December 2012 Blog Posts (6)

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Diante do bolo iluminado, abraças, feliz,

os entes amados que chegaram de longe...

Ouves a música festiva que passa, de leve,

por moldura de harmonia às telas da natureza...

Entretanto, quando penetrares o templo da…

SEJA Natal

O Espírito do Natal Chega Cedo,

VEM NAS silenciosas Notas do tempo,

Como Música Que se Ouve Só,

Mas Que contagia de Todos os PRESENTES,

e ATÉ o Mais humilde dos Seres,

o Prisioneiro nd cela,

o doente nd maca,

o Solitário nd clausura ,

o revoltado fazer barraco,

o Indigente das Ruas,

O…

I am an active participant on the world-wide-web and so have become familiar with the organizational qualities of various websites. The administrators and moderators here are to be congratulated on the quality of this website.-Ron Price, Australia

Part 1:

The film The Story of Mankind was released in the USA on 8 November 1957. Four days before, on 4 November 1957, the Guardian of the Baha’i Faith, Shoghi Effendi, passed away in London. I was only 13 years old and in grade 8 in Burlington Ontario at the time. Shoghi Effendi was on the periphery of my life immersed as I was in 1957 in sport, study, a school environment and life in a small town in Canada. The leading actor in this film was Ronald…

Philip Rieff(1922-2006) was an American sociologist and cultural critic who taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1961 until 1992. He was the author of a number of books on Sigmund Freud including Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959). In that book Rieff argued that the father of psychoanalysis was also a moralist, and a conservative one at that: conservative in both his personal mores and in his deep seated conviction that self-restraint is essential to civilization. In…