Archive for December, 2007

According to these guys…

bahaiviews.blogspot.com has a traffic rank of: 3,902,373

Yeah, no kidding! But it has been a good year nonetheless. -gw
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According to
Baha’i Views is ranked 238,665. -gw

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Why no peace? Is it because every religion has its own God, and these gods don’t want it? Are there many deities, or only one God? Is it the gods who are the problem, or God who is behind our difficulty? Or is the culprit humankind? -gw

Maybe We Don’t Have Religious Peace Because Each Deity Requires Exclusive Worship

Listed are a few of the scriptures and their religions concerning peace.

Christianity: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.”
Confucianism: “Seek to be in harmony with all your neighbors … live in peace with your brethren.”
Buddhism: “There is no happiness greater than peace.”
Hinduism: “Without meditation, where is peace? Without peace, where is happiness?”
Islam: “God will guide men to peace. If they will heed Him, he will lead them from the darkness of war to the light of peace.”
Taoism: “The wise esteem peace and quiet above all else.”
Sikhism: “Only in the name of the Lord, do we find our peace.”
Judaism: “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He maketh even His enemies to be at peace with Him.”
Jainism: “All men should live in peace with their fellows. This is the Lord’s desire.”
Zoroastrianism: “I will sacrifice to peace, whose breath is friendly.”
Baha’i: “War is death while peace is life.”
Shinto: “Let the earth be free from trouble and men live at peace under the protection of the Divine.”

A bit of irony here. These religions have striking differences on the outside and in the eyes of others, but in their spirit they carry the same message.

Ester Davis, United Press International.
Re-posted by Zardoz X: Hope you’re well, happy and prospering.

Received this email today. -gw

dear friends, although of all Egyptian Baha’i suffering, we dedicated to the world this lovely baha’i arabic & english translated song about baha’i principles.. please forword it to ur frineds & till them it is a massage of peace to the world from Egyptian Baha’is in the new year & we still hve hope to take our rights. - basma

The heavens do indeed declare the Glory of God (Baha’u'llah), and science and religion go hand-in- hand. From gordon on my del.icio.us network I learn of this site and page. -gw

Francis Collins, the former head of the Human Genome Project, has written a book presenting his case for belief in theism. … At some point in the process (Collins identifies it as occurring ~100,000 years ago) God put a soul into a group of hominids, creating modern humans.

New Baha’i music from Louisiana. Thanks to nevin on my del.icio.us network, I learned of this group today. -gw

Religious / Acoustic / R&B * “The new album is here!”
Hey! We are TaliaSafa, A.K.A. Talia Johnson and Safa Paulson. We’ve whipped out an album at lightning speed. It only took us 9 years!

This album has an eclectic mix of song styles and feature many talented musicians. The songs all come from the sacred texts of the Bahá’í Faith

The Sherlock Holmes Review Vol 3, No. 1, is up for bid on eBay. One of the articles: “Sherlock Holmes and the Baha’i Faith.”
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I do a keywork search to find out more on this relationship and come up with this. -gw
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The following is a script by a young Baha’i Ben Roskams, a 12 year old (in 1995) from Cardiff, Wales, UK. It was the first prize in his schools drama competition and was performed, with Ben as Holmes, in front of his school and visitors.
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http://bahai-library.org/fiction/sailors.problem.html
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NARRATOR: The characters in this play are completely fictional, but the Prisoner of Akka is real. He lived between 1817 and 1892.

An excerpt from a post about a Baha’i philosopher in Greek. It just seems all so appropriate somehow. -gw

Ας επανέλθουμε όμως στον Dr. Hatcher, ο οποίος παρουσίασε τις σκέψεις του για τον Θεό σε μια σειρά συζητήσεων-διαλέξεων που οργάνωσε ο εκπαιδευτικός οργανισμός Baha’i, στην Columbia των Η.Π.Α.

Εκεί λοιπόν, ο κ. Hatcher, ο οποίος δηλώνει «πλατωνιστής» παρουσίασε τη δικιά του μαθηματική απόδειξη της ύπαρξης του Θεού. Ο ίδιος δήλωσε ότι βασίστηκε κατά κύριο λόγο στην λογική του Αβικέννα για τις σχέσεις μεταξύ των αντικειμένων, παρά στην αριστοτελική που βασίζεται στην μελέτη των ιδιοτήτων τους.

Seagull, Μια μαθηματική απόδειξη της ύπαρξης του Θεού, Daily Bugle

From bahaindex.com I learn of great Baha’i reseources, many of which are totally new to me, such as . -gw

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Kevin makes a trip to Israel and is using his blog as a way to keep his friends and family informed. He visits Haifa. -gw
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The Baha’i are a 100-some year old religion that is supposedly the most dispersed religion in the world. I don’t know much about their practices, but they believe in a universal oneness, respecting of all religions, universal education, equality of the sexes, and much more. They have these gardens in Haifa, which is the center of their religion, that include 18 well-groomed terraces and a huge Shrine in the middle. Located on top of a hill, the gardens overlook the city of Haifa and into the Mediterranean Sea. The gardens are beautiful and peaceful and if anyone is in Haifa I would highly suggest seeing them.

Kevin, “Chofesh Part 1,” Israel