gilberto, to the extent that all of us must figure ways to get along with
others, we are all in fact sociologists.
the us senate exists becuae of a consttution, voted upon ratified etc.
whereby a us governemnt comes into existence.
the Baha'i Faith comes into existence as the execution of the Estate of
Baha'u'llah..Who left It, in toto, to Abd'ul Baha, Who left It, in toto to a
corporation (therefore a quasi-person) not in posession of its maturity,
which is often called the WOB. due to this issue of timing (and this is a
personal, and highly phariseeistic view, but it's mine and i stick with it) the
Estate was entrusted to a Trustee, amin and vali, the Guardian of the Cause of
God until such time as the WOB was matured. this legally recognised Guardian
appointed stewards to manage the propertoes and affairs of the estate, and said
trustees announced in 1963 that the Property could be handed to the Heir, the
WOB.
and this is the parallel to the senate.
membership in a set is not a property of the member, but of the set. 0.6
doesn;t get into the set of integers, no matter how hard it proclaims it is
ever so much like 6.0. the sqaure root of 25 can stand on its head while
reading from finnegan's wake, and never be qualified for membership in the set
of irrational numbers.
membership in the Baha'i Faith, imho has something specifically to do with
agreement about some version of the above statemnt about the WOB.
let us hypothesize: so some one says, ahh, if i put a black stone near my
home, and circumabulate it on horseback, i will be like Muhammed (pbuH), and
therefore have surrendered to the Will of Allah. is this person Moslem? does
having a deovted woman wash ur feet with her hair make one Christian? imho the
objective viewer will say...no. a Verse has been removed from context and been
made into the basis of a persona , but not an identity.
but again, i have personal resistance to the sociologic perspective.
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