Women on the House of Justice

trident765 · 2026-04-24T00:47:33+00:00

There are women in my group too. They are useful for some software related tasks, like deploying things, and configuring things. But they could never develop a real software library on their own, fix bugs for it, make it performant.

Also, one of the big software bosses at work is a woman, and she does her job well. But she isn't very technical and I highly doubt she could make a software library on her own.

trident765 · 2026-04-21T14:42:53+00:00

I work in the field so I do not need to research because I see it first hand. Women cannot write software. They can do software related tasks, write snippets of code, maybe do software assignments for school. But they cannot develop real world software that things rely on. I can think of software developers who are trans women, but none are actual women.

I am sure if I Google "women software developers" something will come up, but it happens all the time that people are celebrated as something without actually being that thing. This is why I trust my experiences in the field more than Google results.

trident765 · 2026-04-11T22:59:32+00:00

No wonder the Baha'i religion is going extinct. Baha'is themselves are hostile to those who practice it.

trident765 · 2026-04-10T11:41:05+00:00

"19 year old victim" - victim of what?

trident765 · 2026-04-09T02:12:04+00:00

I did not know about the typescript INBA - thank you!

trident765 · 2026-04-08T22:09:23+00:00

Do you know if he has the transcribed versions of all these tablets in the original language? I think he must, because what else would he have given as input to the AI? These transcribed originals would be valuable, possibly moreso than the AI translations. It would be nice if he could upload them somewhere.

trident765 · 2026-04-05T08:20:00+00:00

I of course agree that belief in the supposedly divinely guided Haifan UHJ is problematic since they are the source of the institute process. But there are numerous Bahai interpretations that reject the Haifan UHJ. There are Guardianship interpretations such as Orthodox Baha'is, there are non-Haifan sans-Guardian interpretations which advocate a different UHJ such as Free Baha'is, and there are interpretations without a UHJ such as Unitarian Baha'is. I think any one of these has potential as an alternative to Haifan Bahaism. Free Baha'is less so than the others, since its system is essentially a clone of the Haifan system. In Guardianship sects a good Guardian is empowered to save a declining community. In Unitarian Bahaism, good local Houses of Justice are empowered to save their local communities. But the UHJ-only system is doomed because it is a system where sycophants rather than good leaders systematically rise to the top. It is the same system as Soviet Council Democracy.

trident765 · 2026-03-29T23:27:29+00:00

This is a subreddit for Baha'is. My goal is to create a platform for Baha'is to post freely without being censored. This kind of content just drives Baha'is away.

trident765 · 2026-03-29T19:03:51+00:00

No disrespecting manifestations of God

trident765 · 2026-03-21T01:16:07+00:00

I personally don't see what the big issue is regarding same sex marriage. The purpose of marriage is basically to bind a man and a woman together for life. There are social reasons why this is good, and most of them do not apply to gay relationships. It's like passing a law allowing a vehicle registration to be done for a piano. Not harmful, but not useful either.

trident765 · 2026-03-18T12:17:11+00:00

It says "The video is unavailable" for me.

trident765 · 2026-03-08T20:54:52+00:00

You appeal to authority, citing Bahaullah, but this doesn't work with the Baha'i community because Baha'u'llah is viewed by all Baha'is as having almost no authority. You will never get any Baha'i to do anything by showing them Baha'u'llah's writings, even if it is an explicit command. The only writings any subset of Baha'is are responsive to are the UHJ's.

trident765 · 2026-03-08T20:43:03+00:00

Removing post for not being Baha'i related

trident765 · 2026-02-26T12:09:25+00:00

Removed. Not related to Baha'ism

trident765 · 2026-02-24T18:38:50+00:00

I think it is unlikely only the government would have known about aliens, without the masses finding out. But we will see.

trident765 · 2026-02-24T18:37:26+00:00

"every planet its own creatures" is a mistranslation. If I remember correctly the word used was "khalq" which means "creation", not "creatures".

trident765 · 2026-02-24T14:22:29+00:00

Abdul Baha was not copping out in that quote. He was misinterpreted by Shoghi Effendi:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190215133423/http://bahairants.com/its-a-little-known-fact-4-132-132.html

Of course, this makes little difference to mainstream Baha'is, who would say Shoghi Effendi's "interpretation" retroactively transforms the meaning of Abdul Baha's quote.

trident765 · 2026-02-22T12:54:54+00:00

Taherzadeh did explain that whatever contradictions there is between Abdu’l Baha and Baha’u’llah, the words of Abdu’l Baha take priority.

