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There Is Only Right And Wrong.
Consensus is Wrong making Wrong Right, negating Right.

by
Dean Gotcher

"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." 1 John 2:16

"To enjoy the present reconciles us to the actual." (Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right')

There is only right, i.e., reasoning from and behaving according to, i.e., being held accountable to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., humbling, denying, dying to, controlling, disciplining your "self" in order to do the father's/Father's will, having a guilty conscience (which the father's/Father's authority engenders) when you do wrong, disobey, sin, repenting when you are wrong and doing right, obeying, not sinning instead and wrong, i.e., reasoning from and behaving according to your carnal nature, i.e., according to the carnal nature of the child, i.e., "lusting" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment,' i.e., dopamine emancipation which is being stimulated by the world. Despite knowing right from wrong, i.e., having a guilty conscience for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning and repenting, those who are wrong, i.e.,  enjoying their "self," i.e., enjoying the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' which the world is stimulating in disobedience to the father/Father, continue to do wrong, disobey, sin—hoping not to get caught and be held accountable.

"There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 16:25

"Every one that is proud in heart [right in his own eyes] is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil." Proverbs 16:5-6

"And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." Luke 16:15

While the Heavenly Father's nature is perfect (holy), i.e., not subject to the child's carnal nature, the earthly father's nature is not—his nature being of the child's carnal nature, i.e., of the world. What makes the Heavenly Father and earthly father similar in way of thinking and acting is the "top-down," "right-wrong," "above-below" authority system they both use in order (as in "old" world order) to initiate and sustain order—with the earthly father (unlike the Heavenly Father) having to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline his "self" in order to do right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, requiring the same of his children, i.e., those under his authority.

"Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness." Hebrews 12:5-11

While dad and mom are not perfect—because of the child's carnal nature in them ("lusting" after the things of the world)—they may be or may have been down right tyrants, using the office of authority—that God gave them (in which to do His will)—for their own "self"-ish will, the office of authority they serve in is perfect. While the husband is head of the home, i.e., is over the wife and the children, the wife, under her husband's authority occupies the office of authority over the children as well. The problem is not in the office of authority they occupy, it is in the carnal nature of the child that is in them—which they may use the office of authority they occupy to serve and protect. While knowing right from wrong they may still use the office for wrong, having a guilty conscience—yet not repenting, 'justifying' their "self" instead. The more childlike, i.e., "of and for self" they become the more tyrannical (hateful) they become toward one another and toward their children (especially when their spouse and/or children point out their being wrong).

"Authoritarian submission [humbling, denying, dying to, controlling, disciplining "self" in order to do the father's/Father's will] was conceived of as a very general attitude that would be evoked in relation to a variety of authority figures—parents, older people, leaders, supernatural power, and so forth." "God is conceived more directly after a parental image and thus as a source of support and as a guiding and sometimes punishing authority." "Submission to authority, desire for a strong leader, subservience of the individual to the state [parental authority, local control, Nationalism], and so forth, have so frequently and, as it seems to us, correctly, been set forth as important aspects of the Nazi creed that a search for correlates of prejudice had naturally to take these attitudes into account." "The power-relationship between the parents, the domination of the subject's family by the father or by the mother, and their relative dominance in specific areas of life also seemed of importance for our problem [how to 'liberate' children from parental authority, man from God's authority, mankind from Nationalism aka Fascism, etc., ]." (Theodor Adorno, The Authoritarian Personality)

It is this element, i.e., the child's carnal nature in the father that those of the world are using to 'justify' their rejection of the father's/Father's authority, i.e., to 'justify' their "self," i.e., to 'justify' the child's carnal nature in them, i.e., their love of pleasure and hate of restraint (authority), not only in their lives but in the world, i.e., in everyone else's life. Their objective is to overcome (negate) right-wrong thinking, i.e., having a guilty conscience for doing wrong by re-defining man as "becoming" more right, i.e., "better" as he daily 'liberates' his "self" from wrong, i.e., from right-wrong thinking, progressively "becoming" his "self," i.e., of and for the world only.

