Gosh darn! Cussing banned in California town

[Halofan48]

Then only in that town will the words be used. People outside of the town maybe confused when they hear it. Yet, if the word is something like "frack" i think they'll figure it out pretty quickly.

[Jack]

We'll drive them nuts by making them continue to ban every new curse word we can come up with as soon as the last one gets banned.

[Will_00]

Then only in that town will the words be used. People outside of the town maybe confused when they hear it. Yet, if the word is something like "frack" i think they'll figure it out pretty quickly.

I doubt - or at least hope - that it would not spread. And if people outside of the town could figure it out then those who enforce the law(s) and those who create them there should be able to figure it out as well.

[Halofan48]

Problem is 1. enforcing this law will be extremely difficult and 2. The new words wouldn't be the banned words, so therefore are ok. You'd have to ban practically every word in the english language before they give up.

[Will_00]

That is fine.

[Jack]

I agree. People dumb enough to think that banning profanities is accomplishing anything worthwhile probably sound as foolish as they think. Banning all the words in their limited vocabulary might just turn out to be a blessing for the rest of us.

[Marilyn Monroe]

Quote by: Will_00 It's effects are negative in itself."Religion" is in All Things.

My comment meant that cursing is secular the biggest part of the time. I was trying to point out that it would be around even if there were no religion. I'd say cursing came about before the bible because that's why it was mentioned there.

[JaneDoe321]

Think of all the "mainstream" curse words I know, only a very small percentage are religious in nature (ie taking the lord's name in vain or referring to a negative afterlife experience.. lol). The rest are sexual or scatalogical. I guess in *theory* those could be considered "religious" if you twisted the definition a good bit..........

[Will_00]

My comment meant that cursing is secular the biggest part of the time. I was trying to point out that it would be around even if there were no religion. I'd say cursing came about before the bible because that's why it was mentioned there.

"Religion" has been around since before sin.

[Jack]

"Religion" has been around since before sin.

Since religion invented the concept of sin, you're right. Since once again you didn't bother to explain what you mean, I'm left to guess that this is what you meant.

[Will_00]

Since once again you didn't bother to explain what you mean, I'm left to guess that this is what you meant.

In the beginning, God created Adam and Eve. All things were Perfect, until Eve sinned.

[Marilyn Monroe]

Quote by: Will_00 "Religion" has been around since before sin.

I think it came after sin.

[Jack]

Either way, it has nothing to do with the topic.
Moving along now.

[Kakumei]

Quote by: Halofan48 CNN article: Cussing banned in California town for the first week of March I think this is getting ridiculous. All they're doing is giving the word more power. If it's not being used in a negative way, like actually referring to a female dog if someone says bitch, or if someone says something is fucking awesome while excited. I mean, it's a few words. To do such a thing is saying that the word has a great power over these people. Anyway, what do you think?

And people dont believe in the nanny state theory.... lol.

[Piscean]

Curse words are just an English Launguidge concept, in most languidges there arent cuss words. So what if everybody gets relaxed about cuss words and doesn't take offense to them anymore? Uptite people at this point picture armoggedon or something but some of us have figured out that if you quit fearing something it looses it's power. Launguidge is always evolving. The cuss words will fade and be replaced by others which will spring from peoples own imaginations and so on. People love to waste life being affraid of meaningless powerless objects or words.

[gela]

"Religion" has been around since before sin

Listen Will.
I am sick of all your off topic religous preaching in threads.

If you are so sure of your religion, you wouldn't take every opportunity to push it onto the rest of us.
The fact you have your faith and your religion should be enough. Is it dissatisfying you so much that you have to go on the internet and play superiority games to fill the void?
The fact that you constantly need to prove your faith to us does not make you a good christian. It makes you seem like an attention whore.

If you really want to prove that your religion is worth while, you will stop confirming the fact that it is blind ignorance, and you will start backing up your posts with why god wants us to do what he says.

Its very easy, let me show you how:
Cussing is a sin. God made it a sin because it increases aggression, and it is insulting and derogatory.

My response to a comment like that "well, the bible has rules for a reason I suppose".

On the other hand, when you make comments like:

Quote by: will It is still a sin.

My response is:
"Thats just stupid. The bible just makes up rules for the sake of being controlling. What prudes."

All you are doing is increasing division between athiests and christians, and lowering our opinion of your religion.


Now, on topic.
Swear words are deliberatly rebellious. Does anyone else see the pointlessness in banning them? your just making them more rebellious. The swearers will thank you.
On top of that, it is impossible to police, and like halofan said, more will just be made up to replace them.

If we want to destroy a word, do as the gays do. Demean the word.
Queer was a word used to insult the gay community. But once they started using it with pride to describe themselves with pride, the word lost all its sting, and it became meaningless.

A gay friend I once had use to always refer to himself as a fag. What point is there in calling him a fag to be mean, if easily admits he is one?

People swear for a reaction. If you don't give them one, then the word is useless.

[Jack]

Curse words are just an English Launguidge concept, in most languidges there arent cuss words.

If that were the case, it wouldn't be so common for people learning a new language to learn the profanity first. I know a few people who can swear in several languages but can't ask, "how are you".

[Nono]

Quote by: Kakumei And people dont believe in the nanny state theory.... lol.

Your point would be ... ?

[Piscean]

If that were the case, it wouldn't be so common for people learning a new language to learn the profanity first. I know a few people who can swear in several languages but can't ask, "how are you".

Ok other languidges have curse words like spanish, but not hebrew, some do some don't I just think it's a taboo concept and if everybody gets over the taboo they wont even be curse words anymore.

[Nono]

Hebrew doesn't have cuss words? Strongly doubt that. Where's shrike when we need him?