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RonPrice
New Member
Australia
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 Posted - 06/06/2006 : 22:08:29
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Like most people on this planet I am both skeptic and believer. I'm not sure how often I can get to this site, but the site seems well- organized and looks like it has a future--as do both belief and skepticism. I hope to be alive for 3 or 4 more decades to take me into my 90s or even the life of a centenarian. We shall see. But I will pop in here from time to time as the years go on--from my home in Tasmania--at the last stop on the way to Antarctica if you take the western Pacific-rim route.
In the meantime I'll say a few things about who I am so that the few others here will have some idea of who new arrival is on the block.
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A. EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS HELD
2006-1999-Writer/Poet: George Town Tasmania
2005-2002-Program Presenter, City Park Radio, Launceston
2004-1999-Tutor and/or President: George Town School for Seniors Inc
1999-1988 -Lecturer in General Studies and Human Services
West Australian Department of Training
1987-1986 -Acting Lecturer in Management Studies and Co-ordinator of
Further Education Unit at Hedland College in South Hedland, WA.
1985-1982 -Adult Educator, Open College of Tafe, Katherine, NT
1981 -Maintenance Scheduler, Renison Bell, Zeehan, Tasmania
1980-Unemployed: Bi-Polar Disability
1979 -Editor, External Studies Unit, Tasmanian CAE
Youth worker, Resource Centre Association, Launceston
Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, Tasmanian CAE
Radio Journalist ABC, Launceston
1978-1976 -Lecturer in Social Sciences & Humanities, Ballarat CAE, Ballarat
1975 - Lecturer in Behavioural Studies, Whitehorse Technical College,
Box Hill, Victoria
1974 -Senior Tutor in Education Studies, Tasmanian CAE, Launceston
1973-1972 -High School Teacher, South Australian Education Department
1971 Primary School Teacher, Whyalla SA Australia
1971-1969 Primary School Teacher Prince Edward County
Board of Education, Picton, Ontario, Canada
1969 Systems Analyst Bad Boy Co. Ltd. Toronto Ontario
1968-67 -Community Teacher, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development, Frobisher Bay, NWT, Canada
1967-59 -Summer jobs from grade 10 to end of university
1967-1949 - Attended 2 primary schools, 2 high schools and 2 universities in Canada: McMaster Uni:1963-1966, Windsor T's College: 1966/7.
1963-1944 -Childhood(1944-57) and adolescence(1957-63) in and around
Hamilton Ontario.
B: SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA
I have been married for 37 years. My wife is a Tasmanian, aged 59. We've had 3 children: ages in 2006-40, 35 and 28. I am 62, a Canadian who moved to Australia in 1971 and have written 3 books--all available on the internet(lulu.com). I retired from most of my volunteer activity in 2005, from my part-time teaching in 2004 and from my full-time teaching in 1999 after nearly 50 years in classrooms as a teach and/or student. I have been associated with the Baha'i Faith for 53 years. Bio-data: 6ft, 225 lbs, eyes/hair-brown, Caucasian. See my website for more details at: http://bahaipioneering.bahaisite.com/ and go to any search engine and type: ‘Pioneering Over Four Epochs' or ‘RonPrice Poetry/history, sociology/literature, etc' for additional writings.
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That's all folks!
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married, teacher, living in Australia and a Baha'i--all for more than 30 years. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 06/06/2006 : 22:42:57 [Permalink]
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Well now, welcome to SFN RonPrice and thanks for the resume. Hopefully, you will post from time to time.
Just so you know, I think it is possible to be a believer and a skeptic too.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/06/2006 : 22:59:14 [Permalink]
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Welcome to SFN, RonPrice! What a wonderfully fulsome and interesting life you've lived thus far. Age-wise, you fit in somewhere in the Old Geezers bracket, along with me and Filthy. (I'm always trying to fine excuses to associate my name with Filthy.)
What bought you to transfer from the Great White North to Oz back in 1971? Too many Yank draft-dodgers crowding Canada in those days?
I've heard of Baha'i, but don't know much about it. I did hear that its been horribly persecuted in Iran since the time of their Islamic revolution.
All the best to you, and again, welcome aboard!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 00:14:28 [Permalink]
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Ron, I have consulted my usual oracle, the Internet Anagram Server, to determine what to expect from you in these fora. Here are my results for RonPrice. Make what you will of them:
Prince, or...?
Rice porn
Riper con
PC Renoir
Nicer pro
PC ironer
I, CPR Nero
Corn ripe
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 01:43:33 [Permalink]
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Greetings Ron, and welcome to our little den of inquiry. We've all kinds here, from the devout to the profane, and from your resume, you should fit right in.
Pay no attention to 'mooner. He's still trying to achieve SFN's coveted Alfa Paranoid Crackpot title, that I have held for lo, these many years. I must say that he's doing pretty well at it, though. 
Looking forward to your input.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 06:23:16 [Permalink]
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Actually, Filthy, you are dangerously rational, though you keep that secret well.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 06:47:07 [Permalink]
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Geez guys, get a room!  |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 07:39:49 [Permalink]
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Sadly, I think the admiration is an unrequited one, pleco. I look up to Filthy because I admire his constant efforts not to merely educate people, but to fill them with a genuine sense of wonder about the world. Also, there are aspects of Filthy, his being largely, but successfully, self-taught, and his sense of humor, that I hope to have emulated by the time I'm all growed up.
Actually being in the same room with Filthy, however, is something I might be reluctant to try, as my mind would be fixated on the possibility that loose serpents were probably nearby. I have a much less loving attitude toward snakes than he does, though I intellectually accept their right to share this planet with us -- or, at least, with Filthy.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 08:38:00 [Permalink]
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I blush....
Actually, dangerous rationality is one of the requirements for finely-tuned paranoia. Only the rational pay attention, and you're not paranoid these days, then you haven't been paying attention and by extension, your rationality is in question.
Is it not so?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 17:10:22 [Permalink]
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Welcome RonPrice.
quote:
Originally posted by Ricky
...I am curious as to what exactly you mean by "believer". Many people have different definitions. Would you care to elaborate?
If you scroll down to the Amazon sound samples and give a listen to 'ol
Frankie Laine singing "I Believe" – maybe that sums it up?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000024RF/sr=2-1/102-4796293-9346500?s=music&v
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Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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