"History, almost universally, has dichotomized this higher & lower, but it is now clear that they are on the same continuum, in a hierarchical-integration of prepotency & pospotency." (Abraham Maslow, The Journals of Abraham Maslow)

"Individuals move not from a fixity through change to a new fixity, though such a process is indeed possible. But [through a] continuum from fixity to changingness, from rigid structure to flow, from stasis to process." "At one end of the continuum the individual avoids close relationships, which are perceived as being dangerous. At the other end he lives openly and freely in relation to the therapist and to others, guiding his behavior on the basis of his immediate experiencing – he has become an integrated process of changingness." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

Their way of thinking (and acting) is there is no wrong way of thinking and acting except the "right-wrong" way of thinking and acting, which by default makes their way of thinking, i.e., wrong right. By 'justifying' wrong, i.e., the carnal nature of the child ("lusting" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' which the world is stimulating) in both the children and the father, the father's/Father's "top-down," "right-wrong," "above-below" authority (system) is negated in both the father's and the children's mind. This third way of thinking is called dialectic 'reasoning,' i.e., 'reasoning' through dialogue instead of through discussion.  Discussion filters out the carnal desires, i.e., impulses and urges of the 'moment' which are being stimulated by the world, justifying the father's/Father's authority, i.e., doing right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth while dialogue filters out the father's/Father's authority, i.e., restraint, i.e., wrong, 'justifying' the child's carnal nature, i.e., 'justifying' "lusting" after the things of the world, i.e., doing wrong.

"Prior to therapy the person is prone to ask himself, 'What would my parents want me to do?' During the process of therapy the individual come to ask himself, 'What does it mean to me?'" (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

 Dialogue is the basis of "therapy," i.e., 'change' (in the way a person thinks and acts). 'Reasoning' from then on is from and through "feelings," i.e., from and through the child's carnal nature, i.e., "lusting" after the things of the world—with men 'justifying' (affirming) their "self" (before one another), i.e., coming to consensus (to a "feeling" of "oneness" with one another according to their common carnal nature) over and therefore against the father's/Father's authority—resulting in there only being wrong (the child's carnal nature) in their mind and therefore in their actions. With wrong having taken right's (the father's/Father's) place, 'reasoning' and behavior from then is subject to everyone's carnal nature ("self interest") only, with everyone thinking and acting (called "theory and practice") according to the carnal nature of the child, i.e., "lusting" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment,' i.e., dopamine emancipation which is being stimulated by the world (the situation, i.e., "the group") only, ('justified' in) hating the father's/Father's authority—for getting in the way (of pleasure).

 "Experience is, for me, the highest authority." "Neither the Bible nor the prophets, neither the revelations of God can take precedence over my own direct experience." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

By 'creating' a "new" world order where the guilt conscience for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning is negated (negating "neurosis"), everyone—now having a so called "super-ego" (which 'justifies' the child's carnal nature)—can do wrong, disobey, sin, i.e., can be "of and for self" only, i.e., can negate right with impunity. The deception is: the Father's authority remains in place, but with the children's carnal nature having taken it's place, i.e., the place of established commands, rules, facts, and truth (in their mind), making the children (mankind) God (in their eyes). The children therefore (having rejected the father's/Father's authority, i.e., right) can not see their "self" as being wrong, as not being God. Dialogue makes them right (God) in their own eyes. This is what Immanuel Kant meant by "lawfulness without law" where the law of the flesh, i.e., the child's carnal nature rules without Godly restraint, i.e., without the father's/Father's authority (in the thoughts and actions of men) and "purposiveness without purpose" where the purpose of life is the augmentation of pleasure ("lust") and the attenuation of pain (including the emotional pain that comes with missing out on pleasure) instead of doing right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., instead of humbling, denying, dying to, controlling, disciplining "self" in order (as in "old" world order) to do the father's/Father's will. (Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment).

