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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: What is the best way to listen to music now?
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2019, 08:32:06 AM »
Well, the reason that kids used to be forced to go right-handed was a practical one.  In languages that move from left to right, if you're writing with the left hand, then your hand trails the pen on the paper, and there's a tendency to drop the hand onto the paper and smear the ink before it has had a chance to dry.  And the fact that Hebrew and some other languages go from right to left suggests that a lot of their scribes were actually left-handed.

Kids who right left-handed in school today have a very difficult an unnatural way they hold the pen and elevate their hand above the paper for this very reason.

Of course, in a lot of public schools, they barely teach them to write with pen on paper anymore ... but go straight to keyboard.

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« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2019, 08:54:40 AM »
Well, the reason that kids used to be forced to go right-handed was a practical one.  In languages that move from left to right, if you're writing with the left hand, then your hand trails the pen on the paper, and there's a tendency to drop the hand onto the paper and smear the ink before it has had a chance to dry.
Yes and anyone who writes with the left hand knows this only too well.  Even with ball-point pens your hand will be covered with ink.  With the old quill pens it would have been a complete illegible mess.


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« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2019, 09:21:09 AM »
There are lots of "old wives tales" and legends that used to be believed. One of them is that baldness in men is caused by masturbation. Was that true? Perhaps sometimes?

Yeah, "sometimes" -- the same way a broken clock is right twice a day: by accident.

I dare you to bring up that theory to Fr. Scott Gardner, SSPX who was bald by his 20's. His English classmate Fr. Gary Holden had a large natural tonsure as well.

Sodomites should all look like trolls, by this logic. Certainly they should all be bald. Wouldn't this work for women as well as men? Sorry, but there are WAY TOO FEW bald women for this to be true.

Bill Clinton has all his hair, for crying out loud! Do you honestly believe Bill Clinton is above-average in his chastity? ROFLMAO!
I'm pretty sure Hugh Hefner of Playboy infamy had all his hair as well. And I'm sure I could come up with hundreds of other such examples. Just look at Hollywood! Do you think any of them practice chastity? (either perfect chastity for the single, or chastity within marriage for the married)

And apparently (according to this old wives' tale) some nations are significantly more prone to this vice, since genetics I mean solitary sin -- predisposes certain ethnicities to going bald. And other races/ethnic groups almost always keep their hair until death. Going grey is the same situation: Slavs and Germans, for example, keep their natural hair color well into their 70's and beyond. Other ethnicities, like the Irish/English, often go grey in their 20's. It's 100% genetics. It has zero to do with lifestyle.

I'm not normally one to pick up the pom poms for science, but Old Wives Tales like this is one of those few rare times the "olden days" come out smelling like dung, and hooray for science!
Catholics aren't supposed to be against true science, by the way. Science is supposed to be about truths of the natural order.

Re: What is the best way to listen to music now?
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2019, 09:51:07 AM »
Yeah, "sometimes" -- the same way a broken clock is right twice a day: by accident.

I am not saying that all baldness really is caused by the solitary sin. One of the prophets was bald and children made fun of him and he scolded them for making fun of his baldness because God made him that way and God was angry at the children and they were devoured by bears. So obviously his baldness was caused by God and not his sins.

But old wives tales come from somewhere and I want to understand and learn about them. And there are such tales from Catholic people and not just unbelievers. I do not think most of them were made up lies. But I think rather they were observations that people have noticed over the centuries. Kind of like stereotypes. They are not true for all but there are trends that are common. Like people talk about negative stereotypes about blacks. Or the typical Jew nose.

I am not talking literally here. I am talking about stories and legend. Obviously not all left-handed people are literally children of the devil.

Re: What is the best way to listen to music now?
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2019, 11:26:30 AM »
I am leaning towards getting a blue tooth speaker so I can play songs from my computer on a better speaker. I just have to make sure it works with my low-end computer which I believe it should.

Does anyone have experience with these gadgets?