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It is so beautiful outside today! Continuing our commitment to post every day throughout the Baha’i Fast, here is the promised report about the junior youth group’s service project.
Based on a visit to one of the homes of the junior youth, we had agreed to offer service [...]
Mo Money Mo Problems
Time for a little more John Stuart Mills. The 3rd chapter of Utilitarianism is entitled “Of the Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility.” I understand this to mean, “From where does the utilitarian principle derive its authority?” I admit to not really understanding Mills’ argument in this chapter. His basic point [...]
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Wondering what all these neighborhood children’s classes are about? Look no further than Dan Jones’ Baha’i Children’s Class Ideas. The goal is “to foster learning about neighbourhood children’s classes as a core activity, through a process of action, [...]
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Last Saturday, the junior youth group in Lowell got together. We said a prayer, and then took a walk down by the canal, which had recently been emptied. M. talked about wanting to make the neighborhood better for her younger siblings and for the other children. Over [...]
Today is Blog Action Day 2009, a day for bloggers all over the world to focus their collective work on a single topic. This year: climate change. Here at Anonymous Cowgirl, we’re continuing an examination of individual and institutional action, the Baha’i Faith, and how it all relates to climate change.
Training institute held at the [...]
Chapter 2: What Utilitarianism Is
The Principle of Utility states, “Pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends” (Chapter 2, para. 2). John Stuart Mills defines utilitarianism throughout the second chapter, and addresses a number of dissenting opinions, all of which boil down–in his view–to a failure to understand the meaning of [...]
Are we animals or humans? What does the Baha’i Faith say about the nature of human beings and the difference between human beings and animals? I ask this question because back in college, the following view was very comforting to me: “Human beings are animals. Big-brained, language-using animals – but animals nonetheless.” I am not [...]
In Communities of Practice, Etienne Wenger discusses how groups of practitioners learn by pursuing a common enterprise. He defines practice as a shared history of learning — shared experiences of histories of participation and reification in the world. For example, the Baha’i world community is currently pursuing an enterprise of growth. Together, we are learning [...]
Wow! After recovering from a rather painful sore throat + sinus congestion bug, it’s time to blog about the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Baha’i Studies. Of course, I can’t do that justice in the five minutes available right now, so I’ll embed a clip of Badi, our homegrown hip hop hero, performing [...]