-----Original Message----- I'm a little unclear why one should wait three days before fasting if arriving at a place one will stay in for a Baha'i month, while one must fast immediately if arriving at one's permanent home. Evidently it has nothing to do with recuperation before fasting, as there is nothing different in the two situations. If a person can fast immediately in the one situation, why not in the other? Is there something symbolic here that I haven't seen? David
Dear David, Regarding returning to our permanent residence versus establishing a new residence, I suspect there are several non-symbolic aspects which although not necessarily different in the two situations would probably tend to be different: 1) our ability to manage our environment appropriately in order to provide for our security and physical needs 2) our body's physical adaptation to the environment itself (previously having acquired a degree of adaptation and immunity over environmental conditions and local bacteria & etc. in local air, soil and foods) 3) our familiarity with the environment (lowering psychological stress). --- Vaughn ---------- You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.jccc.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=bahai-st news://list.jccc.net/bahai-st http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist (public) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (public)
