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- Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:18 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Baha'i Marriage Laws
- Replies: 5
- Views: 23603
Re: Baha'i Marriage Laws
I have reviewed this thread a number of times, and the Writings on marriage; including the reports on the marriage of Shogi Effendi and Mary Maxwell. It seems Bahai marriage requires the consent of all living natural parents and two witnesses (may also be the parents). The LSA is there to confirm pa...
- Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:07 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Bahai Writings on sex within marriage
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16164
Re: Bahai Writings on sex within marriage
I have seen little explicit reference to sexual acts within marriage in the Bahai Writings. The emphasis on equality between the sexes would imply mutual respect, trust, consultation and consent being of primary importance. Any time these conditions are not met the behavior would not be permissable ...
- Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:51 am
- Forum: Commercial
- Topic: online Library Science degree (not Baha'i-related)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 25275
Re: online Library Science degree (not Baha'i-related)
Jonah, Good post. Every forum I read or participate in seems to have every increasing numbers of span. Somehow the administrators stay ahead of it, yet it must really interfere in their own capacity to actualy use and enjoy the forums. As a user with minimum computer skills, I would like to thank yo...
- Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:23 am
- Forum: Bahá'í Writings
- Topic: Abdu'l-Baha writes on religious law and the House of Justice
- Replies: 2
- Views: 25090
Re: Abdu'l-Baha writes on religious law and the House of Jus
Sen,
Thank you for this post.
Once again your disciplined application of an obvious scholarly gift provides instruction, insight and cause for reflection in my own thinking and behaviour.
Thank you for this post.
Once again your disciplined application of an obvious scholarly gift provides instruction, insight and cause for reflection in my own thinking and behaviour.
- Sun Sep 12, 2010 12:39 pm
- Forum: Commercial
- Topic: Sale translation of the Qur'an
- Replies: 6
- Views: 45997
Re: Sale translation of the Qur'an
Thank you all for posting links to multiple translations. As with the Holy Bible, I find that multiple translations provide a much better understanding.
- Sat Aug 07, 2010 1:22 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: THE GARDEN OF EDEN STORY: Myth of Metaphor?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 18025
Re: THE GARDEN OF EDEN STORY: Myth of Metaphor?
RobertD, you read, how refreshing. An articulate thought provoking post. Tks
- Fri May 21, 2010 1:21 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Is everything working?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 28361
Re: Is everything working?
Seems to be working here.
- Sat May 15, 2010 1:41 am
- Forum: Non-Baha'i issues
- Topic: Im a stay-at-home mom and need ideas for a good job
- Replies: 4
- Views: 34953
Re: Im a stay-at-home mom and need ideas for a good job
Most post-secondary institutions have accessibility programing for students with specific requirement. They provide some students with funding to have written assignments transcribed from a number of sources. Many small businesses, independent sub-contractors and even people with home businesses nee...
- Sat Apr 17, 2010 2:20 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: World currency
- Replies: 29
- Views: 88608
Re: World currency
When I was a kid, I played a lot of Monopoly, the board game. Then as a young adult I played the computerized business game. Was set back by a ruling of anti-trust activities. Last week I heard a salient comment on TV while pealing carrots for diner. Commodities (carrots) have had a serious reversal...
- Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:59 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: The Process of Baha'i Review: A Changing Paradigm
- Replies: 4
- Views: 18821
Re: The Process of Baha'i Review: A Changing Paradigm
So, who are the angels wrestling on the head of what pin? Lest history repeat itself.
- Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:27 pm
- Forum: Commercial
- Topic: Shameless self promotion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 33346
Re: Shameless self promotion
Truth, the toughbook is 5 years old and has had an extensive feild use life. This is the first time I have noticed any problems at all. It matches its reputation for multiple difficult environments. Over the years, I have been repeatedly surprised by how much and what a young child or animal can tra...
- Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:18 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: 19 Suggestions for the Baha'i Faith in America
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14915
Re: 19 Suggestions for the Baha'i Faith in America
i wonder if he/she has really thought about the impact of childrens and jr youth classes? my son and his team seem to be hitting a vein. I need some help with understanding the relevance of the above quote. The content of the article did not strike me as particularly appropriate; nor intended to be...
