Dear Friends,
In following this thread, I felt someone might benefit from our (my wife's and my) input. We do not watch TVthat is in NEVER. We have followed this practice since before we became Baha'is, and the reason is that it appears to us that two generations of being glued to the tube
> > If you run down the list of those Shoghi Effendi consulted with prior
> > to making his decision (the list can be found in Priceless Pearl) one
> realizes
> > just how poor the quality of Baha'is we had at this time!
>
> I disagree.
>
> 1. There was a large number of very deepened believers in
Dear Susan,
> If you run down the list of those Shoghi Effendi consulted with prior
> to making his decision (the list can be found in Priceless Pearl) one
realizes
> just how poor the quality of Baha'is we had at this time!
I disagree.
1. There was a large number of very deepened believers in
In a message dated 6/2/04 6:22:35 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<< feel the evidences of lethargy and apathy in our Baha'i
Communities is due in part, to our lamentations of the
wide-spread crisis bearing down on our global family. In
truth we should be rejoicing and p
Hi David,
I agree with others that you should be mature enough at 26 to
make your own decisions in choosing what you will and will not
view.
You should also be mature enough to evaluate how you are
affected; mentaly, physically and spiritually after viewing
violent or seductive scenes.
If I reca
In a message dated 6/1/2004 11:12:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Agreed. I should have written "a" reason; tho' when I first heard this
story, it was given as "the" reason.
Dear Don,
I think that is the way Taherzadeh depicts it as he wants to focus on Sohrab Ahmad an
At 9:55 PM -0400 6/1/04, Susan Maneck wrote:
>
>I think it was also because he wasn't terribly impressed with the quality
>and deepening of many of the Baha'is, especially the ones in the West.
>
Agreed. I should have written "a" reason; tho' when I first heard this
story, it was given as "the" r
> I think a more serious problem is that too many of these so-called people
> of capacity have egos the size of a house, and are not interested in being
> around people that do not defer to them. I have heard that this is the
> reason that Shoghi Effendi did not move toward establishi
At 12:13 AM + 6/2/04, Jim Habegger wrote:
>Dick, I think one reason you don't see people of capacity in the community
>is because they
>are badly abused by other Baha'is,
I think a more serious problem is that too many of these so-called people
of capacity have egos the s
Dick, I hope you will read what I posted to you in the other thread.
Jim
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while I see new
houses, new SUV's, new gadgets, vacations, etc. We are drowning in the
materialism around us.
Dear Dick,
Well it wouldn't hurt to bring in "people of capacity" like Bill Gates, but I doubt if that would make us less materialistic.
Thank you all for your replies. You certainly put me in my place re: people
of capacity. I see the point. Susan, I am starting work on your
hagiography and will have it on file for when He calls you home. Sorry, no
peeking - but I do mention how my keyboard glowed everytime I opened one of
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