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   NUR to All   
   The boundless intellectual dishonesty of   
   18 Jun 23 18:57:41   
   
   From: wahidazal66@gmail.com   
      
   Gomer: "NONE of those gave me what I would accept as evidence, since they are   
   ALL digital copies of pages of the Bayan in ARABIC! I can't read Arabic,   
   dammit!""    
      
   Because Gomer does not like the evidence presented to him, he simply waves his   
   hands and calls it no evidence. That he cannot access the evidence because he   
   can't read Arabic is his own problem. The evidence was presented and it is   
   there in black and    
   white. Evidence cannot be dismissed simply because a given interlocutor is   
   illiterate. The nature of the evidence does not change because Gomer cannot   
   access it. The evidence remains what it is irrespective of Gomer's illiteracy   
   and can be verified by    
   those who do read Arabic. To say otherwise is intellectual dishonesty of the   
   first order, nor does the world revolve around Gomer. QED   
      
   From Mission Problems in New Persia, 1926, p. 83, 87 and 89 quoted by William   
   McElwee Miller in The Baha'i Faith: It's History and Teachings, 1973, p. 289.   
      
   Quote   
      
   "...There is no conscience with them [ i.e. the Baha'is], they keep to no   
   principle, they tell you what is untrue, ignoring or denying undoubted   
   historical facts, and this is the character of both the leader and the   
   led...As to morality and honesty, the    
   whole system has proved disappointing...I have been in contact with many   
   Baha'is, and have had dealings with many and have tested many, and   
   unfortunately I have met not a single one who could be called honest or   
   faithful in the full sense of these words..   
   ."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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