User talk:JCrocombe

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-Fermion 06:55, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] G'day!

JCrocombe,

Enjoy an authentic Australian welcome! I appreciated your contributions to the William Miller article, as well as some related posts I discovered on another website (after reading the latter I put two and two together). It's great to have experts on board.

I find it exciting to discover similarly-minded people. Incidentally, I have almost completed a Graduate Diploma of Theology at Avondale College, Australia. Cheers, Colin MacLaurin 18:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Structure for Millerite articles

Hi, as a history expert I would appreciate your input on Talk:Millerites. I believe the scope and limit of each of the articles Millerites, Adventist, and Great Disappointment is not clearly defined. There seems to be some contradiction with the Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia. Is there three main types of information - the 1830s and 40s Millerite movement with its theology, the Adventist groups which emerged from it, and other influenced groups which do not call themselves "Adventist"? Please reply there. Regards, Colin MacLaurin 09:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Great dissappointment

This has been discussed before, read the talk pages, and read the reference, it specifically uses the term "Great Disappointment" and refers to William Millers predictions. Regards, -- Jeff3000 (talk) 14:07, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I read the discussion & it is unresolved & unconvincing. October 22, 1844 was not a "Great Disappointment" for the Bahai faith & hence their inclusion is irrelevant. I also not that neither the main Bahai page, nor the Bahai history page make any mention of the Great Disappointment, William Miller, or the date October 22. You might want to sort that out first. JCrocombe (talk) 16:57, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I was reading through Jeff3000's comments and I think I can be of help. In regards to the 'great disappointment' it is expounded upon at-length in William Sears' Thief in the Night beginning on page 5. William Sears is a prominent Baha'i author and was one of the Hands of the Cause, and thus I think qualifies as a Baha'i source, especially when considering Baha'i review requires approval before publication of such works. If you desire, I believe I can find an online source for it, or you can download it with the Ocean research library. I hope I have been of some help, I think that this subject bears including in the article but as I cannot claim to be speaking from a neutral POV as a Baha'i I was rather hoping it could be written in by a third party instead. May you go in God's care. Peter Deer (talk) 17:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)