The Profanity Meme is part of the Control Strategy

[tone3jaguar]

Edit: I misspelled the word for mind virus. It is supposed to be meme not mime.

For those of you not familiar with the word meme. A meme is a word that has been used to describe a self replicating idea in the consciousness of society, or a mind virus. Some of these memes are a result of the natural evolution of ideas in our society. However, some of them have been put in place on purpose to keep us in line.

The concept of profanity is one of those memes that has been put in place as a control strategy. People have been convinced that a word alone is enough of a reason to feel offended. Feeling offended is a form of victimitis. Victimitis is another more ambiguous mime that has naturally evolved as a result of peoples unwillingness to take responsibility for how they feel about the information in the world around them.

The words themselves are not what carry the low frequencies commonly blamed on them. What actually carry the low frequencies are the programed reactions to these words. They are only words and they only have meaning if we give them meaning.

How do I know that profanity is an intentionally inserted meme into society? Because the originators of the idea that a word was a "curse" was the church. Why where they deemed "curse words". Perhaps because of the inquisition where all pagans where hunted down and killed because they could curse people? That is where the meme started.

So if there are rules in a forum or any other setting where profanity is looked upon as bad, or it is automatically censored by programming. This is because the writers of the software have been tricked into believing that these words actually have the meaning that the memes have attached to them even though they don't. Then consequently the administration of the forum chooses to use the option to use that aspect of the computer program simply so that people are not offended because of the mind virus they have allowed to persist in their consciousness.

So in the spirit off this perspective on things and my personal desire to not conform to false mimes. F__k, sh.., cock, pussy, turd, dick, ass.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fFmRypAYz_E

[Luke]

Think the word is "meme", unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena.
Mime == Marcel Marceau for example

+1 for Carlin

[Solphilos]

And how ****ing shocked I was when I discovered that this ****ing forum censors my favorite ****ing words.
But I'm not surprised that censorship should be present on such a forum: Far too many "lightsiders" here that would be horribly offended at the use of such 'dark' language. This particular forum is very set on division.
I for one enjoy such language; not as a means to be purposefully offensive, but because they emphasize emotion better than any other words available. They are a means of effective communication, and when we are censored, we are forced to use less effective words, hence, limiting communication, even if by a small degree. Bad communication between cells in the body cause disease, and it is no less so between human beings.

[lunaflare]

The F word has mysterious "roots"....

According to Wiki, the following acronyms are merely urban legends:

File Under Carnal Knowledge"
"Fornication Under the Christian King"
"Fornication Under the Command of the King"
"Fornication Under Carnal/Cardinal Knowledge"
"False Use of Carnal Knowledge"
"Felonious Use of Carnal Knowledge"
"Felonious Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"
"Full-On Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"
"For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"
"Found Under Carnal Knowledge"
"Found Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"
"Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" (referring to the crime of rape)


I am now going to feck off to another post........

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Solphilos (here)
I for one enjoy such language; not as a means to be purposefully offensive, but because they emphasize emotion better than any other words available.

I'd suggest that people who depend on profanity for expressive impact are poor writers.

Ask any student of great literature... from Shakespeare on down.

Humor is different: deliberate irreverence can wake people up and get them to pay attention. George Carlin was a master.

I don't mind people swearing. I do it myself. But if it leads to laziness, then it's not a good thing. Because I don't swear a lot, when I do it tends to focus attention. It's one of many expressive tools, and can be used well, or badly.

I don't like any lazy use of words. That includes SMS-speak (ppl, b4, thx, lol, etc) - another symptom of laziness. Words are magnificent, sophisticated thought-forms with a morphic field (ever-changing) created by thousands of brilliant minds over long periods of time in any culture.

This is why Esperanto has never caught on, despite its logic. It has no weight or depth: no morphic field behind it. Just someone's clever invention... no history, and no culture.

The key to this topic is that we think the way we talk - not the other way round. Language creates and shapes the complexity of our neural pathways. If we cheapen our language, we cheapen and dilute the richness of our thoughts.

