Not sure which email got me to right (oops)
this today, it must have been on HS

The
words “right, wrong and sin”
....
original meanings...
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The
Sanskrit roots RAG, WAR and AS.

The English word “wrong” derives originally
from the Aryan root WAR (whirling, winding, turning or twisting). In old
English “wrong” used to be the past tense or past
participle of the verb “to wring”.
Wrong and wringing come to us via the Sanskrit word VRIJ (pronounce vrizj),
which had to do with wringing clothes from excess washing water or dye by
twisting it with a torque-like movement. The result was that as fabric or
garments got pulled out of shape, they became “wrong”. The rightness or
straightness was still there, but hidden in the garment. The act of “righting”
(Aryan root RAG) would pull the “wrong” straight again.

So, wrong is a form of right, just messed
up and rectifiable.
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That the words right and wrong have
opposite meanings is a quite recent development: AD 1500. They were used as
translations of the Latin words “rectus” and “sinister’ which mean right and
left-handed. The scholastic and ecclesiastic use of these words by means of
sermons on bible texts affected these words’ meaning in a moralistic way...

Interesting that sinister would mean the
left hand.
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Sinister is of course Latin and quite
likely comes from “sine” meaning “without, short of or taken away”, sin or
debt. The Aryan root AS from which “sin” derives means “leave behind, throw
away or reject”.
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What does the word sinister have to do
with bean counter, intelligence and accounting?

“Intel*lig*ence” as well as “legend,
legible, legislate and law (French lire - to read; loi - law) all derive from
the Sanskrit root RAG (LAG) “row, rule(r),
string”.
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A string or a wire was used to collect
beans, seeds or small stones, like a mala or rosary. This eventually led to the
calculus and eventually the calculator. Anyway, an “accountant” while “counting
beans” used the sinister or left hand to swipe beans away, to take them away.
It was the negative hand, creating debt or “sin”.
When Jesus talked about forgiving debt or
sin, he meant “forgive that what we are short of” or “what has been taken away
from us by sinister forces”.

Of course in the past (as it is still in
India) the left hand was used to do “nothing” with
but… “wiping your behind”.

The word “right” derives from the Sanskrit
root RAG (LAG) “row, order, rule(r) or string”. Law and order (legal matter)
stem from it, to straighten things out, to make right.

“Make straight the way of the Lord” can
actually be translated as, “Rightness is the Law of the Virtuous” (Dao De
Jing).
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