’Idál, 18 ‘Ilm (Knowledge), 179 B.E

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It looks like the geraniums are doing OK following their move inside for the winter …

Done

Added the “The Flow of Human Value: Monetary Value, Ownership, and Power,” “The Flow of Human Value: Monetary Value and Human Value,” “The Flow of Human Value: Ownership, Control, Use of Resources—Revisited,” and “The Flow of Human Value: Systems Infrastructure and Human Value Inventory” graphics to the Narrative of the Twin Economies wiki. Next, a deep dive into co-production.

Almost checked off all the items on my Evernote daily activity worksheet/checklist. It’s working better than I thought it would. Now, if I can just keep after it!

Most of all, it’s a decade-turning birthday for my son — Happy 40th!!

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Marc Bosserman on Instagram | Marc Bosserman on Facebook | Marc Bosserman Music and Musings on YouTube

Tab’s Galaxy on YouTube

Listened

Pablo Cruise - Worlds Away

Notes by Discogs.com

Quoted

When this Cause appeared in the Orient, the friends and followers were self-sacrificing to the utmost, forfeiting everything. It is a significant and wonderful fact that, although the most precious thing on earth is life, yet twenty thousand people offered themselves willingly in the pathway of martyrdom. Recently, in Yazd two hundred of the Bahá’í friends were cruelly slain. They went to the place of martyrdom in the utmost ecstasy of attraction, smiling with joy and gratitude upon their persecutors. Some of them offered sweetmeats to their executioners, saying, “Taste of this in order that with sweetness and enjoyment you may bestow upon us the blessed cup of martyrdom.” Among these beloved and glorified ones were a number of women who were subjected to the most cruel manner of execution. Some were cut to pieces; and their executioners, not content with such butchery, set others on fire, and their bodies were consumed. Throughout these terrible ordeals not a single soul among the Bahá’í friends objected or recanted. They offered no resistance, although the Bahá’ís in that city were most courageous and strong. In physical strength and fortitude one of these Bahá’ís could have withstood many of their enemies, but they accepted martyrdom in the spirit of complete resignation and nonresistance. Many of them died, crying out, “O Lord! Forgive them; they know not what they do. If they knew, they would not commit this wrong.” In the throes of martyrdom they willingly offered all they possessed in this life. 1

  1. ʻAbduʼl-Bahá. The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by ʻAbduʼl-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912. Edited by Howard MacNutt. 2nd ed. Wilmette, Ill: Baháʼí Publishing Trust, 1982, 384. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/promulgation-universal-peace/28#591629258 [return]