"The heart is deceitful above all things [thinking pleasure is the standard for "good" instead of doing the father's/Father's will, i.e., having to set aside your carnal desires of the 'moment,' i.e., having to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline your "self" in order (as in "old" world order) to do the father's/Father's will, i.e., in order to do right and not wrong according the father's/Father's established commands, rules, facts, and truth, taking pleasure in doing the father's/Father's will instead of yours], and desperately wicked [hating the father's/Father's authority that "gets in the way," i.e. that prevents, i.e., inhibits or blocks you from enjoying the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' that the world stimulates]: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9 You can not see your hate of restraint as being evil, i.e., "wicked" ("desperately wicked") because your love of pleasure blinds you to it, i.e., gets in the way. Like a drug, pleasure (dopamine emancipation) which the world stimulates blinds you to your hatred toward restraint, i.e., blinds you to your "wickedness" which is being expressed toward those who are preventing (or trying to prevent) you from having access to the drug, i.e., to pleasure (dopamine emancipation)—making you not just wicked but "desperately wicked."

"The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil." Psalms 36:1-4

Without negating of the father's/Father's authority, i.e., replacing right with wrong, i.e., replacing the father's/Father's authority with the child's carnal nature, i.e., replacing the guilty conscience, i.e., "feeling" bad for doing wrong disobeying, sinning against established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., for not doing the father's/Father's will with the "super-ego," i.e., with the child's carnal desire, i.e., with the child's "feelings" of the 'moment'—'justifying' his "self," i.e., his "lusting" after the things of the world, hating restraint (and the restrainer)—the "new" world order can not become a 'reality,' i.e., "self" cannot become "actualized." They both (love of pleasure and hate of restraint) go hand in hand.

"Nakedness is absolutely right. So is the attack on antieroticism, the Christian & Jewish foundations." (Abraham Maslow, The Journals of Abraham Maslow)

"I have found whenever I ran across authoritarian students [those who do the father's/Father's will] that the best thing for me to do was to break their backs immediately." "The correct thing to do with authoritarians is to take them realistically for the bastards they are and then behave toward them as if they were bastards." (Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management)

Even Karl Marx understood this message (agenda), i.e., the necessity of negating right, i.e., the father's/Father's authority in order for wrong, i.e., the child's carnal nature to take its, i.e., his/His place, "actualizing" "self" over and therefore against the father's/Father's authority, i.e., doing right instead of wrong. "Once the earthly family [with the children having to humble and deny their "self" in order to do their father's will] is discovered to be the secret of the holy family [with the Son, Jesus Christ, and all following Him having to humble and deny their "self" in order to do His Heavenly Father's will], the former [the earthly father's authority system, with children having to trust in (have faith in) and obey the father] must then itself be destroyed [vernichtet, i.e., annihilated] in theory and in practice [negated in the children's personal thoughts and social actions—no longer "fellowshipping" with one another based upon the father's/Father's commands, rules, facts, and truth but, through dialogue, "building relationship" with one another, based upon their common "'self interests'" (their common carnal desires of the 'moment') instead]." (Karl Marx, Feuerbach Thesis #4) Sigmund Freud had this same message (agenda), i.e., the negation of the father's/Father's authority in the children's thoughts and actions in mind as well. "'It is not really a decisive matter whether one has killed one's father or abstained from the deed,' if the function of the conflict and its consequences are the same [the father no longer exercises his authority over the family]." (Sigmund Freud in Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization) It is therefore essential (if you want to replace right with wrong, make wrong right, with wrong taking right's place, negating right) to base communication upon the child's carnal desires, i.e., upon the child's "feeling" of the 'moment' instead of upon the father's/Father's authority, i.e., doing right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth—as Georg Hegel pointed out. "The child, contrary to appearance, is the absolute, the rationality of the relationship; he is what is enduring and everlasting, the totality which produces itself once again as such [once he is 'liberated' from the father'/Father's authority to become as he was before the father's/Father's first command, rule, fact, or truth came into his life (separating him from his "self" and the world), of (and now for) "self" and the world only]." (Georg Hegel, System of Ethical Life)

"When a man has finally reached the point where he does not think he knows it better than others, that is when he has become indifferent to what they have done badly and he is interested only in what they have done right [in his mind], then peace and affirmation have come to him." (G. F. W. Hegel, in one of the casual notes preserved at Widener) Emphasis added—since Hegel did not use the word "wrong," which is the right word to use in contrast to "right."

