This afternoon, after my tutorial I went to the library and tried to finish my Number theory homework and gave up and handed it in. I then went to Green Actions' Yurt in Alexandra square to have a cup of tea and look around the inside, which I'd been meaning to do all week. It's very nice in there with rugs hung on the walls and a wood burning stove to boil water and keep the place warm. I stayed in there from about 3pm until the Bahai talk at 7:30pm.

The talk was more brief than I was expecting, and was basically a short introduction to the Bahai faith. He talked about people who all try to get their own way and their own possesions as being like amoeba fighting for survival, compared to people working together in faith being more like a human body. He then linked it to brief extracts from Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism, before introducing a few teachings of the Bahullah. He then opened up to questions. Some people asked him more about the Bahai faith. Steve Hoyland contrasted the speakers interpretation that a state of perfect peace will inevitably happen on Earth with the Christian teaching that it can only happen with the coming of Gods Kingdom. We had cups of tea and coffee and biscuits and Steph and Kirsten started talking about religious freedom in French schools and Germany and stuff.
posted at 9:37:00 pm