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Left-handed
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Mar 27, 2006
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I read a cool thing in the Bible this morning: There was a guy named Ehud (Judges 3:15) from the Benjamite tribe of Israel, and he was left-handed, as were many people from the tribe of Benjamin (Judges 20:16). In those days (around 1300 B.C.), being left-handed was considered a handicap or a deformity. But Ehud used this to his advantage: He reached for his weapon on his right thigh with his left hand. If he had been right-handed, he would have reached for his weapon on his left thigh with his right hand, and his actions would have been easily detected. But he was able to get a hold of his weapon without being suspicious. The reason this is cool is because God used an abnormal person to do a big thing which brought about Israel's freedom. The lesson is that God doesn't use normal people; he uses weird people. #religion
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Guitar stores
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Mar 27, 2006
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I play the guitar. I like to go to guitar stores. Actually, no I don't. I would like to go to guitar stores if there were no people in them. But the fact is that guitar stores have people, and people are dumb and annoying. The guitar happens to be a very versatile instrument, so all kinds of different music can be played with one: Punk, rock, blues, metal, jazz, classical, etc. The problem with this is that every person that plays guitar thinks they need to be heard. So some stupid punk kid will go to a guitar store, pick up a beautiful work of art like a Fender Strat and pound out some stupid punk song. And then some stupid Dave Matthews fan will pick up a $1500 Taylor acoustic and play it like he owns it. And then some stupid metal head will turn up the volume on a Marshall amp so that he overpowers everyone else. So what you have in any given guitar store is a bunch of idiots trying to play over a bunch of other idiots. Cacophony. #entertainment
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