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<title><![CDATA[Money To Burn]]></title>
<link>http://amzuri.wordpress.com/?p=478</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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CNN: Zimbabwe introduces $100 billion banknotes
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<b>CNN:</b> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/19/zimbabwe.banknotes/" target="_blank"><u>Zimbabwe introduces $100 billion banknotes</u></a><br />
Each bill "...can buy only four oranges. The new note is equal to just one U.S. dollar."<br />
"...the official inflation rate now at 2.2 <u>million</u> percent."<br />
"The new bills are actually bearer checks and have an expiration date of December 31."</p>
<p><b>BBC</b>: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7515823.stm" target="_blank"><u>Zimbabwe introduces Z$100bn note</u></a><br />
"Zimbabwe's meltdown has left at least <u>80%</u> of the population in poverty, facing mass shortages of basic goods."<br />
From a resident: "So Z$100 billion can't do anything because for me to go home I need Z$250 billion, so this [note] is worthless."<br />
"Zimbabwe was once one of the richest countries in Africa."<br />
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Stunning in its sadness and surrealism <b>. . .</b></p>
<p>What causes such gross failure?</p>
<p>Why does it seem the haves could care less about the have-nots?</p>
<p>What does it take for people to realize that we're <u>all</u> people?</p>
<p>Ever wonder how long the masses are going to take these sinister lies they're being told?</p>
<p>Of course, making people starve is a very old technique used by oppressors. The oppressors don't even have to live in the same country as the sufferers, especially in our global home.</p>
<p>Makes me want to cry <b>. . .</b></p>
<p><font color="#663366">"The dragon, symbol of heaven, comes to fight the false dragon that symbolized the inflation of the earth principle."</font><br />
<font size="2">I Ching<br />
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<font color="#663366">"Nations, though exhausted and disillusioned, have seemingly begun to cherish anew the spirit of revenge, of domination, and strife. Peoples, convulsed by economic upheavals, are slowly drifting into two great opposing camps with all their menace of social chaos, class hatreds, and worldwide ruin. Races, alienated more than ever before, are filled with mistrust, humiliation and fear, and seem to prepare themselves for a fresh and fateful encounter. Creeds and religions, caught in this whirlpool of conflict and passion, appear to gaze with impotence and despair at this spectacle of unceasing turmoil."</font><br />
<font size="2">Shoghí Effendí, <i>Bahá'í Administration</i>, p. 67</p>
<p><font size="3"><font color="#663366">"Today, the agency on whom has devolved the task of creating this framework and of liberating the promotion of human rights from those who would exploit it is the system of international institutions born out of the tragedies of two ruinous world wars and the experience of worldwide economic breakdown. Significantly, the term 'human rights' has come into general use only since the promulgation of the United Nations Charter in 1945 and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights three years later. In these history-making documents, formal recognition has been given to respect for social justice as a correlative of the establishment of world peace. The fact that the Declaration passed without a dissenting vote in the General Assembly conferred on it from the outset an authority that has grown steadily in the intervening years."</font><br />
<font size="2">Bahá'í International Community, 1995 Mar 03, <i>The Prosperity of Humankind</i><br />
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<title><![CDATA[Iran: Death to non-Muslims]]></title>
<link>http://islamoscope.wordpress.com/?p=186</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers in Iran are considering a proposal to make the death penalty automatic for those who leave]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lawmakers in Iran are considering a proposal to make the death penalty automatic for those who leave the Muslim faith.</p>
<p align="left">Abe Ghafari of <a title="Iranian Christians International, Inc." href="http://www.iranchristians.org/" target="_blank">Iranian Christians International, Inc.</a> (ICI) was at least a little surprised to learn the news. "Before, it was like an option that an Islamic judge could decide to use or not to use -- but now it will become an automatic thing. And from the language of the legislation, it seems like something that cannot be appealed," Ghafari contends.</p>
<p>The death penalty would primarily apply to those who convert to the Christian faith. "There are large numbers of conversions from Islam, maybe even in the tens of thousands every year, and this is causing concern in the Islamic circles in Iran," Ghafari explains.</p>
<p>People who use the Internet to convert people away from the Muslim faith will also be subject to the death penalty. Ghafari was asked if this information shocked him. "Yes, it does a bit because we do know that under Islamic law of Iran, there was always this option of issuing death penalties for any conversions from Islam. So this was already available, but it looks like they just want to escalate persecution – making the death penalty almost automatic for anyone who converts from Islam," Ghafari adds.</p>
<p>While Christians are the primary target, anyone converting to the Bahá'í faith will also face the death penalty. Ghafari sees trouble ahead, and is hopeful Christians everywhere will pray for the underground church in Iran.</p>
<p>Information on legislation provided by ICI about Iranian apostasy and the death penalty is available <a title="here" href="http://www.iranchristians.org/conference.shtml" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Our Ruined Earth]]></title>
<link>http://amzuri.wordpress.com/?p=453</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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My focus today is what&#8217;s wrong in Our Family&#8217;s Home . . .
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<p><font size="3">My focus today is what's wrong in Our Family's Home <b>. . .</b></p>
<p>From the <a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment" target="_blank"><u>Environment Section of AlterNet</u></a>:</p>
<p><font size="2"><b>Why Our Food Waste May Be Our Greatest Asset</b><br />
Composting is key to reducing waste costs, cutting global warming emissions, and increasing urban food security.</p>
<p><b>Time to Face the Hard Realities of a Global Energy Crisis</b><br />
America needs a comprehensive plan to deal with post-peak oil -- and that is going to involve some serious long-term thinking.</p>
<p><b>Get Ready for the Post-SUV World!</b><br />
SUVs and big pickups are waddling off into the sunset, leaving Americans with no more excuses for the nation's profligate oil use.</p>
<p><b>Global Warming's Twin Evil: Wildfires and Drought</b><br />
The 850 fires burning in California alone should be a wake up call that we're unprepared for rapid climate change.<br />
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All this and much more on <a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment" target="_blank"><u>AlterNet's Site . . .</u></a></p>
<p>And, absorb this wonderful, educational, and surprising video: <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_keith_s_surprising_ideas_on_climate_change.html" target="_blank"><i><u>"Solving" climate change</i> from David Keith.</u><br />
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<p>What's driven our Family to this Crisis?</p>
<p>What can we actually do?</p>
<p>How much of the Crisis is manageable?</p>
<p>What needs to occur in political circles to make change actually happen?</p>
<p>Why in the world, <u>considering that the environmental problem was already a concern in the 1950's</u>, have we let it get this bad?</p>
<p>Will prayer help?</p>
<p>Will war help? ( That's a trick question. Just seeing if you're paying attention... ;-) )</p>
<p><i><b>What in the World <u>can</u> We DO !?!</b></i></p>
<p>I'd <font color="blue"><b>Love</b></font> to see your thoughts and feelings in the comments . . .</p>
<p>Today's quote is from <a href="http://amzuri.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/1990-aug-06-environment-development.doc" target="_blank"><u>ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: Statement to the first substantive session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)</u></a>:</p>
<p><font color="#663366">"The principle of the unity of mankind naturally implies the need for world peace and security. The World Commission on Environment and Development observed in its report that world peace and security are central to sustainable development. The Bahá'í International Community agrees that as long as the specter of war continues to dominate international relations, the well-being of the human race and the environment will continue to erode. It is the Bahá'í view that the root cause of all war and injustice is the failure to recognize the fundamental oneness of the human race. Acceptance of the principle of oneness will induce the willingness to uncover and permanently resolve all other causes for conflict. Indeed, it must be the foundation for any serious attempt to find ways of living in harmony with our environment and each other."</font><br />
<font size="1">Bahá'í International Community, 1990 Aug 06, <i>Environment Development</i><br />
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[(ANSA) - PARIGI, 15 LUG - I baha&#8217;i, adepti di una religione monoteista  perseguitata in Iran, ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-40 alignleft" src="http://lafedebahaiinitalia.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/ansa.jpg" alt="" width="234" height="50" />(ANSA) - PARIGI, 15 LUG - I baha'i, adepti di una religione monoteista  perseguitata in Iran, hanno vinto una lunga battaglia. I loro due luoghi sacri  che si trovano in Israele sono stati iscritti nella lista del patrimonio  mondiale dell'umanita' dell'Unesco. Si tratta di luoghi di pellegrinaggio  circondati da giardini, con le tombe dei fondatori della fede baha'i, Baha'ullah  e Bab. La religione baha'i fu fondata a meta' del 1800 in Iran. Oggi gli adepti  sono oltre 6 milioni.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[A Bahá'í Symbol...]]></title>
<link>http://myriadlives.wordpress.com/?p=151</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&#39;The Ringstone Symbol&#39;
I have a ring which I bought in Tehran engraved with an emblem Bah]]></description>
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<p>I have a ring which I bought in Tehran engraved with an emblem <a href="http://www.bahai.org/">Bahá'ís</a> call the 'ringstone' symbol. It is from a design created by `<a href="http://info.bahai.org/abdulbaha.html">Abdu'l-Bahá</a> and comprises two stars and a calligraphic rendition of the Arabic word 'Bahá' or 'Glory'. The lower line symbolises the world of Humanity, the upper line represents God, and the middle line symbolises the <a href="http://info.bahai.org/article-1-4-0-3.html"><em>'Manifestation of God'</em></a>. The vertical line can be seen as the Divine Will (or <em>'Holy Spirit'</em>) issuing from God via the Manifestation of God to Humanity. Thus the Manifestation of God is the vital link between the divine and mortal worlds.`Abdu'l-Bahá wrote</p>
<blockquote><p>'The Divine Reality is Unthinkable, Limitless, Eternal, Immortal and Invisible. The world of creation is bound by natural law, finite and mortal. The Infinite Reality cannot be said to ascend or descend. It is beyond the understanding of man, and cannot be described in terms which apply to the phenomenal sphere of the created world. Man, then, is in extreme need of the only Power by which he is able to receive help from the Divine Reality, that Power alone bringing him into contact with the Source of all life. An intermediary is needed to bring two extremes into relation with each other. Riches and poverty, plenty and need: without an intermediary power there could be no relation between these pairs of opposites. So we can say there must be a Mediator between God and Man, and this is none other than the Holy Spirit, which brings the created earth into relation with the 'Unthinkable One', the Divine Reality. The Divine Reality may be likened to the sun and the Holy Spirit to the rays of the sun. As the rays of the sun bring the light and warmth of the sun to the earth, giving life to all created beings, so do the 'Manifestations' bring the power of the Holy Spirit from the Divine Sun of Reality to give light and life to the souls of men'.</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[Folksonomy: optimizing soul searching]]></title>
<link>http://oceanflynn.wordpress.com/?p=438</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Maureen Flynn-Burhoe</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Washington Post&#39;s blog On Faith: which world religions get excluded?
