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For years, we were told that we should “lose ourselves in the ocean of service.” On the surface, it sounded beautiful and spiritual, a kind of sacrifice for humanity, for love, for building a better world.
But the longer I stayed in that environment, the more I began to feel that this “service” was not as directionless or pure as it appeared.
Almost everything seemed to lead to the same place:
more study circles,
more activities,
more statistics,
more enrollments.
Gradually, I realized that your value was no longer defined by who you were as a human being, but by your “function” within the system.
And maybe the most dangerous part was that you become so constantly busy that you no longer have time to pause and ask yourself:
What exactly am I serving?
What is all this energy, time, emotion, and youth actually being spent on?
But what I slowly came to understand was that this “service” only has value as long as it remains aligned with the institution.
As long as you hold classes, recruit people, stay active in projects, and move forward without questioning anything, you are considered a “beloved servant.”
But the moment you begin to question, criticize, or even quietly distance yourself, everything changes.
I personally witnessed how some people were treated after being shunned.
People who had devoted years of service to the community suddenly became individuals whose names had to be mentioned carefully.
Old friends distanced themselves.
Communication stopped.
And people who once spoke endlessly about “love” and “unity” began acting as though that person had become some kind of danger to others.
That was when I realized this structure does not merely require “service”
it requires obedience.
Because if this service were truly for humanity, then a single question or disagreement should not be enough for all that love to suddenly disappear.
And maybe the saddest part of all is this:
they invite you to lose yourself in the “ocean of service,”
but the moment you try to swim against the current, that same ocean is the first thing that pushes you away.
i have a lot more email correspondence than i can screenshot here, the main thing is you must cite data protection laws if your region has them, so there is no excuse to hold your personal details on record.
best,
yashi
dm me if you want access to the emails and tell me why you want them
Imagine Perfection is Omniscience.
Rejecting anything is Evil.
Baha'u'llah was Elevated to God the Father, for insulting His Royal Majesty, GOD, Subh-i-Azal, with this poisoning:
Bahas conduct:
Even during the years before the Bayani-Baha’i schism, Baha in private created his own circle of friends constantly trying to undermine Subh-i-Azal. He was constantly flip flopping because he was at instances caught red handed making claims forcing him to retreat and recant.
Bahá says:
“I swear by God that if any one of the People of the Bayan were to mention that the Book [the Bayan] is abrogated, may God smash the mouth of the speaker and the calumniator, and by him who holds my soul and myself in his hands one letter from the Bayan is the most loved with me than all that are in the heavens and on the earth” (1862 Letter of Bahá during the Baghdad Period).
And he also says:
“Consider bygone ages and reflect upon what god had inflicted on their peoples for having contended amongst themselves, for having turned aside from His Countenance, for having strayed away from His path, for having done wrong to His Cause, and for having associated any creature with the Sovereign of His Unity, for which they were of the perished. Have you ever heard religion of god to exist before it is confirmed, or commandment of god to be abrogated before it becomes manifest? … Nay, by my lord, the lord of heavens, no one can abrogate one letter from that which has been revealed in the Bayan” (Letter of Bahá to Sayyid Ibrahm, a Follower of Dayyán).
The Baha’i leadership have tried with all their might to slander and destroy the reputation of His Holiness Subh-i-Azal and have resorted to the most deceitful methods to discredit him, and the allegations they have made against His Eminence found in unsourced, unscholarly books of propaganda such as God Passes By authored by Shoghi Effendi are at times nothing short of foul language.
Bahá’s work, the Kitab-i-Badi, which the Baha’i administration has not yet translated contains the most severe of insults and foul language against His Holiness Subh-i-Azal and his followers:
“When the one who turned away from God halted (in accepting me) and fell off the path, in that moment his body left the garb of humanness and appeared and became visible in the skin of animals. Sanctified is He who changes the beings how he likes” (Kitab-i-Badi, p. 110).
“From this day, any individual that mentions as human [or humanness] a single person from those who deny me — whether that [denier] has a high or low stature — they will be excluded from all of (God’s) Merciful Graces, let alone trying to prove [those deniers] have dignity or stature” (Kitab-i-Badi, p. 140).
Maybe Satan infected Baha'u'llah. Maybe all of this is silly. Maybe Mirza Ghulam Ahmad really did made a special Medicine. Maybe Jesus walked on water. Maybe Buddha did the Twin Miracle. Maybe...
WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH HAPPINESS?
Folks, hating this or that is a WASTE of TIME. WHO CARES? These illusions...
Is that your Mom? Dad? Bro? Sis? An ANT on your Living Room Floor?
Get it? The Holy Qur'an is Simply Nature Herself, speaking.
