Climate Activism

I got into somewhat of an argument with my family where my dad again suggested that I volunteer for some volunteer organization in order to meet young women. Skeptical, I asked my sister if any of her friends volunteer for organizations, and if so then what for. She said they volunteer for educational and environmental organizations. It surprised me that she said this, because I always just assumed "volunteer" was a sham platitude that socially privileged people say to placate lonely people. After all, I have never heard any of the names of the organizations that people volunteer for, or even have an understanding of what they would do, so as far as I could tell "volunteering" wasn't even a real thing. But if my sister says her friends volunteer for climate crap then maybe that's what I need to start doing in order to meet young women. Perhaps this is what is replacing religion among the youth.

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I have come to the conclusion that what I volunteer for must be a bullshit cause, because I am interested only in things that are not bullshit, but women are only interested in bullshit.

Maybe volunteer to help immigrants.  Then you may meet immigrant women.  I don't understand why anyone would want to meet American women.

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Maybe volunteer to help immigrants.  Then you may meet immigrant women.  I don't understand why anyone would want to meet American women.

This is actually what the Bahais do to try to gain converts. They target section 8 housing neighborhoods, which are mostly poor immigrants from various African countries. But the Bahais seem more desperate to "help" the immigrants than the immigrants are to receive help. One Bahai was telling me there is this elderly Iranian Bahai man who has been going to Panera every week to take the leftover food they have at the end of the day and bring it to the immigrants. But the immigrants just take this food and throw it in the trash, because they are already on food stamps so they don't need or want this food that he gives them. And no one has had the heart to tell this man that the immigrants are throwing the food he gives them in the trash, so he continues to bring them the food every week, only for the immigrants to throw it in the trash.

The only thing the immigrants really need is for someone to babysit their children, since daycare in the US is very expensive, so Bahais have been holding "children's classes" for these immigrant children. But even these immigrants only send their kids to them on the condition that Bahais don't talk about their religion, so the Baha'i curriculum for these children's classes consists of very watered down lessons on the most widely accepted "virtues" like kindness, truthfulness, etc. without really teaching them their religion, so it is essentially a free babysitting service.

One of the "graduates" of this curriculum is a young (now in her early 20s) African woman who Baha'is view as a success story, because she formally enrolled as a Baha'i. She was elected to the council that leads the Bahais for my city, but she never went to a single meeting. She was given a good job (which she accepted) with this Bahai organization called the Tahirih Justice Center, which my sister was rejected for, despite probably having better credentials. Despite the Baha'i community having done so much for this young African woman I almost never saw her, until last Sunday she showed up to the Bahai Sunday gathering for the first time. Since she was a young woman I was interested in talking to her, so I went to my car and drank a bunch of alcohol to make me less nervous, with hopes of socializing with her. But in the end she didn't even stay around for the social and potluck portion, she just left as soon as the main program was done, so the alcohol I drank was for nothing. She had no interest in staying around to talk to me, because just like the immigrants don't need the Bahais' help to get their food needs met, they also don't need my help to get their sexual needs met.

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The Baha'i community is almost like a community that was designed for the purpose of working against the genetic interests of its members. They are told not to focus on helping fellow Baha'is but instead focus on addressing the problems of non-Bahais. They believe conversions are the only legitimate kind of growth in the religion, and ridicule religions that grow by birthrates. They believe climate change is a serious problem that is caused by overpopulation, and that the way to combat overpopulation is for socially conscious people (such as Baha'is) to voluntarily not have children. They have a belief that it is good to always be positive, and never say anything negative, and that the best way to respond to issues it to pretend they don't exist. They believe that their members should assimilate into mainstream society rather than be insular, while also promoting things that would make it difficult for them to assimilate into the mainstream, such as having mixed race children and abstinence from alcohol. They make their gatherings as boring as possible, to attract only old people with senile minds dull enough to tolerate the boringness, and repel young people to reduce the likelihood of them meeting and breeding with each other. They consider "men bad, women good" to be a sacred principle of their religion, and that any criticism a woman makes of a man is always valid, and when a woman said she was considering divorcing her "abusive" husband who she had 3 kids with the Bahais all cheered her on without asking questions.

Very little of this has to do with the actual Bahai scripture as written by Baha'u'llah. In fact, the holiest Bahai book the Aqdas wasn't even translated into English until 1992, it was in Arabic which neither Americans nor Persians could understand. So up until that point Baha'is were essentially a religious community that had been evolving without scripture, which I hope is the reason they believe so much crap.

If Baha’i is so bad and you are displeased with it, why are you still in it?

Because reforming it is my only hope of creating a group where I belong.