By using "badly," the wrong are never punished, just remediated, whereas the wrong (in the wrong's mind), i.e., those who think, preach, teach, and discuss right-wrong thinking (do right and not wrong) are to be punished since they use the word "wrong" instead of "badly." The whole concept is insane. Build a bridge using this standard. Only someone without a conscience would apply it to the real world. Yet it is the basis of (foundation for) the consensus meeting—"Be 'positive,' working with the group, not 'negative,' hurting peoples 'feelings' by telling them they are wrong."

"In an ordinary discussion people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favour of their views as they try to convince others to change. At best this may produce agreement or compromise, but it does not give rise to anything creative." (Bohm and Peat, Science, Order, and Creativity) You can not "build relationships upon self interest," i.e., 'create' a "new" world order through discussion since discussion divides people between those who are right and those who are wrong, according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, requiring people to set aside their "self interests" in order to be or do right and not wrong.

"A Dialogue is essentially a conversation between equals [based upon "feelings"]." "The purpose of dialogue is to reveal the incoherence in our thought [where commands, rules, facts, and truth which are given to you by authority, which you have accepted by faith get in the way of your carnal desires of the 'moment'—which are being stimulated by the world]... [dialogue engenders] genuine and creative collective consciousness [where you 'discover' your "self" in others and "building relationship" with them based upon your and their common "self interests," 'justifying' your "self," i.e., your (and their) love of pleasure, i.e., your desire to enjoy ("lust" after) the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' which the world is stimulating and your (and their) hate of restraint, i.e., hate of the father's/Father's authority which gets in the way of your desires, i.e., your and their (common-ist) "self interests"]." "The spirit of dialogue, is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning [your ability to "suspend," as upon a cross, any command, rule, fact, and truth that gets in the way of your carnal desires ("self interests") of the 'moment,' in an effort to "build relationship" with others with the same "self interest," i.e., the same carnal desires, overcoming the effect of discussion where, conversely you must "suspend," as upon a cross, your carnal desires, i.e., your "self interests" of the 'moment' in order to hear and receive the truth, i.e., be able to accept the fact that you are or may be wrong]." (Bohm and Peat, Science, Order, and Creativity)

It is in dialogue, which is subject to the child's "feelings," i.e., subject to the child's desire for ("lusting" after) the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' which are being stimulated by the world that the father's/Father's authority is negated. There is no father's/Father's authority in dialogue. (Dialogue is right until it comes to issues of right and wrong, then it becomes wrong, having taken the place of discussion.) The objective of replacing discussion, which is subject to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., supportive of the father's/Father's authority with dialogue, which is not, is to 'liberate' the child's carnal nature from the father's/Father's restraints, 'liberating' the child to do wrong, disobey, sin with impunity.

"The dialectical method [dialogue] was overthrown—the parts [the children] were prevented from finding their definition within the whole [through the use of dialogue 'discovering' their commonality with one another, i.e., their love of pleasure (right) and hate of restraint (being told they are wrong)]." "... for the dialectical method the central problem is to change reality.… reality with its 'obedience to laws' [where the father's/Father's authority (do right and not wrong) rules over the child's carnal nature (which is always right in the child's eyes)]." (György Lukács, History & Class Consciousness: What is Orthodox Marxism?)

