Prayer for newborn - authorized or provisional translation?

2008-01-19 Thread Larry Marquardt
Dear Friends, Is the prayer below an authorized or provisional translation? Does anyone have a reference for the source of this prayer? I could not find it in Ocean. Thank you, Larry O Varqa' Thou shouldst recite three times in his right ear; " I have come by God's command, have been made man

Re: Zoroastrianism and Cremation...

2008-01-19 Thread firestorm
susan, ;"but many of the burial practices called for in the Aqdas would mitigate against the body returning to its natural elements." not so much. they would inhibit the uptake of the mineral/bacterial into the environment, but mammalian bodies do a pretty good job of returning to chemical soup

Re: Crucifixion of Jesus Christ

2008-01-19 Thread firestorm
sir, my very sincere apoliogies, and a sincere assurance that there is no patronisation, no deamning, no anything other than respect for ur pov in paying attentiuon to the fact that ur cv seems to have a math flavour. :"I really think you should let the other participants of the thread speak

Re: Crucifixion of Jesus Christ

2008-01-19 Thread firestorm
well..no. there is a 1 in 10^6 chance that a >>>female<<< mule may have been passed on sufficient genetic matieral to be able to reproduce. http://www.lovelongears.com/faq beyond that what is a jack, in re equines? http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=jack http://muleschool.com/_wsn/page8

Re: Zoroastrianism and Cremation...

2008-01-19 Thread Susan Maneck
> Zoroastrianism had a tradition of cremating the dead. I have heard that this > is something the Zoroastrian scriptures themselves mandate. Assuming that is > true for argument's sake, then it is not to be considered an "added" ritual > which can be blamed on corruption of the faith, etc.< Tr

re: Zoroastrianism and Cremation...

2008-01-19 Thread swords-a-flashin'
"it seems that 'Abdu'l-Baha isn't using that type of language in regards to creation..." The "creation" should be cremation. Sorry The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto ("e-mail") is sent by the Johnson County Community College ("JCCC") and is intended to be

Zoroastrianism and Cremation...

2008-01-19 Thread swords-a-flashin'
This was inspired by the other thread about cremation, but only because of the topic of cremation and not relating to animals. Zoroastrianism had a tradition of cremating the dead. I have heard that this is something the Zoroastrian scriptures themselves mandate. Assuming that is true for argum

re: Is cremation for animals allowed?

2008-01-19 Thread swords-a-flashin'
It looks straight forward according to me. Since 'Abdu'l-Baha was not using the "man has a soul but other beings don't" type of argument as for the reasons why, but rather using a physical reason; then I would think it would apply to all physical beings. This inspired me to start another thread