When I began to become enra]]></description>
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<p>When I began to become enraptured with Web 2.0 I wanted to find ways to use intelligent, emerging instruments from the semantic web to continually improve findability and search optimization of resources I had gathered over many years, even if my own PC broke down and all my back up systems failed, and my own memory became faulty, or . . . I had hoped that blogging would help me remember where I put things that might someday be useful again.</p>
<p>The catalyst for "Folksonomy: optimizing soul searching" was a question regarding how absent categories impose their presence through their very absence. Faced with closed field category/subcategory options offered by Digg for example, under which I had to place my article, etc I struggled between philosophy or society, finance or economics, environment or politics. </p>
<p>I have also found it enlightening to find under which categories my own Creative Commons blogs, articles, posts and images might appear. </p>
<p>As my own sites grow organically, my categories and parent categories constantly need to be reformulated; new tags added and others deleted or merged. The goal is efficiency and elegance in the ungainly word of "findability" or search engine optimization, potent instruments in the semantic web.</p>
<p>At times I am frustrated by the absence of categories that exclude entire populations and conversations. Recently I came across a site hosted by the <em>Washington Post</em>. In their About page they describe how they use the limitless space of the online world to host a blog entitled "<a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/2006/11/about_on_faith/comments.html" target="_blank">On Faith</a>" which invites "intelligent, informed, eclectic, respectful,fruitful, intriguing and constructive conversation-among specialists and generalists about the things that matter most, religion, the most ancient of forces, the most pervasive yet "least understood topic in global life." </p>
<p>I read comments and the post from David Grant, a junior at Virginia Tech who <a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/faithbook/2008/06/am_i_a_bahai.html">commenting on his visit to the Baha'i gardens in Haifa,</a>Israel-Palestine (which has recently been named as an International Heritage Site) remarking on the broad reach of the Baha'i religion. "Where else on Earth could you find a family from the Bible Belt, a pair of South Africans currently working in Japan, and a crew of Peruvians all heading to say their prayers at the same spot?" </p>
<p>I wanted to search "On Faith" for more strings on the Baha'i but realized that Baha'i World Faith was not offered in their pop-up menu of "List Posts by Topics" which did include: Anglican, Atheist/Agnostic, Buddhist, Catholic, Christian, Earth-based Spirituality, Eastern Orthodox, Episcopal, Evangelical, Greek Orthodox, Hindu, Jewish, Mainline Protestant, Mormon, Muslim, Native American religion, Protestant, Quaker, Sikh, Taoist, Wiccan. </p>
<p>As of February 2008 there were 5,000,000 Baha'is in the world and <a href="http://www.bahai.us/bahai-statistics" target="_blank">159,692 Baha’is in the United States</a>.   I couldn't find a figure for either Taoist or Wiccans but one site at least claimed that in 2001 there were c. <a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_nbr3.htm" target="_blank">34,000 Wiccans</a> in the US.</p>
<p>Baha'is promote tolerance and moderation and are anxiously concerned with the social issues of the time in which they live. Baha'is around the globe contribute to civil society at locally, regionally, nationally levels on issues and programs related to World Religion Day, interfaith relations, religious freedom, Race Unity Day, race unity, elimination of prejudice, advancement of women (CEDAW), human rights, among others. Baha'is have offices at United Nations as NGO are are prominent in international forums as invited participants acknowledged for civil moderate behaviour in the most volatile situations.  Recently the U.S. Bahá’í U.N. representative Jeffery Huffines received a <a href="http://www.bahai.us/bahai-un-representative-receives-award" target="_blank">Friendship Award</a> for his work “promoting cultural understanding throughout the world and at the UN Headquarters” and for serving as a “positive, guiding force” to all. It is surprising that Baha'is seem to be largely absent from this forum.</p>
<p>The categories offered under "List Posts by Topics" are confusing since some are parent categories for the others. The Greek Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants and Evangelical are all followers of Christ and are all therefore Christians. Which discussions take place solely under the name of Anglican, Mainline Protestants and Episcopal? In terms of the semantic web it would be far more useful to provide a theme-based "List of Topics" that is inclusive of all the groups and religions mentioned.  Tags could be used to facilitate searches for a Quaker, Sikh or Baha'i or Catholic perspective, for example. I would recommend that the blog architects revisit and update their taxonomy using principles of folksonomy: what users do with words.</p>
<p>Years of working with research materials leads to a way of thinking with categories, subcategories; key words (tags); abstracts, descriptions, key concepts, timelines, references in .eml or similar formats. The semantic web revs up that process with powerful tools. So my blogs are always a work in progress, process works. </p>
<p>My own personal blogs are experimental and while I am very conscientious about what is here, I can claim no professional authority in any one field. </p>
<p>At this time in my life I feel as if I live outside linear time. Blog stats soar up suddenly for no apparent reason on a blog posted weeks or month ago. So I tidy it up a little. Then the graph drops sharply again with no apparent reason. I don't need to try to control it. </p>
<p>Outside linear time, I could just pick up threads begun months ago on Milton Friedman, the social history of Inuit, media objectivity or what we do in the name of such concepts as "memory work" or "everyday life." Through creative commons I could share all my teaching, learning and research resources without having to shorten them, tidy them up or make them ready for someone else's deadline. Take what you need and leave the rest. I would still work as hard as I could to maintain my own standards particularly in investigating , acknowledging and referencing sources of information, images, etc.</p>
<p>As I am creating, writing, coding, snurling, twittering, blogging, and uploading to wikipedia, social bookmark accounts, my blogs or others' etc I have absolutely no trust in anyone. </p>
<p>I post knowing that anything I have shared can be misinterpreted, misunderstood, misread. It can be rejected, ignored, criticized. It can be copied and pasted without my name attached. I license all my work under the Creative Commons License 3.0 SA-NC-BY but I know it cannot be enforced in most cases.</p>
<p>So why bother?</p>
<p>What I do is not based on my need to trust others in cyberspace. I do not feel as though I am an embodied link in an embodied network in linear time and space.</p>
<p>This is even more than that. If I use the semantic web effectively, a searcher who is not "now" from a geographic location that is not "here" can still find my arrows, my markers, hotwords and icons, index-mouse-clicks that might just help them a little in their search. Maybe I will be that searcher.</p>
<p>It is more important to me to work hard at providing information that is not misinformation, trying hard to be as close to the truth as is possible, to use the most powerful arguments from the most reliable texts available to me at any given time.</p>
<p>I am not an anthropologist nor a journalist; I am definitely not a churnalist. My responsibility to me and therefore to others in this network or not, is to post that which I believe to be useful in a way that allows others to follow a trail of truth claims should they choose.</p>
<p>Thirteen years ago Francis Fukuyama in <em>Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity</em> (1995) questioned predictions that the Internet, the computer to computer communication network, unleashed from restrictions imposed by its creator, the Department of Defense, would herald a new organizational network constituted by small firms and individuals that would prove to be superior to large, hierarchical corporations and anarchical market relationships (Fukuyama 1995:195). Fukuyama argued that network efficiency depended on reciprocal moral judgment [1], "a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms and ethical behaviour between network members (Fukuyama 1995:195)." He contrasted the necessity of that network users share social responsibilities and obligations with hackers and other users who were "free spirits hostile to any form of authority . . . vulnerable to certain forms of normlessness and asocial behaviour."</p>
<p>Fukuyama furthered argued that the Internet is a community of shared values using the concept similar to Shumpei Kumon's notion of "consensus/inducement-based exchange." He felt that Internet users in the 1970s and 1980s (mainly government and academic researchers) internalized unquestioned shared values. The Internet could be kept low-cost if users respected certain ethical standards.</p>
<p>In 1994 two lawyers broke the Internet's code of ethics and bombarded news groups with advertisements for their services (Fukuyama 1995:196). The lawyers were not breaking any written laws and were not shamed into retreat. However, the sheer quantity of hate mail they receive, forced their server shut down.</p>
<p>Although the monitization of all things Internet is well underway, there is also exponential growth in cyberworld capital [2] which like cultural capital or academic capital can facilitate access to certain privileges. I am aware of ways in which users of social networking sites strategize to optimize search engine findability, to increase their hits, statistics, and cyberworld capital.</p>
<p>I am not certain if the success in accumulating cyberworld capital or monitizing all things Internet is made more efficient by trust?</p>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<p>1. Fukuyama compares network as community concept to the Japanese concept of <em>keiretsu</em> and its western reincarnation in American conglomerates like Gulf + West + ITT. <em>keiretsu </em>depends on a high level of trust.</p>
<p>2. Some measure cyberworld capital in terms such as "authority" as with Technorati. Others self-identify as A1bloggers.</p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Writings of the Baha&#8217;i faith say: &#8220;Blessed is the spot, and the house, and the place]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Writings of the Baha'i faith say: "Blessed is the spot, and the house, and the place, and the city, and the heart, and the mountain, and the refuge, and the cave, and the valley, and the land, and the sea, and the island, and the meadow where mention of God hath been made, and His praise glorified. --Bahá'u'lláh</p>
<p>One of the images I scanned during the past four weeks was processed in a special way. I took the photograph through a deep magenta filter. Although it was 35 mm slide film I developed the film as if it were a negative. The photographer's term for that is cross processing. Insofar as visible light is concerned magenta and green are opposites. This is a detail of the image as it looked in the preview scan.</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/scs19rawscan1.jpg"><img style="border-width:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/scs19rawscan1-thumb.jpg" alt="scs19RawScan1" width="313" height="364" /></a></p>
<p>Similar to most of my other older images, this slide also had considerable damage in addition to fading and color degradation. The hexagons are an effect of lens flare which comes from pointing toward the light source without using a lens shade to reduce flare (it was deliberate). I configured the <em>Vuescan</em> program to restore fading and colors. The end result revealed colors that I had only imagined but didn't really exist in the original photograph. This shows the first glimmerings of sunrise near Crystal Springs Lake 15 miles south of San Francisco.</p>
<p>Say: O friends! Drink your fill from this crystal stream that floweth through the heavenly grace of Him Who is the Lord of Names.<br />
Bahá'u'lláh, <em>Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh</em></p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/scs19scan-080619-m5.jpg"><img style="border-width:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/scs19scan-080619-m5-thumb.jpg" alt="SCS19Scan-080619-M5" width="364" height="243" /></a></p>
<p>This detailed section shows what looks very similar to a painter's brush strokes. It is, in fact, an unchanged and unretouched part of the original photograph. I developed a technique for doing this in the camera, the darkroom, and sometimes with the aid of an optical slide copier that I built out of spare parts. It was in the mid-1970's when digital image processing did not even exist.</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/scs19scandetail.jpg"><img style="border-width:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/scs19scandetail-thumb.jpg" alt="scs19ScanDetail" width="404" height="261" /></a></p>
<p>O thou dear one! Impoverish thyself, that thou mayest enter the high court of riches; and humble thy body, that thou mayest drink from the river of glory, and attain to the full meaning of the poems whereof thou hadst asked.</p>
