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from Unenrolled Bahai
"....back when I'd first discovered how fascinating the internet was
back in 1994. I was still fasting myself in those days..."
Paul Hammond <***@...>
Date: Sun Apr 3, 2005 3:18 am
Subject: More on Shoghification (was Re: To Larry/Karen) paulhammond2
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fast to swallow
a bit of toothpaste if you were cleaning your teeth after the sun came
up - that was
years ago when I used to read soc.religion.bahai, back when I'd first
discovered how
fascinating the internet was back in 1994. I was still fasting myself
in those days...
Anyway - this links back into the conversation we were having about
Shoghi,
because I think this micro-management goes back to his days. It was
back in
his time that people used to write to him asking him to pronounce on
the
"Baha'iness" of every little minor detail of their lives - which I
guess
was when
he started to get his secretaries to write replies to all these people
who
wanted reassurance from the top that Baha'u'llah thought everything
they
did
was AOK.
Now, as to whether Shoghi really wanted to be spending his time
offering
this kind of guidance or not is a moot point - but if he didn't, he
should
have been much more clear about telling everyone that these sort of
minor things were "between the believer and God", and he couldn't
tell them much, except that God didn't particularly care about these
piddling little details. But he didn't do that, he set people to
pronouncing
about whether the tiny amount of alcohol in vanilla cake flavourings
broke the Baha'i non-drinking law or not.
So, the people at the top of the top-down faith today are really
following
in the precedent set by Shoghi, and those believers that are
petitioning
the UHJ to pronounce on the correct Baha'i angle of adjustment to
their TV screens just think that if Shoghi would tell people about
these things then so should the UHJ.
Paul
from Unenrolled Bahai
"....back when I'd first discovered how fascinating the internet was
back in 1994. I was still fasting myself in those days..."
Paul Hammond <***@...>
Date: Sun Apr 3, 2005 3:18 am
Subject: More on Shoghification (was Re: To Larry/Karen) paulhammond2
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Where does the obsession
with "workshops", "institutes", "courses", "workbooks", and
"trainings"with "workshops", "institutes", "courses", "workbooks", and
come from? Has anyone every psychoanalyzed where this stuff is coming
from in people's psyches? I'm surprised there isn't a Baha'i Marriage
Manual available for these people where members of the UHJ teach you
how to "get it on" to conceive a child for the good of the faith as an
expansion goal of somebody's plan. It is all just that weird in the
topfrom in people's psyches? I'm surprised there isn't a Baha'i Marriage
Manual available for these people where members of the UHJ teach you
how to "get it on" to conceive a child for the good of the faith as an
expansion goal of somebody's plan. It is all just that weird in the
down micromanaged faith.
To me, the people at the top are supposed to make the trains run on
time. That is all. Pay the bills. Handle the hard questions at the
level of the world and the peace of nations. Not tell everyone on
EarthTo me, the people at the top are supposed to make the trains run on
time. That is all. Pay the bills. Handle the hard questions at the
level of the world and the peace of nations. Not tell everyone on
how to think about anything at all including whether the sun is going
to come up tomorrow. Period.
The automatons on T9 fascinate me!
Blessings!
Craig
I recall hearing a serious conversation on whether it was breaking theto come up tomorrow. Period.
The automatons on T9 fascinate me!
Blessings!
Craig
fast to swallow
a bit of toothpaste if you were cleaning your teeth after the sun came
up - that was
years ago when I used to read soc.religion.bahai, back when I'd first
discovered how
fascinating the internet was back in 1994. I was still fasting myself
in those days...
Anyway - this links back into the conversation we were having about
Shoghi,
because I think this micro-management goes back to his days. It was
back in
his time that people used to write to him asking him to pronounce on
the
"Baha'iness" of every little minor detail of their lives - which I
guess
was when
he started to get his secretaries to write replies to all these people
who
wanted reassurance from the top that Baha'u'llah thought everything
they
did
was AOK.
Now, as to whether Shoghi really wanted to be spending his time
offering
this kind of guidance or not is a moot point - but if he didn't, he
should
have been much more clear about telling everyone that these sort of
minor things were "between the believer and God", and he couldn't
tell them much, except that God didn't particularly care about these
piddling little details. But he didn't do that, he set people to
pronouncing
about whether the tiny amount of alcohol in vanilla cake flavourings
broke the Baha'i non-drinking law or not.
So, the people at the top of the top-down faith today are really
following
in the precedent set by Shoghi, and those believers that are
petitioning
the UHJ to pronounce on the correct Baha'i angle of adjustment to
their TV screens just think that if Shoghi would tell people about
these things then so should the UHJ.
Paul