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I just checked at www.usbnc.org which requires you to login with your ID number and last name where they've got some of the Feast letters online back to 1999 but they are not searchable yet. It sounds like a personal comment, though elements of it do seem familiar from the Writings as well.

I'm back.... If one is going to examin the question of laws, justice, reward and punishment and the like across religions this is indeed a weighty matter. Indeed, how to tell the difference. Such is one of the reasons for the chastisement of the leaders of religion by every Prophet and...

There are limitations to extrapolating from the past. Ultimately all you can predict is the past. However, within that context perhaps some exceptions to the past are worthy of note - the United States hardly started united - each state had people arguing with every other state - and ultimately...

Perhaps some quotes to illuminate the question - justice is closely related to reward and punishment, but not only to reward and punishment. But it must be seen to have a fair appreciation of the Baha'i view of justice. "Behold the disturbances which, for many a long year, have afflicted...

Re: Non-partisanship... Can imposing sanctions ever be just, compassionate and rational? How do you decide?

Re: Letter of April 2002 from the House of Justice And those two positions come into conflict exactly where one's respect and freindship for another is juxtaposed with explicit references in the scripture of one Faith speaking of the teachings current in another. Some attempt to resolve this...

Re: Non-partisanship... Having an inclination is miles different from acting on it: the sin and the sinner. But even the sin is in a scale of sins. Murder and backbiting are presented as far far more serious afflictions. Drug addiction, smoking and drinking are also afflictions. A person...

Which I got to in another section. Well I don't disagree that others might not find these details especially moving - but to me this speaks elementally to the problem - others have lost faith in their own systems, and in fair measure some of the weaknesses of those systems as that they were...

Re: Non-partisanship... I also see some support for the question - but I also see significant arguments against un-reviewed publishing. Quotes have a way of wandering. No one is likely to cross reference and quote most posts in places like this. But the more "published" the situation the...

Borrowing from wikipedia, it might be worthwhile to see some Baha'i jokes: The Pioneer Necessary background: (1) Bahá'í pioneers are not missionaries, but unpaid volunteers who move to another region which lacks Bahá'ís. (2) A Local Spiritual Assembly (LSA) must have a minimum of 9 adult...

Safeguards... First, the system was designed by the Founder. If the Founder was good enough to outline the moral imperitives and model of life and chose to establish the outline and details of the administrative structures Baha'is have then that is the basis of the matter. Additionally...

It is accountable in the sense that members of elected, and relected, and don't have to keep office for any reason. But decisions made by institutions are not dependent on crowd dynamics or individuals who beleive they know better. If a decision is made in error and attacked you cannot...

Re: Non-partisanship... "This is a personal exploration of Baha'í history in essay form. Questions about scholarship, priest craft, fear, freedom, women, law and the nature of fundamentalism are explored. This is undoubtedly a valuable tool for all who are concerned with the impact of...

Re: Non-partisanship... This is an error. There can be no substantiation of this point of view. Homosexuality is not automatically a reason for anything. Being a formenter of discord is.

It was mentioned somewhere in the interfaith section but didn't seem to draw much commentary as I recall.

Re: Non-partisanship... To me it brings politics back to what it is supposed to be about - the governmental organization of human and social resources. At an simple level it lets one hear the political parties out, and take the good from whatever is presented. However beyond that it calls...

Here's a big collection, and if I may, here's a unique contribution, not of a flood exactly, but of a time of ice.... "....Ahura Mazda warned Yima that destruction was coming in the form of winter, frost, and subsequent melting of the snow. He instructed Yima to build a vara, a large square...

Seems to me so far the Baha'is have a significant presence. For my experience, it's rare to have more than 4 Baha'is in one discussion area (1 or 2 is modestly common.) I've never had the pleasure of more than 6 - I think we're tying a record here at least in my experience.

Some of this has appeared in different threads overtime, but the time is fresh for the return of this Holy Day, and some of the context it has for Baha'is (some of it is new here....) As a circumstantial context some might find interesting I also note this period with the Leonid Meteor shower...

Baha'is view several issues involved in this. But to answer the question directly, I beleive the only scriptural reference is along the lines "if a human requires the life-spirit of a pet to continue to grow spiritually it will continue". However in general the animal spirit, just as the...