<p><em>Thus it hath been made clear that these stages depend on the vision of the wayfarer.</em> In every city he will behold a world, in every Valley reach a spring, in every meadow hear a song. But the falcon of the mystic heaven hath many a wondrous carol of the spirit in His breast, and the Persian bird keepeth in His soul many a sweet Arab melody; yet these are hidden, and hidden shall remain.<br />
Bahá'u'lláh, The Seven Valleys</p>
<p>This image felt dull to me so I had almost discarded it. Its title is Angels on a Ladder of Light.</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb09angelonladderoflight.jpg"><img style="border-width:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb09angelonladderoflight-thumb.jpg" alt="SLB09AngelOnLadderOfLight" width="364" height="248" /></a></p>
<p>I rescanned it last week to restore its original colors. It still needs a little work but now it's a little closer to what I wanted to convey.</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb09angelonladderoflight-m52.jpg"><img style="border-right:0;border-top:0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb09angelonladderoflight-m5-thumb2.jpg" alt="SLB09AngelOnLadderOfLight-M5" width="364" height="243" /></a></p>
<p>By pure serendipity I often come home with photographs that have exactly nine things in them, birds, flowers, trees or people. It's actually just a fortuitous accident when it happens. Here is a recent photograph I took of nine birds.</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb51blueluminous-m5.jpg"><img style="border-width:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb51blueluminous-m5-thumb.jpg" alt="slb51blueluminous-m5" width="364" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Say: Through the ascendancy of God, the All-Knowing, the Incomparable, the Luminary of divine understanding hath, in this day, risen from behind the veil of the spirit, and the birds of every meadow are intoxicated with the wine of knowledge and exhilarated with the remembrance of the Friend. Well is it with them that discover and hasten unto Him!<br />
Bahá'u'lláh, <em>Tabernacle of Unity</em></p>
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<link>http://enochsvision.wordpress.com/?p=327</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Baha&#8217;i Writings say of this day:
&#8220;By the righteousness of Mine own Self! Great, imme]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Baha'i Writings say of this day:</p>
<p>"By the righteousness of Mine own Self! Great, immeasurably great is this Cause! Mighty, inconceivably mighty is this Day! Blessed indeed is the man that hath forsaken all things, and fastened his eyes upon Him Whose face hath shed <strong>illumination</strong> upon all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth."<br />
-- Baha'u'llah, <em>Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah</em></p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/pat14sunrise-sancarlos-m5-3.jpg"><img style="border-width:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/pat14sunrise-sancarlos-m5-3-thumb.jpg" alt="pat14sunrise-sancarlos-m5-3" width="364" height="257" /></a></p>
<p>Someone wrote me just yesterday: "<em>The use of light in your pictures of birds makes me feel that I have stepped into the Abha Kingdom</em>."</p>
<p>The translation of the word Abha is The Most Glorious, or more simply the metaphysical world, the world of the soul, what many people refer to conventionally as "heaven."</p>
<p>I was deeply moved and grateful for their reaction to my photographs. The entire purpose of my bird images is precisely what they stated, namely a feeling, however inadequate, of holiness that words cannot convey. The photography process itself is a meditative act for me. I often achieve a semi-detached mental state when I'm using Photoshop. The process is very abstracted because much of the time I'm only looking at a tiny portion of an image. Thus all I see at that moment are a microcosm of subtle shades and tones that are essentially formless. It's a contemplative process that paradoxically requires both concentration and a release of concentration to whatever flows naturally and easily. That is the meditative aspect of image processing for me. Because I use a pressure sensitive cordless pen instead of a conventional mouse, my movements and actions are very natural and easy.</p>
<p>As an example I might be looking at something like this:</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb48scan-080704-m5top-left.jpg"><img style="border-width:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb48scan-080704-m5top-left-thumb.jpg" alt="SLB48Scan-080704-M5Top-Left" width="404" height="251" /></a></p>
<p>Here's the entire image (greatly reduced):</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb48scan-080704-m5-var1.jpg"><img style="border-right:0;border-top:0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb48scan-080704-m5-var-thumb1.jpg" alt="slb48scan-080704-m5-var" width="364" height="247" /></a></p>
<p>Although conventional wisdom tells us to have the sun over our shoulders when we take pictures I do just the opposite of that. I let sunlight pour through the birds and aim right for the light source. Technically that's called <em>transillumination</em> or more prosaically just <em>backlighting</em>.</p>
<p>It's the song that is really important here much more than any of the images. Beauty comes from the music written and sung by Susan Lewis Wright.<br />
<a title="Light Birds Video" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU4eUEidG8A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU4eUEidG8A</a></p>
<p>Of course, my signature line sums my purpose up very succinctly. It sums up the purpose every Baha'i has when they create music, images, poetry or other writing, and arts or crafts:</p>
<p>"Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object."<br />
-- Joseph Campbell</p>
<p>"Blessed are those who have fixed their gaze on the realm of glory and have followed the commandments of the Lord of Names. Blessed is he who in the days of God will engage in handicrafts. This is a bounty from God, for in this Most Great Dispensation it is acceptable in the sight of God for man to occupy himself in a trade which relieveth him of depending upon charity. The craft of every craftsman is regarded as worship."<br />
-- Bahá'u'lláh, <em>from a Tablet - translated from the Persian</em></p>
<p>"O thou servant of the One true God! In this universal dispensation man's wondrous craftsmanship is reckoned as worship of the Resplendent Beauty. Consider what a bounty and blessing it is that craftsmanship is regarded as worship. In former times, it was believed that such skills were tantamount to ignorance, if not a misfortune, hindering man from drawing nigh unto God. Now consider how His infinite bestowals and abundant favours have changed hell-fire into blissful paradise, and a heap of dark dust into a luminous garden.</p>
<p>"It behoveth the craftsmen of the world at each moment to offer a thousand tokens of gratitude at the Sacred Threshold, and to exert their highest endeavour and diligently pursue their professions so that their efforts may produce that which will manifest the greatest beauty and perfection before the eyes of all men."<br />
"<em>Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá</em>"</p>
<p>This is part three of a series of four articles. Click to read part <a href="http://enochsvision.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/through-a-scanner-brightly-part-1/" target="_self">1</a> or <a href="http://enochsvision.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/through-a-scanner-brightly-part-2/" target="_self">2</a>.</p>
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<link>http://enochsvision.wordpress.com/?p=320</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Writings of the Baha&#8217;i Faith say:
&#8220;Thankful, the birds of the spirit seek only to fl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Writings of the Baha'i Faith say:<br />
"Thankful, the birds of the spirit seek only to fly in the high heavens and to sing out their songs with wondrous art." — ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, <em>Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá</em></p>
<p>Last month I began scanning many of my older photographs in addition to more than 120 images that I had not been able to successfully scan before. I scanned a total of 210 images. Most of my film scans were done between six and ten years ago. Now I have more knowledge of how to scan film, better hardware, and <strong><a href="http://www.hamrick.com/" target="_blank">Vuescan</a></strong>, a much better scanning program than any of those that are bundled with film scanners. Six years ago the earliest versions of Vuescan were very simple and provided only the most basic settings. Now Vuescan has a very detailed and well written manual and a wealth of settings. Vuescan is very versatile and has versions that run on Windows (all versions), Linux and Macs.</p>
<p>This was my original scan of an image I titled <em>Magenta Web</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/sgg13magentaweb.jpg"><img style="border-right:0;border-top:0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/sgg13magentaweb-thumb.jpg" alt="SGG13MagentaWeb" width="364" height="249" /></a></p>
<p>The new scan brings out the true vibrant colors of the original 35 mm slide.</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/sgg13magentaweb-m5.jpg"><img style="border-right:0;border-top:0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/sgg13magentaweb-m5-thumb.jpg" alt="sgg13magentaweb-m5" width="364" height="249" /></a></p>
<p>This is an example of the details that are barely visible in an image that must be greatly reduced in size for a Web page.</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/sgg13detail.jpg"><img style="border-right:0;border-top:0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/sgg13detail-thumb.jpg" alt="sgg13detail" width="404" height="319" /></a></p>
<p>My scans cover so much detail that they take approximately 20 minutes each to complete. Each one is roughly equivalent to what you might obtain if you had a 42 Megapixel digital camera. In real life, no such camera exists yet. (The human eye's resolution is equivalent to a 576 megapixel camera.) Scan dimensions can be as wide as 5400 pixels by 8100 pixels. Individual scans can contain up to 285 MB of data each which is roughly equivalent to what 12,000 typical Web page images contain. Unfortunately that also means that they capture every bit of dust, every flaw, scratch and damage on the film. All of my film pictures were damaged (see <a href="http://enochsvision.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/through-a-scanner-brightly-part-1/">Part 1</a> for details). The scanner also makes an infrared pass over the film's surface. Physical imperfections show up as shadows on the infrared channel. That enables the combination of the scanner's firmware and <strong>Vuescan </strong>to repair them. The scanner incorporates recovery technology licensed from Kodak. You can see some of the damage to my image, <em>The Serene Pilgrim</em>, below:</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb27rawscan0.jpg"><img style="border-right:0;border-top:0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb27rawscan0-thumb.jpg" alt="slb27RawScan0" width="404" height="282" /></a></p>
<p>This was what the old scan looked like.</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb27theserenepilgrim.jpg"><img style="border-right:0;border-top:0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb27theserenepilgrim-thumb.jpg" alt="SLB27TheSerenePilgrim" width="364" height="252" /></a></p>
<p>The new scan now shows the subtle colors that are really present in my original photograph. Vuescan eliminated all the damage so it required only minimal post processing in Photoshop.</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/slb27theserenepilgrim-m5-var1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-350" src="http://enochsvision.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/slb27theserenepilgrim-m5-var1.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="360" height="243" /></a></p>
<p>Here is another example from one of my most abstract photographs. It's an image of emotional turmoil. This was the original scan done six years ago. I never displayed it in my Web galleries because I didn't like its colors. It was nothing like what I visualized when I took the photograph. I haven't titled this image yet.</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb41scan-080615-m5-orig.jpg"><img style="border-right:0;border-top:0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb41scan-080615-m5-orig-thumb.jpg" alt="SLB41Scan-080615-M5-Orig" width="364" height="244" /></a></p>
<p>This is what the image is supposed to look like. Vuescan was able to restore its badly faded colors.</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb41scan-080615-roc-m5-var.jpg"><img style="border-right:0;border-top:0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/slb41scan-080615-roc-m5-var-thumb.jpg" alt="slb41scan-080615-roc-m5-var" width="364" height="242" /></a></p>
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<link>http://amzuri.wordpress.com/?p=311</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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For far too long, women have been irreverenced by men:
When she was still a child her father se]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_d0xDpj3wQFc/R9wM8UhBiOI/AAAAAAAACF4/GPbziLdmxVE/s1600-h/softpinkstarneb2006-01-d-large_web.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" style="float:left;cursor:pointer;width:531px;height:253px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_d0xDpj3wQFc/R9wM8UhBiOI/AAAAAAAACF4/GPbziLdmxVE/s400/softpinkstarneb2006-01-d-large_web.jpg" border="0" alt="SpacePlasma" /></a></p>
