tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252751000792131320.post2691380480690193357..comments2010-10-22T17:05:22.188-07:00Eli Vieirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751814692375726552noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252751000792131320.post-21715598566097874442010-01-08T08:51:39.567-08:002010-01-08T08:51:39.567-08:00Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252751000792131320.post-3138445075156363992009-07-24T12:57:36.905-07:002009-07-24T12:57:36.905-07:00Thanks so much for your inspiring comments, Henk!Eli Vieirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05751814692375726552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252751000792131320.post-29537344338268341982009-07-21T16:01:25.928-07:002009-07-21T16:01:25.928-07:00Yahweh a metaphor for the laws of physics?<br /><br />Being an organist for 42 years now, I started as a 14 years old boy in the spring of 1967.<br />One year earlier I lost my belief in a God and eternal life in heaven after death in a fraction of a second during a visit to the Teylers museum in Haarlem.<br />Due to this event and not having the possibility to discuss about this I reached a stage of deep depression for 9 years.<br />Not having the inspiration anymore by the Christian belief, (In that time I was organist in a protestant church on a wonderful historic organ) I substituted the words god, Jesus, the holy ghost by the laws of physics.<br />This to guarantee a convincingly performance. <br />Cantates composed Bach like “Von Himmel hoch, da komm ich her ” or “Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir ” and “ Wachet auf ruft und die Stimme ” obtain a total different dimension.<br />What to think about “ Every valley will be exalted ” by Haendel.<br />Exalted by what? Geological forces of course.<br />In that time nobody suspected me as an agnostic organist in their church.henk van der luithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16740901888081252184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252751000792131320.post-56404615208903858032009-07-21T15:59:13.422-07:002009-07-21T15:59:13.422-07:00Yahweh a metaphor for the laws of physics?<br /><br />Being an organist for 42 years now, I started as a 14 years old boy in the spring of 1967.<br />One year earlier I lost my belief in a God and eternal life in heaven after death in a fraction of a second during a visit to the Teylers museum in Haarlem.<br />Due to this event and not having the possibility to discuss about this I reached a stage of deep depression for 9 years.<br />Not having the inspiration anymore by the Christian belief, (In that time I was organist in a protestant church on a wonderful historic organ) I substituted the words god, Jesus, the holy ghost by the laws of physics.<br />This to guarantee a convincingly performance. <br />Cantates composed Bach like “Von Himmel hoch, da komm ich her ” or “Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir ” and “ Wachet auf ruft und die Stimme ” obtain a total different dimension.<br />What to think about “ Every valley will be exalted ” by Haendel.<br />Exalted by what? Geological forces of course.<br />In that time nobody suspected me as an agnostic organist in their church.henk van der luithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16740901888081252184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252751000792131320.post-4998422004800501152009-07-10T14:52:45.424-07:002009-07-10T14:52:45.424-07:00I think the bible is just a book, in which is discribed the way late paleolitic/mesolitic/neolitic people and the problems they faced becoming farmers from hunters.<br />This due to the rapid post glacial expasion of mankind.<br />The story of Noah&#39;s ark is a nice metafoor for the rapid sea level rise 10.000 years ago at the end of the latest ice age.<br /><br />Henk van der Luithenk van der luithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16740901888081252184noreply@blogger.com