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14 years ago @ Baha’i Rants - Time for Ruhi to Show ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Amado wrote: you can’t teach what you know – only what you are

Yes Amado, I agree with you; I have seen everything you describe and even worse. These are mistakes from people who would have been completely inactive without the institute. We sometimes have fun laughing at postings with examples mistakes students and even teachers make in their school work; this doesn't mean we have to close down schools, but proves how badly we need them.

14 years ago @ Baha’i Rants - Fahrenheit 145 · 0 replies · +1 points

Grover wrote: …you have a compulsive need to comment on absolutely everything, probably indicating an obsessive compulsive disorder.

Interesting comment, Grover. In fact you might be suggesting another way of spelling the word LOVE that can be considered as an obsessive-compulsive behaviour:

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060120_lov...

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-an...

The difference between a BEHAVIOUR and a DISORDER is what determines if we need psychiatric assistance. If a behaviour is correctly harmonised with a fruitful way of life, it is an asset. If it becomes counterproductive and destructive to ourselves, our families and society, it becomes a disorder. We can say that the love of Christ was destructive to his physical self and family, but a great asset to humanity.

14 years ago @ Baha’i Rants - Predicting the Future ... · 1 reply · +1 points

The future of Iran has been the subject of an Internet poll that estimates 3.4% of women and 3% of men between 20 and 29 consider themselves as Baha'is:

http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/2437

14 years ago @ Baha’i Rants - Fahrenheit 145 · 0 replies · +1 points

Craig wrote: there are other people and other communities of people on this planet that are FAR MORE ADVANCED SPIRITUALITY than the Baha'i Community?

Farhan: This might well be so, but what we need is to confederate all these wonderful people into one common enterprise.

Craig: Why can' t you see this truth? You need to get out more

Farhan: I am doing just that, Craig, travelling all around the planet, oceans and country side; I am far less in contact with the Baha'i community which I see as very different from the one you describe. I also happen to evaluate what I see in the light of God's revelation and I realise that it is in the Baha'i community that I encounter the widest possible scope of acceptation.

14 years ago @ Baha’i Rants - Fahrenheit 145 · 2 replies · +1 points

Most of us have an imbalance, Grover, and this is what makes us search, advance and evolve. A permanently balanced person is static or regressing, if not dead.

14 years ago @ Baha’i Rants - Corruption and Espiona... · 0 replies · +1 points

Frank, some people on this list suggested that ALL the Baha'is from Iran should flee to the USA. That would officially make some 300 000 souls, although a recent poll establishes that 3% of 20 to 30 age group in Iran call themselves Baha'is, which would make some 2.5 million Baha'is, only in that age group.

14 years ago @ Baha’i Rants - Fahrenheit 145 · 0 replies · +1 points

Once again, Baquia, the Faith is not an enterprise for scientific education which we are expected to acquire elsewhere as a necessary complement to our spiritual development, but an enterprise for developing our spiritual capacities. What I expect from the UHJ is not to to be a substitute for my intellect, but to guide my intellectual efforts into fields that are a priority for humanity at this time. Some of Hands of God were indeed illiterate but recognised the vital need for spiritual development.

I suggest you look up the need for SQ development :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danah_Zohar

And as I suggested before, left-brain right-brain issues:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_tay...

14 years ago @ Baha’i Rants - Fahrenheit 145 · 4 replies · +1 points

Baquia, the discussion between us is like that of a gardener complaining that his flowers are withering, the plants drooping and the leaves turning yellow, and yet finds it irrelevant when he is told that all this is a lack of water for which he will need pipes, geologists for finding water, machines for digging the well and electricity for pumping the water.

I am telling you that all the problems that assail humanity are due to a lack of spirituality, and we need much more EQ and SQ in the administrative order, and you would believe that we need more IQ and PHDs on the UHJ.

14 years ago @ Baha’i Rants - Teaching vs. Proselyti... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks, Nikhil, I entirely agree with your vision of teaching, which is permeated throughout the Institute Process, even though some years back, some inexperienced new-comers in the field of service did adopt attitudes of superiority that have been entirely quenched by now.

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