The Baha'i Studies Listserv Jeanine wrote: 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."
I write: Hi Jeanine, you forget trolls, these are the most harmful people in the virtual world. I understand that you refer to the credibility of someone (whether he is bahá'í or not). And I think you are correct here. What about the image of the Faith? I think Dr. Steven Greer is not just a "human talking", if is a bahá'í then there are some problems. The main problem is that he is not exercising his profession so many would see him profiting with lies, and imagine if internauts spread that he has "full backing" (what did Mike mean with this?) from the UHJ, then the image of the Faith is not good looking, not to say in tatters. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-707355-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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
