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I am suspending my Facebook notice until June, for two reasons.
1. I have exams, so don’t need the unnecessary distraction.
2. I want to test if Facebook truly is an unnecessary distraction by being detached from it for a while and see if my life is enhanced or not, through its absence.
I am not a hypocrite, [...]

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The persecution of the Baha’is in Iran has reached crisis point with the unfair trial of seven of its members, on ‘espionage charges for Israel,’ which carries the death penalty.
The Baha’is are being defended by Iran’s only Nobel Prize winner (for peace), Human Rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi.
However, Shirin has been threatened and had her office [...]

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Note: I posted this originally on ‘Baha’i Perspectives’ today:

With a new film about Che Guevara about to hit cinema screens shortly, the idea of revolution and the revolutionary will be thrust upon us yet again.

Now before you start dusting off that dusty Che Guevara t-shirt, let us take some time to reflect on what true revolution [...]

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Artists whether they are musical or visual, are very perceptive to their surroundings, and express what they take in through their chosen medium.
With the songs chosen below, the artists have made musical social commentaries on the state of our planet Earth and the decline of the world order of our society (but they don’t take [...]

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So, before I post my next blog entry on my own blog, I have been busy posting on the International Baha’i blog, ‘Baha’i Perspectives’.

In this latest entry, called ‘The Matrix: I Know Kung Fu!‘ I try and correlate the journey of Neo, the skills of Kung Fu, the Seven Valleys and Transformation…
This is part 2 [...]

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At the moment, I’m in between locations. And that means at times, *shock horror*, no internet.

However, I did write a blog entry for another site (in my links) called Baha’i Perspectives.
Its called ‘The Matrix-Why I Chose The Red Pill’
Click here to read it.

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