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- Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:20 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: False Prophets
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20547
First thing that comes to mind is that anyone claiming to be a Prophet before the expiration of 1,000 years is false. (For more on this issue and the exact dates, see these threads: http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=306 , http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=1029 , and http:...
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:58 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Responding to those who take advantage of others...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10894
Hi, Richard. You mentioned in an earlier response to a spam that it's too bad registration wasn't required. Unfortunately, it is, and they have to confirm their accounts by email -- and the spammers still get in. We'll be upgrading to phpBB3 in a month or two or three, whenever it's released. It'll ...
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:33 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: 20,000 martyrs?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18161
BTW, I forgot to mention earlier that one of MacEoin's papers that mentions the topic is online at http://bahai-library.com/?file=maceoin_babism_militancy . Here's an excerpt. The footnotes won't work, for that you'll have to click on the above link. (Due to a software error, the HTML formatting of ...
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:41 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Jinn
- Replies: 12
- Views: 30672
I recommend reading the very similar thread "Do baha'is believe in Satan?" at http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=1202 . Or at least, following some of the links posted there.
-Jonah
-Jonah
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:38 am
- Forum: Non-Baha'i issues
- Topic: Please introduce yourself???
- Replies: 26
- Views: 102877
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:51 pm
- Forum: Non-Baha'i issues
- Topic: Please introduce yourself???
- Replies: 26
- Views: 102877
the baha'is disagree with politics I wouldn't say that. I would say that Baha'is think that spending too much energy focussed on contemporary politics is a waste of time, because the entire current "world order" will be "rolled up" and replaced with a better one. Also, that to prevent disunity, Bah...
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:21 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: converting!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17795
i am realy liberal, will i be accepted? I feel like observing that, as depicted in the New Testament, Jesus Christ was one of the most "liberal" people imaginable. Some random quotes, via Google: Love your enemies If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. If you would b...
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:34 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Prayer positions
- Replies: 10
- Views: 26175
Prayer positions
This is probably what you're looking for: "Long Obligatory Prayer Movements," at http://home.wanadoo.nl/arjen.nandita/start/BESTANDEN/Long%20Obligatory%20Prayer.htm . Complete with diagrams. This is a personal website, it's not something prepared by any body with any authority. But I know ...
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:36 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: membership cards!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 43510
I hope that in about three more months I'll completely banish alcohol out of my world. Yes, it can take a while, can't it... One thing that will help you on your path is knowing that many other people have found it as difficult to give up, and yet have done so. They're an inspiritation, especially ...
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:30 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Looking for Bahai friends
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8525
Email is a great way for learning about the Faith, it's a lot easier to have a running discussion. I think your best bet is the listserver called "Baha'i Discuss." I don't think you have to be a Baha'i to subscribe. You can find a list of this and other listservers at http://www.bahaindex.com/module...
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:15 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: membership cards!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 43510
Shoghi Effendi had used this practice at least once Thanks, Brett. It would be interesting to know the source, if you come across it again. I'd never heard of this particular approach -- deeming someone "not a Baha'i" -- before Michael McKenny in 1997. That statement can be found online via Google ...
- Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:41 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: membership cards!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 43510
Thanks, Abbas. I didn't think of Googling it. I see it now on Alison Marshall's site and Karen Bacquet's site. I'm going to refrain from posting (or asking Sen for permission to post) the letters from the House about him, his book Church and State , and the Kalimat Press issue. It is of interest to ...
- Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:29 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: membership cards!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 43510
in order to be Bahai they all need to have a membership card. I'm afraid that's not correct. After all, in many parts of the world there is no infrastructure to provide the necessary bureaucracy for issuing and maintaining such a card system -- or even if there is now, surely there wasn't until rec...
- Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:21 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: membership cards!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 43510
Off-topic question to Abbas: May I ask where you obtained the letter regarding Sen McGlinn which you quoted above? I have a couple PDFs on the matter but have refrained from posting them due to their personal, private nature. However, if Sen McGlinn has already shared them publicly, then that change...
- Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:59 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Beginning and End
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11282
For me, the "classic" statement on this matter is by Baha'u'llah in his "Tablet of Wisdom." From http://www.bahai-library.com/writings/bahaullah/tb/8.html : As regards thine assertions about the beginning of creation, this is a matter on which conceptions vary by reason of the divergences in men's t...
- Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:13 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Vegetarian,uncut hairs....... according to bahai faith??
- Replies: 13
- Views: 32329
Hi, Sikhsm You asked the question about hair once before, and got some useful feedback I think. See http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=1104 . An earlier thread with more on this is http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=333 You can find out the Baha'i stance on vegetarianism by...
- Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:01 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: membership cards!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 43510
There is no requirement that Baha'i administrations use membership cards, and many don't. It was a uniquely American Baha'i innovation, though one that's been adopted by many other countries. The oldest place I've ever been able to find a reference is in a letter from Shoghi Effendi about, if I reca...
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:37 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: is my bahai gf a Cov.Breaker? she disagrees with some things
- Replies: 28
- Views: 62078
I forgot, we have Lights of Guidance up at this site (thanks to Brett) and can now share it with the public (with permission of the copyright holder) at http://bahai-library.com/?file=hornby_lights_guidance . I'll post here the entire chapter on The Covenant, which should answer all your questions o...
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:40 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: is my bahai gf a Cov.Breaker? she disagrees with some things
- Replies: 28
- Views: 62078
There is definitely no "punishment" or sanctions for leaving the Faith. The only punishments are if someone (1) consistently disputes or publicly breaks Baha'i teachings while yet claiming to be a Baha'i, in which case they can lose their administrative rights, or (2) challenges the authority of the...
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:52 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: is my bahai gf a Cov.Breaker? she disagrees with some things
- Replies: 28
- Views: 62078
One personal observation of mine is that Baha'is can basically believe whatever they want without getting into trouble, so to speak, but if they try to proclaim or be pushy about any beliefs which contradict official Baha'i teachings, only then do they face possible sanctions. For example of loss of...
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:43 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Unity Of Religion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28879
You can find the dates of all these Manifestations, including Buddha and Zoroaster, probably at Wikipedia. Both were from the so-called "axis period" of circa 400-600 BC (give or take a couple centuries). These dates have been disputed, I read one Zoroastrian scholar who put Zarathustra closer to 12...
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:39 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Irfán Colloquia 2007 calendar of events
- Replies: 0
- Views: 21930
Irfán Colloquia 2007 calendar of events
<i>Note: due to a forum glitch, if you're not registered at this forum, the HTML formatting in this announcement will be messed up. If you're not registered, please do so: http://www.bahai-library.com/forum2/profile.php?mode=register . Thanks! -J.W.</i> Note: The Louhelen conference in October has ...
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:20 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Do baha'is believe in Satan?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25843
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:19 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Why are the Ringstone Symbol stars so funky looking?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15962
Yes, the ringstone symbol is flanked by two five-pointed stars: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Ringstone.jpg In that example the stars are symmetric. However, as gladtidings noted, they often are drawn lopsided as if to represent a human body. Here's some brief discussion of this shap...
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:11 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Floor Plans for Samoa and Arc?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6234
I'm afraid I don't know of anything that fits what you're looking for. But I can provide the links and citations I do have. These are from our <i>Resource Guide for Baha'i Studies,</i> which is now 9 years old, but still the best I have to offer. Click on the links themselves for the formatted versi...
- Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:23 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Proposed wording for Forum warning [was: 'Onepence?']
- Replies: 20
- Views: 69785
- Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:38 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Proposed wording for Forum warning [was: 'Onepence?']
- Replies: 20
- Views: 69785
I also believe it would be advisable to ban people (rather than only their offending remarks) who claim to be Baha'is and consistently post things contrary to the Faith Very well. We are only discussing one individual, after all, and we have deleted all of his offensive posts (usually as soon as he...
- Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:42 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Proposed wording for Forum warning [was: 'Onepence?']
- Replies: 20
- Views: 69785
Let's go for it Let's wait for more suggestions. Thus far we have two options to vote on: 1) My wording above 2) No change at all (which is my preference, since the warning I wrote above seems to me somewhat useless) Please, folks, chime in here. In, say, 1 week I'll present the options as a poll f...
- Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Proposed wording for Forum warning [was: 'Onepence?']
- Replies: 20
- Views: 69785
The views expressed by the members of this forum (especially those who claim to be Baha'is) do not necessarily reflect the teachings/principles of the Baha'i faith. OK, but I think it's misleading to limit that to this forum (which is certainly no less accurate than some "Baha'i" listservers I've b...
- Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:40 pm
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Ban
- Replies: 8
- Views: 41528
I PMed you with an answer, did you get it? Thanks, just did -- I actually hadn't seen it earlier, only because I've got a temporary email problem on the server. I'll respond here publicly. The individual's posts you pointed to -- which as you note were deleted anyway -- were not, I don't believe, b...
- Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:08 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Proposed wording for Forum warning [was: 'Onepence?']
- Replies: 20
- Views: 69785
I think your concerns are legitimate and I agree with them. BW, what do you suggest? Do you think I should put a warning note at the top of each page of the forum, and if so, what do you propose that it say? Or what other corrections/changes do you suggest? I'm happy to solicit *specific* suggestio...
- Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:35 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Ban
- Replies: 8
- Views: 41528
Yes, there are hundreds if not thousands of mods available for phpBB. I don't like to mess with them unless I have to, because not infrequently they cause their own problems -- especially with CMSs I've hacked up a bit, like this one. :-) For example I added a mod a few months ago to quarantine any ...
- Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:12 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Guru Nanak?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 95862
- Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:32 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Ban
- Replies: 8
- Views: 41528
Moderators on this site can't ban anyone for some reason. all we can do is delete their posts First, let me thank Zazaban for his help of late in keeping ads for Viagra and gambling off the forum. Zazaban has kindly agreed to assist us by deleting spam. His help at the moment is specifically that, ...
- Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:21 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Ban
- Replies: 8
- Views: 41528
If anyone on this message board purports to be a Baha'i, and yet continually posts statements that are blatantly contrary to the Baha'i Writings... I don't think "continually" need even enter into it -- if anyone claims to be a Baha'i and "blatantly" contradicts the Baha'i teachings, I would have t...
- Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:05 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Wat is diffrence between bahai and muslims?????
- Replies: 19
- Views: 48650
Hi, all. Technically, bahaism is a correct term. However, since Baha'is themselves never refer to the Baha'i Faith as "Bahaism," the term by now has come to mostly be used by those intending to criticize it. Some scholars have used "Bahaism" in academic contexts, true, but even there it was often us...
- Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:16 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Proposed wording for Forum warning [was: 'Onepence?']
- Replies: 20
- Views: 69785
I don't think Onepence has returned since expressing his disappointment on finding out that some people who post to this forum are non-Baha'is or ex-Baha'is and that I was not willing to attempt to verify membership status or post warnings (see http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?p=4946 ),...
- Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:17 pm
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Topics Relevant to Baha'i Faith,Teachings, & Sensibilit
- Replies: 5
- Views: 35856
Hi, Richard. I'm not sure what you're referring to. We only have the one category for "non-Baha'i issues." I have not deleted anything other than obvious spam in the last month or so. Do you recall what the posts were about? You can also try the search function, http://bahai-library.com/forum2/searc...
- Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:38 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Looking for a farsi translation for bias investigation.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11185
Sorry, Zazaban, I'm not able to provide any answers to this -- but I wanted to at least provide links for others. The site you're referring to is apparently http://bahairesearch.org , which is all in Farsi which I could have read a bit 10 years ago but no longer. Another site that came up in Google ...
- Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:51 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: 20,000 martyrs?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18161
This issue has received quite a bit of attention, but little of it published in a place I can point you to. First, note that the original article by MacEoin in Religion was followed by 2 follow-ups from Hatcher/Afnan and one follow-up by MacEoin. Here are the citations: <ul><li> Muhammad Afnan and W...
- Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:27 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Theses of MacEoin and Rafati
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9091
I only know of two ways to get them, but neither is guaranteed: 1) go to the archives office at USBNC in Wilmette and photocopy it (I don't know what the specific procedures are these days), or 2) go to University Microfilms and check their various search options, http://il.proquest.com/products_umi...
- Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:45 pm
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Avatar
- Replies: 5
- Views: 33931
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm sure there's an add-on for PHPBB to include avatars, but I personally don't see the value in them. Also, every time we add something we take a chance on breaking something else -- for example, last year I added a security module to sniff for spam URLs from non-register...
- Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:29 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: 120 sites chosen for Temples
- Replies: 9
- Views: 20721
- Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:43 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: God Bless America
- Replies: 16
- Views: 32856
Thank you for your thoughtful follow-up, Baha'i Warrior. I posted my thoughts with great trepidation, knowing how "radical" they might sound, especially to people who hadn't been exposed to a fuller range of facts. And truth be told, I would have thought it all impossibly radical a few years ago, to...
- Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:36 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: God Bless America
- Replies: 16
- Views: 32856
to be loyal to your country I've started and deleted responses to this thread, and to the above concept, probably 5 times in the last day. The problems for me are partly that it's such a huge, huge topic, but mostly that most North Americans, presumably Baha'is among them, <i>have never learned its...
- Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:15 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: God Bless America
- Replies: 16
- Views: 32856
I've been pondering a dozen responses all day. For now, let me just say that I don't want to discuss Bush on this forum. Politics, sure. <a href="http://physics911.net">9/11</a>, absolutely. But specific politicians, let's not. If such a political discussion does arise, I'm pretty sure we'll need to...
- Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:12 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Adding my book
- Replies: 1
- Views: 24002
- Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:36 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: New Member
- Replies: 28
- Views: 59381
First, a note to Abbas. I'm sorry that your questions were not answered fully and quickly, I think many of us regulars have been extra-busy this summer. And thank you to those who did take the time to research and respond to his questions. Abbas, please peruse the other 1000 threads and 5000 posts a...
- Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:14 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: About my resignation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9527
- Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:14 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: New Member
- Replies: 28
- Views: 59381
even if Darrick's information seems okay, logically, and sometimes accurate (exact) I discard it, because he is not a bahai Darrick may not be a Baha'i, but to the best of my knowledge (except possiby the bit about hell-fire), everything he wrote about Shaykhism is fairly standard history. (Thanks ...
- Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:58 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: New Member
- Replies: 28
- Views: 59381
Abbas, I think the best place to start is http://bahai-library.com/?file=introductory_information , where I've cross-listed some of the more useful and general overviews of the Baha'i Faith and its history. I'd like to interject a brief note about Eric's use of the phrase "dissident (ex/) Baha'i his...
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:45 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: The 1000 years to the next M.O.G. ends in 2833 and not 2863?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9000
Yeah, that surprised me when I first thought about it too. But it's been widely addressed. See this thread, <a href="http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=306">"A prophet may come before the end of a thousand years"</a> [<i>not</i> my own title]. See also that thread for links to other doc...
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:50 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: New Member
- Replies: 28
- Views: 59381
There's a fair bit of information out there, but unfortunately it's not online. First, a bibliography. At the bottom of http://bahai-library.com/books/rg/rg.biblio04.html I have this: <b>SHAYKHISM</b> Denis MacEoin's "Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in nineteenth-century <u>Sh</u>í'ism: the cases of <u>Sh<...
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:49 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Babi law....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13184
I think you'll also find some interesting bits in this article (by a non-Baha'i, I guess I should add): "From Babism to Baha'ism: Problems of Militancy, Quietism, and Conflation in the Construction of a Religion" at http://bahai-library.com/?file=maceoin_babism_militancy
-Jonah
-Jonah
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:20 pm
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Thank you to Jonah, & ? on how to email moderator(s)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 24139
Hi, Richard The post you were being notified about, I believe, was the same one I'd deleted, which must have also affected the email bounce behavior you describe. And then I deleted your follow-up post, which basically just asked what had happened and so wasn't necessary to leave online. As Brett no...
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:50 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Amazon touts anti-Israeli views,
- Replies: 18
- Views: 73132
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:46 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Should non- or ex-Baha'is be allowed; should I post warnings
- Replies: 20
- Views: 41257
Thanks for everyone's interest in the topic. I think it's time to close it. I hope all sides can agree that a wide range of opinion, from Eric's to Onepence's, has been expressed here and none of it has "censored". In the future, I might be tempted to use the delete key if conversations reach this l...
