Stop putting facts in the story!We aren't giving them 100 billion dollars, they are getting back their property that was seized.
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Stop putting facts in the story!We aren't giving them 100 billion dollars, they are getting back their property that was seized.
I wish I could say I share your experience but I don't. The ones I knew and know personally are friendly and nice enough people. What they have in common with the ones I meet online is that they want to interject their religion very often and do so with kind of an expectation that people will be, I don't know, impressed? sympathetic? surprised? It feels like they are looking for reactions, almost as if to have an opportunity to talk more about it. A couple of times I did get lured into asking questions but quickly learned not to do that again. I wouldn't say they are nasty or make nasty remarks about me or Christians (or others), but they want to talk about themselves and their religion PLUS they seem to desire a positive reaction and if they don't get one, even if they get a neutral reaction, they seem put off. Not nasty, but put off, upset, disappointed... That has been my experience.I've known Bahai in personal one on one relationships and they were gloriously happy and peaceful people.
I've encountered those on forums who claim they are Bahai and not one can be compared to those others.
The passive-aggressive one's were always the on-line variety and it wasn't hard to tell they had no clue as to what it meant to be Bahai.
I suspected they were posers and especially when they'd attack those who were Jewish or Christian personally. Or, they'd make nasty remarks about those faiths in their posts. It didn't take long to realize they'd never read a single writing of Bahá'u'lláh.
“O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.”
Bahá'u'lláh
“All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.” Bahá'u'lláh
I wish I could say I share your experience but I don't. The ones I knew and know personally are friendly and nice enough people. What they have in common with the ones I meet online is that they want to interject their religion very often and do so with kind of an expectation that people will be, I don't know, impressed? sympathetic? surprised? It feels like they are looking for reactions, almost as if to have an opportunity to talk more about it. A couple of times I did get lured into asking questions but quickly learned not to do that again. I wouldn't say they are nasty or make nasty remarks about me or Christians (or others), but they want to talk about themselves and their religion PLUS they seem to desire a positive reaction and if they don't get one, even if they get a neutral reaction, they seem put off. Not nasty, but put off, upset, disappointed... That has been my experience.
I don't think it's necessarily so much about being Bahai as it is being part of a minority group that people know little to nothing about. I've seen Mormons behave like this about their religion and I've seen my fellow Armenians behave like this when talking about the genocide and not getting favorable reaction. But that has definitely been my experience with pretty much all the Baha'is I've known.
Thanks, I'm replying on your personal wall since we are derailing this thread.That's a shame. I'm sorry to read that you've had those type encounters with those claiming Bahai.
Stop putting facts in the story!
Some of the people involved in this discussion got quite outraged at me for asking for citations and examples, once. I feel your pain.I know, I know. That apparently makes Baha'is passive-aggressive.