{"id":2024,"date":"2008-01-18T12:19:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T17:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2008-01-18T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T17:19:52","slug":"fact-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2024","title":{"rendered":"Fact is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>people don&#8217;t understand &#8216;right&#8221; and &#8220;left&#8221; anymore. <\/p>\n<p>Had this conversation with Pascal last night, in one of my more lucid moments. <\/p>\n<p>People think of &#8220;right&#8221; and &#8220;Left&#8221; as opposite sides of a coin, yadda yadda. <\/p>\n<p>Well. <\/p>\n<p>If there is good and evil, does that mean somewhere there is a mighty rope with God pulling on one end and the Devil on the other end? <\/p>\n<p>That is ludicrous. It presumes the existence of a force of evil that is equally powerful as the Creator. And that is ludicrous, because it doesn&#8217;t exist. <\/p>\n<p>Good and evil can be accurately defined as the State of Existence of the Creator&#8217;s grace, and the Absence of the creator&#8217;s grace. <\/p>\n<p>Pascal evidenced- and accurately so- that &#8216;if the left is the problem, the right is not the solution&#8221; but that is only accurate if you have no understanding what the Right actually is. <\/p>\n<p>Pascal&#8217;s statement is much more accurate if you say &#8220;if Democrats are the problem, Republicans are not the solution&#8221; And he&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>But Democrats and Republicans are not &#8220;left&#8221; and &#8220;Right&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I think it is easy to define &#8220;right&#8221; as &#8220;the presence of reason&#8221; and &#8220;left&#8221; as &#8216;The absence of reason&#8221;. People in the republican party, and actual conservatives, can be varying degrees of both. As can liberals, and democrats. <\/p>\n<p>But right thinking is thinking wiht reason, and left thinking is the absence of reason- emotion only, so to speak. And we all occasionally let our emotions rule us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>people don&#8217;t understand &#8216;right&#8221; and &#8220;left&#8221; anymore. Had this conversation with Pascal last night, in one of my more lucid moments. People think of &#8220;right&#8221; and &#8220;Left&#8221; as opposite sides of a coin, yadda yadda. Well. If there is good and evil, does that mean somewhere there is a mighty rope with God pulling on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}