Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie
English mystery author (1890 - 1976)
PROFANITY : Show me all your Fingers
Short of words? Charged with emotions? Frustrated? Flabbergasted and disgusted?
Short of words? Charged with emotions? Frustrated? Flabbergasted and disgusted?
We all have violent languages and expressions. Often when provoked and drained of expressions, sounds and gestures erupt like a dormant volcano to rain fire and brim stones. 
Devoid or gagged of such releases, a violent earthquake may ensue to swallow the very ground the opponent stands.Language and gestures, as a release of an otherwise unrestrained violence, may be the only pressure release valve, like a pressure cooker snorting, hissing out steam.
However such ventilation are often echoed by an equal an opposite titillation raising the crescendo. Ancestors, mothers and reproductive organs, genitals and excrement are not far from the foul brew. These are hurled to balm the sore hurts, dented egos and lamentations.
Soon a very normal person with five fingers show signs of handicap. Instead of having 5 fingers, a single middle finger is raised which in
return 2 fingers are shown. In aberration, blood boils, raising the temperature and rage transforms the man to a charging bull. The matador takes the bull by the horns, spears him and both are locked in a fight to the end. They wear each other and the last stab is fatal. Be gored stab, there is no turning back. Profane words pierce deep like the sword, wounds, mars and kills a life, .... even if that be a bull.
RUDE LANGUAGE
We wrestle with raw emotions of all forms and in different manners. We subject these to harness their energies to productive use. In anger, if such energies are allowed to explode, violence, bloodshed and wars shall follow. Therefore the tongue has to be tamed or it will leave a burnt trail or bloody track.
“Rude” first appeared in English in the 14th century, derived from the Latin “rudis” (”unformed, inexperienced, or unpolished”) with the general sense of “ignorant, wild, or raw,” and quickly took on a wide variety of meanings, from “discourteous” to “crudely drawn” (as in “a rude sketch”). Somewhat surprisingly, “rude” is completely unrelated to “crude,” which is rooted in the Latin “crudus,” meaning “rough or cruel.” But the Latin root of “rude” did spin off two other useful words, “rudiment” (the “raw or most basic state” of something) and “erudite” (literally “brought out of ignorance”).
VULGAR GESTURES
sycophant
1537 (in L. form sycophanta), "informer, talebearer, slanderer," from L. sycophanta, from Gk. sykophantes, originally "one who shows the fig," from sykon "fig" + phanein "to show." "Showing the fig" was a vulgar gesture made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, itself symbolic of a cunt (sykon also meant "vulva"). The story goes that prominent politicians in ancient Greece held aloof from such inflammatory gestures, but privately urged their followers to taunt their opponents. The sense of "mean, servile flatterer" is first recorded in Eng. 1575.
1537 (in L. form sycophanta), "informer, talebearer, slanderer," from L. sycophanta, from Gk. sykophantes, originally "one who shows the fig," from sykon "fig" + phanein "to show." "Showing the fig" was a vulgar gesture made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, itself symbolic of a cunt (sykon also meant "vulva"). The story goes that prominent politicians in ancient Greece held aloof from such inflammatory gestures, but privately urged their followers to taunt their opponents. The sense of "mean, servile flatterer" is first recorded in Eng. 1575.
Close your mouth. Open your hands and fingers for accountability.
Therefore keep your hands open, close your lips, fingers unclenched, count your blessings. Count your friends and make your friends count.
... Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. (Jas. 1:19)
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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.Errol Flynn
US (Australian-Tasmanian-born) movie actor (1909 - 1959)
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