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		<title>By: Historyman_of_sa</title>
		<link>http://bahairants.com/how-to-get-elected-to-bahai-institutions-596.html/comment-page-1#comment-83468</link>
		<dc:creator>Historyman_of_sa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>These Step that I read is Good idea for every Baha&#039;i people. Is better if any one could follow the Step for sure. But there is one thing is missing and it is trainsport like if some one does not have car and does not know how to get to Baha&#039;i Activites. I think is better if the LSA member will Ask them if they need trainsport to go to Baha&#039;i Activites. 

Regard Rohan Ighanian</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These Step that I read is Good idea for every Baha&#8217;i people. Is better if any one could follow the Step for sure. But there is one thing is missing and it is trainsport like if some one does not have car and does not know how to get to Baha&#8217;i Activites. I think is better if the LSA member will Ask them if they need trainsport to go to Baha&#8217;i Activites. </p>
<p>Regard Rohan Ighanian</p>
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		<title>By: fubar</title>
		<link>http://bahairants.com/how-to-get-elected-to-bahai-institutions-596.html/comment-page-1#comment-82364</link>
		<dc:creator>fubar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Get them a copy of Deepak Chopra&#039;s new book on Buddhism? 

http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Buddha-Deepak-Chopra/

But why bother annoying people that have irrelevant, backward beliefs? 

Instead, transcend the nonsense by becoming a better person: think more honestly, have better intentions, be more compassionate and altrustic. 

