Fact vs. Opinion: A Refresher Course

It has come to my attention that people have serious problems with the difference between fact and opinion. Please refer to this as a guide.

Fact:
A statement which is empirically provable. Such a statement can be shown to be true or false. No amount of disbelieving will change a fact. For example, blog starts with the letter, "b." You may believe that blog starts with the letter, "w." However, that will not change the spelling of blog, nor make your incorrect spelling any more correct.

Opinion:
A statement of belief. Such a statement is neither true nor false. Such a statement is a personal expression. For example, Pizza is delicious. I happen to feel that statement is accurate. However, if you disagree, then it would be quite accurate for you to say that Pizza is not delicious.

Seen in this way, whether a particular person is good or bad would be an opinion based on the subject standards of goodness or badness in the same way that the quality of music is subjective. Thus, no matter how much I might protest, my posts regarding Hussein Obama are opinions.

However, someone's existence is not an opinion, but a fact. One either is real or is imaginary. There simply is no middle ground. Thus, G-D's existence is a fact, and not an opinion at all.

Therefore, if two people are debating on the relative aspects of a particular organization. It is quite proper to say that whether the organization's methods are an unfair scheme is matter of opinion. However, it is not accurate to say that whether the organization's methods fit the legal definition of a particular brand of fraud is a matter of opinion--this is a fact, either false or accurate.

Praise Him daily and He will bless you abundantly. Good night and G-D bless.

It is better to hate then love

Love is a many splendored thing, but is it positive. Love is primarily selfish. Although we disguise it with the claim that love is focused on the aim of our affections rather than on ourselves, the truth is quite the opposite. The reason, primarily, that we focus at al on the object of our affections is the feeling and results created within ourselves. Thus, love is focussed not on another person, but on ourselves. Love is essentially selfish. The purpose, the doings and the end goals are focussed upon the person who is loving rather than the person being loved.

Hate, however, is selfless. One who hates thinks first about the person he is hating rather than himself. He is willing to go to extraordinary lengths, even to his own detriment to diminish the object of his hatred. The end goal is not an improvement or change in himself, but simply destruction of the one he hates. Hatred, thus, is consumed entirely with the person being hated and not the person who is hating.

Machiavelli said it is better to be feared than loved. In truth, one is most selfless if one hates, not if one loves.

This is not inconsistent with a religious outlook. G-D is well aware of this truth in Man. Think you not it strange that there are more negative injunctions in the Bible than positive commandments.

Praise Him daily and He will bless you abundantly. G-D bless.