the proper title.


Apologies


Best wishes


Forum Admin
#37
House Organs / Re: House Organ for Sale
October 15, 2011, 01:25:37 AM
#38
Hi!


Have you any ball-park dimensions, details, numbers of ranks etc that you might be able to hint towards without giving anything confidential away?


Best wishes


Forum Admin