The Baha'i Studies Listserv Does the method of consultation intrinsically involve scripture? Or just Baha'i consultation?
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-698456-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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
