Philosophical Letters
The Last Revival
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My manuscript is entitled PHILOSOPHICAL LETTERS: THE LAST REVIVAL, FOR A NATION IN ABJECT SELF-DENIAL, ALTHOUGH HARDLY THE KIND WHICH REDEEMS, VOLUME III, THE PHILOSOPHICAL APPENDICES AND POSTSCRIPTS. As a citizen of the United States, this is my message to every fellow countryman, one entailing the most indispensably-crucial insights, on virtually every level, of the nature of the society in which we live. The very letters themselves, which comprise this roughly 500-page, single-spaced volume of type, constitute a living testimony, on their face, as to the nature of what truly concerned and responsible citizenship actually should entail. There are letters to educators, politicians, pastors, theologians, celebrities, prisoners, newspapers, and, perhaps most extensively of all, to the President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton. Every idea and issue emerging in these letters is developed and treated in a most formally well-disciplined way, while being likewise very reasonably-digestible on a level of common consumption. What I present is not only informative, but inspiring, and indeed dynamically-eccentric enough in form to at least sufficiently entertain those who are seeking nothing more. In a further specific vein, this manuscript of letters embodies endless references to many of the greatest motion picture masterpieces ever produced; which, in conjunction with some of the finest television programming from the sixties, are imaginatively and creatively utilized to illustrate various things about our lives nobody could ever have conveyed any better. With all the castigation occurring against Hollywood today, as well-deserved as so much of it has lately come to be; it's much-too-wastefully and tragically easy to overlook what is, on the whole, one of the most fruitful cultural legacies in existence, one which rightfully deserves to be characterized as so much more than the mere entertainment it unfortunately is to far-too-many. One could only wish so many who attack the entertainment industry today, particularly from positions of formally-public responsibility, would rather much more faithfully emulate the many characters utilized to illustrate my purposes; while also learning so much more than they currently do, even from fictional characterizations which need to be no less urgently understood as a means of AVOIDING their emulation off the screen. The creative genius of this medium has an endless array of such quality to offer, and one must not so easily shortchange this by confusing it with the level of what far-too-many only show their own limitations by reading into as well as getting out of it. There are even two letters to Charles Manson, both of which he has answered, and which I could include in the form of an extra appendix. I wrote him as one who relates to his kind of anger and frustration, but also as one who clearly disapproves of his methods in acting out such otherwise legitimate and urgently-indispensable concerns as he fluently expounded upon at his trial. Most people are at least subconsciously fascinated with him, but while also lacking any real understanding as to the reasons why; at least not the deeper reasons, which always lurk beneath something much more superficially as well as reprehensively predictable, something which is reflected in the box office returns of films such as SILENCE OF THE LAMBS! Because of the extent to which Manson's own deeper message was wasted, we now see schoolchildren acting out the same thing on their campuses with much more alarming regularity. The simple truth of the matter is that none of us are really that nice to one-another, and much of it is by now being tragically vomited back out at all of us. As a victim of this very thing all my life, for the past fifty-one years now, particularly in schools, churches, and the workplace, I have rather chosen to constructively channel all this desperately volatile energy into the most systematically social commentary available to date. Moreover, to spurn this kind of sincerely intelligent appeal, from one who is therefore automatically being told to hold it all in until he bursts, makes every ounce of alleged concern for why such murders and rampages are occurring with greater and greater frequency ring all-the-more-hollowly-hypocritical in form. Indeed, such a crime by itself demands in response that somebody be handed the Final Bill, just as surely as God Himself exists to inevitably perform the function. In many ways you can see and verify for yourselves throughout the pages of the text, I am the voice of the voiceless, and my own exceptionally skillful capacity at presenting what they are not at all articulate enough even to comprehend let-alone explain to others in any but the wrong ways must not be ignored! This manuscript also offers, perhaps most superlatively of all, a comprehensive overview of civilized history, and how the clearly demonstrable order and design involved correlates with biblical symbolism, but the Book of Revelation in particular. All other presentations of such material today, as informative as some of them are in certain crucial ways, are reduced to mere patchwork by the kind of highly-disciplined and formally-detailed as well as symbolically-dynamic content God has blessed me with the rationally-inspirational insight to offer. These calculations involve cycles and patterns, dates and timetables, which can all be rigorously and astoundingly verified, at least with what relatively little time we have not yet to waste. But this life didn't just happen, for the sheer hell of it; just as the answers are available, at least now, along with a challenge to study them rigorously, and see for oneself. Much time and expense has been devoted, from my end as well, to the kind of educational excellence I've achieved. Yet, despite my many university degrees, I've thus far been circumstantially denied an opportunity to extend the taxpayers who supported my efforts the most meaningfully-fruitful return possible on their investment. Thank you very much for your attention, and I anticipate hearing back from you very soon. Sincerely, Richard O'Donnell
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In a world of conflicting religious, political, and ideological systems (I Corinthians 3), this volume is nothing less urgent than a breadth of rationally, professionally well-structured sanity; which endeavors to distinguish fact from opinion, and half-truths from those which may really be worth killing the other side in order to preserve. Extensive treatment is herein given to the teleological design of human history, as specifically involving the identity of the Biblical Beast with Seven Heads and Ten Horns, how the symbols used to delineate the actual shape of this beast, and their relationship to the Seven Seals, correspond to actual peoples, events, and institutions in history, and what basic lessons, of a primordially axiological nature, are meant to be realized here. Overall, this Philosopher’s Stone of Master Craftsmanship far outshines the usual breed of commentary, while absorbing all the rest within its much more rationally, comprehensively, authoritatively well-divided gestalt. This volume is also written in the form of an autobiography, a journal of this author’s own personal and professional minutes over the past twenty-plus years, as they relate to the many religious and philosophical issues herein discussed. Shall he dare hope, even against hope, that most of you, despite finding his views quite personally, even sensitively, painfully untenable, are more graciously willing than most he’s encountered thus far, to at least respect his Constitutional Right to Free Expression? This is not a volume for the squeamishly, hypocritically "diplomatic," or those many-too-many whose pettily, lopsidedly, glandularly partisan sensibilities simply cannot endure the harshly, painfully uncompromising urgency of his candidness, the Primordially-Piercing Depth his Passion, or his wariness of what usually, resentfully, hysterically passes for the most "wholesomely optimistic" kind of reaction to his unwillingness to please and cajole at any cost.
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Having grown up as a real Christian under the Explicitly Pagan Roman Empire would have been perhaps a more harrowing experience for the body, but there’s nothing comparable to the MIND RAPE of trying to make any honestly intelligent sense of things as a Christian Roman, with the correspondingly and necessarily as well as ORWELLEANLY implicit imperative of SYSTEMATICALLY SAYING ONE THING, AND NEVER DARING EVEN TO REALIZE THAT WHAT YOU MEAN IS THE VERY OPPOSITE (Isaiah 5:20-23). MOST very "Christianly" and "Graciously" adapt to the status quo, simply because their ONLY motive is to say and even believe whatever OPPORTUNISTICALLY and SELFISHLY "works," to the point where even the most flagrantly-transparent CONTRADICTIONS are not the least bit troubling. This author, to the contrary, has paid a heavy price, to discover the folly of having ACTUALLY BELIEVED they WANTED what they SAID they did, only to have been CHEWED TO PIECES even more for having given it to them . . . That’s the kind of treatment he endured for six long years at "his" Alma Mater, and he has no reason to assume that the HATRED he experienced OF his GENUINENESS (John 15:18-20) is anything nearly as exceptional as the genuineness itself.