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November 20: Day of the Empty Throne. The anniversary of the day, in 1957, on
which leaders of the Bahai religion voted to declare the office of Guardianship
permanently vacant following the sudden death of Shoghi Effendi without leaving
a
of the
Guardianship as a 'throne.'
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Yeah, it's November 20!
November 20: Day of the Empty Throne. The anniversary of the day, in 1957,
on which leaders of the Bahai religion voted to declare
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_rejection_of_politics
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/08/22/159588275/are-independents-just-partisans-in-disguise
Saidri is an example of while Bahais are supposedly independent, but generally
have a a leftist or
for. In fact, the number of Democrats that I find acceptable
has also declined significantly. More and more, I find myself voting not for
the best candidate, but for the least objectionable candidate.
Don C
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Oh, I was 10, -7 last time, but usually am 10, -10 or somewhere between those
two points.
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Technically, doesn't that make you closest to the Green Party?
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Independent does have
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I scored exactly where the Dalai Lama stands. ;-}
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The NPR article supposes
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As an LR, I voted for Gary Johnson over Mitt Romney, easy cause Indiana isn't
that much of a competitive state!
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LL scores people have said they tend
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Actually, what I've read and heard is that if any small party is going to wag
the dog in the future in Germany, it's the Pirate Party. It's rising in the
polls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Parties_International
slash CSU!
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Actually, what I've read and heard is that if any small party is going to wag
the dog in the future in Germany, it's the Pirate Party. It's rising in the
polls.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya
Maitreya will be the fifth Buddha of the present kalpa[clarification needed]
(aeon) and his arrival will occur after the teachings (dharma) of the Buddha
are no longer practiced.
His coming is characterized by a number of
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dua
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah
This is a spontaneous continuation of the does God really intervene in the
world to answer prayer previous topic.
More links are needed.
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Updated with more information.
http://www.sectsofbahais.com/aqdasis.html
http://www.sectsofbahais.com/qurratis.html
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the author thinks it's funny when people rise to the bait. I find most of it
so juvenile as to not deserve a response.
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Susan, Shaykhis in Iraq do have their own political party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gathering_of_Justice_and_Unity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basra_governorate_election,_2009
While it may be true in Iran, that they're barred from govt office. It's not so
in
are banned from government offices
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Susan, Shaykhis in Iraq do have their own political party.
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Don, there are the Bayanic and the Primal Point websites, domains being dot com
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Qurratis and Ayanis are the same group, people who believe Tahirih was the
successor of either Kazim Rashti of the Shayhis or the Bab of the Bayaniis.
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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.
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Not the best subject title, but the least worst rather.
http://arationalfaith.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/bahai-feminism-women-and-the-universal-house-of-justice/
That's the link to my correspondence with A Rational Faith blog.
It's real complicated to summarize the
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Not the best subject title, but the least worst
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_feminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonial_feminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_feminism
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I should have added some more
in a detailed critique of postmodernism in regards to
the Faith, see my Postmodernism and the Baha'i Writings in Lights of
Irfan, Vol. 9, 2008 or at
http://www.bahaiphilosophystudies.com/articles/?p=24
Bst wishes,
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I should have added some more
and the Baha'i Writings in Lights of
Irfan, Vol. 9, 2008 or at
http://www.bahaiphilosophystudies.com/articles/?p=24
Bst wishes,
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to be rational or consistent because politics is about persuasion
- not truth - and about power, not integrity.
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Manifestations have a penchant for using the words I, me, my, mine, we, us,
our, ours, and other such pronouns.
Three possible interpretations are possible from the above.
1. The Manifestation means is referring to God.
2. The Manifestation is referring to the
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Technically, it depends on the use of pronoun tense (1, 2, or 3).
He makes lots of use of vague pronouns which leaves a window of interpretation.
Baha'i bloggers use sense 3 a lot like I've noted earlier.
