u/Historical_Egg_

This is just my theory and observation, but I do not really think that people in the Bahai Faith actually have faith in this religion. I actually think every person involved with the makings and continuation of the Bahai Faith have never had faith, and the higher ups of this religion only said they had faith to gain more power and status.

I could see for a Muslim how Islam leads a person to faith, it has a long history and well established foundations.

However, when it comes to the Bahai faith and how new it is, along with its idea of progressive revelation, I’m unsure whether people actually believe in this religion.

I’m pretty sure the main reason people stay in this faith for years, decades, is because they would rather waste time trying to feel faithful and find faith in this dead horse than to critically think and accept that this religion is a scam. We may meet people who have been a Bahai all their life or for 20+ years, but not only have they never truly put their faith to the test, but I’d argue they just do it for the looks.

Every object here can be reversed in the matter of seconds by doing this trick:

Our eyes are always drawn to the warmer colors such as orange or red. Start focusing on the cooler colors such as blue or green.

If this doesn’t work, concentrate on how the object is spinning. Is it spinning with the perspective being lower or higher. Since the reversed image’s perspective would be opposite, imagine the object in its opposite perspective.

If you combine both of these two techniques, you’ll see two objects spinning at once, the overlays.

If you are born with a disorder that is caused by an excess/lack of neurological chemicals, then therapy can be needed.

However, if a person is depressed or has anxiety that is not based on traumatic past experiences, which I believe most people in therapy do not have (not saying it doesn't exist, it does), then you don't need therapy.

I used to be very suicidal and depressed and attempted suicide. Thankfully, I survived, but for half a year following that attempt I was still severely depressed and still suicidal. I tried therapy for the first few months but left it because i realized it was useless for people in the same situation as me.

I'm a young person in college, so I am having one of the biggest changes of my life from childhood to adulthood. It's very common for people my age to feel depressed. However, my childhood and teenage years went well, and I wasn't abused or bullied throughout my life. I had a good upbringing.

This could've been the reason why therapy felt pointless to me, and why I felt as if I made no progress, but i digress.

After leaving therapy and not being able to use the useless techniques or phrases of "it's not your thoughts", i was left in a pickle because I still wanted to die because of my overthinking. One day while i was driving, I realized that I do not need to be depressed and keep thinking so negatively. literally, at that moment, my depression went away and never came back, and i never had suicidal thoughts since. In fact, I am not needing to take medications like Wellbutrin, as both my family and I have come to an agreement that my depression left.

What i'm trying to say is, unless you were born with a predisposition to chemically induced disorders or had a severely traumatic past experience, then therapy is not needed.

Most of these mental health issues can easily be solved without a therapist, and when it feels like you and your therapist are stuck in a rut getting nowhere after some time, it's most likely a sign that you can solve these issues yourself.

In Christianity, The Trinity is defined as:

-One God, whose single, simple, indivisible essence is fully possessed by three distinct subsistent relations (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) each of whom is not a part of God, nor a mode of God, but is fully God, and yet not identical to the other relations.

However, there is a Clear Problem to the concept of the Trinity: The Trinity Requires a Positive Essence.

In Mahayana Buddhism, there is a key theological concept known as the Dharmakaya, which is very much similar to the Trinitarian Essence. This Dharmakaya is the Ground Being of all Samsara, the ultimate Reality of Samsara, It is nondual, unconditioned, and universal, and is where all Buddhas are born of and reside in. This essence is what upholds the three Bodies of the Buddha (Similar to the Christian notion of the Trinity) and what allows all sentient beings to become Buddhas.

The difference between Buddhism and Christianity is that the Dharmakaya is explicitly described in sutras and śāstras; A clearly defined metaphysical essence that grounds the multiplicity of Buddha manifestations. The Buddhist Trikāya has a clearly defined metaphysical ground (Dharmakāya), making it coherent.

Christianity does not have such a nondual concept as the Dharmakaya. The Bible and Jesus do not speak about the "God Essence". In Christian Theology, God’s essence is unknowable, indescribable, and beyond being. If there is no concept such as a "dharmakaya essence", what even is God's essence? Many Christians will argue that God's Essence is "beyond Being", however, this is a negation and not a definition. The Dharmakaya is beyond thought, but that's not what the Dharmakaya is. If Ousia (Essence) is affirmed but cannot ever be defined, then there is no such thing as "God Essence", and the position of the Trinity cannot be upheld. The Trinity cannot serve as a metaphysical foundation for a doctrine.

Therefore, the Trinity Lacks a Coherent Essence

Yesterday, my best friend and I went to a Shia Mosque (don't want to give out the location because it's a big one) near a huge forest that stretches for miles. I like going to new religious places with my friends to check them out and learn, so nothing out of the usual. I didn't tell him immediately, but after he finished his Maghrib Salah and we left the place, I told him I got a very bad feeling spiritually like there were bad spirits there such as Pretas and Yakshas, like as soon as we left the Mosque Area. I felt both spiritually and physically ill. We've had conversations about places which feel like this, so we have an understanding that if one of us feels off about a place, we won't go back to it, or if we do go back, we'll be very cautious. After I told him, he said he could kind of understand the feeling I was describing, but he believed it was because we're not used to the place.

When i went to sleep, I had this horrible Nightmare:
In this dream, it was the same darkness as it was outside (2 AM), I went downstairs for water and as usual my cat comes to greet me. This time however, my cat doesn't greet me and instead starts meowing rough and backing up as if he's never seen something as scary before. I go to my cat and ask what's wrong. I look at where he's looking, and it's at the window above the sink. It's dark outside, but I see that there's a Pitch-Black Humanoid Entity standing outside the window. I turn to my cat and say like wtf. I turn back to the window, and the entity teleported into the kitchen in front of the sink. I'm so terrified I'm speechless. the entity turned into some like young woman telling me, "I just want to see you". I'm so terrified i can't scream so i bolt upstairs to tell my family to get tf up, and I look behind and she's already behind just saying "I want to see you".

Moral of the story:
You have to be very careful going to new religious places. You don't know what spirits or devas reside there. Just because you're Buddhist doesn't mean you're protected. When you go to different religious prayer spaces that aren't part of your own religion, certain yakshas, pretas, and devas sometimes won't welcome you in, especially like this one where it's directly next to a huge forest.

This is more of an observation than a story:

I swear, every time I go to this Bahá’í temple by myself, every time time I’m sitting alone, or there’s two other old “Bahais” scattered around the temple. Like it’s genuinely sad from an outsiders perspective. It’s as if this temple has become a tourist destination. I haven’t seen one person in worship except for the teens and an old woman/man lead the devotional services.

How does this place even remain open. No one except people considering joining this religion buy books from the library. I haven’t even seen regular bahais at this temple every time I go.

How many people are a part of this temple? Like genuinely do the Bahá’í even go here? Or are they avoiding the weird basement meuseum that only tourists find interests in. This welcome center is more of a bathroom pitstop than a legitimate welcome center.

Apologies for the quick ending

Theravada, but I'm very knowledgeable on Mahayana as well