The Baha'i Studies Listserv 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 together and consult with each other and the result will be that people will naturally never do anything forbidden in the Aqdas even without the knowledge of the Aqdas.
Consultation would be impossible if it required all participants had to have extensive knowledge of all religious texts ever. Also, all actions would be impossible because of the possibility of being forbidden in some religious text. How are people supposed to use consultation as a model without superimposing Baha'i religious texts on non-Baha'is? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_text Sent from my iPad On Apr 18, 2013, at 12:53, Susan Maneck <sman...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > Things >> like adoption and marriage are private contracts and the government has no >> reason to interfere is the standard Libertarian Right argument. > > I would largely agree with that except that in the case of adoption > the 'contract' involves a party unable to speak up for themselves, > namely the child. > > Also, what I've read from various blogs like >> Karen Bacquet's blogs and various other is that the ideal of Baha'i >> Administration and the reality of Baha'i Administration are two separate >> things. Actually the stories I've read of Baha'i Administration in action >> rivals North Korea, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and other such places in >> terms of totalitarianism. > > If you use disgruntled ex-Baha'is as your source of information that > is what you are going to hear. However, if you had actually interacted > with the Baha'i community in real life rather than just on the > internet I think you would have found out differently. >> >> Interesting side note, what if consultation resulted in the people involved >> accepting anything forbidden by the Kitab-I-Aqdas? > > Consultation does not trump the Word of God. If it did, there would be > no need for revelation. > >> Also, I find your description of Administrators to be not consistent with >> the facts of how Administrators actually behave. > > And you know what about this from personal experience. Nothing. > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:skg_z...@yahoo.com > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to > mailto:leave-697861-1719008.2a3842ae5b2f7d34dd5fdfc724616...@list.jccc.edu > Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu > Or subscribe: > http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st > Baha'i Studies is available through the following: > Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st > News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st > Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-697869-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
