farhan, unfortunately because this study lacks a transparent methodology and is an online survey it is meaningless. See Barmak\'s comments for details. As a medical doctor I\'d like to imagine you have an eye for such things - but then again...

"you would believe that we need more IQ and PHDs on the UHJ."

when did I say this? Please, for one second STOP the fantasies about what you think I say and r e a d what I've actually written.

farhan, try reading what I wrote. You\'ve gone and muddied the waters again with irrelevant points - as usual. If you really are a doctor, you\'ve missed your true calling in politics. Karl Rove would cower in a corner at your skills of \'spin\'.

DCO, sorry to hear that. Yes, believe it or not people read this blog. My logs indicate quite a few visits from Haifa, Wilmette and other interesting places. What reason did the NSA cite for the removal of your rights?

farhan, I can't tell if you're talking about the Ruhi zealots like yourself that set themselves up as a quasi-clergy class within the Baha'i Faith or if you're somehow trying to smear the important work of academics. The funny thing is the 'supreme' body is guided by theologians constantly as they refer matters to the Research Department in Haifa.
Something else which is funny is that you neglect to see that Ruhi is bursting at the seams with errors of all kinds. So glaring is this that even fundamentalists like Dr. Maneck acknowledge it. And this is somehow supposed to provide 'basic theological skills'? LoL
You're comparing the rubish that is Ruhi to the years of seminary school that clergy go through? Seriously? I never thought I'd be defending the clergy!
And self appointed? Actually, academics go through a rigorous process called study at places called universities and they publish things called papers in peer review journals (instead of being appointed to head Ruhi indoctrination classes). You say you're a doctor but for some strange reason you have very little respect for education or the scientific process.
re 'power issues' - if you happened to actually, you know, read McGlinn's trenchant book on Church and State you'd discover that he meticulously showcases the awe inspiring ignorance of sitting members of the UHJ on that topic. Funny how when you expose such things you get branded a heretic. Who's the one with power issues? A dry academic toiling away in obscurity or the persons that are in constant adulation and public eye because of their membership on institutions? which has more to lose? and more to protect?
Ah yes, the 'great reversal' this is where people who have barely finished high school get to critique and censor the publication of PhD scholars works (Salmani's Memoirs) - this is called 'review'. Tell me, how would you like it if a teenager who had finished their first dissection of a frog in biology class told you how and when to perform your duties as a doctor?
And if you object, would you be having 'power issues'?

Amado, I've put a link inside your comment to the post you refer to. And regarding the search function, I had it removed but since you asked for it, I will added it back again. In the meantime, you can use google. Type in your word or words and then space and site:bahairants.com

So for example: "homosexuality part deux" site:bahairants.com

owen, If someone comments without referencing or addressing what is on the blog once? - fine. Twice? ok. Three times? still alright. But continuously? Then it is a pattern of behavior which gives away their true goal.

... and Baha'u'llah was the second gunman on the grassy knoll.

pey, book 8 was supposed to be completed in 2008 but as with all such projects it is running late. I have a work in progress copy of the translation and it seems to gloss over the more bumpy historical facts and present the Covenant in more or less the same sanitized light as you suggest.

Bit of a chicken and egg problem... what if increasing the vitality of the community\'s institutions would help the community grow not only qualitatively but quantitatively?