Hello everyone I have an announcement to make, and I'm not quite sure where else to put this. I have decided to stop swearing, for good, and for God God Bless Peace
Well, what consists of swearing? Ass bitch damn shit fuck? Because saying darn or freaken is really no different. The above are just words, it's the conentation you use them in that god would not like. Making minor changes to words doesn't change what you're saying. Have fun with that, but if it's for religious reasons there's more to it than just not saying fuck
The tough economy has hit heaven especially hard- with God having to lay off a few trillion accountants who had previously been keeping tabs on the number of times individuals swore- and farted in church.
I only swear when I bash a knuckle or something...and even then its really quiet in case someone might here I think its a great idea to stop
He probably started going off like a parrot from a pirate ship when he realized the grammatical error... those darned setbacks.
No... I suggested that his frustration may have had him emitting a string of extreme epithets that would make a construction worker blush
Oh, so what you're saying is, you find it as necessary as cats are to someone who likes cats to use medaphores as pointless as a ball and as unrealated as me and Hillary Clinton to express points that could easily be expressed in a five word sentence?
Hell why not. If you had used shoe or shoelace references I could have pulled up an obscure Simpson's reference... of course I'd still nimbly pull the discussion back on topic by talking about how it all might make the OP swear. It was a rather interesting topic to post here as opposed to the Members Announcements Forum where it would fit better. Of course there it might die a death from starvation. Perhaps my offbeat humor is intended to spur some sort of response from the OP in order that people might get some sense of who the author is and therefore might feel more compelled to express some support for the decision to curtail swearing... which is a good thing to accomplish. Clean language suggests something positive about a person's character.
Or could it simply sucumbing to our cultures view of what positive characture is? The idea that the two are related probably stems from it being an easily observible charactaristic. Giving in to the flawed logic of our culture tells me more about a persons characture than stoping swearing ever could. It is debatable wheather I would find it against my own personal convictions to decide that an occasional use of "fuck" should be eliminated from my vocabulary. However, I too await a response from op
Excellent counterpoint... succumbing to an outside standard- agreeing to be dominated to a degree by it. I suppose it's the standards of those whose opinions one has chosen to place value in for whatever reason. I was brought up with the notion that what came out of a person's mouth could predict to some degree what was going on in his/her head- and was a reflection of their sense of decorum... was this someone you'd invite over to join in on the family dinner or just a drinking buddy... Excessive swearing can show an inability or unwillingness to restrain oneself and may reflect a tendency to act or speak on impulse- that one tends not to weigh decisions. I still maintain that it can be a worthwhile goal to develop the ability to express oneself with a minimum of swearing- so that when one actually swears it carries more weight- it stands out and people will take notice (OMG- I've NEVER hear him swear...I'm leaving him alone!)
It is whose opinion you would put value in, yes, but do the individual words matter as much as the sentence as a whole? Excesive swearing not only displays a lack of self control (assuming the person believes it is something in need of controling, which is offten untrue) but is also plain anoying. It doesn't feel like a casual conversation as much as someones pitiful attemt at sounding cool, offensive, or whatever. Your third paragraph is something entirly different, in that case, you refrain for your own benefit. It is not because of any charature issues you mght have with it, you simply want to be able to grab attention in a way some other people can not.
