The Cormorant Baker Mainly quirky things from my daily life that I feel like sharing with my friends

Here’s something I wrote a couple of weeks after Alison was removed from membership in the New Zealand Baha’i community. I’ve blanked out some names, although I probably didn’t need to, because each one has since resigned from membership in the Bahai community. Ta’wil Discussion Group Mon Apr 10, 20

Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:55:59 To: Dunedin Assembly From: Steve Marshall <forumbahai@xx.xx.xx> Subject: Assembly feast letter I’ve read the assembly’s latest feast letter and would like to assist you in keeping tabs on violations of Baha’i law. I occasionally masturbate, even though I realise that

As I recall, the defining characteristic of Moojan Momen’s so-called Baha’i apostates was that they carried out a prolonged/sustained campaign of “attacks” upon the Bahá’í community. Did it not occur to him that the folks he chose to give this title to were no more tireless and committed as “apostat

View Larger Map “The humanist theorists of the ideal city designed numerous planned cities that look intriguing on paper but were not especially successful as livable spaces. Along the northeastern frontier of their mainland empire, the Venetians began to build in 1593 the best example of a Renaissa

Go Team Lotus!

Marc Benioff, an IT guy, is using an acronym, SOCIAL, to describe how organisations should operate in the new, hyperconnected world: Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce.com, a cloud-based software provider, describes this phase of the I.T. revolution with the acronym SOCIAL. S, he says, is for s

Every year, the world and its system have a day set aside (October 31st) to celebrate ungodly images and evil characters while Christians all over the world participate, hide or just stay quiet on Halloween day. Being a day that is widely acceptable to solicit and knock on doors, God inspired us to

The booths, designed by Andreas Rimkus using materials from ThyssenKrupp Nirosta, are being used in a pilot project in Hanover: Outwardly, [the booth's] appearance is shaped by the six symbols of the major world religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Baha’i). People can stan

Just when I’ve got used to next year being the apocalypse, along comes something that’ll take a whole year off my life! Yes, I’m referring to Judgement Day. So far, I’ve worked out that May 21, 2011 is the Rapture – and it’s only for the saved, who get taken up to heaven or whatever. [...]

Renovation work on the Shrine of the Bab has been completed and the tourists are flocking to see it in all its glory.