Fidál, 19 Qudrat (Power), 179 B.E

Seen

Beauty in the mundane…

Done

Long Zoom conversation with Tony Budak this afternoon. We had to make up for last Thursday’s RVL call I missed. As usual, we covered the waterfront. Here are some of the main topics we explored:

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Connections

Faye Ku

Matthew Slater

Fritjof Kapra

David Korten

What’s Your Purpose?

Noted

Astral Prospecting on Instagram | Astral Prospecting on YouTube | Astral Prospecting on Facebook

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

Tab’s Galaxy on YouTube

Listened

Billy Idol - Whiplash Smile

Notes by Discogs.com

Read

Chambers, Oswald. My Utmost for His Highest : Selections for the Year : The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers. Westwood, NJ : Barbour and Co., 1935. http://archive.org/details/1963myutmostforhishi00cham.

Bookmarked

Canticler. “‘Deus Vult?’ Uh…maybe Not. Why It Only Appears an Entire Religion Has Gone Insane.” Daily Kos, November 21, 2022. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2022/11/21/2137766/–Deus-Vult-uh-maybe-not-Why-It-Only-Appears-an-Entire-Religion-Has-Gone-Insane.

Dans, Enrique. “Elon Musk and Twitter: A Masterclass in Moving Fast and Breaking Things….” Enrique Dans (blog), November 18, 2022. https://medium.com/enrique-dans/elon-musk-and-twitter-a-masterclass-in-moving-fast-and-breaking-things-d79e3ab1a4df.

Follington, Ben. “Play-First Software.” Substack newsletter. The Shimmering Void (blog), November 21, 2022. https://shimmeringvoid.substack.com/p/play-first-software. 1

French, Howard W. “Megalopolis: How Coastal West Africa Will Shape the Coming Century.” The Guardian, October 27, 2022, sec. World news. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/27/megalopolis-how-coastal-west-africa-will-shape-the-coming-century.

Reed, Stanley. “Europe’s Wind Industry Is Stumbling When It’s Needed Most.” The New York Times, November 22, 2022, sec. Business. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/business/wind-power-europe.html.

Thacker, Paul D. “Punching Down: How the ‘Anti-Disinformation’ Movement Worked with Big Tech to Protect Big Pharma.” Substack newsletter. The DisInformation Chronicle (blog), November 22, 2022. https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/punching-down-how-the-anti-disinformation.

Thompson, Clive. “Twitter Alternative: How Mastodon Is Designed to Be ‘Antiviral.’” Medium, November 13, 2022. https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51.

Dynamicland. Accessed November 22, 2022. https://dynamicland.org/.

Sorted

My partner in life and I have joined forces. She made significant progress in sorting, filing, and shredding as needed while I worked on content curation and communications. “Many hands make light work!”

Quoted

I have spoken in the various Christian churches and in the synagogues, and in no assemblage has there been a dissenting voice. All have listened, and all have conceded that the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh are superlative in character, acknowledging that they constitute the very essence or spirit of this new age and that there is no better pathway to the attainment of its ideals. Not a single voice has been raised in objection. At most there have been some who have refused to acknowledge the mission of Bahá’u’lláh, although even these have admitted that He was a great teacher, a most powerful soul, a very great man. Some who could find no other pretext have said, “These teachings are not new; they are old and familiar; we have heard them before.” Therefore, I will speak to you upon the distinctive characteristics of the manifestation of Bahá’u’lláh and prove that from every standpoint His Cause is distinguished from all others. It is distinguished by its didactic character and method of exposition, by its practical effects and application to present world conditions, but especially distinguished from the standpoint of its spread and progress.

When Bahá’u’lláh appeared in Persia, all the contemporaneous religious sects and systems rose against Him. His enemies were kings. The enemies of Christ were the Jews, the Pharisees; but the enemies of Bahá’u’lláh were rulers who could command armies and bring hundreds of thousands of soldiers into the arena of operation. These kings represented some fifty million people, all of whom under their influence and domination were opposed to Bahá’u’lláh. Therefore, in effect Bahá’u’lláh, singly and alone, virtually withstood fifty million enemies. Yet these great numbers, instead of being able to dominate Him, could not withstand His wonderful personality and the power and influence of His heavenly Cause. Although they were determined upon extinguishing the light in that most brilliant lantern, they were ultimately defeated and overthrown, and day by day His splendor became more radiant. They made every effort to lessen His greatness, but His prestige and renown grew in proportion to their endeavors to diminish it. Surrounded by enemies who were seeking His life, He never sought to conceal Himself, did nothing to protect Himself; on the contrary, in His spiritual might and power He was at all times visible before the faces of men, easy of access, serenely withstanding the multitudes who were opposing Him. At last His banner was upraised. 2

  1. Follington, Ben. “A Modular, Reactive Approach to Digital Education.” School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, 2015, 95. https://cv.bf.wtf/thesis.pdf [return]
  2. 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, 431-432. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/promulgation-universal-peace/32#280647098 [return]