In reference to Baha'u'llah, a blogger (I forget which
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Those were the only instances I could remember at the time, but this is about
all instances of pronouns being interpreted in any given sense.
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In the link
of the success of
the Bahá'í World Order.
Hasan
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Enviado: Domingo, 10 de febrero, 2013 4:36 P.M.
Asunto: Re: First Person Grammar
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Technically, it depends on the use of pronoun
not be rejected without consequence.
I have heard that there is a passage in Persian that can be interpreted to
mean that only during the day of the second Manifestation after Baha'u'llah
will there be no excuse for not believing.
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Yes, I know that. Have any authoritative interpretations on this been
translated into English?
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Those were the only instances I could remember at the
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These prophecies usage of vague wording doesn't specify conversion to the
Baha'i Faith. Belief in it's truth may increase, but that may result from an
increase in inclusivism/pluralism, people who believe that religion other than
their own are true as well as their
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Are virtue and vice defined according to Plato or Aristotle? Plato had a binary
view where virtue and vice were opposing traits. Aristotle by contrast had a
tertiary view where virtue was the golden mean between two vices.
Christianity took a Platonic definition of
with the sacred vagueness
which underlies all teachings of the fundamental oneness of religion when
confronted with the messy details of religion in the physical world which you
have presented.
Gary
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Moderation in virtue and being excessively virtuous sound like contradictions,
paradoxes, or oxymorons. Virtues are supposed to be unqualified goods. What
does it mean to be too temperate? too chaste? to generous? too patient? too
diligent? too humble? too kind? too
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I've heard/read that according to tradition, the Book of Abraham is the Sefer
Yetzirah. Sometimes, the Testament of Abraham is identified instead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_of_Abraham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefer_Yetzirah
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Also, there are three Books of Enoch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Book_of_Enoch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Enoch
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophets_in_Islam
25 Prophets in the Quran
8 Prophets in the Qisas al-Anibya and various Hadith
8 more potential Prophets mentioned in the Quran
1 other potential Prophet menitoned in the Quran
Wikipedia lists who is under what category.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_first_written_accounts
When did he live anyway and what language did he speak? Given the fact that
Adam is believed to have lived
around 3761 BCE or 3616 BCE or somewhere within that time frame it's likely he
lived
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What increase the chances of people converting to any religion? I looked it up
on Wikipedia, this is how religion spreads.
Open air preaching (preaching out in public, in the open air)
Trickle down notoriety (famous/powerful people being an adherent)
Door to door
/Nontheism
Confucianism
Paganism/Neopaganism
Zoroastrianism
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What increase the chances of people converting to any religion? I looked it
up on Wikipedia, this is how religion spreads
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Moderation in virtue and being excessively virtuous sound like
contradictions,
paradoxes, or oxymorons
Existentialism
Baha'i Faith
Objectivism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_virtues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_virtues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_of_mercy
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In Islam, Sufism, and the Baha'i Faith, these terms are used. Seven different
types of self are enumerated by tradition.
Nafs-i-ammara (Inciting self)
Nafs-i-lawwama (Self-accusing self)
Nafs-i-mulhama (Inspired self)
Nafs-i-mutma'inna (Peaceful self)
Nafs-i-radiyya
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Politics_(book)
I was on Wikipedia. It somehow led to the article above by either clicking
random page or click articles links.
Morality, justice, child development mean different things to different people
in the quotes below.
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I was on Thelemapedia one day and found some good articles.
I remember a Baha'i blog about a Baha'i who had alot of atheist friends. The
blog was inconclusive, it said religion had potential for good and evil.
Modern reasons for adherence to religion
Typical reasons
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_antecessor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_heidelbergensis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_rhodesiensis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal
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Don't you mean biopsychosocial? Biology, psychology, and sociology are
intertwined in various disciplines.
Don C, social conservatives say that all the time despite evidence
contradicting that. Any scientific evidence behind your theories?
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to be a very small percentage of people who are
exclusively heterosexual or homosexual, who are incapable of orgasm in any
other way. My personal guess is that each of these two categories prob
constitute on the order of 1:1000.
