Mike,
At 07:36 PM 5/16/2005, you wrote:
1) It is important to understand, as you have stated, that teleological
statements about evolution fall outside the domain of science; that is, they
are not scientific, but rather statements about science.
Or theological statements which deal with issues
Mark,
Perhaps I should say realist, rather than idealist. I use idealist in
the sense that Platonic ideas have a real existence somewhere outside of
the human mind.
Mike
Mark A. Foster wrote:
You are a nominalist, and I am an idealist, so we would probably understand this statement differently;
Mike,
At 04:23 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote:
Perhaps I should say realist, rather than idealist. I use idealist in the
sense that Platonic ideas have a real existence somewhere outside of the
human mind.
Yes. Well, Platonic idealism is generally regarded as a category of realism. So
is Thomism and
The following is a quote taken from a news item... Musab
al-Zarqawi: Our Sunni faith stipulates that the sword and
bullets be the only dialogue between us and the worshippers of
the cross.
Could someone, perhaps Gilberto, tell me the particular
Quranic text being referenced in this statement
http://bahai-library.com/unpubl.articles/erotic.allegory.html
I just thought this was an interesting paper given some recent
discussions in the forum. -Gilberto
Erotic Imagery In the Allegorical Writings of Baha'u'llah
by John Walbridge
In the Qur'an the blacked-eyed maidens (Arab.,
Could someone, perhaps Gilberto, tell me the particular
Quranic text being referenced in this statement?
Dear Sandra,
I presume you are pulling Gilberto's leg? As you know there are no bullets
in the Qur'an. ;-}
warmest, Susan
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On 5/17/05, Sandra Chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The following is a quote taken from a news item... Musab
al-Zarqawi: Our Sunni faith stipulates that the sword and
bullets be the only dialogue between us and the worshippers of
the cross.
Could someone, perhaps Gilberto, tell me the
Dear Gilberto,
In future for such long articles it would probably be better to provide a
URL than post the whole thing. Terry Culhane has done a lot of work on
notion of the Divine Feminine in the Baha'i Writings. He has a book out
now entitled I Beheld a Maiden.
warmest, Susan
Dear Gilberto,
No assumption on my part... I assure you. My error is asuming
that because he said Our Sunni faith... etc. the belief
would have some basis in the Quran. And, if I remember
correctly you are Sunni ... obviously a reliable source of
information.
If there is no basis for this
I guess I would take with a great deal of salt the claim of someone
like that to speak for all sunnis. (Especially since he doesn't speak
for me). I tend to view this sort of conflict through a political lens
before seeing it as a religious issue. Analogous to the Troubles of
Northern Ireland.
IMO, `Abdu'l-Baha is saying that there was always a being with a soul
(somewhere).
Mark,
I take it even further than this in that the human soul existed in the plan
of God, but was not necessarily somewhere, but sometime.
Patti
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Marleen,
At 05:53 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote:
Dear Mark, can you please provide page numbers in parentheses of SAQ related
to your statements so I can better understand what passages in SAQ support
your argument?
That will be in the revised paper. Right now, I am recovering from the academic
I was struck by these parts from the Letter of the Supreme Body to the World's Religious Leaders:
"Alas, it is clear that these [interfaith] initiatives lack both intellectual coherence and spiritual commitment. In contrast to the processes of unification that are transforming the rest of
Patti,
At 09:24 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote:
I take it even further than this in that the human soul existed in the plan
of God, but was not necessarily somewhere, but sometime.
It is also possible that He was not restricting beings with souls to this
planet, but I am just speculating.
Regards,
Gilberto wrote:
And elsewhere the Quran explicitly gives Muslims permission to eat
with Jews and Christians (which implies sociability) and even limited
inter-marriage. So the idea that the Quran asserts that the only
dialogue possible the sword and the bullet is really silly to me.
Gilberto,
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