"The individual may have 'secret' thoughts ["lusts"] which he will under no circumstances reveal to anyone else if he can help it [out of fear of being judged and punished]. To gain access [through getting him or her to dialogue, i.e., to share his or her "feelings" of the 'moment' with others] is particularly important, for here may lie the individual's potential [for 'change,' i.e., to become of and for his or her "self" and the world only—'liberated' from the father's/Father's authority]." (Theodor Adorno, The Authoritarian Personality)

Removing the father's/Father's authority in a decision making environment, i.e., using dialogue, i.e., the children's carnal desires, i.e.,  their "self interests," i.e., their "lusts" instead, negates their having a guilty conscience for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning. As Kurt Lewin noted (using the words "negative valance" in place of "guilty conscience"), when the father's/Father's authority, i.e., being held accountable for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning is excluded in the decision making environment the "negative valence," i.e., the guilty conscience for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning "disappears."  "The negative valence of a forbidden object which in itself attracts the child thus usually derives from an induced field of force of an adult." "If this field of force loses its psychological existence for the child (e.g., if the adult goes away or loses his authority) the negative valence also disappears." (Kurt Lewin, A Dynamic Theory of Personality: Selected Papers)

"In the dialogic relation of recognizing oneself in the other, they experience the common ground of their existence." (Jürgen Habermas, Knowledge & Human Interest, Chapter Three: The Idea of the Theory of Knowledge as Social Theory) It is in dialogue we discover our commonality with one another, i.e., our "self interest" in others, 'justifying' our "self," i.e., "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," i.e., what which we have in common with one another, i.e., that which is "of the world" only.

As long as the father's/Father's authority, i.e., doing right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth remains in place—in setting policy—the child's carnal nature can not become the means (the drive and the purpose) by which policy is being made. It is only through dialogue, where the father's/Father's authority (right-wrong) is not in control, that consensus, i.e., "worldly please and socialist harmony," i.e., wrong (the child's carnal nature) taking the place of right (the father's/Father's authority) can become a 'reality,' negating right (the father's/Father's authority). There is a price you will pay (much you will loose) when you make policy via the consensus process, i.e., via dialogue.

"Bypassing the traditional channels of top-down decision making [based on right-wrong thinking, i.e.., "I am right and you are wrong," i.e., engendering majority vote or leadership decision], our objective centers upon transforming public opinion [right only, where all are right—except those who believe they are right and others are wrong] into an effective instrument of global politics [where everyone must participate]." [In a discussion you are right and the other person is wrong, with you trying to persuade them that they are wrong and you are right, only facts and truth persuading you that you are wrong and they are right, while in a dialogue all are right, i.e., everyone is entitled to their opinion—with anyone accusing others of being wrong being guilty of getting in the way of dialogue, i.e., of opinions, i.e., of "self interests," therefore being wrong.] "Individual values must be measured by their contribution to common[ist] interests and ultimately to world[ly] interests transforming public consensus into one favorable to the emergence of a stable and humanistic world[ly] order." "Consensus [abdicating right-wrong thinking, 'justifying' wrong thinking] is both a personal and a political step. It is a precondition of all future steps." (Ervin Laszlo, A Strategy for the Future: The Systems Approach to World Order)

Consensus is a group of wrong, who, through dialogue are trying to 'justify' their "self," i.e., 'justify' wrong by making wrong right, negating right (in their mind—and in their actions), negating their having guilty conscience for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning in the process. A group 'justifying' wrong, i.e., affirming their "self" (affirming wrong) does not make wrong right, they only deceive themselves, i.e., the wrong into believing they are right, 'justifying' in their mind their right to negate right (their right to take the place of right).

"The child [adult] takes on the characteristic behavior of the group in which he is placed. . . . he reflects the behavior patterns which are set by the adult leader of the group." (Kurt Lewin in Wilbur Brookover, A Sociology of Education) Traditional leadership produces a right-wrong (commands, rules, facts, and truth) based outcome while facilitators produce wrong equals right, i.e., wrong (carnal desires, i.e., "self interest," i.e.,"lust") based outcome.

