I'd like to consider myself a reasonably aware and somewhat intelligent person. Even so, there are some things I just don't understand.
For example, when a Christian marries a Jew and converts to Judaism, how is it that a Christian who, for most of his or her life, has believed the Jesus is the Son of God, now demotes him to a mere prophet? I can understand how a Jew converting to Christianity now believes the Jesus is God, but a Christian relegating Jesus to a mere prophet confuses me.
When I worked on street crews for our village during summers to earn money for college, we sometimes worked with concrete trucks that brought concrete to the sites. The truck would have a chute in the back that the revolving drum would then use to deliver the concrete. After I'd graduated law school, I saw that the chute now delivered from the front of the trucks. Why? How is that better?
Volleyball when I played it in gym class had a rotation system. It also had a scoring system that only allowed the team serving could score a point. Now it has a libero and points are scored regardless of which team is serving. When did this change?
I love music. I will never understand how songwriters come up with the beautiful melodies they do. James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, Hans Zimmer and others like them just mystify me. What a wonderful gift they've been given.
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