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Tigress
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Posted 8/6/2003 5:33 AM (GMT -6)

I'm not sure how to do this but I wanted to find out who here are lefties and who are righties. So, please give your answers below. Thanks!

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Laika
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Posted 8/6/2003 5:36 AM (GMT -6)

Captain Hook has a question for you Tigress.

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Tigress
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Posted 8/6/2003 7:54 AM (GMT -6)

Come on people! Only 5 people voted, and one of them was me! Please, everyone vote!

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Posted 8/6/2003 8:04 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress

Come on people! Only 5 people voted, and one of them was me! Please, everyone vote!

Why does it matter?
dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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Posted 8/6/2003 8:14 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by DLW

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress

Come on people! Only 5 people voted, and one of them was me! Please, everyone vote!

Why does it matter?
dlw

Because I'm curious and left-brained and right-brained people think differently. It would be highly unusual for right-brained thinkers like myself to be on a website to discuss deep theological and philosophical issues since it requires so much left-brained intelligence to argue and understand. I have a really hard time understanding a lot of what people talk about here, sometimes, especially with all the big terms and unusual words that go along with this subject.

I've noticed that whenever I've worked in blue-collar jobs, there were a lot of lefties in them (above the average than most other job types), whereas in my current white-collar job there are more righties by far. And the lefties who are here (and have worked here in the past) tend to be a lot less ambitious, and could even be accused of being slackers, although I would argue we're often perceived that way because we're forced to feel our way through a left-brained world and that can be extremely difficult. It's like commanding a fish to fly. It may want to, but it doesn't have the capacity to do it.

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DLW
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Posted 8/6/2003 9:23 AM (GMT -6)

Well, in general, there are more righties than lefties and we do have that cord that connects our two sides of the brain and so I wouldn't let being left or right-handed person excuse oneself from developing both sides.

Wouldn't it be neat to know if Jesus was right or left-handed? I bet he was ambidextrous.
dlw

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Posted 8/6/2003 9:44 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by DLW

Well, in general, there are more righties than lefties and we do have that cord that connects our two sides of the brain and so I wouldn't let being left or right-handed person excuse oneself from developing both sides.

Wouldn't it be neat to know if Jesus was right or left-handed? I bet he was ambidextrous.
dlw

Your point is valid, but what I'm saying is that sometimes the way academics are, right-brained people are in a sense handicapped and at a greater disadvantage than left-brained people are. Of course, that's no excuse for not attempting to train ourselves to use our left brains more, but I'm just saying that doing that is extremely difficult for us, and I've found that right-brainers have more emotional problems as a result of all these things. We're made to feel inferior when in actuality academia has failed us, because we simply learn in a different way than left-brainers do. I always hated school because most things never came very easy to me because of my right-brained thinking style, and I was being taught subjects in ways that left-brainers could grasp somewhat quickly, but I being more heavily right-brained could not. Schools are only beginning to realize the differences in learning-styles of left- and right-brained children and how to adequately teach us to best fit our learning capabilities.

So this poll is just a way for me to gauge where people might be at in their thinking abilities on this board. If there are more left-handed people than we might typically expect, I'd be curious to know why they were attracted to this subject/site and how they performed throughout their schooling years.

Tigress

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DLW
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Posted 8/6/2003 9:48 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress

quote:
Originally posted by DLW

Well, in general, there are more righties than lefties and we do have that cord that connects our two sides of the brain and so I wouldn't let being left or right-handed person excuse oneself from developing both sides.

Wouldn't it be neat to know if Jesus was right or left-handed? I bet he was ambidextrous.
dlw

Your point is valid, but what I'm saying is that sometimes the way academics are, right-brained people are in a sense handicapped and at a greater disadvantage than left-brained people are. Of course, that's no excuse for not attempting to train ourselves to use our left brains more, but I'm just saying that doing that is extremely difficult for us, and I've found that right-brainers have more emotional problems as a result of all these things. We're made to feel inferior when in actuality academia has failed us, because we simply learn in a different way than left-brainers do. I always hated school because most things never came very easy to me because of my right-brained thinking style, and I was being taught subjects in ways that left-brainers could grasp somewhat quickly, but I being more heavily right-brained could not. Schools are only beginning to realize the differences in learning-styles of left- and right-brained children and how to adequately teach us to best fit our learning capabilities.

