The Baha'i Studies Listserv So basically from all the info we live in the Age of the New Religious Movement!
Sent from my iPad On Apr 18, 2013, at 15:27, Stephen Kent Gray <skg_z...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > To quote Don C, > > According to Baha'u'llah, this is not merely a new Dispensation, but a new > age, the Age of Maturity. As such, what we are going thru' is the greatest > change to the functioning of human affairs since the mythic "Time of Adam", > when the Culture Hero societies replaced the Mother Goddess societies. The > Adamic Cycle can be seen as the equivalent of going thru' puberty. We are > now embarking on our maturity and it is time for us to grow up and take > responsibility for our own affairs instead of waiting for mommy and daddy > (kings/gov'ts/administrators) to tell us what to do. Rather, the new purpose > of administrators is to remind us, repeatedly and persistently if necessary, > what the proper principles should guide us. Shoghi Effendi made reference to > this idea many years ago when he told local Assemblies to quit making up > rules to enforce on their members. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Apr 18, 2013, at 15:26, Stephen Kent Gray <skg_z...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >> 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. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Apr 18, 2013, at 15:16, Susan Maneck <sman...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >>>> 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 conformity which requires a specific >>>> norm >>>> and everyone to conform to it. Pre conventional morality is based on >>>> rewards >>>> and punishments. >>> >>> Dear Stephen, >>> >>> As you have already pointed out these conceptions are all based on >>> Kohlberg's ethical stages. The question is, is why should Baha'is feel >>> constrained to fit into his categories and hierarchy? >>> >>> Susan >>> >>> __________________________________________________ >>> You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:skg_z...@yahoo.com >>> Unsubscribe: send a blank email to >>> mailto:leave-697904-1719008.2a3842ae5b2f7d34dd5fdfc724616...@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:skg_z...@yahoo.com >> Unsubscribe: send a blank email to >> mailto:leave-697911-1719008.2a3842ae5b2f7d34dd5fdfc724616...@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:skg_z...@yahoo.com > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to > mailto:leave-697913-1719008.2a3842ae5b2f7d34dd5fdfc724616...@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-697915-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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