Don C
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_on_same-sex_marriage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT-affirming_religious_groups
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT-affirming_denominations_in_Judaism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT-affirming_Christian_denominations
?
A Liberal Hindu society?
A Liberal Mahayana Buddhist society?
A Liberal Muslim society?
A Liberal Jewish society?
A Liberal Christian society?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT-affirming_religious_groups
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_religion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
I forgot to add the above links.
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Susan, have you read the earlier e-mail in this thread. Don C thinks society
should have a zero tolerance policy towards non-heterosexuality. No marriage,
no civil unions, no domestic partnership, no adoption, no parental rights, etc.
He was complaining society gives
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Many cultures attempt to codify their prescriptions concerning individual
sexual behaviors. Such codifications are frequently enacted as laws, extending
their application beyond the culture to other cultures under the purview of the
laws, including dissenters.
Most
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Interesting, I'm a member of the Libertarian Right myself. Classical
liberalism, Libertarianism, Minarchism, Anarcho-Capitalism, Laissez-faire,
etc.
Sounds like the concept of Aeons
of
various dis enrolled and ex Baha'is will know how Administrators actually work.
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Interesting, I'm a member of the Libertarian Right myself. Classical
liberalism
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Susan,
I think only Indonesia is such a Muslim state. All other Muslim states impose
Islamic law on all people there, regardless of their actual religious beliefs.
India is another state that has religious law that varies depending upon the
religion of the person.
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Also, yes. Don C, I have noticed the Left has been authoritarian and the
Right libertarian.
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I really should study the implications of this. New religious movements,
religions founded in the eighteenth century or later, and their relationship
to post conventional morality.
Baha'i
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I remember talking about these concepts earlier. Post conventional morality is
based on a social contract and universal ethical principles without regards to
specific terms on which they need to be based upon. Conventional morality is
based on authority and
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_ethics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_ethics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_(Scientology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiccan_morality
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I remember
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Susan, how would consultation work in the overall world rather than just in the
Baha'i community? You seem to forget about all the non-Baha'i religious texts
out there. You also seem to think that any group of people with any types of
religious beliefs can get
believe that Baha'u'llah has given us God's most recent
revelation.
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The articles show the relationship between religion and morality and ethics.
Why should non- Bahai's take Baha'i morality and ethics over all else
to study everything and commit to nothing. This can be a path to
insanity. I hope that is not your fate.
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I really should study the implications of this. New religious movements,
religions founded in the eighteenth
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Because Baha'is believe that Baha'u'llah has given us God's most recent
revelation.
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The articles show the relationship between religion and morality
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That really doesn't answer the question. Non-Baha'is won't just accept that
statement as factual because Baha'is believe it. A lot of Baha'is have
magical thinking that somehow non-Baha'is will naturally
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How would consultation work now for setting public policy?
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Would non-Bahais be bound by Baha'i laws or not?
Dear Stephen,
I don't think we can say
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...And yet you so often bless us with your comments. Why are we so blessed?
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I generously bless people. It's what I do. Also, I'm trained in logic and can
notify people when they're using fallacies. Also, I'm an ex non dis enrolled
Baha'i who left because of the logical inconsistencies
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How come this topic is ignored in favor or Against nature?
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I forgot to include specific religious ethics. Note, Scientology and Wicca
are good
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Hmmm...Logic is also not on our list of world religions. Have you ever been
diagnosed with OCD?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder
It's a treatable disorder.
GS
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How should people use consultation to arrive at public policy?
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Susan, how would consultation work in the overall world rather than just
not on our list of world religions. Have you ever been
diagnosed with OCD?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder
It's a treatable disorder.
GS
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Here below is a Wikipedia excerpt.
Note Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan, Brunei, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
Yemen, etc. are listed as completely illegal alcohol status rather than just
Saudi Arabia like you imply.
