Poll: Am I the only one who cant bring himself to swear?
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yes I swear as f***ing hell but i'm not doing it whith purpose nearly everyone i know swear so i started to swear too and i don't like it...
i swear alot, it can add just the right flavor to a joke or a sentence, i feel like its a good way to express my opinion
To be honest, there is no valid reason to go out of your way to avoid swearing. A person's irrational fear of particular syllables is actually a cultural phenomenon, an aspect of the super ego, the part of your subconsciousness which retains a system of ethics based on what you were taught by other people, rather then by natural instinct.
So, people decided that certain words were vulgar; probably because of what they mean (shit=feces, fuck=fornication, ass=insult but lat3er also buttocks, etc.). Noble casts refrained from using these particular words because it helped to separate them from the lower casts, who were usually less preoccupied with their social appearance. Imagine a haughty mother telling her child not to use such an unladylike word.
As generations came and went, the perception that these words were generally only used by the working class (the lower tier) became more common, and more often would children be taught that said word is the wrong word to use. After all, your not a peasant, so you shouldn't speak like one. This, added with the likely punishment which would accompany the use of said words, would establish itself in the child's superego as "Bad words = words that are bad."
The superego a person develops at a young age doesn't just go away; if anything, it strengthens over time. so, the concept of a "Bad Word" firmly plants itself. When such a child becomes a parent themselves, this perception is naturally passed onto their own children. Think "How could you say that word? That is a naughty word!" followed by punishment, just like the parent was punished as a child.
Eventually, after generations of this aspect of the superego being passed from parent to child, bad becomes naughty, naughty becomes dirty, and in the end, no one really remembers why this is a bad word, only that it is a bad word. Further, this negativity eventually establishes itself as part of a collective superego, meaning that it is applied to other conceptions of right and wrong, meaning people associate it with other similar superego values, such as religion. (please note that I am not invalidating religion, I am only mentioning that religious values learned from church and parents root themselves in the same way, as are basic values like "Brush your teeth" or "Stealing is wrong". so please take no offense.) Think "My, what an ungodly word!" (My grandmother XD)
Err.. Long story short, there is no ethical reason not to swear, short of the fact that it might insult another persons superego. Continue to swear or not swear as you see fit, as long as you don't jump down another persons thought for doing it.
Also, if you don't like Freud, then this wall of text is invalid XD.
So, people decided that certain words were vulgar; probably because of what they mean (shit=feces, fuck=fornication, ass=insult but lat3er also buttocks, etc.). Noble casts refrained from using these particular words because it helped to separate them from the lower casts, who were usually less preoccupied with their social appearance. Imagine a haughty mother telling her child not to use such an unladylike word.
As generations came and went, the perception that these words were generally only used by the working class (the lower tier) became more common, and more often would children be taught that said word is the wrong word to use. After all, your not a peasant, so you shouldn't speak like one. This, added with the likely punishment which would accompany the use of said words, would establish itself in the child's superego as "Bad words = words that are bad."
The superego a person develops at a young age doesn't just go away; if anything, it strengthens over time. so, the concept of a "Bad Word" firmly plants itself. When such a child becomes a parent themselves, this perception is naturally passed onto their own children. Think "How could you say that word? That is a naughty word!" followed by punishment, just like the parent was punished as a child.
Eventually, after generations of this aspect of the superego being passed from parent to child, bad becomes naughty, naughty becomes dirty, and in the end, no one really remembers why this is a bad word, only that it is a bad word. Further, this negativity eventually establishes itself as part of a collective superego, meaning that it is applied to other conceptions of right and wrong, meaning people associate it with other similar superego values, such as religion. (please note that I am not invalidating religion, I am only mentioning that religious values learned from church and parents root themselves in the same way, as are basic values like "Brush your teeth" or "Stealing is wrong". so please take no offense.) Think "My, what an ungodly word!" (My grandmother XD)
Err.. Long story short, there is no ethical reason not to swear, short of the fact that it might insult another persons superego. Continue to swear or not swear as you see fit, as long as you don't jump down another persons thought for doing it.
Also, if you don't like Freud, then this wall of text is invalid XD.
I adapt to my audience. When with family, I'm clean, but when conversing with the local oiks, then I use words that they understand.
-It means you're afraid of the punishment, or your not 100% evil to the core.cprs_ said:
Thats a good argument, but most people who swear dont do it for those reasons, so its rendered kinda useless except for allowing College professors to go crazy with their language.Liquid Paradox said:
Also I am pretty non-confrontational and try to have a neutral at worst relationship with people, so I really wouldn't get a chance to use it.
Also, just like walking down the street with a rifle on your back in an open carry state can cause problems, swearing to people who dont know this interesting backstory and will only judge you based on what they know can cause problems too.
I find swearing looses any of its significance if you use it all the time, so I try not to swear too much. Before anyone responds with one of those silly "just words" comments, the significance many attach to them means that saying them while stressed does actually help many people vent some of that stress.
I've found I've picked up lpads of odd swear words. I sometimes use weird curses from books I've read, and a few science-based one I invented to spoof some annoying religious folks on one of the boards I chat on.
I've found I've picked up lpads of odd swear words. I sometimes use weird curses from books I've read, and a few science-based one I invented to spoof some annoying religious folks on one of the boards I chat on.
I "swear" because I don't believe in magic. Words are all arbitrary and have no inherent meaning. Listen to George Carlin's rant on Parental Advisory about racial slurs sometime. There's nothing wrong with the word in and of itself. It's the racist asshole who's using it we should be concerned with. If you're thinking the angry or hateful thought that leads most people other than yourself to swearing but using a different set of arbitrary mouth-noises to express it, you're not superior, and you're usually a little silly to boot.
I try to be civil in front of company and there is some sort of scary programming somewhere in my brain that prevents me from swearing in front of girls (at least the ones I don't know particularly well).
With close friends or alone though? I swear like there is no tomorrow. Hell, my thoughts have more swearing than points.
I didn't use to be able to swear when I was young (elementary, junior high), because they had me convinced it was 'wrong', but I got over it eventually. They're just words.
With close friends or alone though? I swear like there is no tomorrow. Hell, my thoughts have more swearing than points.
I didn't use to be able to swear when I was young (elementary, junior high), because they had me convinced it was 'wrong', but I got over it eventually. They're just words.
I don't because I've gotten to the point where I associate swearing with the immature idiots that go to my school who think that they're being rebellious or something.
Same here, someone has to really get me angry before the explitives come rushingSylryeth said:
Depends on my company. Around certain company I try (and fail) not to. Around my friends and on the internet I swear all the fuckin' time. I was like you 'till about 2 years ago, when I was 13, then I started watching George Carlin and was swayed by the argument "there are no bad words, only bad intentions". How could a word be inherently bad anyway, its just a vocalized sound wave. If you don't swear that's fine too though, to everyone their own and such.
i have never sworn, partially due to my connection to my religion and partially due to the fact that I grew up in a small town in Minnesota, where no one really ever swears. Good to know I'm not the only on though