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too many hall monitors up in here. maybe people who are offended by the use of so called foul or dirty words, should get jobs as censors. absolutely no one is harmed when a person is called an insulting name, or when a person uses street language in his threads.
how, may i ask, does this harm anyone? and so what if you are offended by certain subject lines, or colorful words? maybe you are too thin skinned. is this something left over from your traumatic childhood when someone called you a dirty name? sure, as a kid, it hurts, but we are all grown up here right?
i'll never understand the old name calling routine, but it never fails. when things get heated, someone invariably throws an insult, in the form of a sound vibration, as a weapon. it is precisely at this point, after the insult has left the insultors mouth, and before your brain reacts to it, that the insultee has the decision to let the offending sound bounce off his psyche harmlessly, or penetrate and disrupt his brain patterns, shifting them toward offensibility.
in other words, just refuse to be insulted, and your attacker has failed. his bullet words bounce off you like superman. i'm just a jerk with very few refined social skills, but i'm not offended by ANYTHING i've ever read here. maybe i'm not in the right frame of mind, or not wired right, but if i see the word bitch, or fuck, or shit, or goddamn or fuck or whatever, i'm not suddenly sent into fits and seizures. i don't know of any women offended by the word bitch.
but insults only work IF YOU LET THEM. if you're black and someone calls you a nigger in the wrong way, just laugh in their face, they hate that. or if someone calls you fat, or crippled, or stupid, or ugly, or smelly, or a dyke, or a fag, or a rag head, or a heeb, or a spick or a gook, or whatever intended nasty phrase, simply laugh it off and refuse to be offended. if you are offended, and you blow up in righteous indignation, your attacker has won, and you have been suckered in to his game.
the same goes for someone insulting your particular religious persuasion. if someone bashes certain atrocious behavior by certain clergy, one gets accused of being an anti religious bigot. if one steps into the palestinian/israeli issue, one must be prepared to be attacked as an isultor or bigot. you can't win.
the recent experiment with censorship was interesting, but there are always people who feel the need to pepper and flavor their ideas and language with seasonings and spices. you should not assume from a lofty tower that someone who uses certain rough words is less intelligent than those who don't. this is pompous arrogance, and it might even qualify you as an asshole. the use of coarse language is NOT the sign of a weak mind. and it does NOT make you superior in any to use bland, unflavored language.
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