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- Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:06 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Kitabi Iqan question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25237
- Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:29 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Kitabi Iqan question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25237
- Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:49 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Kitabi Iqan question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25237
- Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:38 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Born Again ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17298
- Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:55 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Kitabi Iqan question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25237
- Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:24 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Born Again ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17298
with the Beatles
Many people enjoyed the Beatles music for many years. Many who were born after their "manifestation" did also listen to their "sounds" and lived under their "spiritual" influence, dressed like them, and wear longer hair, even some touched dope like they did, and went on a spiritual journey. In fact ...
- Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:40 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Born Again ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17298
a simple path
Maybe. There are certainely other steps to enjoy, I mean, the spiritual evolution does not stop after the valleys, however wonderfull it may feel to be liberated of the content of our past, including the extreme tip of our subconcious mind, since many other inner regions will be explored in the writ...
- Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:19 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Kitabi Iqan question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25237
are you an outsider SHM ?
What an unfined question. By a suuposition of his imagimation, the questioner (shm) invites the readers to make personal projections on this theorical situation. Picking up a line of text and to blow it up is a muslim technique used by those who understand not much. If the questioner would have read...
- Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:10 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Born Again ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17298
rebirth, new birth, emergence
In our system, the birth, or emergence,
occurs when a person install or explore
rather, the 8th or 9th valley. This is
an ongoin process, that will continue
while the candidate moves on in the
ocean of bahai scriptures.
MJ
occurs when a person install or explore
rather, the 8th or 9th valley. This is
an ongoin process, that will continue
while the candidate moves on in the
ocean of bahai scriptures.
MJ
- Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:35 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Talking back, and standing up in a way that may seem harsh
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7295
- Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:39 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Beginning redevelopment of site; suggestions welcome
- Replies: 3
- Views: 29070
make it visual, nice to look at
It should look like if we are reading a book, The line of text must obey the typographic convention: 2 + 2 tenth of the alphabet = 57 letters wide. the space remaining could be used for notes (foot notes). Also, include photographs, pictures, like in a book or a news paper. Titles in bold sansserif ...
- Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:21 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Hidden Words Question
- Replies: 11
- Views: 21344
wealth = scriptures from above
If the "son" is the messenger, it is
normal that he spread "My wealth" (the scriptures)
onto the poor (the poor = us) who needs them.
Majnun.
normal that he spread "My wealth" (the scriptures)
onto the poor (the poor = us) who needs them.
Majnun.
- Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:13 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Must I Belong to the AO in order to be a Baha'i?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 28681
To the questioner
I suggest the questioner to read the
Baha'u'llah writings first, then he will
know if he is, or not. May all his questionings
be answered.
Majnun.
Baha'u'llah writings first, then he will
know if he is, or not. May all his questionings
be answered.
Majnun.
- Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:00 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Reciting Writing in morning and evenings
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6810
. I recite like I used to do for the Quran, before or after breakfast. If the evening recitation induces perturbations of your sleep, well it is not a crime to recite only in the morning. I think vocal recitation breaks trought the natural defense barriers of the brain and let the messages come in w...
- Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:56 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Is watching/playing Sports okay
- Replies: 16
- Views: 45257
Yep CJ, I remember that line now. It is obvious from this translation that the individual in question boasted about knowing several langages. But the question was about watching sports on TV. Watching how the world turns is a personal choice. and is not always negative, but ecoming addicted to it is...
- Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:13 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Is watching/playing Sports okay
- Replies: 16
- Views: 45257
- Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:28 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Is watching/playing Sports okay
- Replies: 16
- Views: 45257
I see sports as a farce
. Watching any sport-show on tv is a way to become inactive, a way to put our brain to sleep. Another twist in this tv sports "religion", is that most watchers look for heroes, making idols out of them. So the association with beer seems a natural thing (brain anesthesy). The same happens if you par...
- Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:56 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Depicting Baha'u'llah in cartoons
- Replies: 14
- Views: 25110
more simpler
. A more polite term to describe old scriptures is : Dry bones. Here is what the Master said to Breakwell: Explanation of the Valley of Dry Bones, 37th chapter of Ezekial. The Master said this meant the River of those who went before; that is to say, the religious laws of each preceding prophet are ...
- Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:56 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Depicting Baha'u'llah in cartoons
- Replies: 14
- Views: 25110
salam aleykum
<b>note from moderator: I have chosen to edit, rather than delete, the following posting. I have marked each edit. -J.W.</b> Salam, [deleted paragraph discussing "negroes" and "cockroaches". -J.W.] I did read the bible (genesis, etc) and because what the Bab and A.A wrote or said, I know it is obsol...
- Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:15 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Can someone give me some advice/guidance
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15121
ah gees !
. Oh that, well, A.A did what he felt he had to do, no matter what. This compassion you have for others (your bro or the "world") could be a trace of family contamination. Valley 5 deals with the palpable torsions you will feel as you begin to change, evoluate, while the rest of society remains asle...
- Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:05 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Depicting Baha'u'llah in cartoons
- Replies: 14
- Views: 25110
The wrath is inside disbielivers.
Maybe this is the Wrath, felt inside, by
those who idolized a name, the name of
a messenger, instead of being obediant to the One who
sends down theese messengers.
MJ.
those who idolized a name, the name of
a messenger, instead of being obediant to the One who
sends down theese messengers.
MJ.
- Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:06 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Arabic and Persian project...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 28188
- Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:35 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: about 600 A.D.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22216
- Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:49 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: about 600 A.D.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22216
to sINA
...
- Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:13 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Pilgrimage -- A Sacred Experience
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13674
- Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:10 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: about 600 A.D.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22216
- Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:02 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: some questions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16531
- Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:56 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Pilgrimage -- A Sacred Experience
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13674
- Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:27 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: about 600 A.D.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22216
what is the point here ?
History is history. And now is now.
Happyness and a usefull life cannot be
founded on one line of text, or one historical
event. Move your conscience trought the ocean
of baha'i scriptures, and forget all the rest.
MJ.
Happyness and a usefull life cannot be
founded on one line of text, or one historical
event. Move your conscience trought the ocean
of baha'i scriptures, and forget all the rest.
MJ.
- Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:20 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Bayan contradicts Quran
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9384
- Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:18 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: 1844 and the Edict of Toleration
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7612
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:39 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Manifestation vs. Prophet
- Replies: 18
- Views: 33350
. This letter is not from the conscience of the Guardian himself. It is “on behaf off”. Furthermore, the letter says “would certainly advise, and even urge” This person assumed this, according to his /her local projections to stimulate, as a marketing strategy, the individual recipient of the letter...
- Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:14 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Manifestation vs. Prophet
- Replies: 18
- Views: 33350
no attack
Dear Daniel and Keyvan and Hassan (of Peru) Boudhism, Cristianity, Islam, and others old cycles are now like dead-end streets. Baha'is should not cling to it. Some people will never admit that their childhood learned religion has become (like Abdul Baha said in Some Questions) a dead corpse with no ...
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:36 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Manifestation vs. Prophet
- Replies: 18
- Views: 33350
- Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:12 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Proof from the Quran?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 45531
Oh, Let's Twist Again
. Smart reasoning Daniel. But can we say the same thing about the word bayan when it is mentionned in the book labelled bayan by the Bab ? If we read the text of the Bayan, it is easy to figure out the Bab talks about the book he actually writes, when he talks about it. Those four quranic verses hav...
- Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:48 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Picture of Bahá´u´lláh online. What does UHJ say about this?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 71284
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- Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:42 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Essence knowable?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 37130
Dear nameless friend; when did you start taking risperdal ? Or are you one of those on zyprexa ? You should try Clozapine®, to help you touch reality, and heal you inner things for good. Are you in or out of an institution ? What pills do you take ? Do you see may spiders all at ounce ? your friendl...
- Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:32 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Proof from the Quran?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 45531
well, technically the bismillah is missing before the 1236th verse, but it is a way of putting things, we say he was born in 1235, but in the realitty it is the first day of 1236, since 1235 years have passed since this first new day. Also note that 1235 is a multiple of 19. Also, in chapter 16 you ...
- Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:17 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Picture of Bahá´u´lláh online. What does UHJ say about this?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 71284
- Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:31 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Essence knowable?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 37130
Yes sir !
yes, to you nameless.
get into it. Stop a-talkin'.,
and do it. Sit back and recite
slowly.
MJ.
get into it. Stop a-talkin'.,
and do it. Sit back and recite
slowly.
MJ.
- Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:27 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: a *new* religion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 125109
just a tought
Dear nameless friend;
why do you think so much ?
MJ.
why do you think so much ?
MJ.
- Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:23 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Proof from the Quran?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 45531
Putting the message in the Active mode
All this proofing is quite complex. We should seek for things easyer to see. An easy one is at the beginning of chapter 9, where the bismillah is missing. At this spot, 1235 verses have passed, and on the first day of the 1236 year AH, the Bab comes into this world. It is the birthdate of the messen...
- Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:07 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Picture of Bahá´u´lláh online. What does UHJ say about this?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 71284
Who is Baha'u'llah ?
Dear warrior friend: Does not the scripture say: think by yourself ? See with your own eyes instead of the eyes of others? The writings are an educative course made to develop our conscience, to guide this developpement. Why should we emprison our "selves" with so many rules ? If our conscience is c...
- Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:23 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: a *new* religion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 125109
The explanations of the valleys describes many brain zones (valleys, cities, etc) and how they work individually. Unification is a simple procedure that shows us how to connect them all together. I cannot explain much further but if you ever read the valleys, the messenger show the 3 main separated ...
- Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:52 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Essence knowable?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 37130
Yep. I wondered last year how come I counted only 19 word Allah in the 7 valleys (original text), and more than half are in citations, and how come Gail-Khan inserted 45 words God in the english version, and how come monsieur Dreyfuss came out with 51 words "Dieu" in his french version, compared to ...
- Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:32 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: a *new* religion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 125109
I think you make projections of your hopes and dreams. Divinising a messenger is stepping out of the track. To put his message (teachings) in application is more important than focusing on his name. The messenger did the job he had to do, against all odds. These writings are very powerfull therapeut...
- Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:13 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Picture of Bahá´u´lláh online. What does UHJ say about this?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 71284
Oh, please dont feel spiked dear friend. To me it is only a picture, i dont even show it to nobody, it stays in my drawer. I wont expose it in my living room either. My optic view is the same as the UHJ. We dont use this picture as a promotional tool, and we focus more on the message than on the Mes...
- Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:04 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Essence knowable?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 37130
Over divinising is a distortion
I meant : to insert the word God and so many divinising terms everywhere they can in the scriptures, like in some translations, it is a distortion and a malady of this century. Men do not have to put the knee down in front of anyone, and some men see the benefits of obediance (to put in application)...
- Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:34 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: a *new* religion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 125109
manuscript of the Tao
Dear friend: I was just wondering why these ideas are expressed by your person, separately, like no 1, 2, 3, etc. Could you explain this "persecution" you mentioned above, what you feel about this? It seems obvious that you read "the book of certitude" if i get the right picture from "stars against ...
- Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:00 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: baha'i writings addressing pornography specifically?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 70932
a moment of time frozen in a picture
Again, relations with pictures, real of mental, is treated in valley no 2. After the unification (tauhid) process is completed (valley no 4), pictures, or moving pictures, even commercial adds, wont have any effect on you, they wont either excite nor repulse you, because you now know deeply that it ...
- Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:56 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: baha'i writings addressing pornography specifically?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 70932
a moment of time frozen in a picture
Again, relations with pictures, real of mental, is treated in valley no 2. After the unification (tauhid) process is completed (valley no 4), pictures, or moving pictures, even commercial adds, wont have any effect on you, they wont either excite nor repulse you, because you now know deeply that it ...
- Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:34 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Picture of Bahá´u´lláh online. What does UHJ say about this?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 71284
a picture in a picture
A picture is only a picture. Relations with mental pictures is explained in Valley no 2, for those able to understand it's depht. The reserve toward looking at the Messenger's only availuable photograph may be linked with the bahai philosophic concept of not to become simply an idolater of a photo, ...
- Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:08 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: a *new* religion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 125109
Dear Nameless
What causes you so much pain ?
Majnun.
Majnun.
- Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:59 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Essence knowable?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 37130
- Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:09 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Seal of Prophets
- Replies: 32
- Views: 50726
. This is not written by Shogi himself. You may enjoy Rashad's in English, much better than Sales or Rodwell. Like christianity, islam is now a dead religion. It seems you, and many others do not accept that fact, because of your family background, and you enjoy depriving yourself of the ocean to pr...
- Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:27 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Seal of Prophets
- Replies: 32
- Views: 50726
Baha'i scriptures are more important for US than the Qur'an
dear friends:
Instead of turning around in your heads
with interpreting old verses of the Qur'an,
you should all focus on Baha'u'llah's scriptures,
and forget old ways transmited by ma and pa.
Leave the Qur'an where it belongs : in the past.
MJ.
Instead of turning around in your heads
with interpreting old verses of the Qur'an,
you should all focus on Baha'u'llah's scriptures,
and forget old ways transmited by ma and pa.
Leave the Qur'an where it belongs : in the past.
