Re: TV, etc. / Community vitality / People of capacity

2004-06-02 Thread Popeyesays
In a message dated 6/2/04 6:22:35 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: feel the evidences of lethargy and apathy in our Baha'i Communities is due in part, to our lamentations of the wide-spread crisis bearing down on our global family. In truth we should be rejoicing and

Re: TV, etc. / Community vitality / People of capacity

2004-06-02 Thread Dave Lambert
Dear Friends, In following this thread, I felt someone might benefit from our (my wife's and my) input. We do not watch TVthat is in NEVER. We have followed this practice since before we became Baha'is, and the reason is that it appears to us that two generations of being glued to the tube

Re: People of capacity

2004-06-01 Thread Jim Habegger
Dick, I hope you will read what I posted to you in the other thread. Jim __ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the

Re: People of capacity

2004-06-01 Thread Don Calkins
At 12:13 AM + 6/2/04, Jim Habegger wrote: Dick, I think one reason you don't see people of capacity in the community is because they are badly abused by other Baha'is, I think a more serious problem is that too many of these so-called people of capacity have egos the size of a house

Re: People of capacity

2004-06-01 Thread Susan Maneck
I think a more serious problem is that too many of these so-called people of capacity have egos the size of a house, and are not interested in being around people that do not defer to them. I have heard that this is the reason that Shoghi Effendi did not move toward establishing the House

Re: People of capacity

2004-06-01 Thread Smaneck
In a message dated 6/1/2004 11:12:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Agreed. I should have written "a" reason; tho' when I first heard this story, it was given as "the" reason. Dear Don, I think that is the way Taherzadeh depicts it as he wants to focus on Sohrab Ahmad