Also note Iran and Pakistan are listed as almost
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It's cause we live in a post conventional age unlike the conventional age of
Adam as referenced earlier in Against Nature. This age isn't about
materialistic and paternalistic people treating people as if they were sheep.
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to enforce on their members.
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It's cause we live in a post conventional age unlike the conventional age of
Adam as referenced earlier in Against Nature. This age isn't about
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So basically from all the info we live in the Age of the New Religious Movement!
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To quote Don C,
According to Baha'u'llah, this is not merely
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It also listed various countries with legal drinking ages and the side note
illegal for Muslims.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_drug_use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age
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So basically from all the info we live in the Age of the New Religious
Movement!
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To quote Don C,
According
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According to some blogs I've read...
http://bahaisects.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/bahai-leadership-may-spy-on-you/
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Stephen:
Actually the stories I've
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South Sudan is its own country now.
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Note Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan, Brunei, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
Yemen, etc. are listed as completely
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I think conventions can hinder moral and ethical development.
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How come this topic is ignored in favor or Against nature?
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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.
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How should
have to actually drink the alcohol once you get
it, but you need to see which one of us is correct.
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Here below is a Wikipedia excerpt.
Note Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan, Brunei
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I like the Golden Rule as the beginning, the middle, and the end of all ethics
and of all morality.
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I remember talking about these concepts earlier
.
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The articles show the relationship between religion and morality and ethics.
Why should non- Bahai's take Baha'i morality and ethics over all else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_and_religion
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On Apr 18, 2013, at 12:53, Stephen Kent Gray skg_z...@yahoo.com wrote:
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I forgot to include specific religious ethics. Note, Scientology and Wicca
are good examples of the hypothesis. The Baha'i Faith and Religious
Humanism are good examples as well
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I've studied Antinomianism is various religions. It's a good example of post
conventional religious tendencies. Pashupata Shaivism is one example that comes
to mind.
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On Apr 18, 2013, at 15:39, Stephen Kent Gray skg_z...@yahoo.com wrote
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I don't really care for officially dis enrolling. It seems like a lot of hard
work.
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On Apr 18, 2013, at 14:08, Stephen Kent Gray skg_z...@yahoo.com wrote:
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I generously bless people. It's what I do. Also, I'm trained
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I'm referring to beliefs not practices.
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On Apr 18, 2013, at 15:51, Ian Kluge iankl...@netbistro.com wrote:
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Stephen:
Actually the stories I've read of Baha'i Administration in action
rivals North Korea, Soviet Union,
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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 skg_z...@yahoo.com wrote:
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Opps, needed to correct one of the links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenderism_and_religion
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Why do they call it midnight if its really early morning?
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On Apr 18, 2013, at 16:01, Stephen Kent Gray skg_z...@yahoo.com wrote:
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According to some blogs I've read...
http://bahaisects.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/bahai
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I wholeheartedly agree with Humanist praise for the Golden Rule. Authoritarian
dogmatic attachment to a conventional code of laws and rules will cause people
to lose sight of the Golden Rule.
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of Eris began in 1958. It's the same but on steroids.
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On Apr 17, 2013, at 16:01, Stephen Kent Gray skg_z...@yahoo.com wrote:
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Interesting, I'm a member of the Libertarian Right myself. Classical
liberalism, Libertarianism, Minarchism, Anarcho
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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 skg_z...@yahoo.com wrote:
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That reminds me that while I'm fiscally responsible, I'm socially tolerant.
I'm currently religious Humanist
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Susan, why do Baha'is need to be ignorant of all ethics and all morality that
isn't the Baha'i Faith?
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On Apr 18, 2013, at 15:16, Susan Maneck sman...@gmail.com wrote:
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I remember talking about these concepts earlier.
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Do you have or any else here have expertise in biology, psychology, and
sociology?
Also, what idiot can't spell psychological?
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On Apr 8, 2013, at 13:43, Hasan Elías hasanel...@yahoo.com wrote:
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Hi David,
I wonder
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