Profanity

[elkbowhunter]

Just a few more whacks!!!

[VorTexan]

i'm no saint, but it's stuff like what's in this thread that keeps me in my garage and my backyard on the weekends.
it's frustrating dealing w/ppl who have no consideration for the people and kids around them. sorry just venting a bit...

I hear you. I live on the backside of 60 acres in the deep woods and no f bombs allowed on this track. An occasional Shiite muslim may visit on rare occassion but I am not proud of that visitor.

[VorTexan]

great post shane.


I will say I have been around alot of very intelligent word smiths over the years. Intellgence has nothing to do w/ it. I don't know how intelligent I am, but I have battled using profanity for some time. I was lucky enough to take a job where I had a couple of very good role models/mentors to work with. I soon learned from observing them that my use of profanity was complete turnoff. Both men liked me, but I noticed when I would use a bad word how quickly their demeanor would change. Neither ever said anything to me or tried to correct me I just noticed that using that languaged bothered them. I begain cutting out those words as best I could. About the same time I decided to start going to church again and improving my relationship w/ Christ. I soon met my wife, got married and started having kids. Nothing in life will change your life for the better quicker than a close relationship w/ Christ and the realization of how my sin affects my family. I fall short daily, but I try everyday to be a better father, husband, and christian Man. If my case that meant controling my tongue and I am not just refering to profanity. I do not want to judge others or tell them how to live. God placed me here to love my nieghbor not judge them. It does bother me when people use bad language in front of my kids, but I realize most of them just are not mindful of what they are doing. I was the same way not to long ago. I am not niave enough to think my kids won't hear those words sooner or later( sadly it might be from me) , but I don't want them to think its ok or cool to use those words. I am still a work in progress.

Romans 7 14-25

14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[d] a slave to the law of sin.

It took a big man from Ok to set us straight!

I would love to share a campfire with you!

Mind you if I burn my finger I may grunt a little.

[JW]

You can shoot turkey with a bow. March 31st for North Zone!

Horse is still dying

J.P.

Yeah but shootin corn buzzards bores the crap out of me! Even callin em in.

Hey look i said crap instead of ****!!!

[Outback]

Where did you come up with that little nugget...TV? That is exactly what we cant do. Even the low-class suspects would file a complaint and win. And I happen to cuss from time to time, but I temper it more at work than anywhere else out of respect for my profession. And because frankly, its not professional. Ive seen officers get the crap beat out of them on the stand for dropping one cuss word on a video tape. Defense attorneys will grab for anything to discredit an officer, especially when they are fighting a losing case in court.

Cop friends.

[Bruiser]

YOU would care if you did it around me when my wife or grandkids were present. There is still such a thing as respect for other people. Some people just have to learn it the hard way.

wo theirs a big man haha

[Ol Thumper]

wo theirs a big man haha

[fox1]

Three things make a man unfit comp'ny...

1. Gettin' drunk before 6:00PM (unless he works 2nd shift)
2. Breakin' wind after ramp chili in a truck full of buddies, in sub-zero weather, on a long road trip
3. Actin' like butter never melts in his mouth and passin' shallow 'holier than thou' judgements on another fellow bag-o-dust's character and value to society... based on nothin' more substantial than his use of the King's English.

"Illiterate"?... the hell ya say!
"No need for it"?... that's a **** lie!
"There's a place and a time for it"... aye, TRUE THAT.

I've known more than a few 'men' who "wouldn't be caught dead cursing!". But they'd ****-sure still steal from you. They'd sure as hell sleep with another man's wife.

...and they were quicker with thin-lipped, 'saintly' judgements of their fellows than any of their fellows were with a 'seasoned' reply.

Speech (OVERALL) is some indicator of SOME facet of a man's person.

But there's a hell of a lot more to being a man than finding 'profanity' 'disdainful'.

A LOT MORE.


CM Sackett

Well said brother !!