First Three Months Discussion

[bambam]

This part of the 'First Three Months' forums is open and intended as a place to discuss Yoda's early posts. Any questions or comments related to this early work should be posted in this Forum. Yoda will enjoy reading all of the posts and discussion, and will participate whenever possible.

[GPStyles]

I'm confused. Where are the first 3 months posts so I can read them?

edit - sorted it out. For anyone with the same problem, try using the 'search from beginning' rather than the other options

[Yoda]

This part of the 'First Three Months' forums is open and intended as a place to discuss Yoda's early posts. Any questions or comments related to this early work should be posted in this Forum. Yoda will enjoy reading all of the posts and discussion, and will participate whenever possible.

Ben,

The posts as archived are 'read only' and do not permit comment. How would you suggest readers 'quote' a post and segregate the various discussions? I've just begun a new thread in the First Three Months Forum to illustrate one possibility.

[bambam]

I'm confused. Where are the first 3 months posts so I can read them?

edit - sorted it out. For anyone with the same problem, try using the 'search from beginning' rather than the other options

You can search or you can browse the "First Three Months of Yoda Posts" forum.

[O.B.Left]

I'm so thankful for this material. Great stuff guys.


O.B.

[bambam]

Ben,

The posts as archived are 'read only' and do not permit comment. How would you suggest readers 'quote' a post and segregate the various discussions? I've just begun a new thread in the First Three Months Forum to illustrate one possibility.

That's the best way in my opinion. Go to the thread you want to discuss, copy the link/url for that thread and paste it into your new thread.

An alternative that would also work is to copy/paste the relevant text from the original post and paste it into new "quote" tags. That would look something like this:

[quote="Yoda"]...put quoted text here...[/quote]

or if you want to get fancy, include the id of the post being quoted in the quote and it will link the quote to the other thread...

[quote="Yoda";56179]...put quoted text here...[/quote]

Either way, it should end up looking something like this:

A young piano prodigy was brought to Beethoven for his opinion. Said the great man: "The boy must play a long time yet before he realizes he cannot playat all."

The Golfing Machine is an odyssey whose rigors will test all who attempt it. Nevertheless, it is a journey that will, like the "pearl of great price," ultimately yield its own reward. Remember the story of the five blind men, each holding different parts of an elephant? Each did his best to describe the animal as pictured in his own mind. One "saw" only the dangling trunk. Another "saw" only the curved, smooth, sharp ivory of the tusks. Just as ardently, the remaining blind men "saw" and described the swishing tail, the flapping ears, and the gigantic legs.

Homer saw the whole elephant. It took him forty years to figure it out and get it down on paper. So, be patient: Today a tusk, tomorrow a tail, next month a trunk. Keep working, and one day you will not only "see" it, you will own it.

[Yoda]

I'm so thankful for this material. Great stuff guys.


O.B.

Thanks, O.B.,

These were the very early days of my posting, and much of this material had never before been explained. Some of the concepts had been ignored in the 21 years since the passing of Homer Kelley. And, unfortunately, because of the book's brevity and vocabulary, and without the keys that only he himself could provide, other concepts simply were inaccessible.

The good news is that Homer lived to train personally a handful of instructors. I was privileged to be one of those, and with the advent of the Internet, I realized I now had a unique opportunity and challenge . . . to share that training with others world-wide, and at least in some small way, to preserve Homer's legacy and continue the growth of The Golfing Machine.

I still carry that flame and have no plans of quitting. But, I've also used it to fire the torch of others. The result is a veritable parade of able, younger men and women who have joined in the lighting of the way.

I am proud of that work . . .

And I think Homer would be, too.