4 posts tagged “bad”

What question do you hate being asked?

The two questions I am asked most frequently, of course:

A) Are you okay?  Because when I'm thinking about something very important or complicated people say I look like something is wrong.  In fact, it seems like if I'm just not smiling people act like I am sick or something.

B) Are you stoned?  Because I'm just odd and some people are suspicious of anyone who doesn't act like a stuck up little stiff.

Well.  Imagine this:

You are in bed, in your jammy's and you mother is on her way out the door.  She asks you to take a big bag out to the car.  You do as told and return to your porch, twist the doorknob and realized it's locked.  Keep in mind you are in your pajamas, face unwashed, teeth unbrushed and not wearing a bra.  Mom just left the driveway and you look at you options:

wait until around 3 when she'll be back.

go ring on your neighbors' doorbells until someone lets you use a phone even though you aren't dressed for that.

attempt breaking in your own house to avoid the second one.

I did the second one.  My neighbors on the right were home but didn't bother coming to the door, the ones across from them really were'nt home and the ones on their right were, but were men (worse).  On the bright side everything worked out because I'm here blogging it hoping you'll chuckle a little, eh?

And you know what else?  When one thing goes wrong in my life a few others always come with it.  Last night when my parents were in MS, the church van broke down.  They all (church members)had to get a ride here.  No other bad thing has happened and that's that.  Everything else will continue just as happy as before.  Usually everything goes bad, but not this time...nope.

I found this article online at http://www.everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=158837

I have wondered about this topic quite often and I am now motivated to actually write about it. My topic is basically this: Swearing, cursing, profanity, whatever you want to call it, should not be considered bad.

Through my many years of life Its become apparent to me that swearing has become part of my vocabulary. In part because at one time it was dangerous to swear and currently because darn and shoot just don't seem to cut it. I was doing some thinking and decided what's the big deal anyway, everyone does it and a relatively small portion of people I hang out with are bothered by it. As a generation I think that we are sophisticated and intelligent enough so that we have been able to overcome the taboo that is swearing. Now I guess society could be blamed but I'm not sure blame is necessary. If you consider that the Baby Boomer generation overcame the taboo of sex this is not a big deal. There is "sex" on television these days I say "sex" because it's usually implied. When I see two adults under the covers and at just the right time they cut to a new scene I generally get the idea that they had sex.

So I wonder, "What is so horrible about a few measly words?" No one gets upset if you scream out "ARRRGGG!" so why do they act so shocked if you drop the "f-bomb" (I have decided not to swear out of courtesy). If I could I would perform a study on this subject but I obviously don't have the time. The best I can do is theorize that if people would not be shocked by such language, there would be no such language. Yet I also believe that such a scenario is not likely to happen because, some one will always find a way to shock and disgust people whether or not by words alone.

This brings me to a perplexing question: "Why do humans get shocked in the first place?" Some might say it's because we are the only hyper-intelligent being on Earth or even the universe (that's another paper entirely). I'm not sure that I can accept that, when modern man was still in it's infancy, I don't believe we got shocked by anything that others may have, well, grunted or physically done. I think that this whole taboo around swearing came about because of the way we now live our lives. I believe that most people have something lodged in a very uncomfortable place and that they need to pull it out so that they can finally sit and relax. In other words people are too uptight these days.

So in a nut shell, I think that people should be allowed to socially swear without worry. I also believe that day will never come because when we can accept today's current profanity some one with just come up with more. And that in general people desperately need to relax and have a time to unwind.

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This subject was inspired by a conversation with a friend of mine.  To sum up the reading on this page, cursing was a form of witch craft.  However God himself and Jesus (I added that one) did it in the Bible.  Why don't Christians do it?  I know this sounds dumb, but still.  It's not witchcraft anymore (the kind I'm talking about)and I bet there were a lot of things that were considered such in those times.  And all it is is saying a few words.

But then again in the bible there are a lot of places where it says basically, to watch your tongue.  And, true the bible didn't really curse-no words are out of context that I've seen.    

Cursing is basically wishing misfortune on someone(the kind I am not talking about).

But what about saying "Fuck" when you spill lemon basil paint on your shoe?  It's just like saying "Darn".  And does that mean you burn eternally in hell just for mumbling it?  I was just thinking... 

I'm pretty pissed.  I just told the best story of how we got our van back, but the computer erased it and I don't feel like retyping.  Maybe another time.

Saturdays are our family days at my house.  Yesterday I wanted a baked patatoe for dinner, so we headed out to Walmart.  After we had all we needed, grabbed a bunch of stuff we didn't need and were about to pay for it all when we realized my mother's purse was gone. 

Someome stole it.

So we walked around searching, looking in other's baskets, talking to workers and departments until our legs hurt.  We just decided to leave because it was too late.  Outside it was storming really bad.  We searched for our red minivan until we realized it was gone.

the purse had keys to the van-with a remote.  Whoever it was has my mother's social security number, keys to our house, our address is somewhere in the van, money, everything but her cell phone.

I never thought it would happen to us.  My family was stuck at Walmart and we had to bum a rie off of a family friend from church, Decan Davis. 

Of course we contacted the cops, the credit card companies and insurance peoples.  Want to know something weird? I had a deja vu of being in the Millington police's office.  I had seen it all in a dream. 

Some family day.  And all that becuase I was out of my fancy facial cleanser and wanted baked patatoes.

Today is Mothers' Day!  That is something good.  And at my church we celebrate it as women's day-so all young women and moms got presents and "Bless you"s.  That was cool.  The weird thing here was that Antonio asked my mom to go to a Mothers' Day concert with him and he'd pay. 

Antonio is a kid that goes to my school and he is a church member.  And awfully friendly, might I add.

So currently, my mom is watching First Sunday (rolling eyes) with my niece in the living room.  I'm here and being grateful for the stuff that guy didn't take-he could have had my house, you know.  Thank God.

I've taken up a lot of crafts, like making purses.  Some friends saw mine and want me to make them one.  I'd show you, but Vox isn't accepting these pictures.

I've also taken up knitting just a few hours ago.  I'd better continue-it's a fun hobby.  Confusing, though when all you have are youtube videos to instruct you, but I got the hang of it and I never thought I'd be a fast learner.

Oh and I found an article that would describe what I'm feeling about religion right now:  Cosmo May 2008 it's called "religion by design" Here's the closest thing I found- http://jezebel.com/384817/cosmo-girl-choosing-a-religion-is-just-like-choosing-a-myspace-wallpaper