6:42 + re: " picture of the fact that we we've been facing this pandemic as i'm speaking to you right now there is some hope on the horizon because of that the vaccine has become available" infamous FALSE HOPE statement & anathema to Abdu'-l-Baha's words: "It is certain that in this wonderful new age the development of medical science will lead to the doctors’ healing their patients with foods. For the sense of sight, the sense of hearing, of taste, of smell, of touch-all these are discriminative faculties, their purpose being to separate the beneficial from whatever causeth harm. Now, is it possible that man’s sense of smell, the sense that differentiates odours, should find some odour repugnant, and that odour be beneficial to the human body? Absurd! Impossible! In the same way, could the human body, through the faculty of sight-the differentiator among things visible-benefit from gazing upon a revolting mass of excrement? Never! Again, if the sense of taste, likewise a faculty that selecteth and rejecteth, be offended by something, that thing is certainly not beneficial; and if, at the outset, it may yield some advantage, in the long run its harmfulness will be established. "
Brilliant talk. Need to listen again.
Freedom of speech and accountability for the consequences of all we say and do.
Crisis and victory: the sine wave of advancement.
6:42 + re: " picture of the fact that we we've been facing this pandemic as i'm speaking to you right now there is some hope on the horizon because of that the vaccine has become available" infamous FALSE HOPE statement & anathema to Abdu'-l-Baha's words: "It is certain that in this wonderful new age the development of medical science will lead to the doctors’ healing their patients with foods. For the sense of sight, the sense of hearing, of taste, of smell, of touch-all these are discriminative faculties, their purpose being to separate the beneficial from whatever causeth harm. Now, is it possible that man’s sense of smell, the sense that differentiates odours, should find some odour repugnant, and that odour be beneficial to the human body? Absurd! Impossible! In the same way, could the human body, through the faculty of sight-the differentiator among things visible-benefit from gazing upon a revolting mass of excrement? Never! Again, if the sense of taste, likewise a faculty that selecteth and rejecteth, be offended by something, that thing is certainly not beneficial; and if, at the outset, it may yield some advantage, in the long run its harmfulness will be established. "
Uui