http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/bahai Questions tagged with 'bahai' at Ask MetaFilter. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:22:25 -0800 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:22:25 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/100799/The%2DBahai%2DReligion%2DAm%2DI%2Dmissing%2Danything I have spent the past two years doing on-again, off-again research into the <b>Baha'i</b> religion. I really like what I see - I'm on the verge of conversion. There is one problem - something that's nagging at the corners of my mind: Why isn't this religion more popular? Is there something that I'm missing that everyone else is seeing?</b> This is a bit of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds">Wisdom of Crowds</a> mentality, but I have this mental image of a fork in the road with a heavily traveled path on one side and a deer path on the other. <br> <br> I'm not afraid of going my own way, I'm just looking for a little reassurance that I'm not blind to some obvious problem. <br> <br> The people I've spoken to have been very nice, the books that I have read have seemed pretty thorough, and I've read all the criticism that I can get my hands on. Yet, the sheer anonymity of it leaves me a bit bewildered.<br> <br> Help? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.100799 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:22:25 -0800 bahai baha'i choices obvious paths religion WisdomOfCrowds unixrat