So this poll is just a way for me to gauge where people might be at in their thinking abilities on this board. If there are more left-handed people than we might typically expect, I'd be curious to know why they were attracted to this subject/site and how they performed throughout their schooling years.

So you want us to go easy on you to take into account your left-brain-thinking-challengedness? Evil

dlw

DLW
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Posted 8/6/2003 10:03 AM (GMT -6)

Sorry, just being obnoxious.
dlw

Tigress
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Posted 8/6/2003 10:09 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by DLW

Sorry, just being obnoxious.
dlw

Noooo...that's NOT what I'm saying. I'm just doing my own personal study of who on this site is lefty or righty. As it happens, many of the world's most influential and powerful people were and are lefties, as well as some infamous criminals, unfortunately. I'll bring my book about lefties and type a list of those people that it contains.

Of course, these people are anomolies. Those who can use both their left and right brains equally are believed to be geniuses or above, and these famous left-handed people probably are able to do that.

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DLW
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Posted 8/6/2003 10:12 AM (GMT -6)

Well, in that case, I sure am fortunate to have two left hands!
dlw Big Smile

Tigress
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Posted 8/6/2003 10:18 AM (GMT -6)

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Well, in that case, I sure am fortunate to have two left hands!
dlw

Gag, ack, ack, barf! Dead

(Why don't we have and icon trying to gag itself on here?)

Tigress

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Starkman
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Posted 8/6/2003 10:19 AM (GMT -6)

I'm not ambidextrous, but I can use my right hand equally as well as my left!

Uh ... yeah!

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Eli
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Posted 8/6/2003 6:58 PM (GMT -6)

I was just having a conversation with someone at my work (restaraunt) today about this. I was training him in on some equipment and myself being a righty, him being a lefty, we ran into some unexpected problems.

I don't have any real insightful points to make, but he brought up something interesting. He is on the rowers team for SCSU and apparently he has met more lefties in rowing than any other area of his life.

"...it is fools, they say, who learn by experience. But since they do at least learn, let a fool bring his experience into the common stock that wiser men may profit by it." -C.S. Lewis

Tigress
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Posted 8/7/2003 5:02 AM (GMT -6)

Okay, here's a list of famous lefties:

1. Alexander the Great
2. F. Lee Bailey
3. Herschel Bernardi
4. Jim Bishop
5. Robert Blake
6. Lenny Bruce
7. McGeorge Bundy
8. Carol Burnett
9. Milton Caniff
10. Vikki Carr
11. Lewis Carroll, who stuttered
12. Jack Carter
13. Peggy Cass
14. Charlie Chaplin
15. Charlegmagne
16. Bill Clinton
17. Chuck Connors
18. Jimmy Connors
19. Hans Conreid
20. Stewart Copeland
21. James L. Corbett
22. Clarence Darrow
23. Marie Dionne
24. Richard Dreyfuss
25. Dick Van Dyke
26. Marty Engles
27. Queen Mother Elizabeth
28. Peter Fonda
29. Gerald Ford
30. Henry Ford, Jr.
31. Ben Franklin
32. Allen Funt
33. James A. Garfield
34. Judy Garland
35. Lou Gehrig
36. Uri Geller
37. King George VI
38. Euell Gibbons
39. George Gobel
40. Lefty Gomez
41. Betty Grable
42. Lefty Grove
43. Lou Harris
44. Rex Harrison
45. Huntington Hartford
46. Joey Heatherton
47. Jimi Hendrix
48. Ben Hogan
49. Hans Holbein
50. Herbert Hoover
51. Rock Hudson
52. Jim Hutton
53. Jack the Ripper (maybe)
54. Danny Kaye
55. Caroline Kennedy
56. Paul Klee
57. Michael Landon
58. Hope Lange
59. Rod Laver
60. Cloris Leachman
61. Jay Leno
62. Cleavon Little
63. Jim Lucas
64. Allen Ludden
65. Marcel Marceau
66. Rube Marquard
67. Bill Maudlin
68. Harpo Marx
69. Paul McCartney
70. Robert S. McNamara
71. Ann Meara
72. Michelangelo (maybe)
73. Marilyn Monroe
74. Robert Morse
75. Edward R. Murrow
76. Stan Musial
77. Lord Nelson
78. Anthony Newley
79. Kim Novak
80. Ryan O'Neal
81. Arnold Palmer
82. Pablo Picasso
83. Cole Porter
84. Robert Preston
85. Raphael
86. Ronald Reagan
87. Robert Redford
88. Don Rickles
89. Nelson Rockefeller
90. Babe Ruth
91. Eva Marie Saint
92. Ronald Searle
93. Jean Seberg
94. Dick Smothers
95. Warren Spahn
96. Mark Spitz
97. Ken Stabler
98. Ringo Starr
99. Rod Steiger
100. Casey Stengel
101. Terry Thomas
102. Emperor Tiberius
103. Tiny Tim
104. Rip Torn
105. Rudy Vallee
106. Queen Victoria
107. Leonardo da Vinci
108. Henry Wallace
109. James Whitmore
110. Paul Williams
111. Ted Williams
112. Keenan Wynn