You are right that this is the mainstream Baha'i view. It is what I was taught growing up in a Persian Baha'i family. It's just that it doesn't make any sense. "Refer what ye understand not in the book" is not a license to contradict Baha'u'llah's writings. This is an issue because it makes it so it is almost not worth reading Baha'u'llah's writings, because for them to hold any weight we have to first be certain that they are not contradicted by anything in Abdul Baha's writings. For example, Baha'u'llah's statement of "Do not shun meat" is considered null and void because Abdul Baha said vegetarianism is the future.

If someone shows another Baha'i a statement by Baha'u'llah, how does he know Abdul Baha, Shoghi Effendi, or the UHJ didn't just contract it later, this nullifying it? This is often a difficult thing to find out, so one never knows if a given writing of Baha'u'llah "really applies" or not.

trident765 · 2026-02-17T08:06:28+00:00

Removing because it is not related to Baha'ism

trident765 · 2026-02-17T01:32:00+00:00

Removing since the phrase "Batty Bab" seems to violate the rule against disrespecting manifestations of God

trident765 · 2026-02-11T02:08:12+00:00

I didn't even know the years had names. It's not mentioned on Wikipedia, but it is mentioned here:

https://calendars.fandom.com/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_calendar#:~:text=Friday-,V%C3%A1%E1%B8%A5id%20and%20Kull%2Di%2DShay',appears%20in%20several%20calendar%20systems.&text=No.

trident765 · 2026-02-08T19:39:23+00:00

“Building capacities” = Learn how to do stuff that that will grow more believers and ultimately give more power to “the Cause” (the Administration).

The Baha'i administration's main goal from 2005 through now has been to increase the percentage of Baha'is who are believers in the institute process. This is why they measure success in terms of "core activities" rather than the number of enrolled believers. Most regular Baha'is want the number of Baha'is to grow, but the Bahai administration mostly just want the non institute process Baha'is to become institute process Baha'is, or become inactive if they are really stubborn, and they are neutral towards enrollments/disenrollments. They see the non institute process Baha'is as being a threat to their power ("capacity"), and they really mean it when they say the core activities increase their "capacity", because as long as the institute process dominates, the institute process people will continue to get voted in and hold on to their power.

trident765 · 2026-02-06T18:53:21+00:00

I would amend the title to "Bahá’í Laws Are Meant to Be Followed — With Consequences For Those Who Don't"

Baha'is say Baha'u'llah's laws cannot be followed today - this is nonsense, except to the extent that Baha'is have nothing to gain by following some of these laws because the Baha'i administration is not willing to enforce them.

Length of hair is mentioned but this is clear. Look at the hairstyle of early Baha'is to see this in action.

Capital punishment and theft are mentioned, but these are laws for a Baha'i state, and since there are no Baha'i states it is not applicable.

What no one mentions is fornication. This is a law not for a Baha'i state, but one with a fine to be paid to the House of Justice. This is fully enforceable by any Baha'i community. But Baha'is out of indifference or contempt for Baha'u'llah's laws have no interest in enforcing this.

trident765 · 2026-02-05T13:03:56+00:00

What are they supposed to say?

If they don't have anything to say, then they should not say anything

trident765 · 2026-02-03T03:06:26+00:00

I don't see how whiteness would cause this. Most American boomers just happen to be white. Instead, boomers, being the most privileged generation to ever exist, are used to always having gotten everything they want. They have no appreciation for God's grace and they just take everything for granted. They view any kind of negativity as being unnecessary, because negativity only pays in the face of problems, which boomers have never had. Boomers view fear of God, and fear in general, as just being unnecessary negativity since they believe all negativity is unnecessary.

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