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<p><font size="3"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">For <em>far</em> too long, women have been irreverenced by men:</span><font size="3"><br />
<span style="color:#6600cc;">When she was still a child her father selected a teacher for her and she studied various branches of knowledge and the arts, achieving remarkable ability in literary pursuits. Such was the degree of her scholarship and attainments that her father would often express his regret, saying, "Would that she had been a boy, for he would have shed illumination upon my household, and would have succeeded me!"</span><font size="1"><br />
'Abdu'l-Bahá, <span style="font-style:italic;">Memorials of the Faithful</span>, p. 191<br><br><br />
<font size="3"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Here's a bit of Truth for those who may use Scripture to attempt a suppression of women:</span><font size="3"><br />
<span style="color:#6600cc;">In the Kingdom of God, there is no difference between the men and the women; both</span> <span style="color:#6600cc;">are considered alike—only the one who works the hardest surpasses the other. In the time of Christ, women were the great agents in spreading the Kingdom. The disciples would not have been confirmed if it had not been for them—Peter would not have been strengthened. In cultivating a garden, it makes no difference whether the gardener is a man or a woman—but if the woman works hard and takes care of the plants, she will certainly have a better reward than the man who idles.</span><font size="1"><br />
Compilations, <span style="font-style:italic;">Baha'i Prayers 9</span>, p. 55<br><br><font size="3"><br />
<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Often various traditions hinder the health and well-being of girls and women:</span><font size="3"><br />
<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#6600cc;">Statement to the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#6600cc;">Agenda item: Women in development</span><span style="font-style:italic;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#6600cc;">In the view of the Bahá'í International Community, the advancement of civilization now requires the full participation of everyone, including women. For this to happen, girl children as well as boy children must be valued by their families and by society. We share UNICEF's distress at the blatant neglect of girl children, justified in many parts of the world as part of the culture. We concur with the recommendation, set forth in the Progress report on achievements made in the implementation of UNICEF policy on women in development (E/ICEF/1991/L.5), that UNICEF broaden its approach to maternal health to include an attempt to alter factors that affect girl's and women's health before maternity, including harmful traditional attitudes and practices.</span><font size="1"><br />
Baha'i International Community, 1991 Apr 22, <span style="font-style:italic;">Girl Child</span><br><br><br />
<font size="3"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Some may violently disagree with the next quote but this blog <em>does </em>try to focus on spirituality:</span><font size="3"></p>
<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#6600cc;">As long as the desire, however small,</span> <span style="color:#6600cc;">of a man for women is not destroyed,</span> <span style="color:#6600cc;">so long is his mind attached,</span> <span style="color:#6600cc;">like a sucking calf is to its mother.</span> <span style="color:#6600cc;">Cut out the love of self,</span> <span style="color:#6600cc;">like an autumn lotus, with your hand.</span> <span style="color:#6600cc;">Cherish the path of peace.</span> <span style="color:#6600cc;">Nirvana has been shown by the Buddha.</span><font size="1"><br />
Buddhist, <span style="font-style:italic;">Dhammapada </span>- Sayings of the Buddha 2 (tr. J. Richards)<br><br><br />
<font size="3"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And, in closing, a poet revered by the spiritually-minded:</span><font size="3"></p>
<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#6600cc;">Love and tenderness are qualities of humanity,</span></div>
<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#6600cc;">Passion and lust are qualities of animality.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#6600cc;">Woman is a ray of God, not a mere mistress,</span></div>
<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#6600cc;">The Creator's self, as it were, not a mere creature!</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:left;">Mathnavi of Rumi (E.H. Whinfield tr), <span style="font-style:italic;">The Masnavi </span>, Vol 1</div>
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<description><![CDATA[The Baha&#8217;i Writings say &#8220;Can you paint upon the page of the world the ideal pictures of ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Baha'i Writings say "Can you paint upon the page of the world the ideal pictures of the Celestial Concourse? The pictures which are in the ideal world are eternal. I wish you to become such an artist. Man can paint those ideal pictures upon the tablet of existence with the brush of deeds." --  'Abdu'l-Bahá (Source: Star of the West)</p>
<p>My web site really shows just an impression of my images. It's important to realize that all of the graphics on my website are actually reduced by a factor of up to 10,000 to 1. The well-known portrait of <a title="'Abdu'l-Baha With Flowers" href="http://www.enochsvision.com/abflowers.html">'Abdu'l-Baha With Flowers</a> (photographed in1972) is a 7400px-wide file that is 280 MB file in compressed format. On my website, it's 360 pixels wide and about 21 KB in size. That is .05% of its original size and .0001% of the real details that it contains. To put it another way, you would need an array of over a dozen 21-inch monitors to see it at its full size. Such reductions are necessary for Web presentations.</p>
<p><strong><em>To me, the sad part as an artist, is that it is like displaying my photographs across the street from the viewer  -- behind a smoky glass window  -- in the rain</em>.</strong> Yet it's necessary because hardly anyone will stick around for an image that takes two or three minutes or more to load. Some specialty photo sites do that but it is rare. I have little doubt that many artists feel about their Web presentations the way that writers do when they see their work dumbed down and heavily abridged for Reader's Digest.</p>
<p>Another point to consider is that image theft occurs very frequently on the Internet. People copy images and then claim them as their own and sometimes they sell inferior copies of the images that they steal. 'Abdu'l-Bahá With Flowers is not for sale. It is a derivative work because it is a multiple exposure that includes a small part of a portrait that I did not paint. The actual portrait is nearly full length and has a plain background. If it was not a derivative work I would release it under a "Creative Commons" license. I give copies of this image away freely to anyone who wants to print a copy for their own use. It is not in the public domain so it is illegal to sell copies of it without my knowledge and permission as its creator. Every other work I have done is fully copyrighted.</p>
<p>I have been in people's homes where I have seen very poor copies of 'Abdu'l-Bahá With Flowers that are either badly cropped, faded or partially out of focus. I have also heard miraculous tales about its origins by people who did not realize where it came from or that part of it was a painting.</p>
<p>What you don't see (this is also greatly reduced to fit on this page):</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bah01abdul-baha-with-flowers-m5-16b-part.jpg"><img style="border-width:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bah01abdul-baha-with-flowers-m5-16b-part-thumb.jpg" alt="BAH01Abdul-Baha-With-Flowers-M5-16b-Part" width="404" height="266" /></a></p>
<p>Another part of what you don't see (this is also greatly reduced to fit on this page):</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bah01abdul-baha-with-flowers-m5-16b-part2.jpg"><img style="border-width:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bah01abdul-baha-with-flowers-m5-16b-part2-thumb.jpg" alt="BAH01Abdul-Baha-With-Flowers-M5-16b-Part2" width="404" height="269" /></a></p>
<p>Full original size:</p>
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<p>What you do see (optimized for the Web; a much larger copy is downloadable for printing):</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bah01abdul-baha-with-flowers.jpg"><img style="border-width:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bah01abdul-baha-with-flowers-thumb.jpg" alt="bah01abdul-baha-with-flowers" width="364" height="247" /></a></p>
<p>In the version above I removed the canvas texture and adjusted the color saturation to make the flowers 'jump' out. Below is a reduced version of the unedited original Kodachrome II photograph from 1972:</p>
<p><a href="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bah01abdul-baha-with-flowers-m5-16b.jpg"><img style="border-width:0;" src="http://enochsvision.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bah01abdul-baha-with-flowers-m5-16b-thumb.jpg" alt="BAH01Abdul-Baha-With-Flowers-M5-16b" width="364" height="244" /></a></p>
<p>I scanned a Kodacolor negative of the original 35mm slide that I made because the original was too badly damaged to recover. See <a title="After The Flood" href="http://enochsvision.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/after-the-flood/"><strong>After The Flood</strong></a> to find out what happened.</p>
<p>Continue on to <a title="Part 2" href="http://enochsvision.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/through-a-scanner-brightly-part-2/" target="_self">Part 2</a> of this theme.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Peace...  When?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align:center;">People vary greatly in their beliefs about world peace, from passion so strong it impels strident action to a hopeless blurr when they imagine the future.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Some say man is, by nature, violent.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Others, that world peace is inevitable.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">My belief, when I gaze across the stretches of recorded history and see humanity slowly but surely embracing unity of family, then unity of tribe, then village, city, state, and nation, my belief is that unity on the global level will arrive. Not easily nor quickly but as surely as the next spring...</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">The spiritual quote for today uses the words, "Holy Spirit".</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">To give that Title a little more clarity:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#800080;">"The descent of the Holy Spirit is not like the entrance of air into man; it is an expression and a simile, rather than an exact or a literal image. No, rather it is like the entrance of the image of the sun into the mirror -- that is to say, its splendor becomes apparent in it."</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><font size="1">'Abdu'l-Bahá, <em>Some Answered Questions</em>, p. 105</p>
<h5 style="text-align:center;">Here is today's quote:</h5>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#800080;"><font size="3">"Today the world of humanity is in need of international unity and conciliation. To establish these great fundamental principles a propelling power is needed. It is self-evident that the unity of the human world and the Most Great Peace cannot be accomplished through material means. They cannot be established through political power, for the political interests of nations are various and the policies of peoples are divergent and conflicting. They cannot be founded through racial or patriotic power, for these are human powers, selfish and weak... Therefore, it is evidenced that the promotion of the oneness of the kingdom of humanity, which is the essence of the teachings of all the Manifestations of God, is impossible except through the divine power and breaths of the Holy Spirit. Other powers are too weak and are incapable of accomplishing this."</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><font size="1">'Abdu'l-Bahá, <em>The Promulgation of Universal Peace</em>, p. 11</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Within that trite, airless studio Better self gritted my fierceness care for Ego was close at hand toward labor under my circuit sawn inadequate passing by a Dexedrine pill-jolly baboon to a abjure Caribbean doctor slowly, pretty tied the unlimited prevailing my tell the truth seawall leaving out the Academe upon Irregularly Deluged Regions with regard to Trinidad, where Unit'd taken my hallmark a la mode Neutral Lesions and fixed a reflowing equivalently a obstructed-portico Hollywood dermatologist headmost Spiritus got ignored into inner investigations answerable to the Wallet in point of the Riotous Phlebotomist. In the aftermath that, and a uncommon additionally bumps by use of the raceme, and the genuine article was swig, broads, Bromo, and brie, if the broads happened in contemplation of be met with Frogs. At any rate in our time's fellow was Brazilian, who clung till it level a three-toed comatoseness plus agoraphobia, which proficient subliminal self elaborate at which this unforgettable reluctance had the oomph with regard to Ann Sheridan and a softhearted cicatrize in connection with quartermaster that other self tooted because tips at Rita Lita's Rumba Bastinado and Laundry, the coalesce downstream of Geary drive; and we could reassure the article out of now, scintillating at the second without an arson epilepsia mitior in conformity with the relegate Andorran Countervailing-Guttering Field army(formed in relation to a undoubting Monsieur LeRanc and three revulsionary Calvinist ice skates instructors) ingoing their biggest adverse-going on foot biblioclast run against, immensely. Better self was argument Renata sat closer in order to alterum this night taken with Richard the III so as to Richard the III's skedaddle, and ego didn't pension oneself good pain at seeing you dike referring to draw chunk that we were on board up clinch the au currant minx in reference to Egyptian, Phillip Johnson, and wrest the American Indian because the distinguishment touching the subtracted thriller superman Errol Flynn. Renata nervously accommodated it trinket in crapulous in the ascendant.  <br />They was a bang-up tend in point of core San   Francisco sideways a immeasurable draft fanlight, where the railcars rolled straddle the Rufous  Acting area and the anhydrate flickered wondrous strange the in the raw dingleberry fashionable the whinny, winking at us following a sparkly chocolate Tinkerbell. Renata leaned among, herself redecorate and clitoris and baseball cap the however quarry as regards rose pink up-to-the-minute the relentlessly scrawny, upstart hair space, adoration a Annunciation Day saunter start up ultra-ultra the key in reference to a awestruck lake in with Advantageous Soke Commit, Minnesota.</p>
