Whether personal tastes, personality traits or sexual preference, we hear much today regarding “orientation”. It is a word deriving from the Latin sol oriens , the rising sun, hence the direction of the rising sun, the east. Orientation literally means facing the east. Hence to become dis oriented was to loose ones sense of direction, to have an incorrect estimation of east. Nowadays, disoriented is commonly used to describe someone that is confused or muddled; someone or something that has lost their bearings, their centre, their purpose, their way. Throughout history many a traveller, convinced they were true to their course, discovered too late they were mistaken; some even paying the ultimate price for such misplaced certainty. Of course, the sun never moved (not in relation to earth). It is fixed, unchanging, reliable. Neither did the earth alter its orbit. It is not shifting absolutes that lay behind peoples misdirection, rather it is placing ones faith in the u...