Rethinking the list scope and function

2005-02-09 Thread Steve Cooney (Steve Cooney)
Im with Ahang on this one. Is it time to have a post moderated (before the fact not after the fact), post limited (say three per day) discussion group which continues to have a wide ranging "Baha'i Studies" ambit or can we metamorphose this one? How about renaming the group in a symbolic restart,

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-19 Thread Steve Cooney (Steve Cooney)
Janine and James et al, Your in danger of falling off your high horses. I never suggested any actual impropriety, what I asked for was that the Ruhi Institute materials be placed in the public digital domain, in order to avoid/mitigate any semblance of impropriety, any possibility of pecuniary adv

Re: Religion and State

2005-01-15 Thread Steve Cooney (Steve Cooney)
Firouz, Susan's earlier notes are exemplary, and I will only try and add where I can. You haven't made a compelling argument for the House of Justice being a religious institution I'm afraid. It may well be specified in a religious text/revelation but its character doesn't appear to be religious