Re: 60's protests

2005-08-22 Thread Gilberto Simpson
On 8/22/05, Don Calkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 11:04 -0400 8/22/05, Gilberto Simpson wrote:>  Gilberto: So the question I had is what your take on the Sixties is? >Didn't the Vietnam War> end, at least in part, due to the protests of the anti-war movement?So you think it was approp

RE: Baha'is in Nazi Germany

2005-08-22 Thread James Mock
"he beholdeth justice in injustice, and in justice, grace." Seven Valleys, p. 12 "That God-born Force, irresistible in its sweeping power, incalculable in its potency, unpredictable in its course, mysterious in its workingssuch a Force, acting even as

RE: Baha'is in Nazi Germany

2005-08-22 Thread Mark Foster
Susan, Unless the UN took over the operation, and the U.S. and all the countries which were involved in the Iraq War bowed out. Mark A. Foster, Ph.D. * Prof. of Sociology * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas 913-469-8500 x3376 * Fax 913-469-2589 * VOIP 347-

Mr. Sears statement

2005-08-22 Thread Don Calkins
At 11:58 -0500 8/22/05, Brill de Ramirez, Susan wrote: > > >When I attended the large Baha i conference held in St. Louis back in the >1970 s, I remember one of the speakers (perhaps Board Member Elizabeth >Martin?) saying that when she had asked Hand of the Cause Bill Sears >whether the Baha is

60's protests

2005-08-22 Thread Don Calkins
At 11:04 -0400 8/22/05, Gilberto Simpson wrote: > Gilberto: So the question I had is what your take on the Sixties is? >Didn't the Vietnam War > end, at least in part, due to the protests of the anti-war movement? So you think it was appropriate for the U.S. to cut bait and run allowing for

Civil Rights, Protest, Iraq, etc.... Re: Baha'is in Nazi Germany

2005-08-22 Thread Gilberto Simpson
On 8/22/05, Susan Maneck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: " So the question I had is what your take on the Sixties is? Didn't theVietnam War end, at least in part, due to the protests of the anti-war movement? Didn't legal segregation in the United States end due to the CivilRights movement? Aren'

RE: Baha'is in Nazi Germany

2005-08-22 Thread Susan Maneck
" So the question I had is what your take on the Sixties is? Didn't the Vietnam War end, at least in part, due to the protests of the anti-war movement? Didn't legal segregation in the United States end due to the Civil Rights movement? Aren't those worthwhile changes?" Dear Gilberto, I would agr

RE: Baha'is in Nazi Germany

2005-08-22 Thread Brill de Ramirez, Susan
When I attended the large Baha’i conference held in St. Louis back in the 1970’s, I remember one of the speakers (perhaps Board Member Elizabeth Martin?) saying that when she had asked Hand of the Cause Bill Sears whether the Baha’is could be involved in the civil rights movement, he said

Re: Baha'is in Nazi Germany

2005-08-22 Thread Gilberto Simpson
  Dear Brent,   Thanks for sharing your experiences. It was an interesting story. But some of your comments raised certain questions with me and made me curious about how you understood certain things.  On 8/22/05, Brent Poirier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I tried the pacifist and antiwar appr

RE: Baha'is in Nazi Germany

2005-08-22 Thread David Lambert
Brent wrote: The only way I know to respond, to perhaps be of service in your search for answers, is to share my own personal experience. Brent, thank you so much for taking the time to write this. Ironically, while not providing anything I didn't already know, you did provide exactly the kind

Re: Baha'is in Nazi Germany

2005-08-22 Thread ask
On Monday, 22nd August 2005 at 07:39:27 (GMT), which was 9:39 a.m. in Bratislava, Slovakia, Brent Poirier wrote in his 15380 bytes heavy post: > This message is already way too long. What a post! Of epic Tolstoyan proportions indeed. As a fellow Tolstoy fan, I found that thoroughly enjoyable. >

re: Baha'is in Nazi Germany

2005-08-22 Thread Brent Poirier
(David, this is for you, I trust you will read it and weigh it carefully. -- Brent) Comments on the Subject of Politics 7 July 1976 To an individual Bah' Dear Bah' friend, 173.1 The Universal House of Justice received your letter of 15 May conveying your thoughts on the need for Bah's to be

RE: Baha'is in Nazi Germany

2005-08-22 Thread Brent Poirier
The only way I know to respond, to perhaps be of service in your search for answers, is to share my own personal experience. In 1968 during the Vietnam War, I was a Catholic, and after reading Tolstoy's letters to Christian soldiers, based on his interpretation of the Gospel, became a committed