Being right in a group seeking consensus, i.e., 'justifying' wrong, negates your right to tell them they are wrong (majority vote or leadership decision making recognizes the right to believe in right-wrong thinking, consensus negates that right). When you are told not to be "negative," i.e., not to tell people they are wrong but to be "positive," i.e., to tolerate ('justify') wrong instead, freedom of religion (belief in right-wrong thinking) and freedom of speech (the right to tell someone they are wrong) are negated.

"[We] must develop persons who see non-influencability of private convictions [those people holding onto right-wrong thinking, i.e., doing right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., sustaining the father's/Father's authority] in joint deliberations [in the facilitated, consensus, "relationship building," "feelings" based meeting] as a vice rather than a virtue [as being "negative," i.e., the problem instead of "positive," i.e., contributing to the solution—the negation of right, i.e., right-wrong thinking]." (Kenneth D. Benne, Human Relations in Curriculum Change)

To be silent in a room full of wrong seeking consensus, 'justifies' wrong (in their mind), making right wrong, negating right, i.e., negating your rights in the process (in the present and in the future). Since policy is being made on wrong, i.e., on the groups carnal desires of the 'moment,' i.e., on its "self interests" of the 'moment,' being wrong becomes right, i.e., the law and being right (holding onto established commands, rules facts, and truth that are getting in the way of wrong) becomes wrong, i.e., illegal.

"The school must make room for the deviant student." "This person will be able to discriminate among values and to deviate from the moral status quo." "How such persons can be discovered, and, above all, how such persons can be produced in greater number is the major problem for research in character formation." (Robert Havighurst and Hilda Taba, Adolescent Character and Personality)

"[W]e recognize the point of view that truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no hard and fast truths which exist for all time and places." (Benjamin Bloom, et al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1, Cognitive Domain) All "educators" are certified and schools accredited today based upon their use of what are called "Blooms' Taxonomies" in the classroom, incorporating through dialogue "the deviant student's" ideology (Marxism) into the classroom curriculum.

"In the eyes of the dialectic philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx) "Bloom's Taxonomies" are based upon Marxist ideology, negating right-wrong thinking by making wrong right—replacing right with wrong.

In your silence, belief (right-wrong) becomes an opinion—since your "feelings," i.e., your desire for the groups approval, i.e., affirmation (who are wrong) becomes more important to you than your belief in right-wrong (affirming to them that their opinion is more important to you than your belief). Every time you tell the group they are "wrong," their response is (must be) "that is your opinion." If you agree (stop telling them they are "wrong") then you just 'justified' them, negating right-wrong thinking.

"For to accept that solution [where all citizens, including parents, must participate in the dialoguing of opinions to a consensus, i.e., stop telling one another they are wrong—in order to build relationship with one another (based upon "feelings," i.e., upon everyone's carnal desires, i.e.,  upon everyone's "self interest" of the 'moment')], even in theory, would be tantamount to observing society from a class standpoint [from the child's perspective, i.e., from the child's carnal nature] other than that of the bourgeoisie [from the parent's authority, i.e., from the father's/Father's authority]. And no class can do that-unless it is willing to abdicate its power freely [chose relationship with wrong instead of holding them accountable for doing wrong—correcting, reproving, chastening them when they do wrong, casting them out when they reject, i.e., question, challenge, deny, disregard, attack right-wrong thinking, i.e., the father's/Father's authority]." (György Lukács, History & Class Consciousness: What is Orthodox Marxism?)

"Lets agree to disagree" accomplishes the same outcome, i.e., the negation of right-wrong thinking. "Tolerance of ambiguity" accomplishes the same thing. Tolerating wrong negates right-wrong thinking. "Diversity in unity," where deviancy is 'justified' (tolerated) by the right likewise negates right-wrong thinking. All this takes place by the right's participation in dialogue on issues of right and wrong, negating their right to tell the wrong they are wrong and hold them accountable.