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:15 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: World currency
- Replies: 29
- Views: 88608
Re: World currency
Currency as a store of wealth; currency as a medium of exchange. Both have become tenuous as objective uses for currency. Currencies and precious metals have all become part of a high velocity exchange with little or no attachment to the real products rendering them near useless for their original p...
- Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:43 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: 19 Suggestions for the Baha'i Faith in America
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14915
Re: 19 Suggestions for the Baha'i Faith in America
Read the whole thing. Some portions provide a valuable contribution to my personal integration of religeous thought from various traditions. In the manner of critique Catholics consider themselves Christians and although some other denominations have serious problems with the claims of the (Roman) C...
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:47 am
- Forum: Commercial
- Topic: Shameless self promotion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 33346
Re: Shameless self promotion
Dear Brett, Checked the link and it was last updated in 1996. I personally find that children and youth are most attentive when a constant prospect of immediate food is present. Even the picky eaters will engage in eating as a primary social acceptance activity. Street gangs can be convinced to stop...
- Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:46 am
- Forum: Commercial
- Topic: Shameless self promotion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 33346
Shameless self promotion
And sniveling. Sniveling first. We currently have 3 mostly adorable kittens. One of them just lept onto my keyboard and ripped the n key off the keyboard of a Panasonic Toughbook. It will survive being dropped 3 stories, but not an attack by a one lb kitten. Oh well? Now for the shameless self promo...
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:52 pm
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Note to moderator(s)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 38575
Note to moderator(s)
I have been reviewing and occasionally contributing to this site for a few months now. I am still constrained by my technical abilities. I would personally invite the moderators to correct any citation errors in particular, and grammatical/spelling errors if they catch them, that I may make. Secondl...
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:55 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: World currency
- Replies: 29
- Views: 88608
Re: World currency
Negotiable instruments, and this would include most currencies, appear to have mostly become forms of gambling as they do not resemble anything real or oftentimes productive. Neither do they generally confer anything resembling the executive function of ownership. Recent financial articles talk of t...
- Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:22 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Universal House of Justice statement on Gaza Crisis?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 33155
Re: Universal House of Justice statement on Gaza Crisis?
Need to take a week break here. Will meditate on this one while driving.
- Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:42 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Conflict resolution within groups.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11634
Conflict resolution within groups.
Conflict theory has it that unresolved internal conflicts within any group can be managed without fragmenting the group (therefore internally unifying) by focusing on real or imagined conflict with persons and/or groups external to the group with the unresolved internal conflicts. In the current day...
- Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:30 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Universal House of Justice statement on Gaza Crisis?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 33155
Re: Universal House of Justice statement on Gaza Crisis?
Interesting. (my understanding) Within the hierarchy of authority as delineated by The Writings (presuming the term Writings refers only to those revealed by Baha'ullah & the Bab); The Writings are timeless within the context of what Baha'i s believe to be a time span of roughly a thousand years...
- Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:58 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Universal House of Justice statement on Gaza Crisis?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 33155
Re: Universal House of Justice statement on Gaza Crisis?
Interestingly, I have been told ,(hearsay) that a number of years ago, official bodies of the Baha'i Faith instructed all Baha'i s to leave Iran. Had that instruction been followed (hypothetically, based on individual capacity to leave), I would think, Baha'i relationships with Iran would be paralle...
- Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:23 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Importance of agriculture
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12198
Re: Importance of agriculture
So, does anyone know, what percentage of Baha'is are farmers?
- Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:16 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: can a baha'i woman wear a head scarf?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 24930
Re: can a baha'i woman wear a head scarf?
Practicality as well as the ordinances are addressed in the Bahai Writings I am familiar with. I frequently work in a private garden by myself, where nudity would be practical from a modesty perspective. Other than helecoptor trespass of the garden there is no view of the space. While working there,...
- Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:11 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: How bad does it have to get?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 18052
Re: How bad does it have to get?
1) Whether the doctrine of celibacy for the priesthood was not a fallible, man-made invention outside of any intention of Christ? 2) Whether Christ's own celibacy was not due to His continued persecution and short ministry? 3) Whether God's love evident in bringing Christ would deny humanity renewa...