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David Friedman wrote:
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Here's part of an article from Baha'i Library about whether the Guardianship is
anticipated in the Aqdas:
Although there is no explicit reference to the Guardianship in the "Kitab-i-Aqda
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God Passes By written in 1940. Published 1945
David Friedman wrote:
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Here's part of an article from Baha'i Library about whether the Guardianship is
anticipated in the Aqdas:
Although there is no explicit reference to the Guardianship
lieve with certitude in His signs. These two
groups sail upon two seas: the sea of affirmation and the sea
of negation.
(The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab, p. 146)
Heaven and Hell are references to those with the ability to
affirm or reject the Manifestation of God.
Regards,
Alber
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The question is 'would anyone write on behalf of the Guardian
without him approving it'. I don't think so. Thus it is a mute
point who wrote it.
Regards,
Albert Verbrugh
Don Calkins wrote:
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In the compilation
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I Have no answer to your question.
Why does it matter who wrote what if his seal is on the
message so to speak?
Best regards,
Albert Verbrugh
'Not everything that a man knoweth can be disclose
Tim Nolan wrote:
Have you looked in Portals to Freedom?
Tim
Portals to freedom is in Ocean
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Thank you so much Sandra, I really needed that quotation.
Regards,
Albert Verbrugh
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Albert, How do you defien "indigenous peoples"?
People whose ancestors inhabited a place or country when persons from
another culture or ethnic background arrived on the scene and dominated
them through conquest, settlement, or other means and who today live
more in conformity with
ight I suggest you sent your pennies to the present
landholder who has been maintaining it since your birth.
Regards,
Albert
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ave the satisfaction they are recognized in International Law
as having "Rights". It only took 300 years.
Ursus Maximus wrote:
I do not understand what is significant about this. Reading the
extract you quote, Albert, it says that indigenous people (which is an
undefined term, where I
ralia, New Zealand and the United States is surprising. Be as it may
the UN has enshrined in its Constitution that Indigenous peoples Rights
"are" Human rights.
Albert
"The fundamental principle of the oneness of mankind, and the aim of the
Faith to promote unity in diver
list masters t
Bahai_Community rejected the article because they could not see how it
related to the Baha'i faith.
Regards,
Albert
Richard H. Gravelly wrote:
That is an enormous step for the world to take. Congratulations! The fresh
green shoots in the garden that the earth will become are
Thu Sep 13, 10:05 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 13 (OneWorld) - Despite strong objections from the
United States and some of its allies, the UN General Assembly adopted a
resolution Thursday calling for the recognition of the world's 370
million indigenous peoples' right to self-determination and
Rich Ater wrote:
Larry Marquardt wrote:
Dear Friends,
In regards to the Short Obligatory prayer, I bear witness O my God...
Can anyone offer their understanding why the invocation 'O My God' is
written at the beginning of the Short Obligatory prayer in Arabic but
is written after 'I bear wi
David Friedman wrote:
Just wondering, are non-Baha'is allowed to be Ruhi tutors and be youth
animators?
Regards,
David
A daft question, David.
Albert
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Brent Poirier Attorney at Law wrote:
I have learned that following triple bypass surgery, Phil Lucas died
earlier today. God reward him for his services.
Brent
Oh, my God,
The memories are flooding back.
Albert.
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ture. This does not mean that the
unauthenticated talks will have to cease to be used -- merely that the
degree of authenticity of every document will have to be known and
understood. (23 March 1987)"
Memo from the Research Department quoting a letter written on behalf of
the House
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Loïc ROYER wrote:
What I understood (I read it in the "Kitab-i-Hearsay"!) is that we, bahai
people, have been deeply invited to make our own searchs and discovers about God...
Developping this knowledge takes a lot of time and energy, so we all first
believe what we learn from others, but we s
Richard H. Gravelly wrote:
*Perhaps logic is the essence. Unfortunately, logic can take one into
error.*
**
*"Therefore, it is evident that the method of reason is not perfect, for
the differences of the ancient philosophers, the want of stability and
the variations of their opinions, prove
ucceed in establishing it."
(June 1933, from a letter written by Shoghi Effendi to the High
Commissioner for Palestine)
(The Universal House of Justice,1997 Aug 13, Science and Religion, p. 2)
Here is a source you might except Prema.
Regards,
Albert
Prema wrote:
This reminds me of a joke w
o attract your minds, and cleanse your souls, and console your
eyes."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 186)
Albert
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r education, creating the UN.
A reaction to the horrors of WWII.
Our
generation has its virtues, but so do the others. Ours just fit like an
old sweater and seem more comfortable to us.
I was a teenager in the early sixties.
