EVE General Discussion

Why is it that people need to curse so badly? It takes more intelligence to explain the fact that you don't like something. Cursing is really just showing your age and your childishness. Grow up! Use big boy words.

The fact that you want and need to curse in the forum does not make people want to actually care about your wants or desires or your problems in this game. It's just showing your lack of intelligence.

The thing about "foul" language, or obscenities, however you want to put it, or the existence of the notion there are words that are useable, and some that are not for reasons of morality is; it's a morality forced and attempted to be enforced by a religion, (the validity of which has been called into question by its own behavior) and a society that historically has been exclusive...meaning it likes to exclude people.

If one doesn't accept the tenets of religions that exist today, or the validity of even the society (which undoubtedly has questionable underpinnings), then what those structures define as foul language becomes just language. There are more than a few people that find that freedom exhilerating. In the lands of free speech it seems the rule is "sure you have free speech, just don't use it."

As far as YOUR choice of words, cursing. Using the language you find today that seems to be objectionable to you, you'll never find anyone putting a curse on anyone. This isn't meant as a joke. These religions I mention (centuries ago) took curses very seriously, as though they were actually real things (one of the many ways they discredited themselves as institutions.)

If you chose the other word (popular in the southern U.S.) "swearing," the incongruity there is people used to swear oaths. This is proscribed by these religions, and says so in plain black and white in their doctrine. How using "naughty words" or colorful language suddenly became "swearing" can be understood as easily as understanding how the word "gay" has been usurped for a specific purpose and the word "bling bling" wound up in Oxford's Unabridged.

The upshot is, I use that language because I like it. It has a meaning and power I like to use, and it upsets all the right people when I use it. It's very satisfying to know that. Now, if you can take what I just wrote above and claim I have no intelligence, or insight, or background (even) because I toss around a few "mofos" and other such expletives, then I'd have to accuse you with a word I find far more offensive than any so-called "cussing." That word is :

dis·in·gen·u·ous/ˌdisinˈjenyo͞oəs/ Adjective: Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.

Thank-you for your kind (of) attention.

PS I'd have to question what you mean by your name, by the way: Hung too low. We all just got offa da boat.

Age does not determine intelligence. The use of the mind and vocabulary could constitute intelligence. The name (mine for example) I wasn't trying to find the most intelligent name to use.

Ok now to the baby remark. :) I am almost 2x your age, and while I would consider you a kid in real life. You begin to see the situation. While I do not understand your need to call me a pansy, never the less you did. So you were trying to be serious which is good but I don't think that you had the patience to stick to the seriousness throught the entire post. That is ok. There was only aa 25% chance that you would based upon your age. I also will give you bonus due to the fact that you are a girl playing this game + 10%. So there was truely a 35% chance that you were going to be serious about post a comment.

I am not worried about my manhood. I still have it and still able to use it. But I do believe that your post cries out P*N*S ENVY

"Profanity is the weakest expression of a strong mind." -- The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Manson

Confirming that Iceland is now part of America. As is London, no doubt.

Iceland? Sure. But London? No thanks.