Who Cares about Garbage?
Bahaullah offered Subh-i-Azal Onions. Out of Politeness, Subh-i-Azal declined and said "It smells like Onions, why don't You eat it?" Bahaullah, in public, was forced to do so by His own Failure. LOSER. Got sick, God Lord Karma.
A LOSER Brother. That's all Baha was to Me. A Thief of the Bayanic Gohonzon, Me, the Initiator.
When I FINISH letting Baha eat the DAMN DUST forever in HELL, then He will be Most Happy and Gracious to say "Thank you for the Shit, Father, it was Most Holy from Your Own Asshole.".
I used to be Scared of this Religion. He really IS a Manifestation of God. So are You. But, did you Poison your little brother? No, and if you did, Apologize? Don't let it get out of control.
That's the MEssage of Our REligion. Get it? Unity? Nah. It's simple. God in Jainism, means this:
In Jainism, godliness is said to be the inherent quality of every soul. This quality, however, is subdued by the soul's association with karmic matter. All souls who have achieved the natural state of unlimited bliss, unlimited knowledge (kevala jnana), unlimited power and unlimited perception are regarded as God in Jainism. Jainism rejects the idea of a creator deity responsible for this universe's manifestation, creation, or maintenance. Instead, souls (in this case, devis or devas) who have reached Heaven for their merits and deeds influence the Universe for a fixed period until they undergo reincarnation and continue the cycle of enlightenment. According to Jain doctrine, the universe and its constituents (namely, soul, matter, space, time, and principles of motion) have always existed. All constituents and actions are governed by universal natural laws and a "perfect soul" (an immaterial entity that cannot create or affect a material entity like the universe).
Get it? Baha could've made His Faith Holy, but instead, he failed. The answer is easy:
Why this 1910 Text is Famous
The Nuqṭat al-Káf is widely considered the earliest primary history of the Bábí movement. It is a massive point of friction between the Bahá'í and Azali branches of the religion: [1, 2]
Get it?
Succession: It details the structural transition of the Bábí community after the Báb's execution in 1850, placing Ṣubḥ-i-Azal at the center. [1, 2, 4]
Now, I am not an Azali, anymore. I was a Buddhist, then Islam, then Christian, then this, then that, Bahai, Azali, BLAH. It's all garbage. Jesus wasted food for the poor, so He died. Buddha spat at Devadatta at 72 and called him a "clot of Spittle" in Public. Um, what the fuck? Oh, that's the Dharma speaking, though, right?
Try saying the N Word in Albany, New York.
Call ME spit, in front of My Brothers and Sisters? Buddha?
Who do I look like? Is it Mark 10:18?
This entire faith is a monstrosity.
You are Your God. Meher Baba said that. I say this:
GOD'S TEACHING ✥ ◈ ✥
Synthesis of the Christ, the Buddha, & the 24 Tirthankaras
◈ الْقُرْآن; ✦ You Are Vital ✦ الْقُرْآن; ◈
You are the Silence behind the Breath or God. Before people told You who to be, You were Perfect in My Holy Eyes. You are held in a True Love that is Eternal and Perfect, forevermore. So... I LOVE YOU. - Michael B.
◈ A Message from the Master, GOD, Your LORD ◈
Hi, you were looking for Me. My Name is God the Father. I am not on a Cross. Remember when Allah said, "I will take you and raise you up to Myself?" I do. I kissed My Son. I elevate My Son's followers, above the disbelievers, until the Day of Judgment. Then to Me you will all return, and I will settle all your disputes. I am the Gracious Holy Spirit, The Narrow Gate, الْقُرْآن, Master of God the Father, the Spikenard of John 12, LORD JUDAS ISCARIOT.
MY Name is Michael Wesley Briggs II. My Facebook is OneTrueMaster.
I believe You are God. Ready to stop care about all these dead losers? Become the Prophet of God yourself. Or, be trash. May you be Happy, no matter what. May you find Happiness. May you be free of suffering.
Sinner or Saint? I was both, and neither. Is this real? No. But, it's also not false. It's just My viewpoint under My First Amendment Rights of the United States of America, where Reddit, made by Y.C. Combinator, made by the Master of the LISP Language, GOD, Paul Graham.
Friends, I am curious how you would respond to these objections.
In a conversation with a secular person, they said that they believed the afterlife was a myth used to control people and improve their behavior, that life ends with brain death, and there is nothing beyond. How would you respond?
