RonPrice
Male 64 from Australia
Home on web at http://www.users.on.net/~ronprice/
Interested in memoirs autobiography sci-fi 19th/20th century fiction
About Me:
EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLES HELD: 2007-1999 1999-2007-Writer/Poet: George Town Tasmania; 2002-2005-Program Presenter, City Park Radio, Launceston; Baha'i for 48 years.
EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLES HELD: 2007-1999 1999-2007-Writer/Poet: George Town Tasmania; 2002-2005-Program Presenter, City Park Radio, Launceston; Baha'i for 48 years.
Posts and Reviews:
Poems of John Keats - Some Thoughts On Keats - posted 12 hours ago
I shall not die without hope, but....I write with whatever passion,
tenderness, genuineness and
intensity I have been endowed,
tarnished as it all is by life's
walls of self and passion.
The rock of my days has a deep
moss upon it and great fissures,
some conglomerate, great chunks
from everywhere over long hauld
of time and their eras and ages,
their epochs and stages, periods
in some endless drift,some endless
fossil record which has only just
begun a biostratigraphy on its
mysterious, punctuated equilibrium.
Receiving feelings, as I do, within
a centre of wondrous reflection,
where I stand serene watching from
afar-off in a world of isolation,
where sometimes the barking of dogs
is loud on every side and sometimes
the Sun of Oneness shines---will my
shrouded soul ever unite with beauty’s
rose and that Stealer of all Hearts???
Ron Price
(with appreciation
to Baha'u'llah, Seven Valleys)
Poems of John Keats - Some Thoughts On Keats - posted 12 hours ago
A CONGLOMERATEJohn Ruskin writes about the theory and practice as well as the condition of the artist. He says that "those who have the keenest sympathy are those who look closest and pierce deepest." Those who "are filled with the most intense passion and gentleness of sympathy," those that possess the greatest intensity and genuineness, produce the highest art. Isolation and alienation, though, are, for Ruskin, the natural conditions for the great artist. He writes about the artist, Turner, who felt no one understood or saw the meaning of his work and, like all great spirits of the nineteenth century--Scott, Keats, Byron and Shelley--died without hope. Great artists, Ruskin continues, have to work at their art all their life and, perhaps, they will become 'a vehicle for truth'—perhaps. --Ron Price with thanks to John Ruskin in Ruskin's Theories of the Sister Arts, George Landow, Internet, 4 November 2001.
T.S. Eliot - T.S. Eliot - posted 3 weeks ago
A poem which is often the first in a collection of T.S. Eliot's Collected or Selected Poems, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was conceived in 1910, completed in August 1911, the very month 'Abdu'l-Baha began His first Western tour. It was published in 1917 at the same time as 'Abdu'l-Baha was penning His Tablets of the Divine Plan. This work of Eliot could be seen in terms of a comparison and contrast with the Baha'i experience in the last eighty-five years. To put this idea a little differently, I could view my own life and the life of my religion and society in terms of the varied images and metaphors Eliot uses in his famous poem. -Ron Price with thanks to T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T.S. Eliot: Selected Poems, Faber and Faber, London, 1988(1954), pp.9-15.T.S. Eliot - T.S. Eliot - posted 3 weeks ago
T.S. Eliot once defined tradition as "a way of feeling and acting which characterizes a group throughout generations; and that it must largely be, or that many elements of it must be, unconscious." Perhaps this is one way of summarizing the two century old tradition which the poet Roger White is a part of and that I have been part of in my lifetime within the Baha'i community. There is little evidence that White was ambitious to be a part of this tradition. There is in White's poetry little evidence of that attitude expressed by British writer Martin Amis that writers who mean business need to be ambitious and think they are the best.Varieties of Religious Experience - is evil real ? - posted 3 months ago
It has been overa year since your last post, Vern. I have not been back to this site since then and was not aware or your posts. Having read them, it seems tome you and i could easily get into one of those "casuistical" discussions. In discussing philosophy and religion, indeed, in many scientific discussions as well it is often difficult to avoid hairspiltting, as they say. Abdul-Baha refers to "natural impurities" such as "evil qualities: anger, lust worldliness, pride, lying,hypocrisy, fraud, self-love, etc.”(Some Answered Questions chapter 19)He also says: "The first perfection consists in cleanliness and sanctity and in purity from every defect. When man in all conditions is pure and immaculate, he will become the center of the reflection of the manifest Light. In all his actions and conduct there must first be purity, then beauty and independence. The channel must be cleansed before it is filled with sweet water." No more words allowed.-RonWar and Peace - Tolstoi and Education - posted last year
....error....should read..."for I know what life is like when this (not: one of these three) key ingregient(s) is missing.War and Peace - Tolstoi and Education - posted last year
In its scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, this book stands at the peak of realist fiction. My world view is a Baha’i one, not the Baha’i one but a Baha’i one. the activity of the intellect and the senses, creative will and imagination has much to do with the world I see and live in. This is partly the romantic temperament speaking. The evil I see in the world is not so much due to stupidity, as Tolstoi saw it, but man’s lower nature which manifests itself in many ways of which stupidity is but one.Health is certainly at the core of my Weltanschauung, for I know what life is like when one of these three key ingregients is missing. For years, like Lawrence, Maupassant and Blake, I saw sexual love and the fuel of sexual activity as a sort of nirvana. Still, Tolstoi's emphasis on education to remove stupidity can take us a long wayDemocracy in America, Book One - Tocqueville and Relationships - posted last year
The fluid and impermanent nature of relationships with the minimum of formality that Tocqueville said characterized democracies were certainly part of these years in both school and in all the other aspects of life. Tocqueville's analysis said much about my time. The individual, he wrote, shuts himself tightly within a narrow circle of domestic interests and excitements and from there "claims the right to judge the world." As social, community, ties loosened, they became more impersonal, Tocqueville said, and "domesticity was reinforced."Varieties of Religious Experience - is evil real ? - posted last year
Having been exposed to this idea as a child and adolescent by a mother who was "into" C. Science, I am more than a little familiar with this idea..I am now a Baha'i and part of the Baha'i view is that: there is evil in the world. The true explanation of this subject is very difficult. The term "nonexistence of evil is used in a "specialized, technical sense." Any Bahá'í will be familiar with the analogies the Master drew. Ignorance is the want of knowledge. Forgetfulness is the want of memory. Blindness is the want of sight....So evil is the absence of good. The absence of a thing is "nonexistence" and therefore evil is "nonexistent." Yet, and this is the crucial point, nobody in their right minds would say that ignorance, forgetfulness, blindness, or death do not exist! So why would we say that evil does not exist?This is a start to a comment on your post.-Ron Price, Tasmania