I am Peter Hoerster and the reason I embarked on programming was to have the Bahá’í date on my computer. Having acquired a taste for it, I just continued, and now I can offer you a system extension I hope you will find useful. You may not need the Bahá’í date but it is there simply because it was the reason behind my whole venture.
Modern life is complicated, and it is more than just interesting to know the world’s religions’ answers for the problems besetting us all today.
From the beginning of time the light of unity
hath shed its divine radiance upon the world,
and the greatest means for the promotion of that unity
is for the peoples of the world to understand
one another’s writing and speech.
In former Epistles We have enjoined upon the Trustees
of the House of Justice either to choose one language
from among those now existing or to adopt a new one,
and in like manner to select a common script,
both of which should be taught in all the schools of the world.
Thus will the earth be regarded as one country and one home.
The most glorious fruit of the tree of knowledge
is this exalted word: Of one tree are all ye the fruit,
and of one bough the leaves. Let not man glory in this
that he loveth his country, let him rather glory in this
that he loveth his kind.
Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh
Please feel free to contact me if you would like to find out more. Its an area I'am always happy to talk about. If you have access to the internet please visit the Bahai web page at <www.bahai.org>
