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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. RonPrice

    Rome on tv legitimacy: Then and now

    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...
  8. RonPrice

    More about samuel beckett

    At the beginning of the Five Year Plan(1937-1944) of the North American Baha’i 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...
  9. RonPrice

    Baha'i Perspectives

    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
  10. RonPrice

    More about samuel beckett

    At the beginning of the Five Year Plan(1937-1944) of the North American Baha’i 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...
  11. RonPrice

    Ridvan Ridvan Message 2011: A Commentary and Context

    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...
  12. RonPrice

    Mia farrow and the omen: 666

    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...
  13. RonPrice

    The canonization of mary mackillop

    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...
  14. RonPrice

    Bahá'í Apocalypticism: The Concept of Progressive Revelation

    If you want to discuss this topic google the following: 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...
  15. RonPrice

    Thoughts on the criticism of others(Part 1)

    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. It’s jammed right at the left-hand end of...
  16. RonPrice

    MATRIX and The Matrix Reloaded

    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...
  17. RonPrice

    Avatar: Some Personal Comments

    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 it’s style and content with many both in cyberspace and in our wide-wide-world. This prose-poem tries to...
  18. RonPrice

    Dylan and me in ‘62

    DYLAN AND ME IN ‘62 As early as 1962, the year my pioneering and travelling for the Canadian Bahá’í 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...
  19. RonPrice

    Your Apologetic Position--and Mine--Defined

    Since there are so many questions raised and issues discussed concerning people’s 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...
  20. RonPrice

    INTERVIEW(Part 1) With Australian Poet Ron Price

    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...
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