Dear Susan,
Gilberto is hell bent on misrepresenting you, Khazeh, Scott, and others.
He is not going to stop doing that. It's just totally pointless to try to
reason with him because he has left his mind and reasoning power somewhere
in the 7th century on some desert.
Iskandar
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Gilberto Simpson wrote:
> [addressed to Scott]
> > "How do you define "appropriate"? I would suggest we come up with some
> > specific moral principles, a set of criteria which makes sense, and
> > which can be applied in different situations."
>
> Susan:
> > We are neither prophets nor the sons of prophets that we should presume to
> > do this.
>
> Gilberto:
> > "But you *are* presuming to talk about the teachings of at least one
> > prophet and call them barbaric, inappropriate, genocidal, out of date."
>
> Susan:
> > The only thing which is true of the above statement is that I did suggest it
> > was out of date.
>
> Gilberto:
> I'm not just addressing you. Some of your co-religionists on this
> forum have used phrases similar to each of the above.
>
> Susan:
> And I suggest that on the basis of God's new revelation.
> > And modern sensibilities seem to be largely in tune with that. The world's
> > reaction to what happened in Bosnia is a reflection of those sensibilities.
> >
> > Sorry, Gilberto. We just disagree and we are going to continue to disagree
> > about this. We can leave it there without misrepresenting what I actually
> > said.
>
> Gilberto:
> By removing the context you misrepresented what I said. To begin with
> the initial question wasn't addressed to you at all but to Scott. And
> then you inserted yourself into the conversation speaking for "We"
> Bahais. So I addressed the various comments different Bahais have made
> recently in this forum.
>
> -Gilberto
>
>
>
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