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Monday, January 1, 2007

And another New Year’s resolution…

by Barney on 1 January 2007

…is to stop procrastinating! I’m afraid procrastination is one of my abiding faults. I hate making telephone calls, so I put them off. I have a number of artistic endeavours in mind, such as learning to draw, writing short stories, even a novel, but I put them off for fear of failure. Even, dare I [...]

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Mahdi here by Spring?

by Barney on 1 January 2007

New Year’s resolutions anyone? How about this? We resolve to prepare ourselves for the coming of the Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam. A WorldNetDaily story has this dramatic headline:
Iran website heralding ‘Mahdi’ by springtime
State media: Shiite messiah to kill archenemy in Jerusalem, may arrive during next equinox
Now, I’m not sure that I would trust WorldNetDaily as [...]

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Happy (Gregorian) New Year!

by Barney on 1 January 2007

Welwyn Garden City and Welwyn Baha

So what comes after Christmas? Why, New Year of course.
Following long tradition the Baha’is of Welwyn Garden City (in the English county of Hertfordshire) got together last night for a Unity Feast and then to stay up to see in the New Year. The Baha’is of the neighbouring community of Welwyn joined the [...]

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