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:29 pm
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: editing posts ... 5 minute rule
- Replies: 1
- Views: 23191
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:40 pm
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: wiritng to the Administrative Order
- Replies: 6
- Views: 37306
f you wanted to create a forum for only members of the Baha'i Faith in good standing As far as I'm aware, usbnc.org is the only website that is open only to Baha'is of good standing, and in order to ensure that, the website is tied in with the complete enrollment database. Lacking that, I don't see...
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:20 pm
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: wiritng to the Administrative Order
- Replies: 6
- Views: 37306
If I choice to write a letter .... would you like a copy before I send it? Thank you, yes, if you have any feedback or questions for the Institutions regarding this website, and you're willing to share, I would be interested in reading it. Please do post it publicly, here in the "About Bahai Librar...
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:40 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Should non- or ex-Baha'is be allowed; should I post warnings
- Replies: 20
- Views: 41257
Let me clarify and emphasize my own position vis-a-vis the Faith. I'm not really being coy or secretive in wishing not to discuss or make a public statement about my own beliefs. A few years ago I wrote, and quoted above, "As a librarian and educator, my personal religious status is and must remain ...
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:29 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Baha'i Library Forum Index name change
- Replies: 4
- Views: 31934
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:26 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Judging the spiritual condition of others
- Replies: 12
- Views: 25917
<b>Note from moderator:</b> the sub-topic of this discussion, on allowing ex-Baha'is post in the forum, has been moved to http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?p=4946 . -Jonah
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:04 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Should non- or ex-Baha'is be allowed; should I post warnings
- Replies: 20
- Views: 41257
i feel duped into believing that this was a "Baha'i" site Dean, I'm sincerely sorry to have given any impressions that, you feel, misrepresented my approach, my personal beliefs, or this site. On the main page of the site it says "This site is not endorsed by any Bahá'í institution and is not affil...
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:47 am
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: wiritng to the Administrative Order
- Replies: 6
- Views: 37306
The NSA of the country where the website is located would be the proper authority. In this case, secretariat@usbnc.org. I do reside in Canada but I'm an American and, anyway, the server is housed in Florida.
-Jonah
-Jonah
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:13 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Posting items that may be unrelated to the Baha'i Faith
- Replies: 1
- Views: 21240
Posting items that may be unrelated to the Baha'i Faith
By request, I added this forum for Dean (onepence), and anyone else, who wishes to post news items that might be unrelated to the Baha'i Faith. For non-News topics also unrelated to the Baha'i Faith, by request I added another discussion forum at http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewforum.php?f=7 . -...
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:08 pm
- Forum: Non-Baha'i issues
- Topic: Discussion of matters wholly unrelated to the Baha'i Faith
- Replies: 0
- Views: 20802
Discussion of matters wholly unrelated to the Baha'i Faith
By request, I'm adding this forum for people to discuss anything they wish. Planetary science, video games, favorite foods, TV shows, or how cute your pets are. I've already added one "non-Baha'i topics" forum by request, the News forum at http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewforum.php?f=6 ...
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:06 pm
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Off topic chat section?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 31523
Sure, it's worth a try. What should we call the new forum, "Unrelated"? "Non-Baha'i"?
See http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewforum.php?f=7
See http://bahai-library.com/forum2/viewforum.php?f=7
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:26 pm
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: Off topic chat section?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 31523
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm afraid there's no way to merge the old bulletin board (see links to 1998, 1999 etc in the upper right corner) with the new forum. They're wholly incompatible systems (the old one was a file-based perl script, the new one a databased PHP script). Re a forum for stuff un...
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:23 pm
- Forum: About Baha'i Library
- Topic: have a forum for ex Baha'i views so i can avoid it
- Replies: 6
- Views: 38649
Hi, all. I have followed this topic since it was first posted. Thanks for the suggestion! I'm afraid none of us can be in a position to determine who's a Baha'i and who's not, who's "inactive" vs. who's "ex-Baha'i," etc. Plus, I don't want to provide a forum specifically for grievances against the A...