IAN FLEMING ...with most of my sex behind me now Part 1: "I remember an old girlfriend of Ian Fleming's saying: ‘Ian was like one of the characters in the plays of that major 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen; that character was always waiting for something wunderbar to happen to h...

The following is a revision of some thoughts on Herman Melville after watching Moby Dick on ABC1 (8 and 15 May, 8:35 to 10:00 p.m.). Kerry Saunders, a Peabody Journalism Award winner, was interviewed by Alan Saunders back on 30 June 2007 and he stated in that interview that Moby Dick (1851) was a me...

For a 400 page commentary on the new Baha'i paradigm, the new culture of learning and growth go to: Reflections on a Culture of Learning and Growth: Community and ... bahai-library.com/?file=price_culture_learning_paradigm -------------------------------------------- The full title is: Reflections o...

Gunter Grass(1927-), won the noble prize for literature in 1999, the year I retired from FT employment as a teacher. I took a sea-change that year to Tasmania at the age of 55 and in the last dozen years have been writing FT. Grass is and was a German author and poet, playwright and sculptor. In the...

I posted an introduction to the paradigmatic shift in the Baha’i community, the new culture of learning and growth that is at the heart of this paradigm, nearly three years ago. I did this posting at several internet sites and have revised that post in these last three years as developments in the p...

Excellent questions and comments, Interbane. Baha'u'llah emphasizes the fundamental obligation of individuals is to acquire knowledge with their "own eyes and not through the eyes of others" and therefore know why they adhere to a given ideology or doctrine, indeed, any idea. When people b...

A major source of conflict and disunity in the world today, Robert Tulip, is the widespread opinion that there is some basic opposition between science and religion, that scientific truth contradicts religion on some points, and that one must choose between being a religious person, a believer in Go...

How true it is, how true the general flow of your argument is, Robert Tulip. Science and religion should walk hand in hand in future millenniums. If a religious truth is not supported by science, it is better to go with the religious truth. That is the general Baha'i position. Of course, in the end,...

Thanks, DWill, for a sound and sensible response, at least to my sensory and intellectual emporium. The autumn season in Tasmania reminds me very much of the autumn in Canada which I have not enjoyed since 1970. In Australia, Tasmania's autumnal patterns are about as close as one can get to Canadian...

Thanks,too, to you, GaryG48. Two positive responses to my original post. That is rare for me on the internet--and encouraging....check out bahai.org, the official international Baha'i site, for much on the Baha'i dogma and its revelation-based teachings....then we can talk further....save me reinven...