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Belated thanks for your thoughtful response, Mindlight. It is more correct to characterize Habermas as a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere. Global...

The Baha'i Faith and Prophecy.....Throughout the Bahá'í writings, future events have been prophesied. The most specific prophecies are related to the rise and fall of leaders and organizations. Most of these prophesies can be found in Bahá'u'lláh’s tablets to the kings and rulers of the world...

Thanks for the post and best wishes from Downunder.-Ron

Thanks, folks, for a big chew on this old Bibilical question. Best wishes to you all from Downunder.-Ron

Belated thanks for your responses, folks....much appreciated....and on a complex subject....that is for sure.-Ron

Belated thanks, Only Me. Readers are free to comment in any way they like; if not that is fine.Leave it to you.-Ron

A New Vision for Humanity's Future Part 1: One of the most distinctive aspects of the worldwide Bahá'í community is the hopeful and yet pragmatic way in which its members face the future. Far from fearing it, Bahá'ís the world over are dedicated to creating a new and peaceful world...

GETTING KNOWLEDGE Part 1: Reflecting as I now do on my 65 year reading life from 1949 to 2014, I found Darwin’s way of reading a book of interest. He “often annotated heavily, prepared his own index of interesting passages, broke a book in half at the binding if it was too heavy...

SWIFT ...but unobrusive Part 1: Jonathan Swift(1667-1745) is a problem for readers and biographers we are informed in a recent biography, because "the cast of characters in his life grew much larger as he grew older. It can be hard to keep them straight."1 There are royalty and aristocracy...

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...

Part 1: The Hebrew Bible, called The Old Testament by Christians, is an extraordinarily difficult sequence of books.1 This difficulty, too easily underestimated, is greater now than it ever was, partly because no contemporary reader, however specialized, shares in the psychology of the original...

I tried to edit the size, but the process beat me.-Ron ------------------------------------- Part 1: A GREAT TURNING POINT In July 1937, in the third month of the first organized and systematic Bahá'í Plan(1937-1944), Sheila Graham(1904-1988), met the famous writer F. Scott Fitzgerald...

After watching Last Call (2002) with Jeremy Irons playing Fitzgerald, a film which describes the relationship with Frances Kroll during his last two years of life, I wrote the following. The film was based on the memoir of Frances Kroll Ring. The memoir was entitled Against the Current: As I...

If you would like to know more about the Baha'i Faith, go to its official international site at: bahai.org -Ron Price, Tasmania. My own website is at the following set of words(google) Pioneering Over Five Epochs

Thanks, folks, for your responses. Life is busy even in retirement. As I head for old age, I hope to drop in here occasionally.-Ron

Part 1: I post here a prose-poem I wrote this evening about the great thinker Max Weber and my association with his writings since the 1960s. You will have your work cut out for you in reading Weber and in making whatever intellectual links you try to make with his ideas.-Ron Price...

REVISITING BRIDESHEAD Revisiting Brideshead was televised last night.1 I had seen this 11 part series on television back in the 1980s or early 1990s after it first came out in 1981. I had not read the novel, Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by English...

Part 1: The legendary Cecil B. DeMille(1881-1959), affectionately known to colleagues as “C.B.”, was a cofounder of Hollywood and a progenitor of Paramount studio. He helped turn an obscure Californian orange grove into a fully-fledged movie colony that became the synonym for...

Part 1: 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...

Part 1: This afternoon, after finishing a late lunch, my routine laundry and dishes, essential parts of my domestic portfolio in these middle years(65-75) of late adulthood as I head for old age(80++), if I last that long, I bathed my feet in a solution of vinegar and water for ten minutes...