Posts by Carl Bishop2

What exactly was the Department looking at when they reached this conclusion? It’s certainly not the first time I've seen someone over at the Department seem a bit lost when it comes to the actual laws—but if that's the case, they really ought to be providing a clear explanation.

steellynx91 said:Constant swearing is really just a sign of a primitive mindset, a type of mental coarseness that I find hard to respect.
I honestly think we should tax people like that. Imagine if there was a fine for every single profanity uttered—basically, you'd have to pay $33 for every slip of the tongue. Seems fair, doesn't it?

Well, if you’re going to be so selective with your vocabulary, I guess it works. 🙂

Jacob Johnson56 said:This world has room for everyone. There are people who love to swear and indulge in it, and then there are those who’ve realized they need to cut profanity out of their lives entirely.
I don't judge the first group. But swearing shouldn't be mistaken for a greater sense of freedom. Real freedom requires much more responsibility.
Choosing not to swear isn't about following strict religious rules. Swearing doesn't hurt God. It might bother the people around us, sure, but the person we actually hurt most is ourselves.
Swearing is a negative habit. It shows you're a slave to your own mental programming. Think of the mind like a field where you plant seeds. If you fill it with weeds, there's no room left for actual crops.
It limits our ability to think freely and understand life on a deeper level. Our consciousness becomes narrow and dark. Consciousness is a spiritual category, not an intellectual one. We are Souls.
Here are a few examples:
A few years back, I was sitting in a park reading when a woman sat down next to me. Our conversation drifted toward spirituality.
She started telling me a story. "I don't know why," she said, "but I feel this intense urge to tell you about a dream I had a long time ago." I knew exactly what was happening. I had already finished my own research into spiritual growth. "I've never told anyone this dream," she continued. "I had it when my son was just a baby, and he's about your age now.
In the dream, a saint appeared to me and said, 'Stop using foul language, or I will take away what you hold most dear.' Later that day, my child turned pale and stopped eating. I didn't make the connection then. The dream came again the next night, and by the next day, the child had turned a grayish-blue color. It looked like he wouldn't survive. Only then did I remember the dreams from the previous two nights. I stopped the swearing immediately. The child's color returned, his vital signs normalized, and he started asking for food again.
Since then, I haven't used a single negative word, and I carry an image of that saint in my wallet."
I explained to her that it wasn't necessarily some saint, but rather the omnipresent and all-knowing Holy Spirit taking a form to deliver a necessary lesson. It was meant to prevent her from stalling her own spiritual progress—the very reason she was born.
Another young woman told me she struggled with ear infections since she was a little girl. She tried every doctor and specialist in the country, but nothing worked. Until she decided to try a spiritual exercise and pray for help...
During the night, she was told to write down every negative thing she hears from others on one side of a paper, and every negative thing she says herself on the other.
She understood the point. She stopped the swearing and the negativity, and her ears healed. She was cured.
Profanity, like many other negative habits, holds us back from our spiritual expansion. It stops us from reaching the purpose for which we were born. We can't find true happiness or deep understanding of life if we stay stuck in these patterns....

So, what makes you say you've wrapped up your research into spiritual development?

It seems like everyone in my circle swears constantly, regardless of how much money they have or how much schooling they've done (I even had a TA at my university once remark that a certain situation was just total bullshit, basically saying it was terrible). I don't really hang out with religious folks, so I honestly can't tell if they're prone to swearing too. Most people around me don't go overboard with profanity—they aren't flying back to their hometowns to cause scenes or anything—it's more that they use those specific words that just don't have a great substitute in everyday polite conversation (something always gets lost in translation 😁), like saying someone "lost their cool," "screwed things up," or "told someone to get lost."