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...
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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...
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...
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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...
In the final chapter of his magisterial biography of Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann(1918-1987), American literary critic, recounts the last moments of Wildes life, and his being received into the Church. The story of T.S. Eliots(1888-1965) unexpected conversion to Anglicanism is a long and...
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...
During 2005 to 2007, the first two years of my full retirement from FT, PT and casual-volunteer work, the British-American–Italian historical drama television series Rome premiered. This series was available on DVD in 2009, but I do not buy DVDs, retired and on a pension as I have been...
At the beginning of the Five Year Plan(1937-1944) of the North American Bahai community, a Plan I am confident that the Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett(1906-1989) knew nothing about---but one whose extension into a series of Plans I have been associated with now for nearly 60...
For Baha'i perspectives on a multitude of subjects in the social and behavioural sciences as well as the physical and biological sciences go to this website. It is the 4th edition of my site, a site which has been on the internet since 1997: Ron Price - Pioneering Over Five Epochs
At the beginning of the Five Year Plan(1937-1944) of the North American Bahai community, a Plan I am confident that the Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett(1906-1989) knew nothing about---but one whose extension into a series of Plans I have been associated with now for nearly 60...
Readers can find a 6000 word commentary and context for the 21 April 2011 Ridvan message at the following sites or links:
The Baha'i Faith - Hip Forums
(this site, hip-forums, also has over two dozen other posts, other pieces of my writing on a wide-range of topics---with some...
I saw The Omen(2006) two or three nights ago on Australian TV. The movie did not start until 1 in the morning. I was too tired to watch the whole movie and went to bed about 2 and missed the last half. I read the story on Wikipedia out of curiosity the next day. I also read a digest of the...
Two or three nights ago, after a day of writing and reading, editing and posting on the internet, research and what I have come to call independent scholarship, I settled down with my after-midnight snack. I watch TV at that time to help turn my brain off and so get into alpha waves after what...
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Bahá'í Apocalypticism:
The Concept of Progressive Revelation
Paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the filosofie licentiat degree Zaid Lundberg
Department of History of Religion at the Faculty of...
THOUGHTS ON THE CRITICISM OF OTHERS
The first criticism of my writing, at least the criticism that I remember, was in 1950 when I was in grade one in the then small southern Ontario town of Burlington, a part of what is still called the Golden Triangle. Its jammed right at the left-hand end of...
Frances Flannery-Dailey and Rachel Wagner's groundbreaking article: "Wake Up! Gnosticism and Buddhism in The Matrix," published two years after the release of the film, convincingly argued that The Matrix draws on several religious traditions in its presentation of an unreal material world, a...
AVATAR
The film Avatar has been out and about for four months(12/09 to 4/10) after being in development since 1994. I have read many reviews, listened to many comments and discussed its style and content with many both in cyberspace and in our wide-wide-world. This prose-poem tries to...
DYLAN AND ME IN 62
As early as 1962, the year my pioneering and travelling for the Canadian Baháí community began, Bob Dylan was reflecting on the theme of the rejected prophet. He wrote: To preach of peace and brotherhood, / Oh, what might be the cost! / A man he did it long ago / And they...
Since there are so many questions raised and issues discussed concerning peoples basic assumptions about life, about their philosophy, about their religious beliefs, indeed, about their very approach to reality and the way their society goes about organizing things, it seemed like a useful...
INTERVIEWER(I):
I understand that just last month you taught your last class as a full-time professional teacher. Now that you are able to give yourself more fully to the academic and writing life, I'd like to start off with a question involving Thomas Carlyle, the British historian. He said...