I gather that my experience with Baha’is and the Administrative Order differ from yours and therefore we see things differently.<\/p>\n
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When I first became a Baha’i, I heard that it took on the average two years before the newcomer gave to the funds.\u00a0 Not me.\u00a0 I gave immediately.\u00a0 And I sent money to the NSA every month — a small but fixed sum for I was retired.\u00a0 I even changed from sending it every calendar month to every Baha’i month without reducing the amount.\u00a0 Which meant I couldn’t use the money elsewhere.<\/p>\n
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But things changed after a few years when I was falsely accused by another Baha’i of being infirm in the Covenant.\u00a0 That ended with my being cleared officially but in the process I learned that the individual Baha’i is of no importance to the Administrative Order.\u00a0 I am slow to react but eventually it became a matter of being obedient or following my conscience.\u00a0 I did not think then and don’t think now that Baha’u’llah<\/a> wants blind obedience.\u00a0 So I chose to follow my conscience ( I know of at least one person who took the<\/p>\n other path at that junction in his life and I realize that we don’t all see<\/p>\n things the same way.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But the eventual outcome was that I no longer give any monies to the<\/p>\n Administrative Order.\u00a0 None at all because I can mark it for a particular use and it would so be used.\u00a0 However, that just frees up other monies to be used in ways I cannot accept.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I gather that my experience with Baha’is and the Administrative Order differ from yours and therefore we see things differently. When I first became a Baha’i, I heard that it took on the average two years before the newcomer gave to the funds.\u00a0 Not me.\u00a0 I gave immediately.\u00a0 And I sent money to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[999],"tags":[3847,3843,3851,3845,3849],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-former-bahais","tag-administrative","tag-alma-engels","tag-differ","tag-experience","tag-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5019,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions\/5019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}