Albert
Brent
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One can only hope those teenagers are looking for what we were looking
for 4 decades ago. Meaning! Genuine spirituality. A sense of the
mystic. None of which is really to be found in the world our
generation has build.
Albert
Dick Detweiler wrote:
In the NY Times:
http://tinyurl.com/pn5nj
all-too-
familiar blights of century's end.
The task of freeing humanity from an error so
fundamental and pervasive will call into question
some of the twentieth century's most deeply
entrenched assumptions about right and wrong."
(Who is Writing the Future)
Shall we
Selected Letters", p. 134)
(Compilations, The Compilation of Compilations vol. I, p. 117)
This is Shoghi Effendi's interpretation ". . . while it does not by any
means justify us to assign to Him the station of Prophethood. . ." For a
Baha'i the matter largely ends h
Albert wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Albert,
If you follow Al-Jazeera you will find there is plenty of self-
criticism in the Arabic world.
warmest, Susan
References?
Regards,
Albert
And here is an other one.
http://tinyurl.com/r4xqs
Regards,
Albert
The information
Ian Kluge wrote:
RE "The Trouble With Islam Today" by Irshad Manji, recommended by Albert:
I also highly recommend this book.
Manji asks the tough, unavoidable questions that need to be dealt with both
within contemporary Islam and outside of it. Her advantage is that she is a
fa. We have shrines. Why
would Mr. Lincoln refer to the "temple"?
"Hizbullah would think it pretty neat if they destroyed our
temple," said Albert Lincoln, secretary-general of the Baha'i
International Community in Haifa, said Thursday.
http://tinyurl.com/zxgdm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Albert,
If you follow Al-Jazeera you will find there is plenty of self-
criticism in the Arabic world.
warmest, Susan
References?
Regards,
Albert
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and one this is a comprehensive statement. I would feel much more
hopeful about the immediate future of the world than the disaster
shadowing our immediate future.
Albert
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why Baha’is and Moslems on this News group did
not tackle this issue, although our Moslem friends are quick to point
out to us the superiority of Islam as a force of Justice in the world.
Albert.
"The Trouble with Islam Today is an open letter from me, a Muslim voice
of reform, to conc
Dean Betts wrote:
The Baha'is do not have a temple in Haifa. We have shrines. Why would Mr. Lincoln refer
to the "temple"?
In Israel that is how they refer to the Baha'i shrines. Mr Lincoln was
just using the language they are familiar with.
Wise man that Mr. Alb
For one to entertain the Manifestation of God to make errors must
somehow believe their knowledge supersedes Theirs. If you think that I
would be worried about about your ego.
Albert
Scott Saylors wrote:
We've gone over Hikmat before. What the Manifestations do is what God instructs
life.
Than you leave your hart in Haifa and the longing never goes away.
Regards,
Albert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Six days a week with 1 or 2 long weekends a year as I recall.
It was a big adjustment for me.
Dear Albert,
I didn't know you used to work at the World Centre.
warmest,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear David:
If you had any idea how hard the friends who serve in Haifa work,
Warm regards,
Shirley Macias
Six days a week with 1 or 2 long weekends a year as I recall.
It was a big adjustment for me.
Regards,
Albert
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mething like 40,000 years."
Sure makes me feel small.
Albert
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David Friedman wrote:
A while ago on this list I asked about the requirements for looking for a
marriage partner, since what I had seen in translated passages was slim. I
recently wrote to the House asking for further information. I was disappointed
that I didn't receive the response I was ho
said before. A believer is a lover. Not being able to recognize
the language of love is
a proof of no longer being a lover."Be thou assured in thyself that
verily, he who turns away
from this Beauty hath also turned away from the Messengers of the past
and showeth pride
towards god from all
upon them, and should anyone deviate therefrom, even to
the extent of a hair's breadth, his work would be brought to naught."
[1 cf. Qur'án 21:23.]
(Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 108)
Albert
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Albert
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if" not in evidence, and all conclusions
will be likely to be faulty.
O yea, evidence. the kind you're not supplying.
Albert
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ake a factual
mistake; and no amount of evvidence will ever change such a person's
mind.
Name a Baha'i, even one would do.
But, though such beliefs be held by those of highest rank, they are
still wrong and ultimately lead to most gievous kind asof mischief.
I think reckless, in
seeking
and not those who have claimed to have found Him. There will be a
judgement day for
all of us where we may try to answer the question what we did to further
His Cause in
the spirit of its Central Theme.
Regards,
Albert
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"It (still) is a sign of a dynamic field of inquiry."
In other words it's still in the gelatin stage.
Dear Albert,
You're missing both the point of this article and misundersanding the
very nature of mdoern science which is *always* dyna
eak of a
"standard" is a might premature, in the physical realm. So we are
talking about a whole lot of suppositions which have yet to be
scientifically proven.
Albert
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