[Bill Ryan]

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While talking about the richness of language, here's my favorite joke:

Did you hear about the agnostic, dyslexic insomniac who couldn't get to sleep because he was worrying about whether there was a dog?

[tone3jaguar]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
I don't mind people swearing. I do it myself. But if it leads to laziness, then it's not a good thing. Because I don't swear a lot, when I do it tends to focus attention. It's one of many expressive tools, and can be used well, or badly.

I don't like any lazy use of words. That includes SMS-speak (ppl, b4, thx, lol, etc) - another symptom of laziness. Words are magnificent, sophisticated thought-forms with a morphic field (ever-changing) created by thousands of brilliant minds over long periods of time in any culture.

Yes, I agree. I think that we need a more diverse vocabulary of curse words so that we can use them intelligently.

[Humble Janitor]

Profanity is something that is best sparingly used. It can pepper an otherwise dull joke but when it becomes part of your everyday vernacular, then that is just laziness at work.

[beyondmyctrl]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
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While talking about the richness of language, here's my favorite joke:

Did you hear about the agnostic, dyslexic insomniac who couldn't get to sleep because he was worrying about whether there was a dog?

OMG LMAO !!!! oh wait no ! I mean Oh My God ! laughing my ass off !!! THAT joke is, milk shooting out of the nose kinda funny , seriously ! By the way not a big fan of SMS talk either , mostly because I'm getting old and out of touch with the young un's and half the time I can't even figure out what those damn acronyms mean heck ! I don't even know what SMS stands for !

[frank samuel]

In my house with five children we have learn to communicate with each other not having to use profanity. At school children learn these words and become very accustomed to using them. While talking to my children I learn that to become expressive and creative with the way we convey images in the form of language is far more effective and efficient specially in keeping a healthy environment in our children thought forms and habitual expressions. Profanity in the military is use to create a reaction in the soldier, is use very effectively to numb the senses and get the soldier to do what he's told. In retrospect this is why as a veteran I found that you can convey images, ideas , emotions using far more creative expressive language than profanity. Like Bill stated sometimes we become lazy in finding effective ways to communicate, language and thought patterns can help to shape your environment. Speaking for myself I want to reflect the beauty I see express in the natural world around me helping my children to appreciated and be grateful for the world they are experiencing.

Many many blessings to all.

[Snowbird]

Whoa, I had never seen George Carlin in his younger days.

I just had a good 7-minute laugh from one of G.C.'s vids from the opening post; George Carlin on Our Similarities.

MHRIP!

[Solphilos]

Posted by Humble Janitor (here)
Profanity is something that is best sparingly used. It can pepper an otherwise dull joke but when it becomes part of your everyday vernacular, then that is just laziness at work.

Where does laziness enter the equation? They are words, descriptive like any other. Sure, there is an abundance of other words that could be used in their stead, but why? What makes them 'profane'? This is merely cultural conditioning, dare we question to ask why?
If I say, "that joke was ****ing hilarious!", what is wrong with that? If I choose to leave out the '****ing' part, I will simply have to replace it with something else. Why is one preferable to the other?

[Studeo]

Here's some for ya..scuse the language

Shakespear

Thou art a surly boil-brained coxcomb
Thou art a churlish fat-kidneyed strumpet
Thou art a cockered spur-galled pigeon-egg
Thou art a rank hell-hated barnacle

Pirate

I'll slit yer throat ye pox-faced sea bass...Prepare for yer doom!
We'll hoist ye over the yardarm ye lice-infested dog...Arrrrr! Harrrr!
I'll rip out yer heart an' dance to the beat ye scurvy-addled blowfish...Shiver me timbers!
We'll send ye to Davy Jones' locker ye scalawag bilge-rat...Yo ho ho an' a bottle o' rum!

Ye gods the profanity!