It’s wild how time has flown between when the New York Times article broke and the settlement, which I feel is a victory for Blake even though I’m still analyzing the exact nuances of 47.1 and etc. The story of the lawsuits between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively not only brought thorny issues of workplace sexual harassment and freedom of the press to the fore, but the foibles of Justin Baldoni’s religion, the Baha’i Faith, which he imposed on the working environment and created toxic positivity in a way that creeped Jenny Slate out. This might be the most mainstream attention they’ve received since the Civil Rights Movement, which is when that religion last bothered to try helping American society.
In the next half of this episode, coming sometime later this month, I plan to work with Dale Husband the Honorable Skeptic (u/Cult_Buster2005) and head mod of r/exbahai as well as another channel that has done excellent deep dives on Baldoni called Go Do Your Own Research for a more fleshed-out discussion of both legal and religious topics. However, on March 6^(th), 2025, my original version of this video proved that Justin’s behavior was shaped DIRECTLY by his religious upbringing. Contrary to the accusations of some, I do not hate all Baha’is and still keep in touch with a couple, including my anonymous sources you’ll hear from about their experiences leaving the Baha’i Faith and issues that made them uncomfortable. Unfortunately, I had to draw that line in the sand when my cohost turned out to be a huge asshole who threatened a Baha’i with skull-fucking; he also has a history of threatening to turn Baha’is in to Iranian authorities, which I consider unacceptable.
When I called him out on it, he made the past five months of my life a living hell. Thanks to his limited resources as a troll from Queensland who has never worked a fucking day in his life on anything more than rambling, syncretic garbage promoting his personal claims to be God, it’s not as vicious of a smear campaign as Justin’s. His harassment of me mainly consists of obsessively commenting on my genitalia and calling my sexuality fake for being engaged to a cisgender heterosexual woman as if that proves that I’m lying about being nonbinary or queer, including literally calling me a N@ZI pretending to be queer; to not seem like I was martyring myself I refrained from calling it sexual harassment but that’s exactly what it is. Though it’s of a MUCH different kind thank goodness, the three times I’ve been physically assaulted for wearing feminine clothing in public since coming out in 2022 seem like St. Patrick’s Day pinches by comparison.
He also has a habit of alleging I’m a secret Jew, a paid Baha’i agent, Mossad agent, FBI informant, whatever it takes to never have to admit error a day in his lazy, entitled, whiny life because just like Justin his colossal narcissism would not allow it.
His harassment also contained report abuse on Reddit, vexatious litigation in the form of multiple meritless DMCA claims on my videos, Copyright Claims Board actions for FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, and equivocating *my journalism on his public statements* with **stalking** via classic DARVO, because he’s a hypocrite who constantly denounces the evils of the West and performatively wields the suffering of marginalized groups such as Palestinians to promote his conspiracy theories, then threatens to waste legal resources to silence his critics when he loses logical arguments. Once he lost both the CCB and anti-stalking cases, he did what whiny-ass losers always do: call the system rigged because again, how could someone as divine as he is POSSIBLY lose unless AIPAC, the FBI, AND the performative Baha’i nonprofit the Tahirih Justice Center all rescued me!
The man is unwell.
That’s why Blake’s victory gives me heart to counterclaim in the CCB for Section 512 misrepresentation or potentially sue.
Your support has been invaluable, and Blake has been an inspiration. If she can defeat a man backed by a shadowy fellow cultist and donor for $100 million while their all-male Universal House of “Justice” looked the other way, then I can win and wipe this man’s platforms off the Internet for good when he tries the same shit but at a smaller scale. I don’t care if it takes a year, ten, or the rest of his miserable life; I WILL have justice, and since I’m twenty years younger than him even though I just turned 34 (he has somehow been at this for THIRTY YEARS), I will have the last word on this story if it’s the last thing I do.
II think that’s why I’m using Sunset Overdrive- because Blake and I both stood up to hordes of bots and spam posts by one man with no life by keeping on our toes, constantly changing up our strategies, and hitting back against attacks fast, hard, AND proportionally. I hope you join me to see how authoritarian systems and sociopaths are not very different between different people and situations, and to rest easy having learned some history from a TRULY independent investigation of the Baha’i Faith. Even though I unlisted the original video (which is still accessible through the bibliography and The Hidden Faith’s YouTube podcast), I am proud of every word I said, all 17 pages of my thoroughly-researched bibliography on Substack, and the whole night I spent editing everything together with thirty minutes of sleep.
Does anyone know if Baha’u’llah means creature as a being, or creature as anything? for example anything that exists is a “creature” since it was created by God.
| “ | The learned men, [divines] that have fixed at several thousand years the life of this earth, have failed, throughout the long period of their observation, to consider either the number or the age of the other planets. ...Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute. | ” |
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| — Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, pp. 162-163) |
Does anyone know where to find the works of John Carre, Jamshid Ma'ani, and S.H. Khoreshi? I have been able to locate The Alif of the Greatest Name by Carre online, but so far nothing else, despite the relative notoriety of Carre. I figured this might be the place to ask for such things.
