Richard O'donnell

Philosophical Letters: the Last Revival Richard O'donnell

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 p