Tigress

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Laika
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Posted 8/7/2003 5:13 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress

Okay, here's a list of famous lefties:
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40. Lefty Gomez
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You're kidding, right er, left? Tongue

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Laplace
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Posted 8/12/2003 7:27 AM (GMT -6)

Tigress,

Not having studied the topic in-depth I will state the following:

- Left handed people are a minority, in every society ever known throughout history
- Lefthandedness is probably the result of a recessive gene
- There is SOME correlation between those who are left-handed and those who display more artistic, "right-brained" aptitude. However, correlation does not equal causation.
- On that note however, we tend to live in a "left-brained" world because it is so much more practical. That may push the number of natural left-handers out there even lower to what they are now.
- Left handed people may have acquired some skill to use their right hand because of the sheet number of day-to-day items that require it (can openers, automobiles, etc.). It may not a matter of consciously trying to be ambidexterous.
- I am right handed

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Tigress
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Posted 8/12/2003 9:16 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Laplace

Tigress,

Not having studied the topic in-depth I will state the following:

- Left handed people are a minority, in every society ever known throughout history
- Lefthandedness is probably the result of a recessive gene
- There is SOME correlation between those who are left-handed and those who display more artistic, "right-brained" aptitude. However, correlation does not equal causation.
- On that note however, we tend to live in a "left-brained" world because it is so much more practical. That may push the number of natural left-handers out there even lower to what they are now.
- Left handed people may have acquired some skill to use their right hand because of the sheet number of day-to-day items that require it (can openers, automobiles, etc.). It may not a matter of consciously trying to be ambidexterous.
- I am right handed

Yes, all this was covered in the book I read. Another theory is that babies who were born left-handed perhaps didn't get enough oxygen during delivery.

Tigress

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natethree16
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Posted 2/12/2004 9:27 PM (GMT -6)

you are wild!

Tigress
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Posted 2/13/2004 11:38 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by natethree16

you are wild!

Why?

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John Earp
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Posted 2/13/2004 12:55 PM (GMT -6)

I'm generally pretty strongly right handed, though I have learned to use my left with a good degree of dexterity on certain tasks. My dad, uncle, and older brother are all lefties, though.

Should lefties be given special consideration, be allowed to marry lefties, or at least be able to have civil unions? I honestly don't know the answer to that question.

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Tigress
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Posted 2/16/2004 4:49 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by John Earp

I'm generally pretty strongly right handed, though I have learned to use my left with a good degree of dexterity on certain tasks. My dad, uncle, and older brother are all lefties, though.

Should lefties be given special consideration, be allowed to marry lefties, or at least be able to have civil unions? I honestly don't know the answer to that question.

Tigress

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