The Baha'i Studies Listserv RE: Steven Greer: To state the obvious:The Internet is full of liars, cheats, schemes, and cultists. A few people are even telling the truth occasionally. ;-) Whether a person is an enrolled Baha'i or not certainly is not (to me) even a main criterion of whether to believe him/her, unless s/he happens to be referring to the Baha'i Faith as the principal topic and provides in context references, and other such criteria. The rest is just humans talking. If the consensus of the scientific community doesn't believe a person re: some assertion about the material world, then I tend to be very skeptical. That doesn't mean it's automatically wrong, of course, but the burden of proof is on the one making such assertions, and the reader/listener needs to understand what proof means. I often recommend Skeptic Magazine or JREF as sources that will actually follow up on claims and pursue the "evidence."
My own brief research on Greer indicates he is an osteopath professionally and has no experience or training in the fields he makes claims about, whether it is mind-control by aliens or secret military operations or vast shadow government conspiracies. IMO, he sounds like he has become either a con man or mentally disturbed in some manner. But everyone may take it as they choose. Jeanine H. On 6/21/2013 12:15 PM, Hasan Elías wrote: > > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > I never looked for his religious background, never imagine he was > related to the Bahá'í Faith in any sense. > > The main questions here are: Is he lying or not? Did he find > conclusive evidence about aliens visiting earth or not? > > I saw a video where he call people to contact UFO through meditation, > that was awkward > > So now for me Steven Greer = a dubious guy > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *De:* Susan Maneck <sman...@gmail.com> > *Para:* Baha'i Studies <bahai-st@list.jccc.edu> > *Enviado:* Viernes, 21 de junio, 2013 11:14 A.M. > *Asunto:* Re: Steven Greer > > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > I doubt he is a bahá'í, if he is I'd be positively impressed that he > was not > > removed from the rolls because of his political activities. > > I believe Mark checked and found he was still enrolled. > > > > > If he is a bahá'í I'd be also surpraised that the media and the world of > > ufology didn't link the name of the Faith with his activities. > > I don't know that the media pays much attention to him, but the world > of ufology is very much aware he is a Baha'i and is suspicious of him > because of that. > > I never saw > > any information from him saying that he is a bahá'í or answering a > question > > in that sense. > > I have. > > > > He *seems* a nice guy, and if he is looking for the truth as bahá'ís > should > > be, then probably aliens have more role than we imagine. > > He's not all that nice. As I understand it he has threatened people > with violence. > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:hasanel...@yahoo.com > <mailto:hasanel...@yahoo.com> > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to > mailto:leave-707299-161001.00090f632276bca6fdce1d55fcb23...@list.jccc.edu > <mailto:leave-707299-161001.00090f632276bca6fdce1d55fcb23...@list.jccc.edu> > Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to > ly...@list.jccc.edu <mailto: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 <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-707341-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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