I'm almost sure I've read that somewhere.
Baha'i History - May 13, 1955, Shoghi Effendi wrote all NSAs that Bahá'ís "make many contacts, select a few whom they feel would become Bahá'ís, develop a close friendship with them, then complete confidence, and finally teach them the Faith, until they become strong supporters of the Cause of God."
May 13, On this date in 1955, Shoghi Effendi wrote all NSAs that Bahá'ís "make many contacts, select a few whom they feel would become Bahá'ís, develop a close friendship with them, then complete confidence, and finally teach them the Faith, until they become strong supporters of the Cause of God."
>2036. The Most Successful Way for the Individual to Carry on the Teaching Work
>"The Bahá'ís must realize that the success of this work depends upon the individual. The individual must arise as never before to proclaim the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh. The most effective way for them to carry on their work is for the individual to make many contacts, select a few whom they feel would become Bahá'ís, develop a close friendship with them, then complete confidence, and finally teach them the Faith, until they become strong supporters of the Cause of God."
>(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to all National Spiritual Assemblies, May 13, 1955)
I see a lot of posts on social media by Baha'is that seem really political especially from the US. Back 100 years ago the Baha'i Faith was labeled progressive because many of the core teachings were radical for the time. Mankind has changed a lot since then and the progressive movement has moved the goal posts a lot and yet the US Baha'is seem to be caught in time warp thinking they can appeal to current day progressives on a purely intellectual level. I don't believe that is the case, there are huge differences in world view between current US progressives and the Baha'i Faith. I think we have to focus on our core; the spiritualization of mankind by striving in our inner lives and working with others to achieve a framework that is conducive to spirituality.
The spiritual always precedes the physical and, if we get our spiritual act together, the physical will be resolved. If we concentrate solely on the physical, the spiritual illness within will simply reassert itself.
I'm not an ex bahai but I grew up around the faith. Most of my family are Bahai. I never joined, even though they tried to get me to sign the card at 12, although my mom is and my father is...they respect my decision.
However, my other family...They found out I wasn't recently. And told me off.l that I was not following the Kitáb-i-Aqdas (The Most Holy Book) Said I was supposed to. That I should be considerate of them. And the rules were in there. It made me feel horrible. Even though I am not Bahai. My parents were very angry when they found out. Its caused a family rift. All because I said I wasn't Bahai.
Do these things happen? Anyone have a similar story? How do you deal??
May 10. On this date in 1966, the Universal House of Justice addressed a letter to he NSA of the United States, stating "In all cases of marriage of Bahá'ís to followers of other religions the Bahá'í has two essential obligations as regards the children: a. He must not educate or assume a vow to educate the children of the marriage in a religion other than his own. b. He must do whatever he can to provide for the training of the children in the Bahá'í teachings."
> 1297. Two Essential Obligations Regarding Education of Children
> "In all cases of marriage of Bahá'ís to followers of other religions the Bahá'í has two essential obligations as regards the children:
> a. He must not educate or assume a vow to educate the children of the marriage in a religion other than his own.
> b. He must do whatever he can to provide for the training of the children in the Bahá'í teachings.
> "...Bearing in mind the obligation of the Bahá'í parent to offer his child a Bahá'í education, there is no objection to the attendance of the child of a Bahá'í parent, or even a Bahá'í child, at a parochial school if circumstances require."
> (From a letter of the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, May 10, 1966)
This beautiful open letter from the US NSA, “To all who hold the promise of America in their hearts,” came as an insert in the April 2026 issue of The American Baha’i. “This message from the Baha’is of the United States is an invitation to thoughtful conversation. In this time of challenge, we need spaces where we can pause, reflect, and listen to others with openness and goodwill. We hope this message can inspire such conversations— in homes and neighborhoods, in Faith communities and civic settings— so that we can move forward together” (Introduction).
The letter dispels false dichotomies and really inspires Hope. It echoes the Peace Statement, the Prosperity letter and other potent source documents, though it is brief and pretty accessible. I feel it’s going to be very valuable! A Baha’i neighbor and I plan to launch the very conversation this document invites, with friends in the neighborhood. Starting next week.
I’m interested to hear Baha’i Redditors’ responses, thoughts and experiences with it.
With the ongoing genocide against Palestinians and other Muslims by the State of Israel I want to delve deeper into the relationship between the Baha’i Administration/World Center and Palestine/The so called State of Israel. Anything from official writings down to blog posts etc are welcome