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Scientific literature indicates that parents' financial, psychological and
physical well-being is enhanced by marriage and that children benefit from
being raised by two parents within a legally recognized union (either a
opposite-sex or same-sex union). As a result,
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And not Hindus, because most non Buddhists in Sri Lanka are Hindu?
You're confusing general with specific. General is intolerance and persecution
of all groups other than your own. Specific in contrast is being okay with all
groups except one or a few groups you pers
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While I haven't formed an apostates narrative, I'll leave this as an example.
An Apostate's Narrative
Dr. Moojan Momen recently asserted that each apostate must construct a
narrative, and that it ought to take the form of a "captivity narrative".
Apparently, this mean
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It's still is technically alot of a stretch to get the list being loyal to the
UHJ from just the name Baha'i Studies list which doesn't even have a
description other than its name. It's assume people will assume that it's not
Unitarian, Reform, Gaurdianist, or whateve
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> Susan, logically following that rule to its logical conclusion would ban all
> Baha'is websites because each and every Baha'i denomination declares each
> other to be covenant breakers.
This list is loyal to the Universal House of Justice in Haifa Israel
which you ter
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Susan, logically following that rule to its logical conclusion would ban all
Baha'is websites because each and every Baha'i denomination declares each other
to be covenant breakers. It's impossible to study the Baha'i Faith independent
of any of the denominations. To
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Dear friends,
Please do not respond to Stephen's email message since he insists on
propagating the views of Covenant breakers. I've still not had any success
in getting him removed as I can't seem to get a hold of Mark Foster.
However, I would like to say for the record
liar with various religions like Raëlism,
>>>> Scientology, Neo Gnosticism, Adi Dam, Ahmadiyya aka Qadianism, Happy
>>>> Science aka Kofuku no Kagaku, Sahaja Yoga, Rastafarianism, etc. I'm not
>>>> that interested in them, but I know about them is the point
ist_of_avatar_claimants
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalki
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiah_claimants
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messiah_claimants
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_claimed_to_be_Jesus
>>> h
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To copy and paste Juan Cole.
“John Ricardo I. "Juan" Cole (born October 1952) is an American scholar, public
intellectual, and historian of the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is
Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of
Michigan.
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On Apr 30, 2013, at 22:40, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
> Lots of interesting Raëlian sites, because I read them in the five Raëlian e
> books I downloaded onto my iPad. Interesting side note, I have seen a
> Theraveda Buddhist Facebook page attackin
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>> ...And yet you so often bless us with your comments. Why are we so blessed?
>>
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Stephen Kent Gray
>> To: Baha'i Studies
>> Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 11
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On Apr 30, 2013, at 20:45, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
> I shouldn't have listed Neo-Druidism, Wicca, and Thelema separately. They are
> all forms of Contemporary Modern Neo Paganism.
>
> Contemporary Modern Neo Paganism (includes various ethnic, fo
.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_avatar_claimants
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalki
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiah_claimants
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messiah_claimants
>>> http://
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On Apr 30, 2013, at 17:37, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
> That presupposes enough people will have become Baha'i to make that feasible.
>
> If a Baha'i society, one with a Baha'i majority, became a non Baha'i one, one
> with a different religious gro
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On Apr 30, 2013, at 17:28, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
> Don't you mean if not in?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Apr 22, 2013, at 17:26, Don Calkins wrote:
>
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>>
>> On Apr 20, 2013, at 2:11 28PM, Stephen Kent Gray wro
information about the Bahá'í Faith. So,
> how is your investigation going?
>
> Hasan
>
> PS You quoted Covenant-breakers sources, I wonder why the moderator did not
> you brought out of here.
>
>
> De: Stephen Kent Gray
> Para: Baha'i Studies
&g
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Don't you mean if not in?
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>
> On Apr 20, 2013, at 2:11 28PM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
>
>> Baha'is say that people are supposed to use independent investigation of
>> tru
n Apr 27, 2013, at 15:32, Hasan Elías wrote:
>>
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I read few messages of Stephen Gray, I think he trusts so much on
>>> philosophers and thinkers. I think Kohlberg and others are nothing and
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That presupposes enough people will have become Baha'i to make that feasible.
If a Baha'i society, one with a Baha'i majority, became a non Baha'i one, one
with a different religious group in the majority, would the Baha'is step down
from power?
