Most Smokable Leaf!

where (o where!) is the gender poll on baquia?

(may you be blessed with many spontaneous eruptions of mirth, and may the muses forever sit in your lap.)

Most Smokable Leaf!

where (o where!) is the gender poll on baquia?

(may you be blessed with many spontaneous eruptions of mirth, and may the muses forever sit in your lap.)

Right-I have seen this too-Read “Tablets of Devine Plan” -the part about the indians of the artic regions (Greenland),and the events associated with this.. And the turning against Israel by the whole world,as BIG sighns of the times…Just is ,and was fortold..

Hi Frankie,
Explain how people like you say ”Covenant breaker can destroy the Faith if it’s really come from the One True God and exterminate His Law.
All true religions of the past have faced severe opposition and persecution too and this have not prevent Them from gaining victory.
They have not even shun people because they need answers that you have no response.
What do you call investigation of truth????
Many questions will come out after you accepted the Bahai faith and then come with hidden realities.
Because initially you will hear the wonderful principles and world unity and peace in a common family. Latter you have question which you have no right to set just to remain silent.
Or you will be a covenant breaker.
Bob.

That the Crisis that comes before Victory!

Uh. No.

Silly stuff. You might as well argue for “Creationism” vs. evolutionary theory.

In the 19th/20th centuries, two variants of Romanticism (marxism vs. fascism) battled each other, and caused so much mutual damage to themselves and the old imperial powers, that american “democracy” was able to fill the vacuum (global markets) for a couple of generations.

However, after the industrial revolution, the american institutions were really run by the “Man Behind the Curtain” – plutocrats and central banks. (Eventually Kissinger and his buddies created a new international order based on oil, defense industries, and the walmart-china connection. the internet put that system on steroids, resulting in “global economics”, which finally crashed according to plan, ending any meaningful form of american democracy.)

The previous battle between liberty and imperialism settled into an unstable compromise (FDR’s New Deal).

When the opposition to Plutocracy (such as organized labor) was discredited in the 60s due to the pathologies of postmodernism (people going to college and them working in offices instead of on farms or in factories),  it was just a matter of time before the old 19th century style cycle of bubbles and the vaporization of middle class wealth would resume.

Ronald Reagan made the “insanity” of resuming such bubbles sound “patriotic”.  Liberalism died its last breath the day that Bill Clinton got in bed with rich people to get into power as President.

What evolutionary theory did was to delegitimize the mythic-conformism of traditional religion (which posited “creation” stories that had the “hand of god” directing human development). Marx showed that it made far more sense to see that paradigm shifts in the techno-economic composition of society resulted in changes to culture and religion, not the other way around. Capitalism similarly discredited the need for a hostile (feudal) collective that required that individuals conform to religious myth. Capitalism promoted the achievement meme, which ironically, was the first actual practice of globalism (transcendence of national/tribal culture).  It was the hated “individualism” and “materialism” of the Achievers (and their scientific-rationalist supporters/allies) that was necessary for the overthrow of the old mythic/ethnocentric paradigms and replacement by a global-centric one.

“god” had little or nothing to do with that in the sense of sending a “prophet”, unless you wish to claim that a “revelation” in the arabian desert 1,000 years previously had direct causation, or that a “dual revelation”  in Iran 200 years later somehow caused a “reverse time warp” that influenced the causes of democracy in the 1500s/1600s. ???

Due to evolution, human brain chemistry is wired to seek out the grand scheme in things. so all “religion” is potentially expansive if the culture is in a dynamic and creative mode. However, dysfunctional religion is the opposite, it is small and narrow minded, and makes the people that follow it smaller because they allow themselves to be exploited by leaders that have to sell lies and pretend that dynamism exists when it is actually absent.

When a nonconforming voice emerges to complain about exploitation and lies by corrupt leaders (as supported by a pre-rational collective), it becomes necessary to coerce that voice by use of psychological violence (“bullying”).

You could chose to NOT do the decent thing, and set aside your fundamentalist nonsense, and celebrate the sunshine and truth of this blog. Instead, you have a need to pervert light and make it dark. shame.

4 years later – time to spill the beans.

M. Scott Peck explained how a “community” can transcend “false unity” and attain “true unity”.

First, be honest about a lack of trust and alienation.

Try to walk in the other person’s shoes.

Give permission for chaos and upset to happen.

Contemplate the emptiness that detachment creates.

Allow a sense of harmony to overcome the hurt that comes from honesty as a higher sense of common, shared purpose replaces conflict.

http://fce-community.org/stages-of-cb/
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http://fce-community.org/the-cb-experience/

CB = Community Building =A group of people, who, despite the
diversity of their previous history, have been able to accept and
transcend their differences, thus enabling them to communicate
effectively and openly and to cooperate in working toward a recognizable
goal or for the common good of the group

This level of development of the
group–the state of community–requires authentic opening and connecting
of the heart. It flows, equally, from an awareness and understanding of
the self and of relations with others, particularly with the other
participants in the workshop.

re: “That sort of blocks instructions on which way to paddle.”

as a completely-ex-bahai, that was hilarious.

Perhaps a better way to put it would be “up a creek without a paddle”.

The canoe concept doesn’t work when you have covenant fascists sending people up creeks without paddles. lol.

Hi, Robert -
Since there has been no reply about what is happening in Ecuador, maybe I can tell you what I know. This thread is about closing Bahai schools. The school founded by Ralph D’s wife, started I think in their house, has also closed.  There were something like a thousand “paper Assemblies” around Cusco in Peru, and now there is one. There were some 300 “paper Assemblies” in Ecuador, and now there are a dozen. Yes, the Ruhi method is pushed. Social service? No! we must first spread the healing message!
Village to village. There were traveling teachers, then there were year-of-service youth. There is still the Bahai Radio station and their staff.
In every country I am familiar with, there was a big enrollment push, the statistics reflect those “thousands” of people who were listed, and the growth (as SF points out for the Mormons) is largely demographic – Bahai children and the odd spouse.
A corroborator.