A little Bible Study...

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11-10-2013, 01:07
Squeeze

A little Bible Study...

A Little Bible study

Left & Right...

Origin of Left & Right...

I have often wondered why it is that Conservatives are called the "right" and Liberals are called the "left".

By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible:

"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

Thus sayeth the Lord. Amen.

Can't get any simpler than that.

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Now A Spelling Lesson

The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats

End of lesson. Test to follow in November, 2014

Remember, November is to be set aside as rodent removal month.
11-10-2013, 01:50
ZERO THEORY

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squeeze

"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

Thus sayeth the Lord. Amen.

Surely you jest.
11-10-2013, 08:10
Great-Kazoo

I'm Right (correct) and they are out in LEFT Field.
11-10-2013, 08:21
Waywardson174

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Originally Posted by ZERO THEORY

Surely you jest.

He does not, and don't call him Shirley.
11-10-2013, 08:39
cstone

He's got it all wrong:

Kohelet 10:2
Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

²A chacham’s lev is at his yamin (right hand); but a kesil’s lev is at his semol (left hand).

Don't be a kesil!
11-10-2013, 09:56
crays

Quote:

Originally Posted by cstone

He's got it all wrong:

Kohelet 10:2
Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

²A chacham’s lev is at his yamin (right hand); but a kesil’s lev is at his semol (left hand).

Don't be a kesil!

Maybe a translation for the Gentiles?

Sent via my Mobile Work Avoidance Device
11-10-2013, 11:23
Zundfolge

That's cute and all (I'll certainly repeat it) but left and right in political parlance comes from the fact that during the time of the French revolution the political factions in the National Assembly loyal to the king sat to his right and the revolutionaries (who were in fact communists ... the French revolution was the world's first communist revolution, not a free-republican revolution) sat to his left. After the revolution (and all the guys on the right were dead) they continued the tradition of the radicals sitting on the left, the moderates in the middle and the constitutionalists on the right.
11-10-2013, 11:28
BushMasterBoy

Then what are the cattle mutilating space aliens?
11-10-2013, 13:03
roberth

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Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy

Then what are the cattle mutilating space aliens?

Libertarians. [ROFL1]
11-10-2013, 13:07
roberth

Quote:

Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy

Then what are the cattle mutilating space aliens?

File under hindsight is always 20/20.

I should have said "The Green Party"
11-10-2013, 13:09
Ridge

Except only a few decades ago, the Republicans were the progressives and the Democrats were the conservatives. Republicans freed the slaves, and Democrats protested the civil rights movement.

EDIT: and before you take my post to suggest that the GOP would be in favor of slavery, I'm just saying that their core beliefs are to maintain the status quo in terms of society, and freeing the slaves was a huge upset to that.