The Baha'i Studies Listserv >few would agree that the internet functions with marvellous swiftness >everywhere.
Compared to what we had 40 years ago -U.S. Postal mail - the paper kind, .... compared to that, the internet is truly marvelously swift. It used to take a week or more to mail a letter from the U.S. to Japan. Now it takes maybe 5 minutes. Tim "The only mortal sin is giving up." --Stephen King ________________________________ From: Susan Maneck <sman...@gmail.com> To: Baha'i Studies <bahai-st@list.jccc.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:32 PM Subject: Re: Fulfilled yet? The Baha'i Studies Listserv Any tech savy young man can find its way around website bans. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:37 AM, David Regal <david.re...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > 'A mechanism of world inter-communication will be devised, embracing the > whole planet, freed from national hindrances and restrictions, and > functioning with marvellous swiftness and perfect regularity.' > > I've heard Baha'is say this prophecy has already been fulfilled by the > internet. While I'm pretty sure it refers to the internet, has it really > been entirely fulfilled yet? Freed from national hindrances? China bans a > lot of sites. North Koreans don't have much access yet. Marvellous > swiftness? I've heard a lot of complaining about broadband speeds in > various places. I think few would agree that the internet functions with > marvellous swiftness everywhere. > > David __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:tnola...@yahoo.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-736729-32977.dbe40ccd11b1fb869099e58e00076...@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-736740-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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
