How do you respond to someone that goes off on you
and says MF or the F bomb continuously? Does using offensive language really
score brownie points with a potential girl friend or help build your team in
your work place? It amazes me as to how limited of a vocabulary so many people
have. What’s also rather interesting is how I hear so often Oh Jesus Christ!!!
Yet, I never hear anyone ever say Oh Buddha, Oh Mohammad, Oh Confucius or……. None of this makes much sense!
So my real question is why is it the rage to use rude, crude and
offensive language? What point does it make? Is it really going to prove that
you’re a man, cool or the one with the power? I cringe when I’m in a
professional setting and hear what appears to be very well dressed older lady. She seems to be saying I want your attention
and respect but then this unmentionable word comes flowing out of her mouth.
Why? I walked away with this sense of what is happening to the world around me?
Why this lapse into what would appear rather juvenile musings? What
has to happen for our language choices to value life through being positive and
encouraging? Regardless of the crowds around us, the push of the media and the expression
of today’s artist can’t anyone see that we are becoming imprisoned by this
negative life destroying mindset? My mom was always quick to tell me over my
formative years that what I put into my mind would ultimately come out of my
mouth. She would warn me that being rude and crude never proved anything but
that I would become a shallow and short-sided person.
I can remember back in my youth when I was a budding Eagle Scout
candidate, at the age of thirteen, going on a camping trip. I’m not sure what possessed me but a few of us
while enjoying a mango big campfire let off with a round unmentionable words
that brought the wrath of our Scout Master. I truly believed that he would have
joined in with us and done some type of manhood initiation. The downside was
that we all were in trouble and had to do the dirty work the next day in camp.
The difficulty was that his discussion didn’t sink into our hearts or minds.
So why do we as a culture have such a propensity for trash talk? I’m
always shocked, but shouldn’t be, to hear a coach be screaming out such foul
language on the field. Does the coach really believe that this is going to
transform the player into a superstar? The stereotype of your typical Drill
Sargent at Boot Camp is someone who only knows around 5 words in their vocabulary.
Does this truly prepare our young men and women for battle?
Isn’t it possible to become a positive person that sees the benefit
of using words with real purpose and meaning that will lift a person up instead
of tearing them down? When was the last time you heard a rap or hip-hop song
that didn’t use gutter speak? I sat at the park last night watching a few of my
teen guys play basketball. I had an earful as I listened to a young teen girl
use nothing but MF or the F bomb. Then what would be considered a good older
teen guy listened to the foulest music that screamed out all of the unmentionables?
My heart broke as I realized if this is their main diet today in their mind
what will they be like in 5, 10 and 20 years?
Time for a real revolution where we learn from the following passage
from James in the Bible about language choice:
James 3:91-12
9With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father,
and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. 10Out of the
same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not
be. 11Can both fresh
water and salt water flow from the same spring? 12My brothers
and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can
a salt spring produce fresh water.
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