Also, shouldn't it be
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I shouldn't have listed Neo-Druidism, Wicca, and Thelema separately. They are
all forms of Contemporary Modern Neo Paganism.
Contemporary Modern Neo Paganism (includes various ethnic, folk, and syncretic
religions)
Unitarian Universalism
Eckankar
LeVeyanism
Raëlism
h
ssage-
> From: Stephen Kent Gray
> To: Baha'i Studies
> Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 11:12 am
> Subject: Re: Against nature...
>
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> Actually I only believe in Unitarian Universalism, Mahayana Nichiren
> Buddhism, Religious Humanism, as m
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Lots of interesting Raëlian sites, because I read them in the five Raëlian e
books I downloaded onto my iPad. Interesting side note, I have seen a Theraveda
Buddhist Facebook page attacking Raëlism and another Theraveda Buddhist website
attacking Scientology. While, n
Apr 30, 2013 3:40 pm
Subject: Re: Against nature...
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Stephen,
The name of this list is "Bahá'í Studies". It seems that you do not realize
where you are.
The Bahá'í Faith has good presence in the Web, bahá'
not you
brought out of here.
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De: Stephen Kent Gray
Para: Baha'i Studies
Enviado: Lunes, 29 de abril, 2013 7:25 P.M.
Asunto: Re: Against nature...
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I should explain closer and in more depth. Religions and their scrip
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Also forgot to mention that Northern Cyprus is probably the same as Turkey.
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> I have no info on other states such as Northern Cyprus, Palestine,
> Somaliland, Sahrawi
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I have no info on other states such as Northern Cyprus, Palestine, Somaliland,
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, etc.
I'll also list the countries where there is no illegality for Muslims listed.
Algeria, Comoros, Egypt, Morocco, Niger, Tunisia, Iraq, Turkey. Sahrawi
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Another message where I referenced Raëlism.
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> There are a variety of religions in the world. While most either are
> explicitly anti LGBTQQIA or neutral towards them,
eatest protection, and
>> new Bahá'ís should be taught this before they are admitted into the
>> Community. In this way they will be given the spiritual strenght to overcome
>> the tests which are inevitable, and which strenghten the growth of the
>> Community an
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Stephen,
Are you a bahá'í?
Hasan
De: Stephen Kent Gray
Para: Baha'i Studies
Enviado: Lunes, 29 de abril, 2013 1:13 P.M.
Asunto: Re: Against nature...
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Hasan, any list of rel
munity. In this way they will be given the spiritual strenght to overcome
> the tests which are inevitable, and which strenghten the growth of the
> Community and drive its roots deeper in the soil of faith".
>
> Best,
>
> Hasan
> De: Stephen Kent Gray
> Para: Bah
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Yes, Don C, the onus of independent investigation requires everyone to
investigate the claims of every Messiah, Christ, Paraclete, Holy Spirit, Mahdi,
Manifestation, Avatar, Buddha, etc.
To repeat
The greater covenant refers to the covenant made between each messenge
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It's what Wikipedia says here.
Greater covenant
The greater covenant refers to the covenant made between each messenger from
God, which the literature of the Bahá'í Faith name Manifestations of God, and
his followers regarding the coming of the next Manifestation fro
s
roots deeper in the soil of faith".
Best,
Hasan
De: Stephen Kent Gray
Para: Baha'i Studies
Enviado: Miércoles, 24 de abril, 2013 8:10 P.M.
Asunto: Re: Against nature...
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Don C, read Eight Ways to Run the
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Don C, read Eight Ways to Run the Country by Brian Patrick Mitchell. From, this
you sound like a populist which means nothing other than you side with people,
but is meaningless ideology wise.
You rejection of progressivism and its ideals, tell me you aren't anti arch
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Don, can I ask you to please stop answering Steve's posts. As
moderator I have made it clear that he is no longer welcome here. Not
after he referred to the Baha'i community as the Heterodox Haifan
Sect. He insists on staying, but we don't need to be encouraging him
by a
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I would rather like you to use liberal and progressive interchangeably. All
progressives are liberal, but not all liberals are progressives. Progressive is
a subset of liberal, not equivalent with liberal. Conservatives, libertarians,
and social democrats are liberals
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You seem to be intent on categorizing the Faith. It's not going to work.
