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- Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:53 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Registration now required for posting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14513
The code thing you mention (technically it's called a "captcha") would be a good idea, yes. But in the long run, simply deleting the spam is often easier than installing some of the counter-measures. And between Brett and I, we're checking the forum every few hours, so it's rare that spam is left on...
- Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:04 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: New volume of Baha'i sacred writings is published
- Replies: 14
- Views: 63251
Thanks for the tip! I checked http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/ and it's not online there yet. As soon as it appears somewhere, we'll post it at this site too. Let me know if you find it on the internet.
-Jonah
-Jonah
- Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:01 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: ?Young lady in distress, or even danger?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 35231
Hi, Richard. I don't recall seeing the post you mentioned. However, I have deleted a lot of spam, some of which appeared to be young women looking for romance. The key is often how many URLs were in the post -- and I don't recall deleting any post that didn't include a link to a "singles" site or so...
- Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:50 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Teaching Mormons
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17695
Unfortunately, the few published resources I've seen are unavailable. (Though there could be something newer that I haven't come across, I don't buy many books anymore.) Here's a list from http://bahai-library.org/books/rg/rg.biblio15.html#53.10 : About: Joseph Smith is not considered to be either a...
- Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:37 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: "Unrestrained As The Wind" online?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 43908
I dug out my copy, found the section you're interested in, Googled it, and luckily it's already online. From http://bahaistudies.net/masturbation.html , I just added some formatting to match the printed text. See also a thread on this topic (which includes the same quote, unformatted) at http://baha...
- Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:21 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Have you seen this? Kalimat Press petition
- Replies: 24
- Views: 48904
<b>Note from moderator:</b> I am aware of the recent tone of this discussion, and I have been in contact with all parties privately. I felt that Dean and Steve are each entitled to express their feelings, and I'll leave their postings up. Now that they each have, I request that any further discussio...
- Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:17 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: What does Baha'i say about Christ as the only way to God?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 59076
The best article on this topic is Seena Fazel and Khazeh Fananapazir's "A Bahá'í Approach to the Claim of Exclusivity and Uniqueness in Christianity," in <i>The Journal of Bahá'í Studies</i> 3.2 (1990), which is online at http://bahai-library.com/?file=fazel_fananapazir_exclusivity_christianity.html...
- Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:30 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Interested in becoming a baha'i, first a few questions.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 42800
Hair
I just read that it was only ear hair on his very forum... The link you're probably referring to is http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=333 , where as you can see there is a wide variety of possible interpretations of this teaching. In sum, no-one appears to know what exactly this law r...
- Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:07 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Interested in becoming a baha'i, first a few questions.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 42800
Excellent questions, all of them! I look forward to some quality answers. Is there any censorship or corruption in the universal house of justice? I'm afraid I'm going to have to prohibit discussion of this issue -- thereby lending credence to exactly this question! :-) But I can assure you that thi...
- Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:56 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: "Unrestrained As The Wind" online?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 43908
- Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:34 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: "Unrestrained As The Wind" online?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 43908
- Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:33 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: seeker questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 30843
<b>Moderator's note</b> in response to majnun's post, above: The person whose questions majnun was "answering," drmikenz, asked specifically about Baha'i teachings. He wrote "Do Bahai's see..." It's important that readers be aware that majnun's answer does <b>not</b> reflect what Baha'is believe, an...
- Sat May 20, 2006 1:50 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: United States NSA address?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13981
Yes, this is public information. From http://www.bahai.us/content/view/75/142/ :
The Baha'i National Center
1233 Central Street
Evanston, IL
60201
The Baha'i National Center
1233 Central Street
Evanston, IL
60201
- Mon May 15, 2006 8:56 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Registration now required for posting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14513
Registration now required for posting
The spammers win. Anyone can still read the forum, but all users must now register in order to post or reply: go to http://bahai-library.com/forum2/profile ... e=register . You'll need to provide a valid email address in order to confirm your registration.
-Jonah
-Jonah
- Wed May 03, 2006 2:02 am
- Forum: Commercial
- Topic: Make money editing wiki pages
- Replies: 5
- Views: 35839
- Tue May 02, 2006 8:55 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Irfan Colloquia in Italy, July 2006, English and Persian
- Replies: 0
- Views: 21373
Irfan Colloquia in Italy, July 2006, English and Persian
ANNOUNCEMENT: ‘IRFÁN COLLOQUIA IN 2006 by Dr. Iraj Ayman The main aims of the ‘Irfán Colloquium is promoting systematic studies of the scriptures of the world's religions from the Bahá'í perspective and scholarly studies in the sacred writings, verities, and fundamental principles of the belief syst...
- Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:18 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: I love yours site
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6349
I'm not sure I understand your question, but you can find some (old) personal pages by some contributors to the site at http://bahai-library.com/personal/ and others at http://bahai-library.com/?collection=Personal
-Jonah
-Jonah
- Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:08 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Ahmad Sohrab, Julie Chanler, New Historical Society, Caravan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8529
Some of the Sohrab material is indeed very valuable history, e.g. his narrative of his tour across America delivering the Tablets of the Divine Plan, or his diary of Abdu'l-Baha, "Abdu'l-Baha in Egypt." Unfortunately I don't know how you could find them. They're probably not in libraries (too obscur...
- Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:56 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Must I Belong to the AO in order to be a Baha'i?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 30474
- Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:23 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Have you seen this? Kalimat Press petition
- Replies: 24
- Views: 48904
ALL books published by Kalimat have passed Baha'i review That's correct. I'm in possession of a letter by the publisher to the NSA in response to this ruling. I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to share it, but I can confirm that the publisher does state that, yes, everything Kalimat published passed Re...
- Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:09 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Evolution questions.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10953
Don't miss a new addition to the Library, <a href="http://bahai-library.com/?file=brown_evolution_bahai_belief">Evolution and Baha'i Belief</a>. (There are many other items too, see http://google.com/custom?q=evolution&si ... ibrary.com )
-Jonah
-Jonah
- Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:56 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Questions: Continent; On Behalf of Shoghi Effendi
- Replies: 17
- Views: 28133
I found what I was looking for! It was spelled "liwat." Here are some excerpts and links. -Jonah <hr> <b>From http://bahai-library.com/?file=winters_ethics_survey :</b> 40. Is genital sex the only morally permissible type? The Bahá'í Faith has no explicit statement on this. Bahá'u'lláh did expressly...
- Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:44 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Questions: Continent; On Behalf of Shoghi Effendi
- Replies: 17
- Views: 28133
- Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:31 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Serious Question for Mr. Darrick Evenson
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9697
If I might answer on behalf of Mr. Evenson (whom I don't know personally), yes, that appears to be his intent. He's been posting both questions and his own essays on this forum since it was created in 1998, and distributing his writings on email listservers for years as well. We reached a private ag...
- Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:17 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Hidden Words Question
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22943
homelessness in Canada
The only homeless people in Canada are the ones that want to be homeless Perhaps in some of the smaller towns, but in the larger cities I've lived in for more than a couple years each -- Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver -- there are tens of thousands of cold, hungry homeless people who most certain...
- Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:26 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Manifestation of God: Woman?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9354
- Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:34 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: New "print" feature
- Replies: 0
- Views: 21656
New "print" feature
There was a request to make a feature to display every document in a certain collection, for ease of printing. As requested! Select one of the collections below, then click "go," and it'll output the entire collection to the browser. WARNING: with larger collections, like Books or Scripture, it will...
- Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:30 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Hard Copy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 27776
As you requested! Select one of the collections below, then click "go," and it'll output the entire collection to the browser. WARNING: with larger collections, like Books or Scripture, it may take a while to download and could crash your browser. <form action="/index.php" method=post><select name="...
- Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:57 pm
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Hard Copy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 27776
No hard copy -- it would take tens of thousands of pages! For example, the collection http://bahai-library.com/?collection=books alone has 165 items, and if these average 200 printed pages each, then this one collection alone would take 33,000 pages. The problem with a CD-ROM is that all of the cont...
- Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:14 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Some new "Text" to add
- Replies: 7
- Views: 37902
Hi, Onepence. Great idea! All we need is someone to do it. :-) If you want to, then <a href="/register.php">register</a>, I'll bump up your access, and you can begin uploading these documents one-by-one. Check first to see if we have them, though, I've got most of the more-important BCI statements. ...
- Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:31 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Have you seen this? Kalimat Press petition
- Replies: 24
- Views: 48904
- Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:36 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: An invitation to Irfan Colloquia, 2006
- Replies: 0
- Views: 21678
An invitation to Irfan Colloquia, 2006
<h3>AN INVITATION TO ‘IRFÁN COLLOQUIUM IN 2006</h3>The ‘Irfán Colloquium started in 1993 and has continued to be held annually at Louhelen and Bosch Bahá’í Schools. It is aimed at promoting systematic studies of the scriptures of the world's religions from the Bahá'í perspective and scholarly studie...
- Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:10 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: blasphemy
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8673
I'm sorry for being heavy-handed, onepence. In the last two days there were about 20 posts from you, most with no reply from others. I meant to delete only the news items unrelated to the Baha'i Faith (and as noted earlier, I believed -- perhaps mistakenly, I'm sorry -- that I alerted you previously...
- Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:04 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: posting news
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11990
- Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:58 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: posting news
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11990
Hi, Onepence This forum is for discussions of the Baha'i Faith, especially with a focus on matters of scholarship. Once in a while people do post news articles, but only about directly related topics. Your dozen or so news stories from the last couple days, for the most part, made no mention of the ...
- Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:13 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: was David Kelly murdered?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18874
---- from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-7937-806437,00.html September 06, 2003 Into the shadow: the secret lives of David Kelly BY IAN COBAIN, JAMES BONE AND LAURA PEEK The inquiry may want to question the Arab-American woman linguist who was close enough to Kelly to convert him to...
- Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:10 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: was David Kelly murdered?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18874
---- from http://politics.guardian.co.uk/kelly/story/0,13747,1034016,00.html 'A private tragedy' Ros Taylor Tuesday September 2, 2003 "Not so much a public scandal as a private tragedy," says the Telegraph of Janice Kelly's evidence to the Hutton inquiry. Not so very private, now: most of the papers...
- Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:07 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: was David Kelly murdered?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18874
This is a very important topic, I think, but not one that I want discussed here. The above links are good places to start, and below I've pasted my own collection of some of the earlier coverage of the incident, for archival purposes. Then I'm going to lock this thread. Thanks, -Jonah --- <i>the fol...
- Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:16 pm
- Forum: Commercial
- Topic: Rock Art Design: beading, beads, jewelry in Vancouver BC
- Replies: 1
- Views: 24615
- Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:48 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Was Adam the first human being on earth?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 58114
I hope jonah finds the note and deletes it. Yes, the comment apparently was made in jest. But it does express a common interpretation of evolution. And, do the Writings state that Adam had the form of contemporary humans? I don't know. So I think it best to respond with a statement from Abdu'l-Baha...
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:20 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Picture of Bahá´u´lláh online. What does UHJ say about this?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 74306
We are not allowed to post it on the internet, because that would, clearly I think, fall under the category of "distributing". When I got in trouble, so to speak, I had put the photos (2 photographs and 1 painting) on a private password-protected page and only gave the password to friends, upon requ...
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:55 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Picture of Bahá´u´lláh online. What does UHJ say about this?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 74306
- Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:31 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: rights of passage?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12113
I think you'll have the best luck by focussing on specific "rites of passage" and the Baha'i teachings on same, e.g.<ul><li>declaring as a Baha'i</li><li>marriage</li><li>huquq'u'llah</li><li>burial and funereal laws</li></ul> The Baha'i Faith isn't old enough, or scripturally-decentralized enough, ...
- Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:10 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Depicting Baha'u'llah in cartoons
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26821
- Sun Feb 05, 2006 6:15 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Depicting Baha'u'llah in cartoons
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26821
Regarding Majnun's posting and the response to it in bold-face red. Did I miss something? Here's the only post of Majnun's I see: Maybe this is the Wrath, felt inside, by those who idolized a name, the name of a messenger, instead of being obediant to the One who sends down these messengers. And the...
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:49 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Depicting Baha'u'llah in cartoons
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26821
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:24 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Manifestation vs. Prophet
- Replies: 18
- Views: 35745
- Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:31 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: papers from European Baha'i Conference on Law
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8070
- Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:49 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: This is an ACADEMIC site
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11623
this is an academic site Well, at one time the site was called "Baha'i Academics Resource Library." I abandoned that name because<ol><li>some people misread it as <i>Baha'i Academic<big><b>s'</b></big> Resource Library,</i> with s-apostrophe, i.e. a site for academic people only;</li><li>it was an ...
- Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:58 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Irfán Colloquia in Acuto Italy July 1-12 (Persian / English)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 38324
I haven't posted any papers to http://irfancolloquia.org for many months, but will do so shortly.
-Jonah
-Jonah
- Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:59 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Kalimat Press ?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 142812
- Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:58 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: What Are Our Priorities?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 26661
If you'll forgive the indelicacy, when I first read the first post in this thread, I immediately thought of a recent story from the Seattle Times, reporting on an internet phenomenon from 2005: <a href="http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=danny30&date;=...
- Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:43 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: What Are Our Priorities?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 26661
why do you let people post things that are obviously covenant breaker attacks? Anonymous Warrior, you know I immediately delete anything posted to this forum that's a "Covenant Breaker attack". If you ever find anything on this forum that you think even <i>might</i> be a CB attack, you <a href=http...
- Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:26 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: What Are Our Priorities?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 26661
If I were the moderator on this forum, I would do the mature thing and lock that thread Anonymous Warrior, you know that I'm the moderator and I don't think I've shown myself to be excessively immature. I'll close the <a href=http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=93>thread</a> on masturba...
- Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:30 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Beginning redevelopment of site; suggestions welcome
- Replies: 3
- Views: 30400
Beginning redevelopment of site; suggestions welcome
In fall 2003 I programmed the custom database/publishing system that the Baha'i Library runs on, but I never finished the job and it's been operating at 90% efficiency since: I think of it as version 0.9. Now I'm completing the job, getting us at least to version 1.0, after which Brett and I will tu...
- Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:23 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Amnesty international: death of Dhabihullah Mahrami
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8365
Here's the text of the link provided above: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement AI Index: MDE 13/083/2005 (Public) News Service No: 347 22 December 2005 Iran: Inquiry needed in the death of Bahai prisoner of conscience Amnesty International has written to the head of Iran’s Judiciary to express c...
- Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:27 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Infallibility of the House (was partly in another topic)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36579
- Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:30 pm
- Forum: Commercial
- Topic: our own line of sunglasses and goggles and sterling silver
- Replies: 4
- Views: 36739
If you're replying to the posting just previous to yours "SOCKS servers lists:..." (now deleted), it was spam. I didn't notice it for a couple weeks because I don't check the "Announcements" or "Commercial" forums as frequently as the "Discussion" forum. But the first posting appears to be legit, se...
- Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:22 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: JPG of Sadrat al-Muntaha (by Mishkin Qalam)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7859
I don't have any scans of his calligraphy online, but if you know anyone with a set of Journal of Baha'i Studies issues, there's an article that has a few calligraphic renditions of some Hidden Words by Mishqin Qalam: Julie Oeming Badiee and Heshmatollah Badiee, "The Calligraphy of Mishkin-Qalam," i...
- Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:12 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Call for papers: Irfán Colloquia in California, May 2006
- Replies: 0
- Views: 21019
Call for papers: Irfán Colloquia in California, May 2006
<center><big><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></big></center><h4>BAHÁ’Í BELIEF SYSTEM: Conceptual Analysis and Practical Applications</h4>Program starts on the evening of May 25 and ends in the afternoon of May 28. It will be followed by a special program commemorating the Ascension of Baha’u’llah on the eveni...
- Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:50 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Masturbation
- Replies: 54
- Views: 100859
I've wondered how the "guidance" against male masturbation would be weighed vis-a-vis a medical recommendation in <i>favor</i> of it. For example, the widely-reported findings of a 2003 study suggesting that ejaculating at least 5 times per week has a measurable effect on preventing prostate cancer ...
- Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:53 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Just a reminder
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8416
Moderator here. I always delete profanity -- Bahai Warrior just alerted me to what I'd missed in post http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?p=2502#2502 . I also delete anything that transgresses the fairly clearly-defined scope of "covenant-breaking." Finally, I delete fraudulent posts: not ...
- Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:49 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Seal of Prophets
- Replies: 32
- Views: 53810
- Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:23 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Seal of Prophets
- Replies: 32
- Views: 53810
- Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:33 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Do Animals go to Heaven
- Replies: 11
- Views: 30170
Apparently not, according to a quotation in Baha'i Scriptures, page 404. From http://www.bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/7.html : <blockquote>... In the animal kingdom it is called “sense perception” or instinct. This term soul, as applied to the animal kingdom, is also a natural qua...
- Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:48 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Is the Tablet of Beirut a Forgery?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36380
Thank for your concern, Baha'i Warrior. I've been following this thread closely, and I haven't seen anything to warrant closing the thread -- other than the occasional intemperate remarks from most of the parties participating in the discussion which I've been using "moderator's discretion" on and e...
- Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:11 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Is the Tablet of Beirut a Forgery?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36380
Are there any other Writings other than these three works that you mentioned in your last post that you can direct me to that "clearly" show Baha'u'llah is referring to Abdul-Baha as the Most Mighty Branch I'm afraid I don't know, it's not something I've studied in a while or done an internet searc...
- Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:18 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Jonah! I Protest...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28296
The Baha'i Faith is not better than Islam, any more than being 35 years old is better than being 34. However, Baha'is regard it as the latest Faith of God, and hence preferable. Baha'is will not be interested in comparing the relative value of Islam versus the Baha'i Faith, because it's a non-releva...
- Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:05 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Jonah! I Protest...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28296
I have the courage to show that Laws of Holy Quran are better than Kitab-e-Aqdas. Yes, I see that. I think that conversations comparing, and attempting to win an argument in favor of, the superiority of one religion over another are bound to produce conflict and unlikely to bring about a shared und...
- Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:59 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Why need another Religion after Islam?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 33928
To everyone who participated, thanks for the discussion. I'm going to close the thread now because it seems to be devolving into a discussion of which religion is "better" etc. (including 4 just-posted back-and-forth posts which I just deleted). I don't believe we should be approaching a discussion ...