"[E]very one of us shall give account of himself to God." Romans 14:12

There is only doing right and not wrong or doing wrong and not right. Right is humbling, denying, dying to, controlling disciplining your "self" in order to do right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., in order to do the father's/Father's will. Wrong is 'living' for "self," i.e., "lusting" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' which the world is stimulating instead of humbling, denying, dying to, controlling, disciplining "self" in order to do right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., in order to do the father's/Father's will.

"It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jeremiah 10:23

When you (through dialogue) 'justify' your "self," i.e., your "lusting" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment,' which the world stimulates over and therefore against humbling, denying, dying to, controlling, disciplining your "self" in order to do right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., in order to do the father's/Father's will, you make your "self," i.e., love of pleasure and hate of restraint right and having to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline your "self" in order to do right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., in order to do the father's/Father's will wrong, turning good, i.e., doing the father's/Father's will into evil, and evil, i.e. your "lusting" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' which the world stimulates into good, making you God— since pleasure, in your mind, is the standard for good, and only God is good, you become God when you "enjoy the present," "reconciling" your "self" with the world, which stimulates pleasure in you.

In dialogue a person 'justifies' his "self", i.e., 'justifies' his carnal desire(s) of the 'moment' which the world is stimulating, while in a discussion the father's/Father's authority, i.e., doing right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth justifies his position—you can not defend your position (faith—trusting in that which is external to you gives you position), your position (faith—which the father's/Father's words and promises, i.e., his/His commands, rules, facts, and truth gives you) defends you. Discussion deals with doing right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth. Dialogue deals with a persons desires, i.e., his love of pleasure and hate of restraint, with pleasure being right and pain, including the pain which comes with missing out on pleasure, i.e., having to do the father's/Father's will being wrong. This is why communication has moved away from discussion, i.e., from humbling, denying, dying to, controlling, disciplining of "self" in order to do right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., in order to do the father's/Father's will to dialogue, i.e., 'justifying' "self," i.e., 'justifying' man's "lusting" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' which the world stimulates—with the affirmation of others. By 'justifying' your "self"in a group setting simply turns right into wrong and wrong into right, negating right in the mind of the wrong, with the wrong taking right's place.

"It is usually easier to change individuals formed into a group than to change any one of them separately." "The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by accepting belongingness to the group." (Kurt Lewin in Kenneth Bennie, Human Relations in Curriculum Change)

"Few individuals, as Asch has shown, can maintain their objectivity [their belief, i.e., their faith in authority, be it in their parent's and/or God's authority] in the face of apparent group unanimity [especially when "the group," excluding, i.e., rejecting them (because of their "ridged," i.e., "prejudiced," i.e., unadaptable to 'change' "negative" attitude, i.e., their holding onto the father's/Father's restraints) is heading down the road, hand in hand with their carnal desire of the 'moment,' "enjoying" it without them, i.e., excluding them]." (Irvin D. Yalom, Theory and Practice and Group Psychotherapy)

A person's way of thinking (paradigm) is 'changed' in consensus, i.e., in a group seeking consensus, 'justifying' wrong, i.e., his carnal nature, making him "of and for self," i.e., "of and for the world" only, 'liberating' him from right, i.e., from the father's/Father's authority, negating his having a guilty conscience for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning in the process, so he (and the group) can do wrong, disobey, sin with impunity. By negating the "wrong" in right-wrong, wrong becomes right (takes the place of right), negating right. Any time you are in a meeting where everyone must be "positive," i.e., tolerate wrong in order to come to a consensus, right becomes "negative," i.e., is negated, making wrong "right." Consensus, i.e., seven billion (plus) wrongs does not make a wrong right, except in the mind (illusion) of a carnal man, "lusting" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' which the world stimulates. When you negate right-wrong thinking there is no wrong (except right-wrong thinking), negating wrong (which is nihilism—since you can not have right without wrong nor wrong without right, by negating right, making wrong right, you negate wrong, i.e., your "self," i.e., life eventually becomes meaningless, i.e., vain, i.e., hollow, etc., since you can never satisfy your "self").