Why is the Faith referred to as a "liberal" or "progressive" group? Because
when Abdu'l-Baha was here 100 years ago and emphasized what are now commonly
referred to as the Baha'i Principles (al
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Liberal religion is a religious tradition which embraces the theological
diversity of a congregation rather than a single creed, authority, or writing.
Because it may draw resources from many traditions, it cannot normally be
characterized as Christian, Jewish, or any
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You forgot that this was in the context of having a seperatist war with the
Tamil Tigers to preserve the territory of Sri Lanka against the creation of
Tamil Eelam.
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> http:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Rakhine_State_riots
The Muslims started it, by killing and gang raping women.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Muslims_in_Burm
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So, as my mother used to say, if they all jump off a cliff, are you going to
jump, too??
Let those so inclined go to those religions.
Don C
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> There are a variety of religions in the world. While most either
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Muslims_in_Burma
In Sri Lanka a couple months ago, Sinhalo-Buddhists called for the expulsion
of all Christians and Muslims.
However, a fundamentalist Buddhist usually believes that non-Buddhists are
condemned to be rebo
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There are verses in the Quran that forbid them, too. They are abrogated by
other verses.
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>
>>> I'm referring to beliefs not practices
>
> No, you are not referring to belie
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Actually, not other religions, only Muslims. If you were familiar with what's
happening in Burma, you'd know the Muslims started it. Muslims attacked first,
so Buddhists are rationally retaliating rather than appeasing the barbarian
Muslim horde.
Lots of people not j
I suspect not too many
> generations will pass before Baha’is think about homosexuality in much the
> same way that Catholics think about contraception.
>
> But who knows?
>
> GS
> -Original Message-
> From: Stephen Kent Gray
> To: Baha'i Studies
&
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There are a variety of religions in the world. While most either are explicitly
anti LGBTQQIA or neutral towards them, there are affirming religious groups.
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism have affirming factions.
This is a specific denominational
eatable disorder.
>>
>> GS
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Stephen Kent Gray
>> To: Baha'i Studies
>> Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 12:19 pm
>> Subject: Re: Against nature...
>>
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y that Catholics think about contraception.
>
> But who knows?
>
> GS
> -Original Message-
> From: Stephen Kent Gray
> To: Baha'i Studies
> Sent: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 11:15 am
> Subject: Re: Against nature...
>
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This reminds of of religious trends towards traditionalism versus liberalism,
fundamentalism versus humanism.
Within religions, traditionalism is a common reaction to rapid changes in the
surrounding world. Traditionalists maintain older forms of belief and practice
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On Apr 20, 2013, at 2:11 28PM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
> Baha'is say that people are supposed to use independent investigation of
> truth to verify or falsify the claims of each and every religious claimant,
I have never seen a statement like that in Baha'i Scriptur
onday, April 22, 2013 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: Against nature...
The Baha'i Studies ListservThere are militant "fundamentalist" Buddhists that
have attacked members of other religions.
Don C
On Apr 20, 2013, at 5:17 46PM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
Buddhist
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They will be a minor part of their responsibilities. This is going to prob be
1500 years from now. Think the difference in civilization btwn Augustine and
now.
Don C
On Apr 20, 2013, at 2:39 08PM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
> How will the punishments in the Aqdas ge
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A Baha'i involved in consultation will use Scripture as an ethical standard.
BTW, in the mid 80's, I took a college credit mid management course that
included a section on small group decision making. It was a very good
non-Baha'i description of consultation as descr
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As my brother repeatedly reminds me, the Green Party may come the closest to
agreeing w/ me, but i refuse to align myself with any party.
Don C
On Apr 20, 2013, at 3:30 23PM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
> Don C, you probably think America needs a Green New Deal? I don't
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I'm referring to beliefs not practices
No, you are not referring to beliefs instead of practices. Your own words
contradict you:
Actually the stories I've read of Baha'i Administration **in action**
**rivals** North Korea, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and other s
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There are militant "fundamentalist" Buddhists that have attacked members of
other religions.
Don C
On Apr 20, 2013, at 5:17 46PM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
> Buddhist states aren't oppressive with religious rules.
-
Understood properly, all man's proble
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i consider myself an independent centrist. I don't fit neatly into any
category. I am generally moderate, but have no compunction about adapting
workable ideas from a variety of perspectives. What is most important, as
Baha'u'llah has indicated, are the principles.
