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Sent from my iPad On Apr 30, 2013, at 20:49, Stephen Kent Gray <skg_z...@yahoo.com> wrote: > To copy and paste from a prior email. > > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > 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, > which means I left without dis enrolling, so I still keep getting Baha'i > emails and mail. I did discover Unitarian Universalism, Humanism, and > Buddhism over the time afterwards. I also do study Adi Dam, Ahmadiyya, > Foundation International, I Kuan Tao aka Yi Guan Dao, Mission of Maitreya - > Eternal Divine Path, Neo Gnosticism, Raëlism, and Scientology as well > regularly. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Apr 18, 2013, at 14:00, Gary Selchert <ebedeyn...@aol.com> wrote: > >> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >> ...And yet you so often bless us with your comments. Why are we so blessed? >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Stephen Kent Gray <skg_z...@yahoo.com> >> To: Baha'i Studies <bahai-st@list.jccc.edu> >> Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 11:12 am >> Subject: Re: Against nature... >> >> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >> Actually I only believe in Unitarian Universalism, Mahayana Nichiren >> Buddhism, Religious Humanism, as my survey results if asked by a survey. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Apr 18, 2013, at 13:04, Mike Moum <mike.m...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >>> You seem to study everything and commit to nothing. This can be a path to >>> insanity. I hope that is not your fate. >>> On 04/18/2013 11:37 AM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote: >>>> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >>>> 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 Faith, Cao Dai, Cheondogyo, Tenrikyo, Wicca, Sekai Kyuseikyo, >>>> Seicho- No-Ie, Rastafari Movement or Rastafarianism, Unitarian >>>> Universalism, Scientology, Eckankar, Raëlian Movement or Raëlism, >>>> Neo-Druidry or Neo-Druidism, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Thelema, various >>>> Japanese Shinshukyo, Discordianism, various UFO religions, Relgious >>>> Humanism, Religious Existentialism, Ayyavazhi, Mormonism, New Thought, New >>>> Age Movement, Contemporary Modern Neo Paganism, New Group of World Severs, >>>> Arcane School, I AM Activity, The Bridge to Freedom, Church Universal and >>>> Triumphant, The Summit Lighthouse, Share International, Agni Yoga, Liberal >>>> Catholic Church, The Temple of the Presence, The Hearts Center, I AM >>>> University, White Eagle Lodge, Adi Dam, Sahaja Yoga, Neo-Gnosticism, >>>> Unarius Academy of Science, Konkokyo, Oomotokyo, Kafuku no Kagaku, various >>>> Nichiren Buddhism lay movements, and many other New Religious Movements >>>> are good examples to use. >>> < remainder deleted > > > Sent from my iPad > > On Apr 29, 2013, at 17:43, Hasan Elías <hasanel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >> Stephen, >> >> Are you a bahá'í? >> >> Hasan >> >> De: Stephen Kent Gray <skg_z...@yahoo.com> >> Para: Baha'i Studies <bahai-st@list.jccc.edu> >> Enviado: Lunes, 29 de abril, 2013 1:13 P.M. >> Asunto: Re: Against nature... >> >> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >> Hasan, any list of religions and spiritual traditions will show the almost >> infinite number of Faiths, Communities, Revelations, etc. that exist and are >> extant, not to mention extinct and reconstructed ones. >> >> Also, in the topic on post conventional morality, the topic was more on the >> variety of new religious movements and their impacts on morality in society. >> >> Hasan, you seem to hold that religions and spiritual traditions are all >> intrinsically higher than philosophies and thoughts. I have no opinion on >> the matter, but am familiar with various religions like Raëlism, >> Scientology, Neo Gnosticism, Adi Dam, Ahmadiyya aka Qadianism, Happy Science >> aka Kofuku no Kagaku, Sahaja Yoga, Rastafarianism, etc. I'm not that >> interested in them, but I know about them is the point. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_new_religious_movements >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Neopagan_movements >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism_(contemporary) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFO_religions >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_religion >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Buddha_claimants >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_avatar_claimants >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalki >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiah_claimants >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messiah_claimants >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_claimed_to_be_Jesus >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mahdi_claimants >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Apr 27, 2013, at 15:32, Hasan Elías <hasanel...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >>> Hi, >>> >>> I read few messages of Stephen Gray, I think he trusts so much on >>> philosophers and thinkers. I think Kohlberg and others are nothing and just >>> vanishes when compared to Bahá'u'lláh's Revelation. >>> >>> The Guardian wrote: >>> "Firmness in the Covenant is their Fortress, their greatest protection, and >>> new Bahá'ís should be taught this before they are admitted into the >>> Community. In this way they will be given the spiritual strenght to >>> overcome the tests which are inevitable, and which strenghten the growth of >>> the Community and drive its roots deeper in the soil of faith". >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Hasan >>> De: Stephen Kent Gray <skg_z...@yahoo.com> >>> Para: Baha'i Studies <bahai-st@list.jccc.edu> >>> Enviado: Miércoles, 24 de abril, 2013 8:10 P. >>> Asunto: Re: Against nature... >>> >>> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >>> Don C, read Eight Ways to Run the Country by Brian Patrick Mitchell. From, >>> this you sound like a populist which means nothing other than you side with >>> people, but is meaningless ideology wise. >>> >>> You rejection of progressivism and its ideals, tell me you aren't anti >>> archy and aren't pro kratos. This excludes you from being other anti archy >>> ideologies like radicalism and indivudalism. This also excludes you from >>> being other pro kratos ideologies like communitarianism and >>> neoconservatism. What's left? Paleolibertarianism? Paleoconservatism? >>> Theoconservatism? Populism? >>> >>> Read the book and review what you think of each and every chapter! >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On Apr 22, 2013, at 14:21, Don Calkins <don59...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >>>> i consider myself an independent centrist. I don't fit neatly into any >>>> category. I am generally moderate, but have no compunction about adapting >>>> workable ideas from a variety of perspectives. What is most important, as >>>> Baha'u'llah has indicated, are the principles. >>>> >>>> "Think not that I have revealed a mere code of laws . . . . ." >>>> >>>> Don C >>>> >>>> On Apr 20, 2013, at 5:20 09PM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote: >>>> >>>>> Don, which one of the eight ways are you? I'm Individualist, anti both ie >>>>> archy and kratos. You are pro archy, anti kratos or Paleoconservative. >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------ >>>> He who believes himself spiritual proves he is not. >> >> __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-700231-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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