[RedeZra]

Posted by tone3jaguar (here)
The words themselves are not what carry the low frequencies commonly blamed on them. What actually carry the low frequencies are the programed reactions to these words. They are only words and they only have meaning if we give them meaning.

words are an expression of thoughts and feelings

that vibrate with the frequency of the intent

and affect the surroundings


profanity is not very high on that frequency

[MorningSong]

Here's my story:

I grew up with a very intelligent and rather “country puritan” say-what-you-mean-and-mean-what-you-say" mind-framed mom and, in contrast, a father who was a “Fonzy” type in the 50's but who was more like a blue collared red-neck in my childhood's eyes. Mom cringed at cuss words, threatening us kids that she'd “wash out our mouths with soap if”... and dad used them instead of normal adjectives whenever possible mostly to irritate mom.

My dad had two friends, father and son, who would come to visit, and these two men could not say 3 words without putting in a cuss word as an adjective to describe anything. As I child, I tended to cringe like my mom and head for the exit when they arrived. It truely appeared that these two men had some kind of problem, something bad wrong and very negative. Their energy field oozed degredation and critisism and it was very depressing to have them around for any great length of time.

When my dad had been around these two fellows, he took on their “habit” and would be quite anti-communicative for days. Just “get the **ing thing”, “move your **ing this” and "shut the **ing that” for days, almost gloating in the "superb" powerful language he was touting. Needless to say, it appeared to the rest of the family that he had contracted rabbies or worse, and we avoided any form of contact with him until this neurotic habit wore off. Unfortunately, I will never know if he realized what he was doing nor questioned why we began to avoid him during those times.

This situation continued to develop as the years went by, and eventually we were all tip-toeing around him as if we were walking on egg shells, not sure if we were to cringe or listen when he bagan to speak to us. Not to wonder, he eventually found himself in an empty house with his good old buddies for company, forever.

Now, I'll tell you all! If I get really mad, I can shoot out a long line of cuss words as good as any small town red neck can! But I truely try not to.

And get this: when my first adorable son was 3, he got mad at me for some silly reason and blurted at me the Italian equal to “b*tch”. I was shocked and then really got angry. I picked him up under my arm like a sack of potates and proceded to the bathroom where I washed his tongue with a bar of soap! He never cussed at me again, and he's 22 now.

[RedeZra]

tnx for the realism MorningSong


it's not a right to curse and profane

it's a wrong


parents are so important in the upbringing of a new generation

nah our society depends on our Mothers

[Solphilos]

Posted by Studeo (here)
Here's some for ya..scuse the language

Shakespear

Thou art a surly boil-brained coxcomb
Thou art a churlish fat-kidneyed strumpet
Thou art a cockered spur-galled pigeon-egg
Thou art a rank hell-hated barnacle

Pirate

I'll slit yer throat ye pox-faced sea bass...Prepare for yer doom!
We'll hoist ye over the yardarm ye lice-infested dog...Arrrrr! Harrrr!
I'll rip out yer heart an' dance to the beat ye scurvy-addled blowfish...Shiver me timbers!
We'll send ye to Davy Jones' locker ye scalawag bilge-rat...Yo ho ho an' a bottle o' rum!

Ye gods the profanity!

Thanks for that, very colorful

[tone3jaguar]

Posted by RedeZra (here)

words are an expression of thoughts and feelings

that vibrate with the frequency of the intent

and affect the surroundings


profanity is not very high on that frequency

Who decided what words where the low frequency words and what words where not? If you tell a joke with a curse word in it and it makes people laugh, then that is high frequency. Laughter is divine. If you use the same curse word when judging someone or something then that is low frequency. There are no absolute frequencies for curse words. It is all about context. Don't get sucked into those mimes. The only words I have come across that have absolute frequency embedded in them are ones written using the ancient Sanskrit alphabet.

[BrianEn]

I'll let an F-bomb drop when I'm getting a cortezone shot.

[tone3jaguar]

Out of all of the wild things that I have ever posted about, this topic has got to be one of the most effective barometers for the different kinds of social complexes that people exist in today. I posted this same thing on another forum that i will not name. The people in that forum got so offended that they went as far as to judge me as having no ethics, morals, manners, and respect. I was not offended by their inability to see outside of the veils that social doctrines have instilled in them. I was however, surprised at the intensity of some of the replies over there.