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Coder
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Hi, OK but my point related to whether we should use these words I was showing why not. Your post gave me the impression that you were allowing use of such words as long as not in anger.
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bpbasilphx
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Hi, OK but my point related to whether we should use these words I was showing why not. Your post gave me the impression that you were allowing use of such words as long as not in anger.
To paraphrase Frederica again, a farmer would probably NOT use clinical language when talking about his stock’s physical functions, and not mean to be obscene.
To paraphrase Frederica again, a farmer would probably NOT use clinical language when talking about his stock’s physical functions, and not mean to be obscene.
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Roza
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I would think the rules if you wouldn’t say it to a child or your grandmother, you shouldn’t say it. Then again that also depends upon what you’re used to. Maybe best to think would be would you say it to Jesus’s face? Father, Son & Holy Spirit will know it all anyway.
I remember as child I never used God’s name in vane but I did like cuss words. Then I was asked ‘why do you talk like that?’ by a parent.
“It’s how you all talk!”
I remember as child I never used God’s name in vane but I did like cuss words. Then I was asked ‘why do you talk like that?’ by a parent.
“It’s how you all talk!”
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jmcrae
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That’s why, especially nowadays, when even mothers swear at their children, that the best rule of thumb is to ask, “do I understand the meaning of this word, and if so, does it mean what I want to mean to say, just at this moment?” If it doesn’t, then don’t use it. (And I can think of very few situations where a swear word would mean what you mean to say, although there is a funny joke about the woman who said, “Oh s***, I stepped in a pile of doody.”I would think the rules if you wouldn’t say it to a child or your grandmother, you shouldn’t say it. Then again that also depends upon what you’re used to. Maybe best to think would be would you say it to Jesus’s face? Father, Son & Holy Spirit will know it all anyway.
I remember as child I never used God’s name in vane but I did like cuss words. Then I was asked ‘why do you talk like that?’ by a parent.
“It’s how you all talk!”
(What she intended to mean was, “How dreadfully annoying, I stepped in a pile of s***!!”)
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Coder
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And I am saying that a farmer should not use profanity.
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Roza
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What about words that sound like using God’s name in vane yet you aren’t. I would think that too, even though it isn’t actually using God’s name in vain but it’s made to sound like you are but disguising it… at least I remember a study on this 2 or 3 years ago… I hate even typing an example because then I think I’m doing it… but like when someone says (or yourself) ‘gosh darn it’… is that eluding to using God’s name in vain? It’s made to ‘sound’ like you aren’t but is it?
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Matariel
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Well, I use those all the time. They’re called minced oaths. The word “gosh” has no real meaning, it’s just sounds, used for people in order not to defile God’s office or Name. Just like “darn”; it’s meaningless.
I use them all the time, I don’t see why not…
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jmcrae
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Maybe because they are sounds without meaning …
I say again, it leads to great clarity of thought, when we speak the words that we mean to say, and avoid using words that either have no meaning, or don’t mean the thing that we mean to say.
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Matariel
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The only reason I use them as release words (like when I hit my finger with a hammer)… usually when I’m alone. I talk to myself alot.Maybe because they are sounds without meaning …
I say again, it leads to great clarity of thought, when we speak the words that we mean to say, and avoid using words that either have no meaning, or don’t mean the thing that we mean to say.
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jmcrae
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Even then, you will notice a real difference in the clarity of your thinking, if instead of saying “darn!” you say, “Ow, that hurts!”The only reason I use them as release words (like when I hit my finger with a hammer)… usually when I’m alone. I talk to myself alot.
I am also someone who talks to myself a lot. (Some people sing in the shower; I give speeches.)
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Matariel
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But does, “Owthathurts!” really give release like release words do?
I talk aloud all the time; I used to get in trouble at school for it.
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Roza
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Like, I say ‘oh fudge!’ instead of the other less appropriate ‘f’ word. That’s me, I tend to be a goof at times. 
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littleone
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I guess every ones way is theirs, for me I don’t see the point in transferring the situation over from one inappropriate word to a word that is similar for no reason.Like, I say ‘oh fudge!’ instead of the other less appropriate ‘f’ word. That’s me, I tend to be a goof at times.
I could say for instance: for goodness sake, ah noooo!, what eva! or better still I think i DO say nothing at all. Reason is that I try to follow Jesus in having no response and it is the same with St Therese the little flower. Tell you what though it isn’t easy, but perseverance goes a long way, for me.
Any way
Godbless
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littleone
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Hey
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DaveBj
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Do you ever mess up and say the wrong word, like Ralphie in Christmas Story?Like, I say ‘oh fudge!’ instead of the other less appropriate ‘f’ word. That’s me, I tend to be a goof at times.
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Roza
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That’s what I’m thinking, if a phrase sounds similar to something we know not to say, then I shouldn’t use it.
And DaveBj, no, I’ve been saying fudge for years but seems like the other phrases that seem to elude to something else should be avoided. I guess I’m thinking too, what it sounds like to someone else, am I giving the deceiver a foothold?
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Matariel
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I guess the best thing to do is ask what Mary and Jesus would say…?
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jmcrae
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I am thinking that they would say nothing more and nothing less than what they meant to mean to say.
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DaveBj
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I am thinking that they would say nothing more and nothing less than what they meant to mean to say.
“Let your yes be yes and your no, no.”
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