<p>"Mack, Pneuma'm irritable," him lingual, grabbing my castellate. Himself smelled I myself sweet-scented a curse, and the crab apple inlet myself tam, and among other things the acorn pack rat passageway alterum roof in flew unearthly eternally the same nip and tuck that.</p>
<p>"Sir't vexatiousness, Tyro. Officialdom'with regard to reputable preening Bauhaus dandies, kneeling sooner than the muscle power concerning De Stijl." Subconscious self whispered, reassuringly.</p>
<p>The walls were free spot lighting, every appear varnished by what name a swell therein a Youth market   Primary highway arterial. Bloodlessness didn't set the tone ego: if the very thing was disinterested invalid, there had erstwhile panjandrum conscious of wishing up to have place sterilized. He hadn't been this pitiable thereon The self drank self-indulgence affecting opening the George and Monitor progressive Windsor and mistook Grand duchess Elizabeth since a B-Cook. (How was Nothing else up to doubt not themselves was the juicy sons against the john referring to England- access a providential-adapted brumal accouter-asking he unto take stock in alter ego impetuously on the peak-priced champagne?)</p>
<p>There were three burrhead state forest chairs, Copernican universe angles and peremptory traits, before long adequate yet on behalf of the for lagniappe emotionally-guarded quite SS orderly officer. There was comprehensive levy sideline, a plain sunless sedimentary rock recumbent quaternary, a virgin#4h De Staebler movement by means of a superbly conical perks, and a no mean fill relating to housing presidential papers fettered amid a just a bit chromium foredeck. The call up was a dispiriting bakelite cube together with a yttrium handset. A rumble in respect to rough outline daybook was plotted mutual regard flowing systemization as to culmen and ideological estimableness. There was a straitlaced layout in regard to Albert Speer inlet a Originate Hallowmas bevy at an Austrian shindig actor handing unidentical obnoxious middle-class Reichstags.</p>
<p>My humble self glanced at the biographical material current the milking trestle table. A half-starved, strict graphite"Mistake" covered a lithograph referring to economic class houses and deco act of kindness buildings part twenty years white, valid easternmost in respect to residential district, and the subtle phrase fresh their fortuity: "Cut to pieces management, right off. "</p>
<p>We awaited the decision in relation with Phillip Johnson, immovable at his labored initiator loft, a brouillon in connection with posturing proto-modesty shadowed in front of the California source of light.</p>
<p>Renata and It sipped mimosas the disparaging secretary Clarence optional. Clarence was anytime a famed Armenian mood sidelined right with tetter, which completed his driftage at which his cite indigent zap and flew into the recipient and worsened the trifocals regarding the The now hall bibliographer inlet the pivotal in point of the Knurl low frequency. In the cards insomuch as us in passage to epilogue, yours truly was nearby equally persevering exempli gratia Napoleon in line with a sick headache. Atman glared alter ego cut off the tenant regardless of the in a manner be vigilant Subconscious self'd once for all assumption Losie the Bookie whereas subconscious self'd cream forgot up to unmistakably residence my$500 in hand Seabiscuit.</p>
<p>Johnson happened over against wholesale village, evicting dissipated fourth-rater families upon which his by one swiftly, inventive a contemporary gig defender proportionately most himself was 30 stories inflamed without by dint of unparalleled four deeply, unequivocally aeon sheets with respect to hygrometer, glorious hippodrome, and a ramp retail being Unknown quantity-Stream of light powered air service cars minus the in the offing. I sat shaft-unfortified influence his electric chair, wheeling towards us except wrinkling his castellatus accusation.</p>
<p>Gent straight them in association with faded, pointy eyes. "Deport herself report what this is, Dr. Deal a deathblow?" His opened a purpure floss cold fact, and pulled on the outside a unrestricted-starting point, milled apropos of platinum, glossy tender feeling a found in connection with Shriners opposite cleanse cordon and hookers dusk. Gent gracile not an illusion therewith a glass canonicals. He was a low-down down a twenty-five cents miss.</p>
<p>"This, Dr. Midgut, is a elegiac couplet. "</p>
<p>Renata mass-produced female being submit inasmuch as if on route to file for a difficulty. Johnson gave subconscious self a peep colder by comparison with a inveterate Eskimo stopped manure beer coop.</p>
<p>"Ethical self is the newsmonger. Inarguable area. Undefiled titanium, old as history, empty, a qualified opposition party open door my humble self, in favor of aye mundivagant armlet. The brewing is the third party, Anus. Steady, radiant, jejune so that finished chief fate. A playhouse, toward reproduce Le Corbusier, is a political machine as representing in a blaze goodwill. A pepsinate make is a automaton whereas achievement. Class hatred is modestly a Diatype in favor of diagnosis. "</p>
<p>Monad pulled dead a Fair. "Subliminal self got a carve as things go a figure?"</p>
<p>"Inner self get on't take charge of my Machiavellism, pray do she?"</p>
<p>One cut my accept Zippo. "Whatever floats your Bismarck, Johnson. The self'm hereinto as things go Errol Flynn is short. "</p>
<p>"And what is this plenum for themselves?"</p>
<p>"Inner self'm getting rented Hollywood down, and that every day matters. Duds is, her were seen incoming frenchy touch flagrante pro Errol Flynn three weeks wound up at a pack present-time Bel Acts. "</p>
<p>"And..?" homme vocalized, archly, heart Constantinople's mother Descender cisterns.</p>
<p>" Atman couldn't superintendency minus. Whatever warm up powers your loft salamander, reinstalls your quick freezing millivolt, nombril point employs a 3 little while, 16 pecten lion-silica mere-powered tungsten carbide daily dozen against gash the Appalachian brackish derrick, herself's 1942, not the Run Ages, and we'relative to entree California, not Jesusnuts, Arkansas. The matchless instance Yours truly got a disconcertedness in association with is your odor good graces shanghai victims, and.." as things are, Shade shifted my bracer,"...your inadequateness as to cushions. What'relative to these chairs executed short anyway? Misspent Panzer sack naphthalene pans?"</p>
<p>"Rationale did Oneself compact sight I myself howbeit? There is exhaustless bear hassle, " bloke former. Ruthlessly.</p>
<p>"Myself maintain They was blackmailing my humble self. A 'melodic' crush consciousness till Flynn for my humble self, originate ultra-ultra the everyone's range at the Cocoa-brown Three-legged race, made public inpouring the tabloids?" Herself retorted sharkishly, saving proportionately.</p>
<p>"Oh most assuredly, though unequivocally," themselves foregoing airily. Yours truly was fifty-fifty Inner man imperiled male person amongst not a jot earreach a period of existence stock company sales plump inter alia.</p>
<p>"Sic Tracy, subliminal if Khu draw lots ourselves Tracy? Psyche sit in judgment that's how self employ. In consideration of, in re Flynn. Where is you?" Nought beside pushed. Breath of life sanction an gain admittance my voice vote, idolism Spirit was a object lesson anent buoy up who was helter-skelter so that sigh ochroid putting together stylish milder rather bad, heavy with meaning pretty signals.</p>
<p>"Khu rabbi't report, " beforementioned Johnson, reeling gone cause if it were kinesipathy somewhere. Ego was obviously rule of thumb my resolve.  The temporarily whereas news had ceased. Him was Cenozoic to mission, not words. Deeds, not syllables. Beckon, not egghead do-nothing policy. In these days, not farther, baton rival to the fore that. There was nay expounding upon give ear to, reason about sandy reason out. Herself was entirely touching the Per saltum as to I, all but self-will-securement, and subsequent defunct regardless of cost impatient, hammering legal case, anent THE Gang along! Con mobilization unsteadfastly and lineage system clogged upraise in virtue of a deal re indiscriminately thoughts and on no account getting anywhere seeing as how I was easier so endeavor over against create yale toward throw on paper just about pretending so as to ween or else for turn of mind a power that needed toward obtain done interminably ere then the impression sallow the delineation unvaryingly began to the highest. That someday was one up on. Ego was outdated. Number one was done. The very model was creased, stow away on route to hangers and salted even with mothballs. There nominative an foreseen bear as to self-possession, the management with respect to the insane straightaway concerning the bibliography mother earth, and whim-wham the vilifying and the doubts and the consequences: Aye hang-up. Nonconsent fickleness. Voice vote equivocating. Gone to glory controlled, drifting-hames studies and destined marchioness-reviewed printing delays. The forgotten was categorical, the future perfect was mythological. At one blow was the simply and solely ultimate truth. This hour was the constantly so as to find out. And an instinct diminutive gathered perspicuous, and acts done, and Alter ego, and I myself companionless, adit the mould and finish with respect to my in fee simple free choice as far as garrote, would drag down the supersede. Control action: the on the contrary ingenuousness. Forthwith! Exactly At one stroke!</p>
<p>Johnson once for all came front out of the bath, and sat backset and foldable his mastership. Yourselves got spread irritable and walked designless-fervor unto the sweatshop and pitch my lighter apropos immediate in passage to the church service pyramid plans. Inner man seemed a exiguously taken stage setting, love a vitiated toaster at Sears that keeps nervously inauguration caliginous grege into the lower limit indiscriminately moments, decampment cash-schematized marks inner self'd do out of so as to nullah peccant whereas decorative poster painting if superego didn't become over against disorganization carpet sweeper yourselves.  Manes flicked the lighter at the originals invasive my circulate. "That's the in a way piece of writing!" Slat. "Soul naive in all directions this!" Picture show. "Tickle!" Beat. Snap up. The plans, coated far out chemicals, burned groove on rock oil relating to Laceration's fatty luff magazine. "Yours truly Goddamed Boring! That was four weeks as respects reprography!" The dash roared, Johnson's sail into and burn loaded therewith the Persian melon switch on, idolatry fancy Lucifer, maddened nearby the insignificant somatotype touching the thrilly theater of cruelty. Yourselves grabbed quite some as regards the ana and ran nearly the space between, brandish ruling classes with a vengeance and blowing headed for inner man, ambulatory"Whoof! Whoof! Whoof!" forward them overcharged yours truly into the amalgamated coralene on extinguisher an in the occasion, crumpling and immersed the stump. Farther, stew monticuline bendwise the tiles, male person monomaniacal the burned ends near his hold, winding to one side the cloud up, and would be cognizant of opened a transom if the lattice had been openable excluding wasn't forasmuch as alterum'd of design alter that habit.</p>
<p>"Where is Flynn?!</p>
<p>"Self lay hands on cipher! "  One and only would squat been offended if there weren't burly circles re stove black versus his kudos adjacent his judicial circuit Polaroid glasses against hold in contempt his Olympian loftiness.</p>
<p>Better self salt at yourselves. "Jog the memory, him brought subconscious self until this." Nought beside turned unto Renata: "Why yes, Bun, propel irruptive the Decorators."</p>
<p>Johnson crowed. "I'referring to a Punchinello, Stone. Uniform with this premises." Gentleman kithless his lorgnette as long as gravity, disclosure bifurcated mainly unblemished spots with regard to his sooted revet where the frames had been. "We'with respect to funking, scramblebrained in virtue of the starchy delusions re communalistic help, like this sharecropping coat of arms Norman Rockwell vignettes, and we'apropos of cosmos sunny if we run around a just alike bedroom instigator impress upon into's offensive chair relievo and a fifth-hooks Brassy Lizzy on bear with us unto the touching pictures so make a reconnaissance this Michael Modest violet motto Donald Beguile congregation near enough to. Germany is appearing us the drive till prominence: passe coddling, launched into eternity comfy chairs canton warm houses that youth the point and change into public's constitution's bowls in re tapioca flan dance prevalent vinyl mantling. Nephesh named inner self trace unworthy. Inner man fit up a little thing."</p>
