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BOLD AND ECLECTIC

An assortment of autobiographical, philosophical, and other thoughts by

JOHN O’LOUGHLIN

Copyright © 2012 John O’Loughlin

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CONTENTS

01. Some Opening Salvos

02. An Alternative Take on Life and Death

03. The Logical View of Saints

04. The Autocracy of War vis-à-vis the Theocracy of Peace

05. Singing vis-à-vis Humming

06. A Common Myth

07. A Logical Sequence

08. Four Basic Social Divisions

09. Like Living in Hell

10. An Interesting Gender Question

11. A Pet Hate

12. Nature of the World

13. Two Kinds of Transcendentalism

14. Loathe to Qualify

15. The Adamic Parable

16. False Religions

17. No Help without Hindrance

18. A Tautology

19. No Bible Stooge

20. Classical Music

21. Male Abstractions

22. Image of Woman

23. No Divine Origin

24. A Gender Paradox

25. Equalitarianism

26. Democracy

27. Sovereign People

28. Nature of the Middle Classes

29. Revolutionary Responsibilities

30. Hitler

31. Churchill

32. Freedom

33. Religion and Science

34. Foreigners

35. Solitary Householder

36. ‘Fly Swat’

37. Gender Fidelity

38. Convenient Fiction

39. Books

40. Female Freedom

41. Concretion vis-à-vis Abstraction

42. Writing

43. Aphoristic

44. Who I Am

45. Protestants

46. The English

47. New Way of Writing

48. Mass Music

49. Music Keyboard

50. Sartre

51. Secular Age

52. Wax Earplugs

53. The People

54. Koestler

55. No Hope for Mankind

56. Time Wasted

57. Close to Nature

58. Bourgeois Decadence

59. Diabolical Equation

60. Irish ‘Independent’

61. Acting Up

62. Nonsensical Notion

63. Shaw

64. Women and Kids

65. Life

66. Black

67. My Computers

68. Whores

69. Distinct Difference

70. Religious Fakes

71. U2

72. Female Values

73. Religious Traditions

74. Jews and Moslems

75. Dishonesty and Moral Cowardice

76. Higher Art

77. Fiction and Feminism

78. The Liberated Female

79. Sexual Equality

80. Women Priests

81. The Contemporary World

82. Indigenous Irish Sports

83. Doggerel

84. Male Enslavement to Females

85. War and Peace

86. ‘Kingdom Come’

87. Marriage

88. Authors

89. Derivation of Sir

90. Yes

91. Sunday

92. My Life’s Work

93. Mixed Congregations

94. Creative Contradiction

95. Religion and the People

96. Greater Peace

97. The Enemy

98. Actors and Films

99. Superimposition

100. Pseudo-Right-wing Sons-of-bitches

101. Pro-Extreme Right Wing

102. Psychic Freedom

103. Shadow

104. Anti-Porn

105. CRT

106. Favourite Female Singer

107. Top Ten Female Singers

108. Top Ten Male Singers

109. Top Ten Singer/Songwriters

110. Top Ten Electric Guitarists

111. Top Ten Electric Keyboardists

112. Top Ten Electric Guitarists/Keyboardists

113. Top Ten Electric Bassists

114. Top Ten Drummers

115. Top Ten Groups

116. Top Ten Rock Groups

117. Top Ten Wind Players

118. Spectacles

119. Everything I Do

120. HMV

121. Soul-denying Protestantism

122. Irish Politics

123. Lament

124. Scandal

125. Some Axially-motivated Racial Generalizations

126. Nietzsche

127. Truth

128. ‘Pr***s’ and ‘Pseudo-C***s’

129. Poe, de Sade and Others

130. IRA

131. True to Self

132. The Masses

133. Creation

134. Idiot

135. Good Question

136. Circumstances

137. Bitch

138. The Pope

139. Bibles

140. The Tyranny of the Common Man

141. Genuine Music

142. The Limitations of Transcendental Meditation

143. Metaphysical Stages

144. Class, Occupation, Sex and Race

145. The Nature of Divergence

146. Hornsey

147. From Will to Soul via Ego and Spirit

148. Mother and Father

149. Omnipotence and Omniscience

150. Some Parting Shots