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if you think liberal means "No drugs, no booze, no hanky-panky" then I guess
we're quite liberal.
Don C
On Apr 20, 2013, at 5:54 11PM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
> Why isn't the Baha'i Faith a liberal religion?
-
Understood properly, all man's problems ar
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>
> Yes, probably forty or eighty years from now, the Bahai Faith will have
> disappeared from the Western world.
Stephen, if you are just here to attack the Faith, you need to go elsewhere.
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> Susan, the point is that Islamists all over the world want to turn the world
> into one big Islamist Islamic Superstate of a Caliphate. Have you studied
> Islamism?
Of course, I've studied it. But it is a radical political movement
inside of Islam. It is not Islam its
te:
>
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>> ...And yet you so often bless us with your comments. Why are we so blessed?
>>
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Stephen Kent Gray
>> To: Baha'i Studies
>> Sent: Thu,
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I don't commit to nothing, yet I study everything. Since I'm not omniscient I
have to study everything. Isn't that what everyone is required to do?
Everyone is required to investigate the claims of all claimants. Baha'u'llah
himself referred to this as the greater Cov
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How will the punishments in the Aqdas get carried out if you that's true? If no
one is in charge how will people get executed, exiled, imprisioned, fined, etc?
The Aqdas looks like it presupposes a kind of authoritarianism you reject.
Baha'i laws will be enforced bec
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Abby Martin's show is Breaking The Set for those who wanted to know.
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> I really should study the implications of this. New religious movements,
> religions founded in
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> I'm referring to beliefs not practices.
Really? And what beliefs do we share with the Fascists?
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How would public policy me made for example in this hypothetical city, state,
nation, or world?
Imagine religious demographics were:
Atheist, Agnostic, No Religion, Secular 30%
Christian 30%
Muslim 12%
Jewish 6%
Buddhist 4%
Hindu 4%
Folk religion 3%
Sikh 2%
Baha'i 1%
W
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> Susan, let's try this. On your next trip to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei,
> Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, etc. See if you can legally buy
> and drink alcohol there. Then, try and search the black market for illegal
> alcohol if you need to. While you do
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> People can use consultation aka Athenian Democracy without the Baha'i Faith
> or any particular religion at all or even religion itself.
And people can consult without any religion either. What's your point?
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You are
ith OCD?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder
> It's a treatable disorder.
>
> GS
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Stephen Kent Gray
> To: Baha'i Studies
> Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 12:19 pm
> Subject: R
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Does the method of consultation intrinsically involve scripture? Or just Baha'i
consultation?
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> Things
>> like adoption and marriage are private contracts and the governme
x27;m a Germanic, neo-Duns-Scotian glutton.
> -Original Message-
> From: Stephen Kent Gray
> To: Baha'i Studies
> Sent: Wed, Apr 17, 2013 2:16 pm
> Subject: Re: Against nature...
>
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> That reminds me that while I'm fiscal
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That reminds me political compass rated all candidates including third party
ones on their Political Compass chart. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama had
identical spot on the grid. Virgil Goode was more Authoritarian and Right than
both. Gary Johnson and Rocky Anderson ma
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I'm one such still enrolled ex Baha'i. I think the Baha'i Faith will ultimately
fail to inability to retain believers. The math adds up to it eventually
becoming extinct.
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On Apr 18, 2013, at 13:39, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
> The Baha'i Studies Lis
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Consultation needs experts, not necessarily from Wikipedia.
Also, when I refer to consultation, I mean all consultation, not just the
Baha'i version.
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> > We rarely involv
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The latest within the Abrahamic and Iranian religious traditions.
There are other progressive revelation lineages like Dharmic religions, Chinese
religions, Korean religions, Vietnamese religions, Japanese religions, UFO
religions, New Relgious Movements, Contemporar
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Susan, the point is that Islamists all over the world want to turn the world
into one big Islamist Islamic Superstate of a Caliphate. Have you studied
Islamism?
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>>
>> Mo
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Note, no Buddhist or Hindu societies are Prohibitionist despite being
religiously forbidden.
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> It also listed various countries with legal drinking ages and the side
en bless us with your comments. Why are we so blessed?
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Stephen Kent Gray
> To: Baha'i Studies
> Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 11:12 am
> Subject: Re: Against nature...
