If you live in a large enough city, you eventually will run into this sort of placard (unfortunately attached to a loony person). Right there, between “DRUNKARD’S” and “CATHOLIC’S”… I think the misspelled word is meant to be Baha’i. Misspelling is of course, the least of this person’s problems.
I had no idea I ♥ the devil. Including Baha’i, little ol’ me fits into six of the categories. Can you beat that? Do you ♥ the devil more?
Boy, that's a lot of hate. About the only thing this person seems to love is Jesus... and' apostrophes'.
Bonus points if you can tell us what P.K. stands for in Jeebus-speak.
Oh and before I forget… McCain ’08!!
How will the recent financial banking crisis effect Iran? what, if any, significance does it hold for the Baha’is of Iran? To answer that we first have to look at the economy of the country.
The Iranian economy is primarily based on its fossil fuels. According to the Iranian Central Bank, oil and gas exports accounted for $82 billion in the first quarter of this year. Non energy related exports accounted for only $15.6 billion which comes from mostly pistachios and woven carpets. The energy revenue is about to shrink considerably as oil prices have fallen in international markets from $147 a barrel to $65 a barrel.
A perfect storm is headed towards this teetering economy. Not only will a lower crude oil and natural gas price mean lower revenues for the IRI but a retrenching world economy will mean that Iran’s already thinly stretched trade relationship with the outside world will be strained even more, leaving the economy even more precariously dependent on diminishing petrodollars. As well, the lack of refining capacity means that Iran will have to continue to pay for refined fuel to be imported from Turkey at relatively stable prices. This will further squeeze the economy as their own raw material expenses will be relatively unchanged. Iranians have lived with extremely cheap fuel for their whole lives, paying 3-4 cents a liter. If the government tries to end the subsidies and pass on the real expense of the fuel, there will be an overnight riot engulfing the whole country.
Continue reading ‘Significance of the Financial Crisis for Iran’
I’m not sure what to call this, an exercise in artistic meditation?
Here are the 99 most prominent words within Baha’u'llah’s Hidden Words (both Arabic and Persian):
The Hidden Words are the essence of Baha’u'llah’s teachings. The distillation of God’s commandments, eternal. Unchanging.
Lovely words. Wouldn’t mind having that on my wall as a reminder. Hmmm… it seems to be mostly about you (me… you know what I mean!). Not the other guy, or the gal walking down the street.
How does it make you feel?
While reading Richard Dawkins’ collection of essays in “The Devil’s Chaplain” I chanced on his essay about the potential for genes to determine homosexuality in humans and what implications that might have.
Since we had discussed this point before in The Challenge of Homosexuality, Dawkins take on things was rather surprising:
Imagine the following newspaper headline: ‘Scientists discover that homosexuality is caused.’ Obviously this is not news at all; it is trivial. Everything is caused. To say that homosexuality is caused by genes is more interesting, and it has the aesthetic merit of discomforting politically-inspired bores, but it doesn’t say more than my trivial headline does about the irrevocability of homosexuality.
You can read the whole essay here (it is only 3 pages).
