The Baha'i Studies Listserv "O sincere servant of the True One! I hear thou art grieved and distressed at the happenings of the world and the vicissitudes of fortune. Wherefore this fear and sorrow? The true lovers of the Abha Beauty, and they that have quaffed the Cup of the Covenant fear no calamity, nor feel depressed in the hour of trial. They regard the fire of adversity as their garden of delight, and the depth of the sea the expanse of heaven." (Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 309)
----- Original Message ----- From: Mark A. Foster To: Baha'i Studies Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 1:05 PM Subject: intellectual left The Baha'i Studies ListservA new paragraph I added to the Unities Model book: My faith in humanity has, for better or worse, ended. By leaving Marxism, I moved even further toward the intellectual left. As a Marxist, I naïvely believed that, by developing social solidarity (class consciousness), oppressed or marginalized peoples could, to some degree, be politically emancipated. However, the power elites of this world order, supported by many average individuals, have, I feel, taken us too far down the highway of destruction. By and large, humanity has failed to accept the Promised One of all ages. Without His Prophetic guidance, the path to liberation is, it seems to me, continuing global disintegration. --- Mark A. Foster, Ph.D., sociology of religion, theory, and clinical sociology Portal: www.markfoster.net * Critical realism: www.structurization.com Two books: www.bahaifaith.info * Clinical: www.fosterservices.com __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-641250-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
