I just had this discussion with a fellow member. In part the use of colorful or vulgar language. While we as group are more evolved. I don't feel that we need to be a pretentious group. Sometimes simple language conveys our feels better. Don't go to crazy. But what the heck. What was I trying to say. I hate when I lose my fucking train of thought.
I mean we don't NEED to be...
I am of the opinion that there is a time and a place for vulgarities. I am also of the opinion that the time and place align more frequently than others seem to think.
"In the course of the next hour, Sheemie called Capi 'you old sonovabitch' as often as possible- he had discovered, as many others had before him, that only the first cussword is really hard; after that, there's nothing quite like them for relieving one's feelings."
-Stephen King, Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower part IV)
My favorite author! But that series left me so angry and frustrated with him.
@Untamedshrew .... I'm sorry.
@Paul4747 unless you are Stephen King using a pseudonym, there's no need to apologize! LOL
@Untamedshrew Not last time I checked, but who knows? It happens all the time in Stephen King novels.
As Spock said in Star Trek IV, "Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?"
I think we should be as civil as possible, and crude language can convey incivility. On the other hand, it doesn't have to. In large part I suspect it has been assumed to be "rude" because some people have been socialized to the idea that "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say it". This is a cardinal rule of standard-issue US Midwestern reserve, as well as much of Bible Belt 'Murica. I think fundamentalist prudishness makes it worse, but is not necessarily its root cause.
My personal take on it as that so long as every fourth word isn't "fucking" so that the language itself becomes the main event, then the sorts of verbal exclamations that ordinary people engage in is fine if that's authentically who you are.