>
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> Actu
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Authoritarianism is more of a mindset than actual practices. Those practices
are symptoms of authoritarianism rather than authoritarianism itself. If a
shadow government or government in exile, it authoritarian if it has such a
mindset, even if it can't do any of the
> But who knows?
>
> GS
> -Original Message-
> From: Stephen Kent Gray
> To: Baha'i Studies
> Sent: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 11:15 am
> Subject: Re: Against nature...
>
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> Opps, needed to correct one of the links.
> community.
>
> But is that suggestion a vain imagining? Very possibly!
>
> GS
> -Original Message-
> From: Gary Selchert
> To: Baha'i Studies
> Sent: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 3:18 pm
> Subject: Re: Against nature...
>
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Sen, so actually none of the Baha'i laws may ever be enforced?
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> "not enforcing" can be the best thing:
>
> In the Taurat there are ten commandments concerning the murderer.
suetude
>>>
>>> But perhaps all of that is ancient history and irrelevant in the New Order.
>>> Perhaps the law is engraved in stone until the next Manifestation. I don’t
>>> know. I will watch from the next world with mild curiosity about how our
>>> grea
>
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>>> ...And yet you so often bless us with your comments. Why are we so blessed?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Stephen Kent Gray
>>> To: Baha'i Studie
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You could add Biblical Israel as a Jewish example.
Despite the fact that Thailand is an extremely devout Thereveda Buddhist
country, it is known internationally for the sex industry worldwide. The whole
of Southeast Asia is in the same boat in this regard, but Thailan
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You forgot to add a link to the list of all the species of animals in which
homosexual behavior has been observed.
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> If humans are supposed to be heterosexual, as the Baha'i
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Buddhist states aren't oppressive with religious rules. Theraveda Buddhism and
Vajrayana Buddhism is the state religion in various countries in South Asia,
Southeast Asia, East Asia, and some parts of Russia.
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Reparative therapy is seen as pseudoscience now.
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>>
>> I wonder if science have discovered some kind of predisposition (genetic
>> mutation)? I believe the bahá'í writ
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Don, which one of the eight ways are you? I'm Individualist, anti both ie archy
and kratos. You are pro archy, anti kratos or Paleoconservative.
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> To put it in Brian
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On what basis do they believe there haven't been more recent revelations?
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> Because Baha'is believe that Baha'u'llah has given us God's most recent
> revelation.
> On 04/18/2
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Just because the Kitab I Aqdas hasn't been put in practice, doesn't make it any
less of an authoritarian dogmatic theocratic manifesto! Just look at all the
things the the Aqdas requires to be illegal in a Baha'i state.
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On Apr 18, 2013, at 16:01, S
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You seem to be study nothing despite committing to the Baha'i Faith.
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> You seem to study everything and commit to nothing. This can be a path to
> insanity. I hope that is no
ive comfortably and express their preferences openly in the Baha'i
> community.
>
> But is that suggestion a vain imagining? Very possibly!
>
> GS
> -Original Message-
> From: Gary Selchert
> To: Baha'i Studies
> Sent: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 3
> Para: Baha'i Studies
> Enviado: Viernes, 5 de abril, 2013 11:26 P.M.
> Asunto: Against nature...
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> If humans are supposed to be heterosexual, as the Baha'i Writings say, why
> are so many animals homosexual? Did God intend ma
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I'm a huge fan of Religious Humanism.
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On Apr 17, 2013, at 16:15, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
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> That reminds me that while I'm fiscally responsible, I'm socially tolerant.
> I'm currently religious Humanist, Nichiren Buddh
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The Aeon of Isis represented a maternalistic age where people were children.
The Aeon of Osiris represented a paternalistic age where people were teenagers.
The Aeon of Horus represents individualism where people are adults.
The Aeon of Horus began in 1904.
The Aeon o
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Why isn't the Baha'i Faith a liberal religion?
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On Apr 16, 2013, at 13:14, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
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> Opps, needed to correct one of the links.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenderism_and_religion
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> The other
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Why do they call it midnight if its really early morning?
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> According to some blogs I've read...
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> http://bahaisects.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/bahai-leadership-may-s
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I'm referring to beliefs not practices.
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On Apr 18, 2013, at 15:51, Ian Kluge wrote:
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> Stephen:
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>>> Actually the stories I've read of Baha'i Administration in action
>>> rivals North Korea, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany,
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