REVISED AND REFORMATTED PHILOSOPHICAL WEBLOGS
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Welcome to the REVISED AND REFORMATTED
PHILOSOPHICAL WEBLOGS of
THE QUEST FOR TRUTH
AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital
Media
Whose title
can be accessed via the links below the ensuing remarks:–
This
project mostly derives from a series of weblogs I originally published at
‘Helium.com’ under the alias 'johalin' and subsequently revised and reformatted
in the interests of both e-scroll (as here) and e-book (elsewhere) publication,
the latter of course signifying a 'printerly' descent from an 'italic-writerly'
metaphysical norm. That said, this collection of revised weblogs both
ante-dates and post-dates material contained in The Best
of All Possible Worlds, my previous philosophy title, since some
of it was written earlier in 2008, although the majority of its contents, or
effective aphorisms, were actually written in 2009, with material that seems to
extend beyond previous texts or simply, as so often in the past, to correct or
modify existing material, sometimes filling in one or two blanks. Most of
the original titles of this project were taken from available options at
‘Helium’, but I think I am probably unique in saying that I would approach
these options (the predetermined titles) from what I had already written
locally, on my PC, and simply uploaded to the blog host once I had found what
appeared to be a suitable title. None of those titles, however, was what
I would have chosen myself, given the complex and often variegated nature of my
writings, both individually and collectively, and therefore there are occasions
when my approach lets me down or simply fails to tally with the uploaded
material. Because, however, most of these aphorisms or essays were also 'farmed
out' to other blog sites, including ‘spaces.live.com’, where I was free to
choose an original title, I have opted, in this particular e-scroll, to utilize
my own titles rather than the predeternimed, or ‘Helium’-inspired, ones,
whenever possible, with what should be my final collection of revised weblog
material, the contents of which are, for the most part, philosophically cogent
and incontrovertibly true, which is to say, logically sustainable.
Everything finally adds up, as it should do if one is to rest assured of one's
reputation, no matter how circumstantially self-appointed, as 'philosopher
king' and ‘godfather of Social Theocracy’. – John O'Loughlin
PERSPECTIVES ON CLASS IN MODERN SOCIETY
SHOULD THE BIBLE CONTINUE TO BE
USED FOR SWEARING-IN CEREMONIES
CONCERNING MALE AND FEMALE CHROMOSOMES
CONCERNING A FALSE CONCEPT OF GOOD AND EVIL
GENUINE AND PSEUDO MODES OF
MORALITY
ETHICAL DISTINCTIONS ACROSS THE ELEMENTS
DISCIPLINARY AND OTHER CONTRASTS IN
AXIAL PERSPECTIVE
ONTOLOGICAL AND OTHER CONTRASTS IN
ELEMENTAL PERSPECTIVE
AXIAL MANIFESTATIONS OF GENDER CORRUPTION
ETHICAL AND OTHER CONTRASTS IN AXIAL PERSPECTIVE
THE RELATIVITY OF 'SMART' AND 'STUPID'
All Files Copyright © 2012 John O’Loughlin
Other websites featuring
revised/reformatted philosophical weblogs by the author include:–
LITERATURE AND THE INTERCARDINAL AXIAL COMPASS
TEXT LINKS
The Quest for Truth (PDF-derived Kindle paperback version)
Centretruths eBooks via Wordpress
John O'Loughlin eBooks via Blogspot
John O'Loughlin eBooks on Lulu
Centretruths Digital Media YouTube Video Channel
Email: john-oloughlin@centretruths.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John
O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic of Ireland,
of Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split partly
due to his mother's Aldershot origins (her father, a Presbyterian from Donegal,
had served in the British Army), he was brought to England by his mother and
grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with her daughter upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband after a lengthy marital
absence from Athenry) in the mid-50s and, having had the benefit of private
tuition from a Catholic priest, subsequently attended St. Joseph's and St.
George's RC schools in Aldershot, Hants, and, with an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into
care by his mother upon the death and repatriation of
his ethnically-conservative grandmother, he went on to attend first Barrow Hedges Primary School in
Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, and then Carshalton High School for Boys in Sutton, where he
ultimately became a sixth-form prefect. Upon leaving high school in pre-GCSE
era 1970 with an assortment of CSEs (Certificate of Secondary Education) and
GCEs (General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved up
to London and went on, via two short-lived jobs, one of which was at Ivor
Mairants Music Centre on Rathbone Place, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of
Music in Bedford Square, where, with some prior experience himself of having
sat and passed (with merit) an ABRSM Gd.4 piano exam, he eventually became
responsible for booking examination venues throughout the British Isles. After a brief flirtation with
English and History A'Levels at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he was
then living, he returned to his former job in the West End but, due to a
combination of personal factors, not the least of which had to do with the
depressing consequences of an enforced return to north London, he left the
Associated Board in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which, despite
a brief spell as a computer and office-skills tutor at Hornsey Management Agency within the local YMCA in the late '80s and early
'90s, during which time he added some computer-related NVQs to his other qualifications, he has
steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), Cross-Purposes (1979), Logan's Influence (1980), Sublimated
Relations (1981), and False
Pretences (1982). Since the mid-80s John O'Loughlin has dedicated
himself almost exclusively to philosophy, which he regards as his true literary
vocation, and has penned several titles of a philosophical nature,
including Devil and God
(1985–6), Towards the
Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental
Spectra (1988–9), Philosophical
Truth (1991–2) Maximum Truth (1993), The Soul of Being (1998), Point Omega Point (2002), The Dialectics of Synthetic Attraction (2004), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Musings of a Superfluous Man
(2011) and, more recently, Atoms and Pseudo-Atoms (2014) and The Black Notebooks (2015). John O'Loughlin is a life-long bachelor who, more from necessity than choice, has lived at various addresses in the London borough of Haringey since 1974.
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