MJ.
- Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:14 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: The validity of the Tablets
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8158
- Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:58 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Are Baha'is allowed to debate with Covenant-Breakers???
- Replies: 133
- Views: 179010
. Dear Warrior friend: Your person recently mentionned a personal reserve, meaning that you feel you lost too much time. Please dont forget that sometimes forums may become sort of "voiding" because we put so much energy in our mutual responses. May i suggest a suggestion ? Take a few days off. Plea...
- Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:19 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Are Baha'is allowed to debate with Covenant-Breakers???
- Replies: 133
- Views: 179010
rajl ?
friends;
where is located that word "rajl"
i did not see it.
thanks,
majnun
where is located that word "rajl"
i did not see it.
thanks,
majnun
- Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:00 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Are Baha'is allowed to debate with Covenant-Breakers???
- Replies: 133
- Views: 179010
personal message to Mitch
. Thanks for your prompt response. Yes Mitch, it is a personal choice. Until the year 2001 ad, i was a ferocious anti religious guy. I never liked religion. I still see spikes and difficulties in all of them. I wont criticize hem here. The main difficulty i had here was at the start, i had to reorga...
- Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:34 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Are Baha'is allowed to debate with Covenant-Breakers???
- Replies: 133
- Views: 179010
I dont think so
Although I admire the lucidity and the cleanness of your conscience, i disagree on that point. I think we should rely on our own conscience, think by ourselves, instead of becoming tape decks of the writings, cause if we take this habit of becoming parrots, we ain't no different from muslims who con...
- Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:51 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Are Baha'is allowed to debate with Covenant-Breakers???
- Replies: 133
- Views: 179010
This is shirk
Dear Friends :
Citing sacred writings in public to prove
a viewpoint, it is shirk.
Let's close this debate.
Majnun.
Citing sacred writings in public to prove
a viewpoint, it is shirk.
Let's close this debate.
Majnun.
- Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:40 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Are Baha'is allowed to debate with Covenant-Breakers???
- Replies: 133
- Views: 179010
too much rhetoric
Dear Friends (Matt, Farid, Keyvan, Warrior....) Many arguments are presented here, representing different viewpoints. The way we write demonstrate how we are wired internally, the way we connect ideas one after another to express what we express. The ideas presented in here fly in too many direction...
- Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:27 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Are Baha'is allowed to debate with Covenant-Breakers???
- Replies: 133
- Views: 179010
- Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:57 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: How do your present the Bahai faith?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15194
. It is possible. Maybe a sentence well placed, the right words choosen by you on that occasion, it may open a door, or touch that person to the point where the person wish to know more. If this occurs, it may also mean that your own natural undersanding of life has reached a higher level, and that ...
- Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:24 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: How do your present the Bahai faith?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15194
i dunno
Dear Nolf: to answer your question: I don't know. And may i ask you: Do you think that in one minute anybody can trigger or wake a genuine spiritual interest in another person who's brain has been either sleeping or whirling around for years ? I think no tricks, no massive arguments can do this in o...
- Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:45 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Discuss bahai books you have read.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6965
reading along
. Dear Ali: Do you mean people who work so much they dont have the time to read much ? The expression "no enthousiasm to read" is kind of strange, but i guess this maybe the result of too much nintendo. Unfortunately, the writings are not to be transfered into a video game or a movie soon, unless th...
- Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:12 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Are Baha'is allowed to debate with Covenant-Breakers???
- Replies: 133
- Views: 179010
Yes Matt
You are right Matt. "O you men", etc, is just a
way of speaking of the era. The majority of baha'is
understand this.
Majnun.
.
way of speaking of the era. The majority of baha'is
understand this.
Majnun.
.
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:12 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Are Baha'is allowed to debate with Covenant-Breakers???
- Replies: 133
- Views: 179010
Hi Mitch
Nice critique Mitch. Nothing is perfect in this world, but what religion are you going to pick up now ? I ask this question because your letter starts with a line mentioning that your personal choice is based on us being too "cultic" for you, so we feel so guilty, so hurt, so deeply amazed that mayb...
- Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:14 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Are Baha'is allowed to debate with Covenant-Breakers???
- Replies: 133
- Views: 179010
Pepsi in hospitals !
. Dear friends (Matt, Warrior and Keyvan, and others). Warrior you are very right concerning Pepsi. There are so many dangerous products out there, if we the people only knew the consequences, we would stop drinking or eating those things. What worries me is that Coke and Pepsi give millions of doll...