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IS PROFANITY PROPER? I am disturbed by the excessive use of profanity in our modern culture. Culture? Oh, we ve polished it up a bit arid call cuss words EXPLETIVES. I was talking with a friend (I hope he is still my friend) the other day and we were talking about this subject. He said ‘ he got in the habit of using a certain cuss word because he worked in the construction of a hydroelectric dam. It seems that this massive structure gave him a sense of awe and he spoke of it with a kind of reverence. Anyway, reference to this dam became a part of his vocabulary, and when it was no longer necessary to refer to it as part of his work, he kept using it with the addition of an “N .1 quoted this old saw: “Profanity is the badge of an intellectual cripple who cannot express himself adequately in any other manner. That does not fit him, he is an intellegent person. What good is cursing? Who has the power to damn except God. Sir Walter Scott said: “Dinna curse him, sire; I have heard it said that a curse is like a stone flung up to heaven, and most likely to fall on the head of him that flung it.” James says that the tongue is a very offensive member of the human body. It can cuss up a storm or it can bring cheer to a broken spirit. So, let us use our tongues wisely.
“If wisdom’s ways you widely seek,
Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where.”□
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