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  1. RonPrice

    Mia farrow and the omen: 666

    It has been more than 4 years since anyone was at this thread. I'm not sure how my post was "off-topic." I will add more on Mia Farrow, FYI.(is this off-topic?)-Ron Price, Tasmania ------------------------------------------------------------ In July 1937 Sheila Graham(1904-1988), met the famous...
  2. RonPrice

    Contemporary Origins of a New Revelation

    It has been more than ten years since I posted the above prose-poem. I'll add some thoughts from Nietzsche on the subject. Readers who have little interest in this subject are advised to skim or scan or stop reading now.-Ron Price, Tasmania ---------------------------------- NIETZSCHE, THE...
  3. RonPrice

    The Jews and the Baha'is

    It has been more than 16 months since I posted the above prose-poem. I'll add "a little more" on the subject to keep this thread alive and well. For some readers this "little more" may be far too much. For such readers I encourage them to skim or scan or stop reading now, if the subject is of...
  4. RonPrice

    The Jews and the Baha'is

    Over the last decade, 2005 to 2014, since my retirement from FT, PT and most volunteer work, after an employment-and-student life of half a century, 1954 to 2004, I have often written about the Jews and Judaism with comparisons and contrasts to a people and a religion I have now been associated...
  5. RonPrice

    Some Thoughts: Dworkin, Eliade, Durkheim and Weber

    Section A Part 1: The familiar stark divide between people of religion and without religion is too crude. Many millions of people who count themselves atheists have convictions and experiences very like, and just as profound, as those that believers count as religious. They say that though...
  6. RonPrice

    Bahá'í Apocalypticism: The Concept of Progressive Revelation

    Thanks Freedomelf......Ron Price, Tasmania
  7. RonPrice

    Apologetics: Yours and Baha'i

    Belated apologies for not responding sooner, Bruce, but I just saw your post today. Yes, good old Udo. He has been a bastion of belief, one of the most articulate spokesmen of the Baha'i Faith in the last half century.-Ron
  8. RonPrice

    Thoughts on the criticism of others(Part 1)

    Belated Apologies Peacewise....you can go to my website with its 60 books at 80,000 words/book, FYI, at: Ron Price - Pioneering Over Five Epochs
  9. RonPrice

    Bahá'í Apocalypticism: The Concept of Progressive Revelation

    Apologies, hedayat, for taking more than 2 years to reply, but I just saw your post today. For some comments on progressive revelation go to Wikipedia. It begins: "Progressive revelation is a core teaching in the Bahá'í Faith that suggests that religious truth is revealed by God progressively...
  10. RonPrice

    More about samuel beckett

    I just saw your post, Skwim. I am happy to provide some comment on this work of Beckett's, but it may be too late. Let me know.-Ron PS You might find Wikipedia has an excellent overview of this play. Although there is only one person onstage, there are a number of 'characters' mentioned...
  11. RonPrice

    Ridvan message 2013

    If you would like to read an integration of the Ridvan 2013 message into a book of 550 pages and 230 thousand words, a book containing reflections and understandings regarding the Baha'i culture of learning and growth, what amounts to a paradigmatic shift, in the Baha’i community---go to...
  12. RonPrice

    Jack Kerouac: A New Movie and A Book(Part 1)

    ANGELED IN HEAVEN Section 1: Jack Kerouac, a major Beat writer of the fifties, published his book On the Road in 1957. For many of that generation it was an enduring testament of ideas. I was only thirteen in 1957, just a little early to actually read Kerouac. I did come in contact by my...
  13. RonPrice

    Jack Kerouac: A New Movie and A Book(Part 1)

    NOT ABOUT FAME Section 1: Price was a writer. He wrote. He didn’t just call himself a writer. He spent a great deal of time actually writing, certainly since 1962 for more than a little time. Extensively after 1974, 1983, 1992, and especially 1999 after he had retired from FT work...
  14. RonPrice

    Jack Kerouac: A New Movie and A Book(Part 1)

    Part 2: In 1958 a San Francisco columnist Herb Caen coined the phrase beatnik to denote members of the growing Californian bohemian youth culture which Caen associated with new barbarian tendencies in America. The appellation beatnik came to enrage Kerouac in the last decade of his life...
  15. RonPrice

    Jack Kerouac: A New Movie and A Book(Part 1)

    HOMO LUDENS If this post is (a) outside the normal conventions of this site and/or (b) too long to read, just skim or scan it. If the subject matter is of little interest, stop reading now, and go to where you can be stimulated in one way or another.-Ron Price, Australia...
  16. RonPrice

    Dietrich bonhoeffer

    Part 1: At the beginning of the Seven Year Plan, 1937 to 1944, the first systematic teaching Plan of the Baha’is of North America, Reinhold Niebuhr arranged a job for Dietrich Bonhoeffer in New York. Niebuhr(1892-1971) was an American theologian, public intellectual, commentator on...
  17. RonPrice

    Thanking you for the welcoming note.-Ron

    Thanking you for the welcoming note.-Ron
  18. RonPrice

    CHAOS AND THE VOID: The desperation to believe

    In the final chapter of his magisterial biography of Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann(1918-1987), American literary critic, recounts the last moments of Wilde’s life, and his being received into the Church. The story of T.S. Eliot’s(1888-1965) unexpected conversion to Anglicanism is a long and...
  19. RonPrice

    Ridvan Ridvan Message 2011: A Commentary and Context

    My Book Is Now Updated to 21/4/'12 and it can be access at the same, the above, link.-Ron
  20. RonPrice

    PAINTED WITH WORDS: Who are you Vincent?

    On April Fools’ Day this year I watched Van Gogh: Painted With Words on ABC1.1 It has taken me 3 weeks to find the right combination of time and circumstance to write a few words about this moving docudrama. I won’t tell you chapter and verse about the content of this TV program...
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