Re: One form of Unity in Diversity not meant to be eternal?

2013-01-18 Thread Simeon Kohlman Rabbani
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Dear David, You must not know many interracial couples! For the record, intermarrying doesn't make everyone look the same, because genes simply don't work that way. If I shuffle a red and blue deck of cards together, I won't get a deck of purple cards. Instead of

Re: One form of Unity in Diversity not meant to be eternal?

2013-01-18 Thread Hasan Elías
The Baha'i Studies Listserv am I to believe that Baha'u'llah hoped that a sizable portion of the population would avoid intermarriage so that we could continue to have diversity? `Abdu'l-Bahá said: Variations of colour, of land and of race are of no importance in the Bahá’í Faith; on the

Re: One form of Unity in Diversity not meant to be eternal?

2013-01-18 Thread Don Calkins
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Yes, but the extremes, as a percentage of the population, are and will continue to decline. Eventually, they will nearly completely disappear, tho' prob not completely as recessives will be maintained and pop up every so often. I have been told that that the

Re: One form of Unity in Diversity not meant to be eternal?

2013-01-18 Thread Don Calkins
The Baha'i Studies Listserv I've also been told that Nordic white will be the first color to disappear. Don C On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:24 53AM, Don Calkins wrote: I have been told that that the populations with the longest history of inter-marriage are in the Pacific, and that their coloration

Re: One form of Unity in Diversity not meant to be eternal?

2013-01-18 Thread Susan Maneck
The Baha'i Studies Listserv or am I to believe that Baha'u'llah hoped that a sizable portion of the population would avoid intermarriage so that we could continue to have diversity? First off, why would anyone need to 'avoid' intermarriage? It is human nature to marry someone who looks like

Re: Buddhism

2013-01-18 Thread Stephen Kent Gray
The Baha'i Studies Listserv A problem arise, because Buddha is referenced also in the Hindu Puranas as an avatar of Vishnu , so that could be a source of confusion. Sent from my iPad On Jan 12, 2013, at 6:33 PM, David Regal david.re...@yahoo.com wrote: The Baha'i Studies Listserv The