Book Links
I wasn’t planning to post any more at this blog, but several new factors arose:• I’ve been wanting to add some “postscripts” to my book and doing so seems easier at this blog site (possibly as “Comments”) than at my website.
• Two weeks ago (and for the second time), my website went “dead” for a week. I’m hoping that this blog site (i.e., Google’s “blogspot”) is more reliable
• Google now provides, free, 15 GB of digital storage, and whereas I don’t know how much longer I’ll continue to pay to host my book at my website, I therefore decided to store my book also with Google.
As a result, below is my book’s Table of Contents, with titles linked to storage at Google.
Two notes about these Contents are the following:
1. A “redundancy” exists in the following list, in that the 39 “Yx Chapters” linked here are also the 39 prior posts at this blog.
2. The link in the following to “Preliminaries” leads to, among others, a page entitled “About the book”. In that text is given an e-mail address to which readers can send suggestions about how to improve the book. Rather than sending suggestions to that address, however, I invite readers to submit their suggestions as Comments at the end of this blog post. If you choose to do so, please reference the chapter and page numbers to which your comments refer.
The book’s linked Table of Contents follows.
Love Letters from Grampa –
about Life, Liberty, and the Zen of Zero
Table of Contents
Preliminaries:
Preface:
PART 1 (A – H):
Awareness – Happiness
A – Awareness
B – Board Meeting
C1 – Connected Concepts
C2 – Contentious Communications
D – Digging for Decisions
E – Evaluating Endeavors
F – Figuring out Feelings
G – Goals of the Game
H1 – Happiness = Progress
H2 – Hope = Expected Value
PART 2 (I, Ideas):
Belief in God is Bad Science…
Ia – Awareness of Ideas
Ib1 – Basic Ideas in Science
Ib2 – Basic Ideas about Logic
Ic – Constraining Ideas
Id – Digging into the God Idea
Ie – Evaluating “Proofs” of God
If – Finding Immortal Fallacies
Ig – Gaining Confidence & Trust
Ih – Hypotheses &Probabilities
Ii – Indoctrination in Ignorance
PART 2x (Ix):
EXcursion into the Origins of the God Idea
Ix01 – Introduction
Ix02 – Spirits, Souls, & Gods
Ix03 – Genesis & Flood Myths
Ix04 – Flooded by Frozen Myths
Ix05 – Biblical Flood & Genesis Myths
Ix06 – Gilgamesh & the Flood
Ix07 – Stories in the Stars
Ix08 – Some Biblical Star Myths
Ix09 – Changing Ideas of the Gods
Ix10 – Homer’s Help to Humanity
Ix11 – Changing Ideas of Death
PART 3 (J – Q):
[Belief in God is Bad Science…] and Even Worse Policy
J1 – Supernatural Jabberwocky
J2 – Justice & Morality
J3 – Interpersonal Justice & Morality
J4 – Judging Judges
K – Kindness with Keenness
L – Love within Limits
M1 – The Mountainous God Lie
M2 – Misconceived Morality
M3 – Muddled Moralities
M4 – Morality without Gods
N – Nature, Nurture, & “No!”
O1 – Opinions & Objectives
O2 – Objectives of the Gods
P1 – The Purpose of Life
P2 – Premisses behind Purposes
P3 – Some Purposes Pursued
P4 – Premisses about Authority
P5 – Some Sad Personal Policies
P6 – Some Sick Social Policies
P7 – Problems Religions Cause Individuals
P8 – Problems Religions Cause Groups
P9 – Problems Religions Cause Societies
P10 – Parasites & Power Mongers
Q1 – Questioning Questions
Q2 – Quality & Quotations
PART 3x (Qx):
EXcursions through Religious Quagmires
Qx01 – Introduction
Qx02 – Policies in Genesis – 1
Qx03 – Policies in Genesis – 2
Qx04 – Policies in Genesis – 3
Qx05 – Policies in Exodus – 1
Qx06 – Policies in Exodus – 2
Qx07 – Policies in Exodus – 3
Qx08 – Policies in Leviticus & Numbers
Qx09 – Policies in Deuteronomy
Qx10 – Purposes of Old Testament Policies
Qx11 – Policies in Matthew – 1
Qx12 – Policies in Matthew – 2
Qx13 – New Testament Injustices
Qx14 – New Testament Immoralities
Qx15 – New Testament Incoherencies
Qx16 – New Testament Insanities
Qx17 – NT Sins Against Humanity
