I'm guilty...
Having been raised in the military around the combat vets of WWII and Korea and then Vietnam for me..
I understand the use of curses..its quick its easy its expressive of severe emotion during periods where nothing less would convey the message as quickly or as effectively...
Cursing is crass crude and something I dont need or want to hear from my daughters or grandchildren...
If I had a son...I probably wouldnt want to hear it around his mother or around chidren or women
(I even punched out a guy in a restaruant for his refusal to stop cursing around a group of elderly women)
Yet I am guilty of cursing...lately have gotten worse...I am at a loss at what to call a terrorist or a politician or an actor or news pundit who defends the brutal murders of children by blowing them to pieces..embedded in the structure of a bus....after seeing only the pictures of the remains...I curse them...and those who support them...
Maybe because I cant cry over my keyboard and cant express that .....the anger natually comes out in curses.. and I slip into old bad habits too easily...laziness..
Dont imagine God is happy about it...so for his Sons sake I should try to curb my tongue...
There are alot of things I know to do and dont...cursing is one of them..
Don't feel pregnant, I do it also..
We're not supposed to. I can't quote scripture and verse right now (I don't have it in front of me) but it is a no-no for sure. Believe me, it's in there because I have read it.
I am working on it. It's usually when I get hurt or very angry.
Then it kind of slips out. I do it in teasing sometimes also. You know, like "guy" ribbing and stuff.
But, that doesn't justify it.
My problem is teens and 20 somethings who loudly yell the F-word right around children, and don't care at all.
If you ask them to cool it, they say, "F-YOU!!" in front of your kids.
Hit him, go to jail. He knows it. I have been nose to nose with these creeps, trying to get them to throw punch number one in front of witnesses, but they're cowards.
They even wear t-shirts out here that say "Mother F--er!!" in huge letters. My wife came out of a religious store here in San Diego Friday, and we were greeted with a 20 something wearing a black t-shirt that had "MOTHER F---er!!" as the punch line in 2 inch tall letters.
I didn't see it, I was going to our other car. (We were getting First Holy Communion gifts for my daughter, of all things, while she was at shchool.)
My wife said "that shirt is really not appropriate to wear in public."
The scum's reaction? "Then don't look!"
Some of this society needs a 5.56mm enema.
I'm guilty, too. My 11 years in the Army didn't help, with seemingly every third word out of a GI's mouth being some form of the f-word. But that's merely a lame excuse. I will redouble my efforts to speak more civilly in the future. SLB, I am humbly corrected. Thanks for the reminder.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!