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I used to swear a lot. I heard someone swear worse than me and I was offended....
...Over time I worked on it and the swearin, except for an occasional dam*it or h_ll, is gone.
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I use one word for all kinds of instances. _ _It (the word is sh*t) substitutes and works for all others.

I am sincere when I say it, by connotation, was possibly used in the Bible. In Malachi chapter 2 God is saying he is extremely angry with the priests, they had profaned the name of the Lord with their behaviors/actions. Different interpretations use different words to describe what God is going to do in retribution.

I have seen the words dung, babies dung, vomit, and refuse used to name several. The verse is Malachi 2:3 "Behold, I am going to rebuke your offspring, and I will spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it."

My thinking is that a righteously indignant God is trying to get through to a bunch of filthy lowlife priests and is making a point when He does so. In today's vernacular the prescribed/proscribed word to use, when trying to get through to a bunch of vile dunder heads, would be sh*t.

All other things being equal I chose to use a word that kind of has a biblical reference point, when I am in acute pain, am angry, or have things go wrong.

I use one word for all kinds of instances. _ _It (the word is sh*t) substitutes and works for all others. I am sincere when I say it, by connotation, was possibly used in the Bible

Well, Bible or not, my Grandma, a dairy farmer's wife, mother of 5 used the word shit all the time...but ONLY when referencing cow dung. So, us grands would come to visit for the summer (only 2 at a time) and we'd get schooled on the proper use of the word.

My gran was every inch the lady (seems the farmer's wives tried harder to be civilized) so we figured if Gran said it, it should be ok.

It was not ok with our mom. Seemed like it took a couple of weeks for us to purge that word, especially when at the Catholic school. It is now one of my fewest used cuss words. Cos it's not a cuss word, it's a noun, just like dung. It has no magical swearing power!

I was so naive, my brother taught me the "F" word with me not figuring it out till I was in my 20s! He taught me to yell "Chuck you, Farley" when we were running from the kids who liked to chase us home from school. Totally fooled every adult, too!