Qx18 – NT Crimes Against Humanity
Qx19 – Christian Childishness
Qx20 – Biblical Balderdash
Qx21 – LDS Ludicrousness – 1
Qx22 – LDS Ludicrousness – 2
Qx23 – LDS Ludicrousness – 3
Qx24 – LDS Ludicrousness – 4
Qx25 – Muhammad & the Quran
Qx26 – Quran – Periods 1 & 2
Qx27 – Quran – 3rd Period – 1
Qx28 – Quran – 3rd Period – 2
Qx29 – Quran – 3rd Period – 3
Qx30 – Quitting the Quagmires
PART 4 (R – X):
Replace Belief in God with Confidence in the Scientific Method…
R – Reason vs. Reality
S – Science & Models
T1 – “Truth” & Knowledge
T2 – “Truth” & Understanding
U – Ubiquitous Uncertainties
V – Values & Objectives
W – Words, Wisdom, & Worldviews
X: EXchanging Worldview
X01 – EXposing Ignorance
X02 – EXcavating Reasons
X03 – EXamining Reasons
X04 – EXamining Goals
X05 – EXamining Interactions
X06 – EXamining Organizations
X07 – EXamining Possibilities
X08 – EXamining Operations
X09 – EXploring Prospects
X10 – EXtending Justice
X11 – EXpropriating Rights
X12 – EXposing Violence
X13 – EXuding EXtremism
X14 – EXporting Delusions
X15 – EXpanding Education
X16 – EXtolling Critical Thinking
X17 – EXtirpating Corruption
X18 – EXploiting Competition
X19 – EXtracting Evaluative Thinking
X20 – EXpelling Educational Myths
X21 – EXorcising Child Abuse
X22 – EXiting the Vicious Circle
X23 – EXpanding Women’s Liberation
X24 – EXtolling Individualism
X25 – EXtinguishing Violence
X26 – EXtrapolating Laws
X27 – EXcoriating Theism
X28 – EXemplifying Humanism
X29 – EXplaining Humanism
X30 – EXcluding Theists
X31 – EXacerbating Criticisms
X32 – EXterminating Terrorism
X33 – EXperimental Cooperatives
X34 – EXtraterritorial Cooperatives
X35 – EXtraterrestrial Perspectives
PART 5 (Y & Z):
[Replace Belief in God with Confidence in the Scientific Method…]
and with Trust in Yourself (= Zen) – to Help Knowledge Expand
Y: You, Your Indoctrination, & Your Potentials
Y02 – Your Premisses & Purposes
Y03 – Your Purposes & Values
Y04 – Your Principles & Policies
Y05 – Your Decisions & Goals
Y06 – Your Hopes & Priorities
Y07 – Your Delusions & Addictions
Y08 – Your Choices & Changes
Y09 – Your Challenges & Constraints
Y10 – Your Reality & Your Future
Yx: EXploring Your Indoctrination in the Mountainous God Lie
Yx02 – Creation of the Old Testament
Yx03 – Lies & Corruption in Genesis 1–3
Yx04 – Basic Errors Borrowed for the Bible
Yx05 – The Crazy Fable about Cain & Abel
Yx06 – Little Boys with their Tall Tales
Yx07 – Potential Evils of Clerical Babble
Yx08 – Naked Evils of Clerical Slavery
Yx09 – Clerical Enslavement of Thoughts
Yx10 – Cultures & Their Stories
Yx11 – Clerical Enslavement of Cultures
Yx12 – The Mythical Moses – Part 1
Yx13 – The Mythical Moses – Part 2
Yx14 – The Law Lie 1 – Morality
Yx15 – The Law Lie 2 – Justice
Yx16 – The Law Lie 3 – Customs
Yx17 – The Law Lie 4 – Contracts
Yx18 – The Law Lie 5 – Leaders
Yx19 – The Law Lie 6 – Law & Order 1
Yx20 – The Law Lie 7 – Law & Order 2
Yx21 – Clerical Quackery (CQ) 1 – Life after Death
Yx22 – Clerical Quackery (CQ) 2 – Judgment after Death
Yx23 – CQ 3 – Mesopotamian & Zoroastrian Speculations
Yx24 – CQ 4 – The Problem of Evil
Yx25 – CQ 5 – Physics vs. Metaphysics (P vs. M) in Ancient Greece 1
Yx26 – CQ 6 – P vs. M in Ancient Greece 2 – Plato
Yx27 – CQ 7 – P vs. M in Ancient Greece 3 – Aristotle
Yx28 – CQ 8 – Ancient Greece 4 – Epicureans vs. Stoics
Yx29 – CQ 9 – Greek Influences on Judaism
Yx30 – CQ10 – The Composite Christ
Yx31 – CQ11 – The Concocted Christ
Yx32 – CQ12 – The Corporate Christ
Yx33 – The Pathetic Muhammad (pbuh)
Yx34 – Five Structural Errors in Islam
Yx35 – Five Foundational Evils of Islam
Yx36 – Closing Comments 1 – Origins of the God Lie
Yx37 – Closing Comments 2 – Promotion of the God Lie
Yx38 – Closing Comments 3 – Adoption of the God Lie
Yx39 – Closing Comments 4 – Rejection of the God Lie
Z: The Zeitgeist is Zerotheism
Z – The Zen of Zero & Dynamics of the Dao
