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O la la! About Baha'u'llah being the fulfillment of the prophecies pronounced in earlier religions, for innocent humor - O la la! and I trust Baha'u'llah himself would not mind, I recall an experience my wife and I went through when we were into the soya diet fad. We went to the common...

Profuse praise Dear G. Riggs: It's Sunday in my part of the world. And I want to tell you sincerely that I haven't read so good a sermon for so long. No, you are not a playback recording machine. So, I will impose upon you with this question, but nothing against Buddhists: Tell me...

What do you think... Welcome, Suanni. What do you think about proposing to Brian, the owner, a kind of black box where deleted posts are consigned to, but available just the same for public access? Then also in place of warnings, advisories should just be transmitted in public to...

Track records Baha'i gives me a good impression in that it does not appear in my reading materials on religion as having done this or that disruptive action in society in the course of its a little over a hundred years history. The representations of Baha'i people here make it some kind of a...

Now, talk to each other. Now, if we all believers in the one God would just learn to talk together over differences, guys like Bush and his colleagues and guys like Bin Laden and his, I am sure all of us will be happer and live longer -- before the good Lord calls us to the next phase of our...

Mysteries of religion There is a lot of exposition on Buddhism in this thread. And Vaj is very clear that Buddhism is not a meme like other religions. This position of Vaj is useful to draw the conclusion that for him Buddhism is a religion. Although Vaj does not feel like dialoguing with...

Minimum religious instructions Dear Opera: I must commend you first for the amount of work you did in reading and in typing or at least cutting and pasting with some formatting of your materials in this forum. That speaks a lot of your interest and patience and perseverance in bringing to...

I have come to bring war... Back to religion as excuse for war. An excuse is a reason to do something which otherwise is at least impolite. Thus we say, "Excuse me, I have to leave now, I am late for work." The reason must itself be at least again morally indifferent, and certainly not...

Hard of hearing About Baha'i idea of the maitreya, we have also the difficulty of people taking Buddha for a god, even though Vaj is seemingly engaged in a hopeless task to get people to see that Buddhists don't take him for a god. Consider this excerpt from the entry on Buddhism right here...

Good man, Vaj. Good man, Vaj. Buddha bless you. (There are Buddhists using that invocation.) I have to disagree with you again, that we can't dialogue. Well, perhaps not in those things you think you can't dialogue with me on. But, good man, Vaj, in this vast universe of ideas and...

Think When the child cries 'wolf' again and again, think wolf and keep watchful again and again. Cynicus Anonymus Susma Rio Sep

Giving no damn Forgive me for talking about myself. About blaming God, there was a time when I was angry with God. Now I am still angry with God, only my anger is platonic. Platonic? Yes, like there is love and there is platonic love. Now I just indulge myself and impose on His...

Aisling wants un-verbose spirituality. Dear Okie: Reading your contribution again, I mean you, do you think you could have written a more direct and concise and clear message. Please don't be offended or perturbed, but I am sure that if you were teaching a course in writing, you would not...

After the fact In my case, I pray to God for guidance, and I have a standing general prayer to the Lord to kindly and most generously always be around me everywhere I be, and whatever I be doing. In more serious matters, I say more earnest and prolonged prayers. That's the part of my...

Beware of trouble-makers. Like art in the eye of the beholder, I reckon. Thanks. Susma Rio Sep

The simple is complex. Aisling writes: For me spirituality is very simple. I see people giving very verbose definitions of the term, but I think it can be summed up in just a sentence. I see spirituality as the practice of cultivating self-awareness, and using that self-awareness to benefit...

Big Boss Well, good confreres of Baha'i, I appreciate your patience and attention to dialogue with me. Maybe I will not be able to see some people experience the same kind of perplexity and resulting conclusion I have about God's nature and man's lot. Anyway, if God being the big boss...

God the Father gives the examples. I think that in the Old Testament there is a lot of hating from God on men. Correct me, don't we read often that this or that "I abominate or abhor or even curse..."? Wasn't Cain hated by God, for being not a herdsman but a farmer? Because he offers to...

If I may... Dear Brian: What exactly is a troll in message board terms? I must confess to my utter embarrassment that I don't know. Apple is suspended. That's the good news. The bad news is that he got suspended at all. What's his violation -- if I may be curious as is always my...

Leave the morrow. What you can do tomorrow, do tomorrow; today write posts. Cynicus Anonymus Susma Rio Sep