Upon nearing the final portions of Part II of my book, I decided to check my word count and page count by making a separate file to place all that I have written into one word document, I found that, to my own chagrin, that I had undervalued myself and overshot the lengths I had already written… to the point that I will have to make this 4-year book project into a series. If you would like to read portions from the actual book to better understand what it’ll contain, here is a sample draft of chapter 6 which doesn’t reflect the final version, but it is still mostly the same.
At the time I decided to check, I found that my word count for Part II was 325,718 and combined with Part I which was on a separate file, it became 404,444 words. It amounted to 881 pages in word. For comparison, my first and terrible attempt at an ebook is around 18,000 words and takes up 203 pages double-spaced on Amazon’s ebook page count. As of now, my word count is 406,958 words and 1,001 pages in what has been completed thus far. So as you can plainly see, I have indeed worked on this book for four years. I will have to change it into a series and I wonder if I should scrub all references to Part III that were made to allude to that portion so that readers would look forward to it, or if I should keep it there so people get interested in future book releases… I really don’t know. It is intended to be a Two-Part Book series now though. I feel a strange and confusing feeling of pride and self-contempt that I’ve done this to myself.
I will now need to make two separate conclusions and I am struggling to think of what would even be appropriate for this book, since the intention was to finish Part III and make a conclusion for what was to be a single book. I’m contemplating a few ideas on how to conclude the entirety of the book as of now. I still haven’t finished the section on Hinduism, but I’ll probably do that one last because I really want to be sure that I can provide a satisfying conclusion that challenges people. I’m not sure if I’ll succeed on that point, but I’ll try with what I have thus far.
For those of you who might be curious, here is my Table of Contents. I wish to take down any notion that I’ll be going soft on Islam and harsher on other religions. I wish to show my ruthlessness upon all of them out of my compassion for the victims of religion:
Preface
Chapter 1: Conventional Religion
Chapter 2: Asceticism and Rationality
Chapter 3: The Afterlife
Chapter 4: Open Interpretation and Coherence
Chapter 5: Gender Roles
Part II: The Specific Issues
A.) Original Sin
Chapter 6: Original Sin, The Failure of Abrahamic Morality
Chapter 7: Free Will and Original Sin
B.) Judaism
Chapter 8: Judaism
Chapter 9: Zionism versus Free Speech
Chapter 10: Judaism versus Archaeology
Chapter 11: Judaism versus Human Rights
Chapter 12: Concluding Remarks on Judaism
C.) Christianity
Chapter 13: Christianity
Chapter 14: Critiquing Christ
Chapter 15: Reductionist Insight And Regressive Morality
Chapter 16: The Narcissism of Jesus Christ
Chapter 17: Ignorance Within Bliss
Chapter 18: Biblical Contradictions versus Jesus Christ
Chapter 19: The Misogyny of Christ
D.) Islam
Chapter 20: Islam
Chapter 21: Isa
Chapter 22: Holistic Purity
Chapter 23: A Tool of Anti-Intellectualism
Chapter 24: The Follies of Islam
Chapter 25: Intersectional Feminism versus Islam’s Patriarchy
E.) Dharma
Chapter 26: Buddhism
[TBA Portion for Hinduism]
[TBA Portion for the New Conclusion]
Bibliography
Further Reading
Author’s Influences
“A dialecticis libera nos, Domine” (Nikolaus von Kues) The word derives from the Greek ἰδιώτης (idiotes), which roughly means “private person”. It becomes in the polis people who kept out of public-political affairs and did not exercise any offices, even if this was possible. So don’t worry “JJ” ,- today we don’t need guts, like in the ’80’s … the world needs – us “oldschool”-IDIOTS , protecting the house of our ancestors and taking care of our beloved ones ! So You go the right way, brother . Yours, Zanike
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