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Dear Susan,
> Did you the House's letter on this topic? They certainly didn't go
> along with in order not to stifle initiative, they went along with it
> because it appeared to be working in some areas. That doesn't mean
> that it will work everywhere, under all co
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Hello Matt,
>In some neighborhoods, people like visitors coming over and
>talking to them.
There is a large difference between having a visit from
someone who lives in your neighborhood, and having a total
stranger -who may even be from a different city - knock on yo
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Whoever lovingly and patiently reads this document and internalizes its
elegant and beautiful guidance will have found greatly enriching guidance
Second, the habit of conversing with friends and acquaintances on
matters of
spiritual import, now engrained in the comm
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Regrettably, it seems we are left in an ambiguous situation concerning door
to door sales of the Bahai Faith.
In the nineteen eighties members of my community began teaching door to door
without having first consulting with our LSA. This upset myself and others
as thes
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Hello David,
>a campaign requiring us to go to houses
You may have felt required to go door to door, but in fact
you were not. I understand it's hard to resist the pressure
that others may put on you, but you can just say no
if you don't want to do this.
When I was
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> But I know some Baha'is who declared in the 1970's, and said they used to go
> door-to-door all the time in the southern states of the U.S., and that
> resulted in many declarations into the Baha'i Faith.
Unfortunately not much came of those declarations.
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In some neighborhoods, people like visitors coming over and talking to them.
Their neighbors stop by to spend some time with them, and then they leave.
In other neighborhoods, people are more insular. They don't like people
coming over to talk to them, and the neighbors
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> We didn't have pamphlets but I don't see why not having pamphlets makes it
> dignified and in the best interests of the Cause. Were another strategy
> good, wouldn't he say so? I'm unclear if the House itself came up with the
> idea or merely went along not to stifle
