Why do we always use our right hand when being sworn in to anything?
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I always thought it was the left hand because it was closest to the heart, but I don't know the answer
135222
Remembering which fingers to use!
1081199
I don't know if it's in the Quran but I'd been taught to use the left.  Apparently you do everything with the right and only use the left on the loo.
1101808
I'm actually right handed in writing and eating, but left handed in some sports. Pool and billiards, target shooting and I can draw with both hands. Its a good exercise also to practice something you're not used to doing with the "wrong" hand.\n\n(and thanks for your kind answer to my question)
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I'm a leftie!!all  the people i know are right-handed.it makes me feel so special :P\nI guess you could say I'm a bit ambidextrous though,because i use my right hand for playing the guitar and using the computer mouse.
129196
Right handed.  I noticed that left handed people tend to be better artists than us right handers.....
199646
Because most people are right-handed.  Because lefty's like myself are weird.  Give me a break!
106239
I use my left AND right hands. I'm ambidextrous, but most times I'll use my right hand to write and my left hand to draw and paint. I think Leonardo DaVinci did the same thing. It's real cool and really freaks people out when I sketch AND write at the same time, especially when I was at school. ;)
584267
Since I have a small right hand,I try and use my left hand to cover the back of the hand that I am shaking. I do this as I am shaking with my right hand.
691315
yes, I am right-handed but I shoot my glock with the lefthand every time I go shooting
276465
the answers could possibly come from 2 sources..the first is your subconscious like you say, and then your hand just goes in that direction...and second, demonic spirits...yuk..You don't want the second, and so if you are already answering your own questions, there is no reason to use the board.
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ooh i actually know this one!  \n\nBack in history, when the Brits would fight with arrows, their enemies would cut their middle and pointer fingers off as a punishment so that they couldn't pull back on the bow--- so when soldiers DID have their two important fingers, they's show them off by holding them up, like "ha ha--i've still got these! screw you!"\n\nin England they still use both as the "middle finger" gesture, but in america we just use the middle  (we're lazier, ya know, dropping the "u" out words like colour and flavour" lol)
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Most people are right handed.  Laws of probability.
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Because the phrase is relative to your position. Similar to the way your left is always on your left no matter where you or others stand.
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Its the right or left index finger (depending if you are a right handed or a left handed person) its the finger which you use to click the mouse or scroll on a mouse pad that gets stressed and also ergonomically speaking overworked when you use a mouse.
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I’ve read at least half a dozen contradictory accounts of the origin of the handshake. Because handshakes clearly predate written history, all these explanations are ultimately somewhat speculative. But the most popular story is that an open right hand showed you were not carrying a weapon; if two men met and displayed empty right hands, this presumably meant a basic level of trust existed that neither would stab the other. In one variant of this story, the handshake evolved from an elbow-to-wrist “patdown” to check for hidden knives; in another, the shaking motion was supposed to dislodge any sharp objects that may have been kept in the sleeve.\n\nOf course, this explanation, while plausible enough, doesn’t account for left-handed men, who presumably would have been happy to extend the right hand in greeting while wielding a dagger in the left. But in many parts of the world, since ancient times, the left hand has been considered the “bathroom” hand, the one never used for eating, giving, or receiving—nor, by extension, for greeting—whether you’re left-handed or not.\n\nMeanwhile, the “I’m-not-going-to-stab-you” story doesn’t tell us why the handshake won out over other greeting gestures in the West. After all, in some cultures the standard greeting (even between people who don’t know each other well) is a kiss on one or both cheeks; in others, people hug, rub noses, bow, or even stick out their tongues. Writer Margaret Visser suggests one possibility. As she noted in her book The Way We Are, at one time the English were more demonstrative with their gestures of greeting—for example, English men routinely greeted all women with a kiss on the mouth. As part of the Victorian behavioral “reforms,” public kissing of any kind became socially unacceptable and the handshake came into fashion for both men and women as a convenient way to keep a person at arm’s length. So to speak.\n\nThe Left Hand Doesn’t Know What the Right Hand Is Doing\nAt least in the United States, the handshake has become an extremely ambiguous symbol. At one level, it just means “hello” or “goodbye.” But it can also be construed to mean “we’re in agreement” or even that an informal contract has been reached, as in the proverbial handshake deal. And on a still deeper level, it can mean “everything’s OK between us,” particularly after some conflict has been resolved. But sometimes social convention awkwardly calls for shaking hands to signify the end of a meeting, even though no agreement has been reached or a state of conflict still exists. And heaven forbid that one world leader should shake hands with another whose ideology differs deeply, since people on both sides will judge this as a disingenuous move at best, and at worst, a betrayal of the leader’s values. But was the politician saying, “I accept you and your beliefs” or simply, “Hello”?\n\nThen, of course, business types will read all sorts of meaning into the very style of your handshake. Even if you execute it under exactly the right circumstances, it must be firm but not too firm; it must be held for exactly the right amount of time but no longer; it must be accompanied by direct eye contact; and, for bonus sincerity points, you should add your left hand to make a “hand sandwich.” You may also be judged on the angle of your hand and the number and intensity of shakes.\n\nAnd if this kind of confusion isn’t bad enough, that’s just the standard, run-of-the-mill handshake. Gangs sometimes use special handshakes to signify group membership, just as fraternal societies and children’s clubs use “secret handshakes” as a kind of password, a symbolic way of saying, “We’re insiders.” So if someone outside the group incorrectly attempts a handshake, the results can be quite serious. On the other hand, a high five (arguably a variety of handshake) pretty unambiguously expresses satisfaction or congratulations—but that’s t
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I don't specifically know about public office, but if it works the same as any oath, they simply raise their right hand.\n\nThe Court has held that an affirmation or promise does not require a religious oath.