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Ernest Rodriguez' "Impressions," 1960s-1980s

Opposing Forces of Right and Wrong Create A Grey Area At Their Apex Where Distinctions Are Difficult to Define Without the Aid of a Supreme Intellect"" Page 1

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---1---- Ernest Rodriguez OPPOSING FORCES OF RIGHT AND WRONG CREATE A GREY AREA AT THEIR APEX WHERE DISTINCTIONS ARE DIFFICULT TO DEFINE WITHOUT THE AID OF SUPREME INTELLECT What evil lurks in the heart of man. Only time and the essence of life can tell. The essence of life is the constant titanic struggle of evil and good. Without this conflict the need for living would be in absentia because only evil supplies the need to strive for good. In this case good represents progress, improvement, confidence, security and a well spent life. Spent that is contributing to the basic essence of life struggling for the utilization of good in order to triumph over evil. What is good and what is evil can only be determined forthrightly in the conscience of men and there sometimes is subject to doubt and misgivings but needs to at least make a determination, a moral conviction, a decisive direction, toward his conviction of what is right or most right according to his deliberations. Right will always be an elusive goal because in many instances one has to wait for time to really prove right is right as one has determined it to be. I don't wish to labor the subject but how in all infernal circumstances is one to decide the inevitable when he is ill equipped to make such a momentous and personally tragic decision. Tragic because it is contrary to all his previous and expectant conceptions of what is right for him and to come to the ultimate conclusion that right has ended abrubtly through some inconceived manner is totally unacceptable to his conception of well ordered right, therefore such a conclusion must be strove for with a resoluteness which discards all arguments based on a rationale that was relative only to his previous conception of what is right. One needs to approach the problem with logistical decor and
 
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