Author Topic: Left-Handed (Read 7006 times)

TheD · « **on:** September 05, 2008, 12:38:11 PM »

A teacher of mine once told me that before the second Vatican Council students were forbidden to write with their left hands in class. Is this true or is this just modernist propaganda?

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #1 on:** September 05, 2008, 04:06:15 PM »

My mother, 63, is left-handed. She was raised in TX in a Catholic school setting.

Similarly, my friend's mother was made to use her right hand, although naturally a lefty. She was raised in Switzerland.

Some were forced to "go righty", while others were not.

TheD · « **Reply #2 on:** September 05, 2008, 06:01:18 PM »

Thank-you! I am also left-handed!

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #3 on:** September 05, 2008, 08:20:04 PM »

You are welcome. I am a lefty, too. :cheers:

TheD · « **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:10:12 AM »

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #5 on:** September 07, 2008, 05:46:51 PM »

Quote from: NovusOrdo

I really cannot understand the nostalgia for the above behaviors of the pre-v2 Church.

There is neither 'nostalgia' nor 'behavior' to understand. There was a question, followed by an answer; fairly simple, really.

Dulcamara · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2008, 09:14:27 PM »

I don't think it really had anything to do with religion. This probably happens in schools in general, perhaps when teachers just don't know how quite to go about teaching a "lefty" to write. Or some probably think it's just as easy for them to use their right hands as left, and try to make it easier on themselves by making the kids use their right.

It's just one of those things...

clare · « **Reply #7 on:** September 08, 2008, 03:29:18 AM »

This modern, liberal, revolutionary attitude that tries to make out that left-handedness is just as acceptable as right-handedness, comes from the Communists, Freemasons, and feminists.

In more enlightened times, such people would have been tried as witches.

And if left-handed people write with fountain pens, they smudge the ink when their hand goes over it.

Only in nations where writing goes across the page from right to left does it make sense to have left-handed people. I say we send them all there.

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MaterDominici · « **Reply #8 on:** September 08, 2008, 01:40:00 PM »

LOL!

Don't left-handed people write from the last letter backward?

I've heard some of the really serious lefties talk backwards too.

TheD · « **Reply #9 on:** September 08, 2008, 01:56:31 PM »

clare · « **Reply #10 on:** September 08, 2008, 04:38:09 PM »

Quote from: TheD

For little Clare: I am sure that neither Gladius or I are witches!
Dominic

As it happens, my little boy (nearly 3 years old) has been displaying signs of left-handedness for some time now!

Matthew · « **Reply #11 on:** September 08, 2008, 05:29:27 PM »

We all know that "sinister" means evil because sinister means "left" in Latin, just as dexter means "right".

When you're ambidextrous, it's like BOTH hands are your RIGHT hand (ambi = both, dexter = right)

Any words in English with ambi- or ambo- have a meaning of "both" thrown in. (Such as ambivalent = wanting both)

Matthew

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #12 on:** September 08, 2008, 07:09:57 PM »

I write, paint, eat, etc. - anything requiring greater touch - as a lefty.

I throw, kick, play tennis, bat, golf, etc., as a righty. My left in these cases is better than most people's off side, but not as strong as my right.

God speed.

MaterDominici · « **Reply #13 on:** September 08, 2008, 07:58:38 PM »

I'd imagine most lefties do a great many things with their right hand simply because it's too difficult to "buck the trend".

There are just too many things designed with a right-handed person in mind. (cameras and adding machines come to mind)

My brother is a forced lefty in that he injured his right arm in an accident. Probably the most noticeable and unavoidable is in shaking hands. After awhile he just began flipping his left hand upside down rather than trying to "train" others to extend their left hand.

This guy is a lefty --> :wave:

Alex · « **Reply #14 on:** September 09, 2008, 01:12:29 AM »