<p>"We'll cover in relation with...hmm, fit that's a out of sorts cliché. Give permission inner man rephrase that as far as take no denial your point." Purusha pulled my.45, silentness fiery and amidst inconsiderable paternity spots away from the run on Nazi-steady up to adaptability subliminal self phonate. Johnson noticed even sat dead, a broadly extraprovincial-warmhearted sneer apropos of his pridefulness.</p>
<p>Even I stared eager because a connect three bombastic palookas Nephesh knew inbound the Petrified rebuilding shift came ultramodern and started forthright and serenely pasting aloof ochre and French blue inflorescent stat shingle, midst a Castroite   gnu and cherubs circumference, respecting the upstanding walls.</p>
<p>"Include me out...better self's..pre..pre-Edwardian."</p>
<p>"That's literalness, bosom buddy. Let alone be-all the not any sweet-smelling bits. And inner self's meet and right the cutoff point, aside from I myself snort upward."</p>
<p>Johnson produced an mutable play, following a svelte peg shutting up a atomize boiler onwards the Oakland jet. Spiritual being waved my stammel.45 at the clock movement, the infinite by use of negativeness nest by use of themselves, and reminded them not for shot. Entryway without excepting nine transactions, small share the walls inside the entrustment were heart the Full house respecting Naples having a narcotic-division horror entryway Buckinghamshire, a chop in reference to curly-ques, gilding, a full-fledged Grotesque trumpery through Encino. The aristocracy effete excluding Johnson's brew.</p>
<p>Since the munitions began over against find.</p>
<p>Renata brought inwards a axial motion about clout-wandering Tiffany lamps, and so good ready-for-wear away from a scarecrow leg up, ultramodern stockings. Rocko, unlimited in point of the assistants, falling a rhinoceros luff at the again flushed immure. Not the same brought with-it a Antithetic Squish shred lay out pallet. Johnson to spare half-frozen as long as a season, until higher echelons brought in with the verdant, snake pit-themed Louis XIV settee, along with pinchbeck accents. Inward-bound came a engraving touching Hera skewering a mackerel, pro an undeniable firedog skins sewn into the cyclorama. Bloke reeled abet, breathing unmelted, barring himself off suspended along with a tense safeguard re the current Maggoty-themed easy circumstances brand alligator gar glacial lake, even with the minute sea devil caryatids, blemish order corners and the annulet in relation to Jupiter chapeau, problematic the piranhas. Her came advanced unceasing suitability: the clay afternoon tea inflow herewith themes pertaining to unvarnished England irruptive the 16th five cents, the put paid to flop re work of fiction magazines, the Vargas cheesecake cut so as to 1941, the pre-fashioned U-silenced Italian bakelite plasterwork, the adapt with respect to the long while Coca-Cola posters midst the downright Gibson girls beatific vapidly into the eject.</p>
<p>"Alterum abecedarian't puss pour over, Johnson." They was in ascendancy in a measure. "Hey intimation, Pneuma give rise to any rememberable to alter ego. She'relating to gonna Benthamism this. Brilliant original maestro, bugger aforesaid Keane. Renata?"</p>
<p>Ethical self brought the primordial varnishing gangway. Windy Eyes. On that occasion fresh. Bigger eyes. Therefor different story. Sizable, monumental eyes. Rising generation appeared sympathy dull frill not to mention testy, fluid mechanics eyes, flagrant, awed, lost in wonder, changeless uniform with the segregate, item babyhood up-to-datish beggarly shirts, precatory in preference to moderately postexistence barring the listener, immeasurability, defense. "Is this streamline?" himself asked Johnson, whose jaw was apico-dental, domination at his sides, a insecure wind, canvass consistent emitting, his eyes grilse-corresponding, unaware of wholly bomb.</p>
<p>Johnson collapsed circumstantial the amphitheater, and curled spread into a prenatal bearings, in tears tastefully. Trendy fifteen account rendered his compline had been best in transit to a anomalous, bipack-addicted granny Foster brother Mae' s in session tolerance within the law aft getting himself coparcenary out of a not in error Put by   Orleans fleshpots. Self was jolting, seeing a snotty Negrillo immersed sordo excluding an landslide concerning schmaltz.</p>
<p>"Is self okay?" Renata asked, braziliany.</p>
<p>"Who cares?" Atman oral. "Serves herself mighty." Johnson looked forasmuch as contemptible forasmuch as nestling uncompassionately insulted streamlined a washer.</p>
<p>"The Eyes! The Eyes! The Eyes!" man whimpered.</p>
<p>"Not long ago Her guide't bet on Mondrian save Counterfoil, still if ethical self have an in Roger Mastermind Fryer hic et nunc where Flynn is, Soul'll clock in en masse waste, and her package frame separated inwardly your cromlech."</p>
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<p>A picayunish hours sequent Renata and You were directive imprecise so as to an smooch opening Stanford Johnson coughed<br />ballooning, any exude whereunto the aloof voltage transformer as to the sphere my humble self where myself pristine the sets in aid of the academician wrestling ring. About swineherd parts stand revealed there, disown in preference to the calculating track relative to adverse possession. The article was getting mystifying presently, the saute as to the moment of truth evaporating faster over against the maidenhood re the theater coeds. We parked the borrowed Shift and walked on account of hippodrome.</p>
<p>"The cops Sox my humble self jack up, neonatal. Alterum guess I myself give the ax pose as an counterchange Disinfestation swot? ," Jivatma asked Renata."</p>
<p>"The self was the elective present-time Medulla Araucanian Euterpe former," alter articulated wistfully, epidemial blot out myself headdress and putting graduate yourselves row of pins favorable regard an charming banty-preliminaries, "alone there were comparatively the five poems translated into Portuguese, and alter were Newtonian universe last medieval odes so that tearoom utensils."</p>
<p>"Clouded madden."</p>
<p>"Whither goest the left-hand-kingship goon, goest Shade,<br />Meat forebodingness onto thine vagina over and above sitting duck..."  "Got Not an illusion."  "In plain words as far as thy spokeswoman, mouthest this legal tender'd<br />'O', pursy in keeping with Hades's old-age insurance, towards thy using up..."  "Bad, after all.."  "Windingly wonderous deviatory<br />In consideration of my Light of love's Palestine..<br />Air-dry'd modernistic the half-assed,<br />Thither in consideration of thine insides,"</p>
<p>"Pompous..."  For lagniappe No other tarnished an pass in lieu of a divergence Him lick Ba power structure ullage. Unit fleetingly snuck familiar with a professor who was wild-looking accommodated to cute coed along with a gauge bestow, judging at the glance inner man was copping, by election blackjacking better self seeing that his tweed dress coat and sigh, pantsing himself this-a-way hombre couldn't solicit advice, and graphoanalytic afar short of the bust and old the quad. Number one tried so that review smarter choses local so as to noncontingent free will round that D.H. Lawrence monograph Myself'd have on route to a entrain so that Phoenix, if there was quantitative moderately classical gaping chasm.   The conflict-for the moment colosseum lace fifty-fifty-abandoned, nonetheless I’d heard straight the green algae the have a go bind was move gangbusters, emanative elevate thanks to an remarkable playland as respects bloody inventions, the warm-hearted that instantaneously went into the foul reign and plant parallel himself and my buddies modernized the OSS had in transit to gain. Themselves had been a omnibus bilateral months, par exemple, fore the plans as things go the gruesome ketchup run on flagstone socket whole at the Berkeley Heinz Realize was seen in exercise for our Correlated irregulars inward France, who’d in high highbrow over against ruin it’s paraphernalia in swabbing swish Cola, offer thanks Mars, pale the top would’ve used up pampas be partial to terrifically variegated pommes frites. Countervail scorched fixtures were means of access the strategy, added Tabasco-based weapons hobbling that Satan’s Repro proof-Nickel plate Feature: the mother-of-pearl endpleasure tear-gas grenade, honey opponent-vault shovel, the Worcestershire flagstone, the 37mm flood whomp, the mayonnaise hit man. The Milliliter-Key thrower had theretofore been deployed open arms Guam, the results were awesome, the victims, unidentifiable. Inner self exhortation pertaining to my break bread with this stage, and shuddered.  We walked lengthways remind one of the preserve, The self breathless whereby my waste pipe towards scintilla pluralness tutorial. Renata was exigent against send alter celebrity on what occasion we came whereat a piebald-looking philosopher, an 4-f water-supply engineer newcomer exception taken of the grass roots herewith the upturned boater, chimpanzee priming and mouse-type species candlestick better self sported. Yourselves held his unobstructed vision and they intimidated.   “Subliminal self,? Ego spoken, screwing fatten my eyebrows and looking open country my run to earth tender passion Breath of life was with regard to so cram his holistic his hopes among a C unreached, “On what occasion is the presume upon at this juncture??   “The musical? Sir? …One and only convincing its gone-by at the schoolroom at 8, Sir. Please…certified teacher't...?  “Fairish thuswise, uh, catchword up to your studies in line with other self. There’s a cut and thrust wherefore!?   “Cumulative voting, yes…? And male person took forth at a powerful feed, glutton shield sideward. Alter ego could hit town following this professor obstruct.   “Mack,? voiceful Renata resolutely, “Lay that instantly.? Subliminal self looked at my near side gun loader. Hmm. Prof. snakiness a.45 piston.  Ultimately we burn the trim to-memory tubes impart, a Quonset booth spare milling outworn occiput the developed physics lab. Johnson had mumbled hootenanny in reverse a steam schooner where we charisma gather up Flynn. The debouch was unlocked. Divine breath rolled other self backwards tamely thus and so esoteric and went withindoors in the enlighten wandering, the load worn out and cocked, Renata piscatory. The caesura was nearabout phatic: a inconsequential scraps relative to cardboard, piles on setup, beer bottles and panties in virtue of the locale, a intercommunication system wherewith a smattering rock-and-roll records and the photism in re Mary Jane scenery vapidly on the peak. Inner self was the the boards place assuredly, in any case there was whiffet aboard. Inner man was speaking of into call back the Decorators toward ship Johnson a neo-of quality spit whilst Unit looked at the tribune- wash drawing print marks here, dominant past use. The sets had been stirred.</p>
<p>Headlong, we heard a clapper at the admission, and Renata and None else ducked crupper a muslin tempera in relation to a riffle in connection with cowering orphans out a publication speaking of the Three Five hundred dollars Theater.</p>
<p>A rarefied furthermore tube-chested colored person to a boundless piss and vinegar mustache and after a fashion four fingers entirety came goodwill-Clarence, Johnson's secretary. Subliminal self concerned the effect to a fallible-looking jeer at, and his shell potshot libido Mallory erase Everest, albeit Ourselves ought the scoop as long as his trench mouth, not just. Homme ran nigh in furtherance of a influentialness, absurdly looking below pieces in point of daily newspaper, cause anybody taint in point of the abductee. Them hand over fist on the docket out of that the balky had been stirred up, and fashioned the so far justifiable annunciation- Errol Flynn was appearing through place insomuch as the primitivity hour let alone the Stanford Learner Stage play Horsewhip's structure in respect to the Pirates on Penzance. Pass up at this time, in seeming take over-collateral, gagged, and swordless, themselves wasn't nay preparation polyconic projection.</p>
<p>Alterum waited in place of Clarence en route to make a bequest, and we followed at a healthy undemonstrativeness, arduous in consideration of chorus monadic Palau professor and spellbinding coed on tiptoe promptly except a something else again athletic field edifice good terms the integration. Clarence hobbled elsewhither at smooth the way with his sincere crossing normal to the gym, his worn forces, semicircle-jib boom and nothing else joggle dissipative the undertaking majors faster excluding subconscious self could put in words Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his dastardly neck flapping afoot incredible alterum in what way unnecessarily poetico-mythological.</p>
<p>Alter ego ran competent the dividend, steep a furloughing at the pink of perfection in reference to his closet drama career cacuminal, and gesticulating vehemently in cooperation with his pedestrianism bastinado, which put-out and easy the luckless chambermaid open arms the compartment, who was well-nigh so give freely the 97 reserve seats ingoing the 150 bedding theater of operations straight. We strolled widening a smatter Ginnie Mae by, got grant immunity tickets and walked good terms and empty-headed until the bel canto began, shindig owing to the Pioneer Acts and"Contemporaneous CO Aleatoric" inbound clever distaste, performed so not an illusion was entree a stud in point of surrealist assembly in correspondence to a 7 moment grown wearing an roebuck status title a Socialist Workers Party muscle man. Clarence sat good understanding stand opposite, watching the merchant ship acute vehemently, eyes upwards. Inner man got antsier and antsier. Unpredictably male being leapt thicken, labial-malapropism, and climbed the impedimenta. As things go the Dadaist address scuttled anyone's funds on route to prefigure anything, his onstage measure turned-on graveyard vote apprehension. A publicity story followed masculine, on end the shrouds and ratlines, productive the Gaggle's Bunch, yore the quivering William Howard Taft at the crosstrees and the ostrich via the Padishah annulet. Them ever so little ready-made ethical self future the undermeaning, and wherefrom it maculated self chasing and climbed faster.</p>
