Posted on 09/22/2015 10:46:31 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Translation = Mean MP with big baton?
> Actually, being left-handed is being sinister.
Sinister means “left” in Latin.
I started life as a lefty. When I entered school (first grade), they changed me by strapping my left fingers together with rubber bands, but now I’m normal and a righty. I started school in Phoebus, Virginia.
Our multiply handicapped grandson was sent to the school psychologist because he couldn’t eat, draw or use scissors with his right hand. I blurted out that we’d known since his infancy that he was left-handed. He could eat and draw with the left. Right-handed scissors were obviously a problem.
The degreed one lifted his chin, looked down his nose, and proclaimed that the boy was too young for his feelings about “handedness” to have fully developed. I said fine /s, but if you want the kid to eat his lunch, put the fork in his left hand. Moron.
It’s perspective really. Since my soul was violently torn from me by a redhead I have learned to compensate.
We can live normal lives if only we try...
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a
trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the
synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory
of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Let not the right hand know what the left hand doest.
Diggeth it?
The missus is prolly out shopping now, Norm.
Fat Sergeant.
Religion truly is the bastion of the idiot.
Singing in the Choir invisible actually. With the souls she gathered no doubt ;)
Thank God I’m Ambidextrous
> They used to call me “Trung Si Mhap.”
That’s “Sergeant Fatty” in Vietnamese.
Ah, but so was Ronald Reagan.
For what it’s worth... (something I just found online)
Question: “What does the Bible say about being left-handed?”
Answer: The Bible presents the right hand as the hand of strength (Exodus 15:6; Psalm 118:16).
Sitting at someone’s right hand is considered a position of honor (Psalm 110:1).
The right hand is consistently valued over the left hand in Scripture (Genesis 48:13-18; Galatians 2:9).
What does this mean about left-handedness?
Is being left-handed considered a curse or a weakness?
No.
The Bible’s emphasis on “the right hand” is simply a reflection of reality.
The dominant arm is almost always stronger than the other arm, and 85-90 percent of people are right-handed.
So, in the vast majority of people, the right hand is stronger. Thus, the Bible uses the right hand as a symbol of strength and honor.
This does not carry any negative connotations for left-handed people. It is simply a matter of symbolism.
Whenever the Bible mentions left-handed people, it does not present left-handedness as a weakness.
Ehud, a judge of Israel and a mighty warrior, was left-handed (Judges 3:15-21).
Judges 20:16 mentions 700 left-handed warriors who could “sling a stone at a hair and not miss.”
First Chronicles 12:2 seems to reference bowmen who were ambidextrous.
When the Bible refers to left-handed people, it speaks of left-handedness as an advantage, not a weakness.
While it is not as honorable as sitting at someone’s right hand, sitting at the left hand is still a position of honor (Matthew 20:21).
Sitting immediately to a person’s left was considered the second-most honorable position.
It was not as if everyone to the right was more honored than those to the left.
The right hand is used in the Bible as a symbol of strength due to the right hand usually being stronger than the left.
This should not be understood as a slight against left-handed people.
http://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-left-handed.html
I am well aware.
I earned it.
I write with my left, throw and kick objects with my right, aim with my left eye.
That is why left handers are called SouthPaws. Hell is south. :)
Muslims wipe with which hand? Left.
No, in todays western world, there is no reason to stigmatize left hand people. In the old world there were several. Hygiene amongst them.
I had a bitch kindergarten teacher who tried to get me to write with my right hand, not because I favored using my left, but because I would use both hands to write. It drove her nuts.
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