"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." "... the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;" Genesis 6:5; 8:21

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Matthew 6:24

"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" Romans 6:16

"For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." Galatians 1:10

"And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." 1 John 2:16

"For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." Matthew 12:50

"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Matthew 23:9

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6

"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels." Luke 9:23-26

'Justifying' your "self," i.e., living in the "eternal present," i.e., "lusting" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' which the world stimulates, including the approval of men (affirmation, which is not only intoxicating, but addictive and possessive as well) instead of humbling, denying, dying to, controlling, disciplining your "self" in order to do right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., in order to do the Father's will leads to eternal death—where there will be no pleasure. Humbling, denying, dying to, controlling, disciplining your "self" in order to do right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., in order to do the Father's will leads to eternal life, where love, joy, peace, and holiness reside forever—unabated.

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Timothy 4:3, 4

Facilitators of 'change,' i.e., psychologists, i.e., behavioral "scientists," i.e., "group psychotherapists," i.e., Marxists (Transformational Marxists)—all being the same in method or formula—are using the dialoguing of opinions to a consensus (affirmation) process, i.e., dialectic 'reasoning' ('reasoning' from/through the student's "feelings" of the 'moment,' i.e., their love pleasures and their hate of restraint, in the "light" of their desire for group approval and fear of group rejection) in the "group grade," "safe zone/space/place," "Don't be negative, be positive," soviet style, brainwashing (washing the father's/Father's authority from the child's thoughts and actions, i.e., "theory and practice," negating their having a guilty conscience for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning in the process—called "the negation of negation," since the father's/Father's authority, and the guilty conscience which it engenders, is negative to the child's carnal nature), inductive 'reasoning' ('reasoning' from/through the students "feelings," i.e., their "lusting" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment'—dopamine emancipation—which the world stimulates, i.e., their "self interest," i.e., their "sense experience," selecting "appropriate information"—excluding, ignoring, or resisting, i.e., rejecting any information, i.e., established command, rule, fact, or truth that gets in the way of their desired outcome—in determining right from wrong behavior), "Bloom's Taxonomy," "affective domain," French Revolution (Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité) classroom "environment" in order (as in "new" world order) to 'liberate' children from parental authority, i.e., from the father's/Father's authority system (the Patriarchal Paradigm)—seducing, deceiving, and manipulating them as chickens, rats, and dogs, i.e., treating them as natural resource ("human-ist resource") in order to convert them into 'liberals,' socialists, globalists, so they, 'justifying' their "self" can do wrong, disobey, sin with impunity.

"Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken." Jeremiah 6:16, 17

Home schooling material, co-ops, conferences, etc., are joining in the same praxis, fulfilling Immanuel Kant's as well as Georg Hegel's, Karl Marx's, and Sigmund Freud's agenda of using the pattern or method of Genesis 3:1-6, i.e., "self" 'justification,' i.e., dialectic (dialogue) 'reasoning," i.e., 'reasoning' from/through your "feelings," i.e., your carnal desires ("lusts") of the 'moment' which are being stimulated by the world, negatting Hebrews 12:5-11, i.e., the father's/Father's authority, i.e., having to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline your "self" in order to do the father's/Father's will, negating Romans 7:14-25, i.e., your having a guilty conscience when you do wrong, disobey, sin in the process—which is the real agenda.

"And for this cause [because men, as "children of disobedience," 'justify' their "self," i.e., 'justify' their love of "self" and the world, i.e., their love of the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' (dopamine emancipation) which the world stimulates over and therefore against the Father's authority, i.e., 'justify' wrong over and therefore against right] God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie [that pleasure is the standard for "good" instead of doing the Father's will]: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth [in the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ], but had pleasure in unrighteousness [in their "self" and the carnal pleasures of the 'moment,' which the world stimulates, i.e., taking pleasure in wrong, making wrong right, negating right in their thoughts and actions]." 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 12

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