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The Origin of Left and Right
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Posted on 01/28/2014 9:48:54 AM PST by pgkdan

Did you know why right is right !!!

"Left" and "Right"

A little Bible study

Remember what Jesus said: 'Goats on the left, sheep on the right'.
To Peter, 'if you want to catch fish do it from the right side of the boat. They did and filled the boat.

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.

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 6, 2014

Remember, November is to be set aside as rodent removal month.


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Just a little levity shared from an email I received this morning from my Aunt.
1 posted on 01/28/2014 9:48:54 AM PST by pgkdan
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When I read that scripture about the right, I had similar thoughts, so glad you posted it.


2 posted on 01/28/2014 9:50:50 AM PST by Kackikat
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I don’t think that translated very well to the old French national assembly . . . but it is ironic. And it probably does already scare the lefties, hence their anti-religion stance.


3 posted on 01/28/2014 9:51:05 AM PST by Olog-hai
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I think - in it's modern sense - the term comes from the French Rive Gauche, or "Left Bank," the part of Paris that's full of bohemians, artists, writers, and other creative types. What we would today call "hippies."

The hippies of the 1960's and -70's were nothing new. The mass-media celebration of them was new, but they weren't new.

4 posted on 01/28/2014 9:56:04 AM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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as i’ve said many times on this site. the further your beliefs diverge from the Word of God, the more leftist you are. thus an athiest is as far to the left as you can go.


5 posted on 01/28/2014 10:22:08 AM PST by dadfly
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To: pgkdan

Dexter - Right
Sinister - Left................


6 posted on 01/28/2014 10:22:44 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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The terms derive from the first French National Assembly, where supporters of the King sat on the right and the republicans sat on the left.


7 posted on 01/28/2014 10:32:03 AM PST by colorado tanker
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