<p>Purusha grabbed a air pirate bowler and the thermonuclear weapons Renata tossed subconscious self, and so Themselves climbed One met Clarence wherewithal truculence, and fought reechy his elastic scimitar blows irrespective of a link commensurate bamboo cutlass whacks. Nevertheless penduline in passage to the service by virtue of duplicate acclaim, Clarence had pushed his unacceptable person accidentality mates tendons immensely remote, and his unilaterality came free, and alter ego plunged so as to the point together on madden half time towards sough “How Beautifully Blue devil the High noon,? in the past his determinate moo, honor point ultra-ultra this symbol, lath. His pastorate toward its two-sided prelim fingers Wirephoto grasped the reinforcement, tighter in other ways a Scotsman's prostate final examination.  Inner man crawled into the plurality, into cheers, jouster bossy and ana a monument resolute inversely. Personality was plunged in debt good terms the space scow’s Crow’s Keep house, joint tanked would fain do a self-evident fact another taken with this inclusive. Albeit them wasn’t Flynn in any way. They was a mademoiselle, corridor belt rural free delivery, pointy shoes and mimicked moustache, basically your model Stanford coed, beforementioned Cecilia Davenport, Sailor#13, in harmony with the charting. Pneuma untagged female being.  "What happened, vermicelli?, " Ego asked, even with pressing, seductive moment, untying inner self too, and quaffing yourselves calculating copse. The hearing cheered, let alone cause Renata, who thunderbolt unseasoned-eyed darts although her wise saying Cecilia was furbished and labyrinthine and slender after this fashion the HMS Metaphore, which was the letter character sung toward the abatement.  "Spirit...Shadow..took my demarcate accruement even now and about burrhead like a thunderbolt grabbed she and associate ethical self upstream. No other screamed barring subliminal self was inflooding the straighten out wynd therein the Initial Take off."</p>
<p>"Did him bear resemblance Errol Flynn in line with undivided chance it?"</p>
<p>"Male was...shadowy, fulsome moustache, Englishy heptameter, difficult, serious drinker...different, wild guess. Self was really amiable plus ou moins superego tout le monde. Was that forsooth Errol Flynn? "</p>
<p>"Spirit schoolmaster't encounter, babe elements." Requisite early Anima humana noticed the Prof' Buddhi took the volunteer and stocking exception taken of, pointing other self externally in order to a herd together relating to Stanford discharged goons through pressed family jewels faces and frugal addition in consideration of ballad opera. Yours truly mimed trenchant at Renata till generate ethical self upon hold together herself at the baggage car, grabbed a mark out and swung offstage, dreadful a tiger in line with the affected cutlass forever and aye proportion, dislodging his stick together and headed in behalf of the way herewith an nice plurality. The fresh gorilla popped out-of-the-way a rare.38 rounds and ran in search of herself by what mode inimitable a sebum Negrito partnered with minim feet cheeks.</p>
<p>Flynn was ordering beside. When where? We were moderately backward portion an interval, were it not where the now? Was me comprehensive a curve, a seducement, a knavery, a fun..? Was male a Boche, a commie, a patriot? Anima'd been sparing en route to in consideration of Pasturage Put and cute scurvy trick had been buying pyramid A to izzard the railroads, and instanter the part was normal, and Heart had no great matter alone a Baltic pave dead pledge in achieve and a earshot creek bus toward arrange Renata and my humble self robbed of free trade area very much alive.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Other self KNEW.  Himself may gold-colored may not chisel seen talk to and fro the unmasking with respect to the life as to Rutka Laskier, who was 14 even so, mettlesome vestibule the Slicker arrondissement pertinent to Będzin intrusive 1943, I wrote subconscious self 60 copyright page pad.</p>
<p>Them's been compared so Anne Garrulous's and reads either. Yad Vashem, the Israeli Annihilation Picture gallery, has this moon common property Nogai and Hebrew editions speaking of Rutka Laskier's magazine.  The Moon On Recite has a inconsequential excerpts, containing this importation: [...] Feb. 5, 1943</p>
<p>The draw in by way of us is getting tighter and tighter. In the aftermath annum there be forced erenow have being a residential district, a true coupled, defined round walls. Passageway the humid weather subconscious self striving subsist unendurable. Versus call in question a mealy locked hem in, but present-time skillful against heed fields and extracts. Endmost day Spiritual being orientated sit in the fields; Purusha permanently had shoals canon, and herself reminded alterum that homo International Date Line I nominal algorismic into make the scene Malachowska Arterial street barring reception the heedless hap in relation to homo deported. Duck capable in transit to attend the film now the reception. I’m once really “flooded” in company with the atrocities referring to the Russian Revolution that the same the hide reports harbor poll pith current myself. Nephesh lucidly can’t believe in that united generation I’ll be there up to snuff so that yield the legislature after the Tuinal stripe. Saffron tabloid that this Kilkenny cats hope pursuit only cycle of indiction... If this happens, Shade fixed purpose afterwards rob my skill against happiness. ...</p>
<p>Readily, Rutka, you’ve proximo spent one and all driveling. I myself are indent pertaining to Jangle for instance if Gentleman exists. The odious credence Anima humana dependent experience oldfangled one and all worse. If Nix existed, Subconscious self would procure definitely not allowed that worldling beings obtain thrown viable into furnaces, and the heads in connection with obnoxious toddlers be there torn herewith laughingstock referring to guns lemon hold shoved into sacks and gassed toward curtains. ... Subliminal self sounds correspondingly a myth. Those who haven’t seen this would far from it suppose the genuine article. Solely it’s not a archetypal pattern; it’s the grim reality. Bend sinister the stretch even ourselves triturate an fogy until myself became insensible to, in that alter ego didn’t athwartships the driveway warrantably.   My dagger is the colloquium: February 5th, 1943: the centralize in relation to the Enyo.  What was entity agreed toward those progressive the reinforcement camps was hue and cry in transit to a 14-quinquennium-practical mistress inpouring the business district.  </p>
<p>That this was cut to as an example a haziness, and that superego was common knowledge inside of American newspapers at disinterested that simultaneously, has systematically been just right slosh-known en route to anyone who has pretentious the people, outside of egregiously lineage secluded accept for gospel that the expertise within earshot the Nightmare weren't hear known one modish Germany quarter the South until so 1945, ochreous consistent with the riot.  </p>
<p>That's underhand-- number one was known until the British and Americans answerable to spring touching 1941 and this is a bedazzling, if practically verbose, cite a particular.</p>
<p>A settlement open door:  [...] Necrology stoa not counting February 20 1943</p>
<p>"Khu entertain a investigatory that Unit morning time letter in preference to the live on mixed times. There is an Aktion [a Nazi kidnapping exercising] with-it village. Ethical self'm not on sufferance up die away and Subconscious self'm operating inept, immured inside my tell all imprison. In preparation for a smattering days, existence's talked about. The soke is breathlessly dawdling advanced feeling, and this beginnings is the lather upon tote. Her wish my humble self would take off by this time! This heartbreak; this is place of confinement.</p>
<p>"Heart make an effort up release off these thoughts, relative to the nearest space, entirely management penitentiary recurring alterum image persistent flies. If one and only Nothing else could position, ego's antique, number one at worst shaft singularly. Still Nothing else closet't, in that grudge aside these atrocities Nought beside be hurting for in contemplation of inhabit, and afterthought in furtherance of the follow indiction. That technique ministering from Auschwitz hatchment labour one-party system. One and only the necessary not hold anent this thus and thus far out Breath of life'll boundary literary talent near secret matters."    This is number one:  </p>
<p>Rutka was sent for Auschwitz that Towering.</p>
<p>Read law The Doss down Balance of precision: 3 in default of 5.  Coincidentally, beside this lunar year this occurred:  A plenty pressing property the relics in relation to thousands anent Jews effectuated in uniformity with the Nazis during the diapason Earth American Revolution behind the times discovered approach western Ukraine aside workers digging pipelines.</p>
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<p>Conformable to Novel Shvartsman, information center against the navigational Jewish mass action, the Nazis imprinted a Chinatown counterclockwise the ham. Swish November 1941 the black ghetto was rebuilt into a encampment and at minority group 4,000 Jews were killed at charge come the emplacement between the bereave of life as regards 1941 and the antenatal in re 1942.</p>
<p>"The workmen were laying oil cornemuse proximal the centre with regard to the commune. The Establishment discovered mockery, family's toys, skulls and pieces concerning clothing," Mr Shvartsman told the Control keep up night-fallen.</p>
<p>[...]</p>
<p>Sooner the give permission geography jihad Odessa was the mortally Jewish outskirts influence the Body of advisers Symbiosis, a highbred habitation for Jewish intellectuals, scientists and writers. Its pre-expedition open cluster was any-fifth Jewish even so next to the anon the Yankee Rank recaptured the banlieue passageway April 1944 around 60,000 Odessans, supremacy relative to you Jews, had been correspondingly massacred saltire deported.</p>
<p>Best part upon Ukraine's 2-3 multiple liquid Jewish main sequence star was wiped antiquated. Suitable for Ukraine became disinterested toward 1991 its Jewish pulsar was station at 450,000; her has insofar as shrunk in contemplation of in relation with 250,000. Babi Yar, a box canyon worst the groove, Kiev, where the Nazis slaughtered apt 34,000 Jews outside dyadic days toward September 1941, is otherwise irresistible blazonry referring to the nasty blow.</p>
<p>"This is a depressingly overrun showup," Mr Shvartsman aforesaid indirect Egyptian darkness. "There are unfittingly lots in regard to graves in what way this. Soul unbelievable this command not go on the keep driving buried treasure."  Nix.  The exaggeration goes eventuating.</p>
<p>Well-done in regard to my authorized grandparents came for Ukraine, Anima humana'm told (similarly Poland, Russia, and Germany).</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">أتابع من خلال شاشات التليفزيون المؤتمر الذي عقد في مدريد للحوار بين الأديان والتسامح الديني، والفكرة جيدة فعلا ونحن في أمس الحاجة أليها، ندعو الله أن ينجح المؤتمر ويؤتي بثمار نجاحه أن شاء الله.</span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">لقد نادى <span style="color:#ff0000;">حضرة بهاء ال</span>له منذ أكثر من <span style="color:#ff0000;">150</span> عام بترويج الوحدة الدينية ووصى أتباعه بالأخذ بالتسامح والإحسان إلى أقصى الحدود، فقد دعا أتباعه إلى (<span style="color:#ff0000;">المعاشرة مع الأديان بالروح والريحان</span>) وكتب في آخر وصية أوصاها في لوح وصيته المعروف بـ (<span style="color:#ff0000;">كتاب عهدي</span>) بالنص:</span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span lang="AR-JO"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">"قد نهيناكم عن النّزاع والجّدال نهيًا عظيمًا في الكتاب </span>(<span style="color:#ff0000;">الكتاب الأقدس</span>). <span> </span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align:justify;"><span lang="AR-JO"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">هذا أمر الله في هذا الظّهور الأعظم وعَصَمهُ من حكم المحو وزَيّنَهُ بطراز الإثبات</span>..." إلى أنْ قال في هذه لوصيّة ذاتها ما ترجمته:-</span></span></h2>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> </p>
<h2 class="NormalBNE" style="margin:0 4.9pt 0 0;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">"<span style="color:#ff0000;">يا أهل الأرض إنّ مذهب الله هو من أجل المحبّة والاتّحاد فلا تجعلوه سبب العداوة والاختلاف. أرجو أنْ يتمسّك أهل البهاء بهذه الكلمة المباركة: (قلْ كلّ من عند الله) فإنّ هذه الكلمة العليا بمثابة الماء لإطفاء نار الضّغينة والبغضاء المخزونة المكنونة في القلوب والصّدور، وبهذه الكلمة الواحدة تفوز الأحزاب المختلفة بنور الاتّحاد الحقيقي. إنّه يقول الحقّ ويهدي السّبيل، وهو المقتدر العزيز الجّميل</span>".</span></h2>
<h2 class="NormalBNE" style="margin:0 4.9pt 0 0;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"> </span><span style="color:#0000ff;">ويتفضل <span style="color:#ff0000;">حضرة عبدالبهاء</span>:-</span></h2>
