Phil,
Very good.  I'll try to contribute to this thread when I have time to think 
about it.
Vinny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 5:35 PM
Subject: Goose bumps


>I have been doing some google searches today on goose bumps, which is often
> now spelled as one word, but I was wondering about it.  Why?  Well, I know
> it can occur due to fear one might suddenly experience and that fear can
> come in many types.  Of course, everybody has probably experienced goose
> bumps when listening to music you really like.  Try, however, generating 
> the
> goose bump feeling and physical response by just thinking about doing it. 
> I
> don't think it is possible or at least I have never heard of anybody 
> saying
> they could make it happen just by thought alone.  Anyhow, I was sitting at
> my computer a few minutes ago and thinking about the greatness and power 
> of
> God.  I can't remember why I was thinking that way but something came to
> mind, I stopped what I was doing, and just sat and thought about God for a
> few seconds.  I bet it wasn't even more than 10 seconds.  I smiled when, 
> in
> my thoughts, I realized, based upon whatever it was I was thinking about,
> how big God was.  Suddenly, I began tingling all over just like I have 
> when
> listening to music that I thought was really cool for some reason.  I have
> tried capturing these goose bump moments, forcing my mind to immediately
> focus on what was happening to me at the moment, and I have noticed that I
> am at a level of sudden keen awareness of emotions.  Not my emotions but 
> the
> person doing the music, for example, and that it is almost as if I can 
> feel
> their emotional input to the music.  Wow.  I can't believe this but it 
> just
> happened again as I talked about it.  sometimes it occurs when we suddenly
> are chilled and my air conditioner is running but I am not cold.  Have you
> ever consider the emotions of the Creator?  I mean, the one who gave us
> emotions in the first place.  What do you bet that the emotions we have 
> are
> very similar to the feelings of God.  Say, there is a title for a good
> theological book.  The Feelings of God.  Interesting.  Or I suppose it 
> could
> be called the Goose Bumper.  Publishers are using all types of weird 
> titles
> now I have noticed.  So, have you had goose bumps, or goose flesh, or 
> goose
> pimples when praying or thinking about God?  By the way, the sensation I
> just experience while typing this and was trying to describe what I was
> thinking about God?  The goose bumps started at my head, flashed down my
> arms and clear down my legs.  Normally it just occurs on my arms.
> Apparently the term comes from what a plucked goose, or perhaps chicken,
> skin looks like, or feels like to the touch.  This reminds me of an old
> joke.  Do you know what you get when you cross a chicken with a banjo?  A
> bird that can pluck itself.  I told my dentist that one day when he was
> getting ready to drill on me.  He busted out laughing and so did his
> assistant standing on the other side of me.  He said, Phil, I'm not for 
> sure
> what that means.  I told him I didn't know what it meant either but I 
> heard
> it on a children's program on TV one day that my kids were watching so the
> joke had to be ok.
>
> Phil.
>
>
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