That is what will make the world better.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get them a copy of Deepak Chopra&#8217;s new book on Buddhism? </p>
<p><a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Buddha-Deepak-Chopra/" rel="nofollow">http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Buddha-Deepak-Chopra/</a></p>
<p>But why bother annoying people that have irrelevant, backward beliefs? </p>
<p>Instead, transcend the nonsense by becoming a better person: think more honestly, have better intentions, be more compassionate and altrustic. </p>
<p>That is what will make the world better.</p>
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		<title>By: Steve Marshall</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve Marshall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure you&#039;re already doing just fine, but Baquia&#039;s suggestion is a good one if you want to make an extra effort.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re already doing just fine, but Baquia&#8217;s suggestion is a good one if you want to make an extra effort.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ask them to take you to a local &lt;a href=&quot;http://bahairants.com/did-you-ruhi-today-586.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ruhi course&lt;/a&gt; and insist that they come with you and attend the whole complete sequence of classes alongside you. Ask lots of questions and bring a number 2 pencil - you won&#039;t need an eraser.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ask them to take you to a local <a href="http://bahairants.com/did-you-ruhi-today-586.html" rel="nofollow">Ruhi course</a> and insist that they come with you and attend the whole complete sequence of classes alongside you. Ask lots of questions and bring a number 2 pencil &#8211; you won&#8217;t need an eraser.</p>
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		<title>By: Severus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Severus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I live with three worthless crap bag Bahais, can anyone tell me how to annoy them or make them unconformable? Please </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I live with three worthless crap bag Bahais, can anyone tell me how to annoy them or make them unconformable? Please</p>
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		<title>By: Oscar Wilde</title>
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		<dc:creator>Oscar Wilde</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have read that paper, the original one. &lt;br&gt;It appears like an unsoluble problem.&lt;br&gt;The very reason the patience and humility of competent people in different fields is continuosly tested and made grown. &lt;br&gt;In facts, this very patience and humility made them competent at first.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As stated in the movie The Libertine, there are two kinds of people who don&#039;t appreciate the efforts of a competent person: the idiots and the envious. The idiots will appreciate you one day, the envious, never. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In an age where might is right, only the humble talking weapons is a solution. This is how power has been obtained in the last centuries: by might and terror and never competence. There is, inside or outside the community, no sense of quality, competence, and skill. Money rules the roost. People fake being interested in actual skills, while all they care is money and not being attacked by society/family. It is evident in the job market; jobs in companies aren&#039;t given to the best people, rather to the one with the most qualifications, being a qualification an APPEARANCE and ASSUMPTION of competence and not the essence of competence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In The Simpsons, Homer has a job, while his genious brother is a bum. This is the world, the real world. It is much easier to live here for incompetent people than competent ones. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There can be competent people in place, and incompetents who don&#039;t get anything, but this is more an exception than a rule presently. Usually, incompetents have an APPEARANCE of competence to help them out. They&#039;re masters of deceit.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There&#039;s just no space for truth, as the bible or some christian prophet predicted these times would be.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the baha&#039;i system it is evident in my opinion that there&#039;s something faulty WITHIN the system, so good luck in changing it. It is a phenomenon to study; the community is curiously brainwashed, beyond help. To me any effort is useless and it is better to go and live up on a mountain, but by no means I want to discourage you if you&#039;re still attempting. I might be wrong, only time will tell, maybe not even that. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I still don&#039;t want to think the baha&#039;i faith is bad PER SE, but I might be forced to think it in the future. As I grew up as a baha&#039;i I feel blasphemous when I think stuff like that, so I&#039;ll give myself time. But it is evident that such perception of blasphemy is only conditionment and not truth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have read that paper, the original one. <br />It appears like an unsoluble problem.<br />The very reason the patience and humility of competent people in different fields is continuosly tested and made grown. <br />In facts, this very patience and humility made them competent at first.</p>
<p>As stated in the movie The Libertine, there are two kinds of people who don&#39;t appreciate the efforts of a competent person: the idiots and the envious. The idiots will appreciate you one day, the envious, never. </p>
<p>In an age where might is right, only the humble talking weapons is a solution. This is how power has been obtained in the last centuries: by might and terror and never competence. There is, inside or outside the community, no sense of quality, competence, and skill. Money rules the roost. People fake being interested in actual skills, while all they care is money and not being attacked by society/family. It is evident in the job market; jobs in companies aren&#39;t given to the best people, rather to the one with the most qualifications, being a qualification an APPEARANCE and ASSUMPTION of competence and not the essence of competence.</p>
<p>In The Simpsons, Homer has a job, while his genious brother is a bum. This is the world, the real world. It is much easier to live here for incompetent people than competent ones. </p>
<p>There can be competent people in place, and incompetents who don&#39;t get anything, but this is more an exception than a rule presently. Usually, incompetents have an APPEARANCE of competence to help them out. They&#39;re masters of deceit.</p>
<p>There&#39;s just no space for truth, as the bible or some christian prophet predicted these times would be.</p>
<p>As for the baha&#39;i system it is evident in my opinion that there&#39;s something faulty WITHIN the system, so good luck in changing it. It is a phenomenon to study; the community is curiously brainwashed, beyond help. To me any effort is useless and it is better to go and live up on a mountain, but by no means I want to discourage you if you&#39;re still attempting. I might be wrong, only time will tell, maybe not even that. </p>
<p>I still don&#39;t want to think the baha&#39;i faith is bad PER SE, but I might be forced to think it in the future. As I grew up as a baha&#39;i I feel blasphemous when I think stuff like that, so I&#39;ll give myself time. But it is evident that such perception of blasphemy is only conditionment and not truth.</p>
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		<title>By: fubar</title>
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		<dc:creator>fubar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;excerpt:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Scapegoating and projection&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Unwanted thoughts and feelings can be unconsciously projected onto another who becomes a scapegoat for one&#039;s own problems. This concept can be extended to projection by groups. In this case the chosen individual, or group, becomes the scapegoat for the group&#039;s problems. In psychopathology, projection is an especially commonly used defense mechanism in people with ... personality disorders:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Scapegoating in management&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Scapegoating is a known practice in management where a lower staff employee is blamed for the mistakes of senior executives. This is often due to lack of accountability in upper management.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat</a></p>
<p>excerpt:</p>
<p>Scapegoating and projection</p>
<p>Unwanted thoughts and feelings can be unconsciously projected onto another who becomes a scapegoat for one&#39;s own problems. This concept can be extended to projection by groups. In this case the chosen individual, or group, becomes the scapegoat for the group&#39;s problems. In psychopathology, projection is an especially commonly used defense mechanism in people with &#8230; personality disorders:</p>
<p>Scapegoating in management</p>
<p>Scapegoating is a known practice in management where a lower staff employee is blamed for the mistakes of senior executives. This is often due to lack of accountability in upper management.</p>
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		<title>By: fubar</title>
		<link>http://bahairants.com/how-to-get-elected-to-bahai-institutions-596.html/comment-page-1#comment-69579</link>
		<dc:creator>fubar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;excerpt:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Groupthink is a type of thought within a deeply cohesive in-group whose members try to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating ideas. As defined by Janis, 1972 “A mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members&#039; strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action”. Individual creativity, uniqueness, and independent thinking are lost in the pursuit of group cohesiveness, as are the advantages of reasonable balance in choice and thought that might normally be obtained by making decisions as a group...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink</a></p>
<p>excerpt:</p>
<p>Groupthink is a type of thought within a deeply cohesive in-group whose members try to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating ideas. As defined by Janis, 1972 “A mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members&#39; strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action”. Individual creativity, uniqueness, and independent thinking are lost in the pursuit of group cohesiveness, as are the advantages of reasonable balance in choice and thought that might normally be obtained by making decisions as a group&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: fubar</title>
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		<dc:creator>fubar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>there is nothing positive in what you say. you are a typical haifan bahai polemicist, you lie, and attack critics, dissidents and nonconformists. you are shallow, you ignore your own scripture in so many ways, which irinically provides yet more &quot;proof&quot; of what is wrong with haifan bahaism (no real spirituality, just exploitation of people seeking belonging to something that gives them a sense of higher purpose).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;bad religion is built on the kind of dishonesty and lies you spread.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;haifan bahaism is (metaphorically) a slave religion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>there is nothing positive in what you say. you are a typical haifan bahai polemicist, you lie, and attack critics, dissidents and nonconformists. you are shallow, you ignore your own scripture in so many ways, which irinically provides yet more &#8220;proof&#8221; of what is wrong with haifan bahaism (no real spirituality, just exploitation of people seeking belonging to something that gives them a sense of higher purpose).</p>
<p>bad religion is built on the kind of dishonesty and lies you spread.</p>
<p>haifan bahaism is (metaphorically) a slave religion.</p>
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