How should one interpret foul language?

Here's how I interpret foul language. I tend to be a literalist in about everything. As most know here, I'm a Biblical literalist, for example.Now, since I interpret foul (out of bounds) language (speech) literally, shit = feces expelled waste from living things above plants. It is the foul stinky, putrid, unpleasant matter which is to be avoided, burried and disposed of, not to be around in living rooms, auditoriums or in the public fora such as on the www.Then too, being a literalist, I see no reason for the subject of feces to be interspersed into board discussions and living room conversation etc.Then there's fuck. Think about it: What has the subject of private bedroom intercourse have to do with conversations about mechanics, science, food, nutrition, and a host of other topics folks discuss?People who use these terms should stop and think what they are saying and learn to focus on the topic of discussion without introducing these off topic terms profane to the discussion.I see the use of profanity as a sign of moral, mental, cultural, and communal depravity. The more it prevails, the more it depraves and corrupts.

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

Hi Quetzal. Well, like you if I ever said the word before I left home I'd be in for it.My first job was on a geophysical oil exploration crew in Wyoming among a rough talking crew where I lived in the bunk trailers with them. They were mostly all rough talkers. Then I spent the next four years in the Air Force.On occasion, both on the crew and in the AF I would ask my friends something like what has sexual intercourse got to do with this conversation?.I always had respect from my peers who understood me and on rare occasions when I said something I did so in a good spirited manner. I never saw any more sense or need to lower my language to the gutter as a youth on my own than I do now.The problem is the herd mentality where folks let their peers determine their conduct and speech. They don't think about how senseless and off topic most profanity really is. Are the languages of the world so void of words that people think they need to resort to the profane and off topic to communicate.Another reason many Biblicalist Christians don't use profanity is that the book in both testaments says a lot about how we talk, instructing against the profane as well as referring to God or Christ vainly.Having said the above I have many friends and acquantances who use profanity. Most are decent folks. The ones who use less profanity tend to be the nicer folks. On the other hand on occasion it's been nice talking folks who've been dishonest.I don't say anything about profanity to my friends who use except on rare occasions when it might be appropriate and we get along fine.

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

Trixie, what has sexual intercourse got to do with asking someone to leave? That's my point which you appeared to miss. Why demand they go and have sex? Wouldn't it be better to just ask them kindly to leave?That's why the wisest one who ever lived according to the scriptures outside of Jesus himself, king Solomon said "a soft answer turns away wrath." Wouldn't the world be a better place if more would follow that advice?The apostle Paul or one of the other apostles also said, "be angry and sin not." Cool One can learn to keep their cool in anger so as to keep the peace. How many victims have been killed over the centuries over meanspirited communication like teenagers on our streets who get into namecalling arguments involving profanity; perhaps even wars where thousands were killed etc.

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

Sarg, Patton was known for profuse profanity. Other great generals were not. Patton could have shouted orders in a commanding tone and accomplished as much and perhaps more.I think of coach Tom Landry who led the Cowboys to victorious fame over the years. I doubt that he used profanity to any extent if any during those years.George Washington who led the colonies to emancipation from tyrany in the bloody Revolution was a very devout Christian who likely never used profanity. I've read much on him and there's no indication that cursed, swore or used any form of profanity.

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.

Thanks for the response, Quetzel. Did your head feel any better after the vocal volley? Neither of my boys now in their 30s use profanity. I made an effort when they were home growing up to keep my cool when things didn't go well for some reason or other. Thankfully it paid off. Between them they have six children in their families and they are training their children also to refrain from profanity. That's the way it works. Children tend to profanity if they grow up hearing their parents using it.My dad used profanity regularly until he got "saved" by receiving Christ at about age 35. Thereafter he quit that pretty much cold turkey along with the ciggies. There were six of us children in my family, all Christians who do not use profanity. I credit my parents for that. We didn't dare to use it in their hearing so we just learned to express our frustrations without it.As I've said before, I get along fine with folks, some of who use profanity profusely. My point is that the less it is used the less it is propagated among the youth for the next generation.Back in the 1930s to about 1960, seldom did one hear any child use prfanity and relatively few women used it out in Wyoming where I grew up. Over the 72 years of my life I've seen it steadily become more prevalent in the home and out by children, women and men. It's one of a number of things which have went downhill in America. That's why I say I see it as a sign of the depravity of a culture.I'm not a preacher but by not the readers of this likely wish I'd stop preaching so that's all for now. God bless!

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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.