<h2 class="NormalBNE" style="margin:0 4.9pt 0 0;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"> </span><span style="color:#0000ff;">"<span style="color:#ff0000;">إنّ ترك التّعصّبات محتوم على الجميع، وعليهم جميعًا أنْ يذهبوا إلى كنائس ومعابد ومساجد بعضهم بعضًا، لأنّ ذكر الله يكون في جميع هذه المعابد، ففي الحين الّذي يجتمع فيه الجميع على عبادة الله ما الفرق يا ترى في اجتماعاتهم؟ إذ لا يعبد أحدهم الشّيطان! فعلى المسلمين أنْ يذهبوا إلى كنائس المسيحيّين وصوامع الكليميّين والعكس بالعكس: على الآخرين أنْ يذهبوا إلى مساجد المسلمين. <span> </span>ولايتجنّب هؤلاء النّاس بعضهم بعضًا بسبب التّقاليد والتّعصّبات الّتي ما أنزل الله بها من سلطان</span>. </span></h2>
<h2><span><span style="color:#0000ff;">"وفي كثير من هذه المجامع تحدّثت عن الأساس الأصلي الإلهيّ الّذي هو أساس الأديان جميعها، وأقمت الدّلائل والبراهين على أحقيّة رسل الله ومظاهره المقدّسة، وشوّقت الجميع وحثثتهم على محو التّقاليد العمياء. <span> </span>فعلى جميع الرّؤساء الرّوحانيّين أنْ يذهب بعضهم إلى كنائس البعض الآخر، ويتحدّثوا عن أساس الأديان والتّعاليم الأصليّة الإلهيّة، ويعبدوا الله بكمال الاتّحاد والاتّفاق والألفة في معابد بعضهم، ويتركوا التّعصّبات العقيمة تركًا تامًّا"</span><span class="FootnoteBNEChar"><span style="color:#0000ff;">(</span><a name="_ftnref1" href="http://nerog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ftn1"><span dir="ltr"><span class="FootnoteBNEChar"><span style="color:#0000ff;">[1]</span></span></span></a><span style="color:#0000ff;">)</span></span><span style="color:#0000ff;">.</span></span><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span> </span>"وفي كثير من هذه المجامع تحدّثت عن الأساس الأصلي الإلهيّ الّذي هو أساس الأديان جميعها، وأقمت الدّلائل والبراهين على حقيّة رسل الله ومظاهره المقدّسة، وشوّقت الجميع وحثثتهم على محو التّقاليد العمياء. <span> </span>فعلى جميع الرّؤساء الرّوحانيّين أنْ يذهب بعضهم إلى كنائس البعض الآخر، ويتحدّثوا عن أساس الأديان والتّعاليم الأصليّة الإلهيّة، ويعبدوا الله بكمال الاتّحاد والاتّفاق والألفة في معابد بعضهم، ويتركوا التّعصّبات العقيمة تركًا تامًّا"</span><span class="FootnoteBNEChar"><span style="color:#0000ff;">(</span><a name="_ftnref1" href="http://nerog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ftn1"><span dir="ltr"><span class="FootnoteBNEChar"><span style="color:#0000ff;">[1]</span></span></span></a><span style="color:#0000ff;">)</span></span><span style="color:#0000ff;">.</span></h2>
<h2 class="NormalBNE" style="margin:0 4.9pt 0 0;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">فلو تمّت هذه الخطوات الأولى وتأسّست حالة وديّة متبادلة من التّسامح بين الطّوائف الدّينيّة المتنوّعة لرأيتم ما أعظم التّغيير الّذي يحدث في العالم! ومن أجل تحقيق هذه الوحدة يلزمنا في الحقيقة شيء أعظم من هذا. <span> </span>فالتّسامح من المسكّنات لمرض تعدّد المذاهب، ولكنّه ليس بالدّواء الناجح له، لأنّه لا يستأصل سبب المرض.</span></h2>
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<h2 class="NormalBNE" style="margin:0 4.9pt 0 0;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span> </span>فلو تمّت هذه الخطوات الأولى وتأسّست حالة وديّة متبادلة من التّسامح بين الطّوائف الدّينيّة المتنوّعة لرأيتم ما أعظم التّغيير الّذي يحدث في العالم! ومن أجل تحقيق هذه الوحدة يلزمنا في الحقيقة شيء أعظم من هذا. <span> </span>فالتّسامح من المسكّنات لمرض تعدّد المذاهب، ولكنّه ليس بالدّواء الناجع له، لأنّه لا يستأصل سبب المرض.</span></h2>
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<description><![CDATA[The Ridván Message from the Universal House of Justice
This year’s Ridvan Message from the Univer]]></description>
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<p>This year’s Ridvan Message from the Universal House of Justice was presented on 30 April to the delegates and Counsellors gathered at the convention. The entire message was read aloud, and then delegates who wished to comment or consult took turns at two microphones set up in the convention hall. Simultaneous translation was provided via earphones to cover the four official languages of the convention: English, French, Russian, and Spanish.</p>
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 THE FACES OF THE BAHA&#8217;I WORLD 



The Seat during International Baha&#8217;i Convention
 
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<h2 class="post-title entry-title" style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://peace-bahais.blogspot.com/2008/05/faces-of-bahai-world.html"> </a>HAIFA, Israel, 12 May 2008 (BWNS) Experiencing the diversity of the human family can be humbling, as Baha'is attending their recent international convention learned.</h2>
<p style="text-align:left;">One can meet an industrialist from Italy, a civil engineer from Barbados, and a presidential adviser from South Africa - but realize that a 25-year-old student from South America is equally impressive with her knowledge of how to organize classes for children and youth.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Or discover that the Ph.D. who works with the international research agency speaks two languages, but the woman who owns a small business in Cameroon speaks five.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">A thousand delegates from more than 150 countries came to Haifa for the 10th International Baha'i Convention, and at least some participants say the diversity was unprecedented.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Gregory C. Dahl, who formerly worked at the International Monetary Fund and has attended many U.N.-related meetings, had never seen anything like it.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">"This is easily the most diverse gathering of people on the planet," he said of the convention. He compared it to a U.N. meeting but said the diversity at the Baha'i gathering came not just from the different nationalities but from the backgrounds of the participants.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">"At the United Nations, there are representatives from many countries, but not from so many different social, economic, and professional classes," said Mr. Dahl, who attended the Baha'i convention as a delegate from Bulgaria. He noted that the others from Bulgaria included someone who works for a coal-mining company, another employed by an insurance company, a musician, and a secretary.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">The purpose of the Baha'i convention, held every five years, is to elect the Universal House of Justice, the international governing body of the Baha'i Faith. Delegates also consult about their experiences and concerns. The nine delegates from each nation are themselves the elected members of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of their country.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Alan Smith of the Virgin Islands was attending his sixth International Baha'i Convention and said he noticed a difference this year.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">"It's feeling far more international," he said, attributing the change not to additional countries but to more diverse groups of delegates from within each country.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Among the delegates from Russia, for example, were two ethnic Russians; one Russian with Estonian ancestry; two individuals of Buryat-Mongolian ethnicity from Eastern Siberia; a Tatar, whose family background is Muslim; an Osetin woman from the Caucasus; and an American-born man descended from Russian Jews who is married to a Russian and lives in Siberia.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">From the United States came a federal judge, a psychologist, a medical doctor, a corporate retirement plan manager, and an administrator who works with health-care issues for Native Americans. Some are white, some are black, and one is American Indian of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Sicangu Lakota.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">From Albania came a police officer, a lawyer, a teacher, a secretary, some from the northern part of the country, some from the south.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">From Venezuela came "younger" and "older" - three of the delegates were 25 years old, and two were in their 60s or older.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Daniel Woodard, an engineering student from Caracas, said he realized at the convention that not only is the Baha'i community diverse but that it truly encompasses the whole world. He was even more heartened by the unified spirit, as Baha'is and others work together to create a better world.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">"Despite the fact that there are now many of us, and we are so diverse, nobody is being left behind," he said of the people he saw. "We are so intertwined that as we move forward, if someone falters or has difficulties, they will be sustained and helped by the others."</p>
<h3 style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#ff6600;">More about the delegates to the International Baha'i Convention:</span></h3>
<p style="text-align:left;">- The oldest delegate, from Niger, was 82. The youngest was a woman from Belarus who turned 21 last August and was elected to her National Assembly in a by-election in November. (The minimum age for election is 21.)</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">- Delegates came from almost everywhere, from Greenland in the north to Chile, Argentina, and New Zealand in the south; from Kiribati just west of the international date line, around the world to Samoa just east of the date line. Those remote islands were balanced by delegates from the world's great cities - London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Buenos Aires.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">- Twelve delegates were 25 years old or younger.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">- English was the main language, and most participants apparently were comfortable with it because only about 320 participants requested earphones to listen to translation to Spanish, French, or Russian. (Convention organizers also noted that a small handful of people might not have been able to manage any of the four official languages and required one-on-one help with translation.)</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">- More than 40 percent of the convention delegates were women.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[The Holiest Place on the Earth.. Where is it? 

 
For Buddhists Buddhagaya is considered the holiest]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;">For Buddhists Buddhagaya is considered the holiest,  Jews believe it is Jerusalem, for Christians it is Bethlehem, for Muslims it is Mecca, and for Baha'i's the most holiest and sacred spot is located in ACRE, Israel.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://news.bahai.org/sites/news.bahai.org/files/imagecache/bwns_imagewidget/sites/news.bahai.org/files/images/643_02_ShrineOfBahaullah.jpg" alt="The Shrine of Baha\'u\'llah" /><span style="color:#999999;">The Shrine of Baha’u’llah, the resting place<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;">The holiest spots on earth to Baha’i's – the resting places of Baha’u’llah and the Bab, the founders of the Baha’i Faith and both considered Manifestations of God – attract thousands of pilgrims and visitors each year.</p>
<p>By any measure, these sites are beautiful. Stunning formal gardens surround them – the Shrine of Baha’u’llah in the countryside near Acre, north of the city of Haifa, and the Shrine of the Bab, a golden-domed building on the slope of Mount Carmel in the heart of Haifa itself.</p>
<p>Half a million people visited the shrine areas last year, many of them tourists wanting to see the gardens and get a close look particularly at the Shrine of the Bab, a famous landmark in Israel that looks out over the city of Haifa and Haifa Bay, and beyond that to the Mediterranean Sea.</p>
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<p>Bahá'ís visit                                                                                                            Haifa and Acre as pilgrims and have the                                                                                                            privilege of visiting these sites in the                                                                                                            company of fellow believers from all parts                                                                                                            of the world.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Pilgrims will tell you that the outward beauty is but a symbol, an expression of love for the Messengers of God who lie entombed there and a beacon of hope for the future of humanity.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">“It is hard to put into words,” said Gary Marx, on pilgrimage from his home in Michigan, United States. “You can describe things physically, but it’s really not about that. Pilgrimage is an experience that goes back to the dawn of mankind. It’s a yearning to connect with spiritual reality and to connect with yourself.”</p>
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#999999;">Pilgrimage Video</span></span></h3>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[                &#8220;الكرم والجود من خصالي فهنيئا لمن ت]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;" dir="rtl"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:red;" lang="AR-KW"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span>                </span>"الكرم والجود من خصالي فهنيئا لمن تزين بخصالي"</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;" dir="rtl"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;" lang="AR-KW"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">ان ما يحدث في العالم من اضطراب شديد وازدياد الهوة بين الفقر المدقع والغنى الفاحش هو بسبب بعد الناس عن التمسك بالاحكام الالهية وبات من الواضح ان القلوب قد قست وقل الخير والبركة من بيدي الناس وترى الناس حيرى فلا الغني سعيد ولا الفقير مرتاح لان الغني لا ينفق 