LETTERS TO A PRISON INMATE - VOLUME TWO
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BOLDNESS: see Audacity.
BLISS: also see Happiness; chief long-range goal of every truly intelligent being: 399; objective vs. subjective: 688-689 ftn..
BLOODY MARY, QUEEN: 812.
BLOODY MONDAY: Louisville, Kentucky, Aug. 6, 1855: 813.
BOOKKEEPING: 452, 453.
BOOKS: mine: an attempt to immortalize my software by saving it in the form of a hard copy: 599; mine shall never sell: 648; most people would rather be whipped half to death than read one: 539.
BOWIE, JIM: 463 ftn..
BOY: in street: 286-287, 309, 374.
BRAIN: also see Background Tasking; artificial intelligence of: 68, 499-501; as computer: 68-69, 85-86, 117, 328, 499-501; as computer trained to lie: 500-501, 504-505; as con artist: 501; as dual access computer: 70-71; agenda of gut brain: 62, 64-68; compared to The Matrix: 232-234, 500-501; how to subdue: 209-214, 222-227, 233; in head vs. in guts: 59, 61; mind & guts fight for control of: 71-72; nature & nurture’s (q.v.) effect on: 64-68, 204-209, 232, 238, 239; soul mate & divine beast agendas: 64-68; used by guts: 105; your 2nd greatest enemy: 221-222; wars against you: 206, 238, 499-501, 505; why we’re to blame for brain’s treachery: 206-207.
BRAIN, RE-PROGRAMMING OF: 2 kinds contrasted: 214; moderate kind = humanism: 210-212; humanism’s weakness: 212; radical kind = eschatological idealism: 213.
BREAKDOWN, NERVOUS: possibility of one in Dennis: 520.
BRUTALITY: also see God; even without being evil, is extremely repulsive: 651-652; God, but not Incarnate God, above it: 366-368, 370; infatuation with, varies as infatuation with sex: 588 ftn.; our love for: 367-368; soullessness vs. physical violence: 710-711.
BRUTALITY, POLICE: 87-88.
BUCK-PASSERS: 787.
BUDGET, FEDERAL: 141.
BULL: with a ring in its nose: 332 ftn., 570 ftn., 583, 584, 588 ftn., 596.
BULLDOG: my delight in being one: 688.
BUSCH GARDENS: 687.
BUSH-HOG: 260, 272, 343, 450, 452, 453.
BUTT HEADS: 787.
BUTT KICKING: see Kick Butt.
BUTTERFLY: example of self-motivation by self alone: 553.
C.
CAKE: have it & eat it too: 40, 431, 455, 531, 557, 557 ftn., 652, 716, 799, 804.
CALCULUS: see Knowledge; also Math.
CANADA: 463 ftn..
CANCER: 31, 130, 240; of the soul: 10; of the will is sin’s effect: 316; like a doctor warning against C: 619, 668, 800; seeking a cure for, vs. playing football: 804; treated by a doctor vs. by a witch doctor: 729.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: approved of by St. Thomas Aquinas and many popes, bishops, priests, lay persons & other saints: 810; inflicted on the unjustly convicted may be a secret sin: 822; vs. method of: 810.
CAR: Dennis’: 615; problems with mine: 306-307.
CASTRATION, SELF: 135 ftn, 225; full self-knowledge is a kind of: 528; I thought of doing it to myself: 135 ftn..
CATCH 22: 717.
CATERPILLAR: example of self-motivation by self alone: 553.
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This work’s 2 volumes contain 72 letters written between 1999 and 2005. Each went to a male prisoner born
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In this work’s two volumes, the self-educated author of 16 self-published books presents avenues of thought down which his mind was lead by thirteen years of heroically intense introspection followed now by thirty years of moderately intense introspection.