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Everybody has em..."Oh sin...I love you...I'll never let you go...you've been with me so long, I just don't know how I could go on without you. *pet pet pet*" Don't be scured...whats yours? Could be a sin of omission (My understanding of omission is not reading the word, praying, or fasting like you know you should) could be a sin of doubt, we allll have em. Mines...*sigh* cigarettes.

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my pet doesn't sin.

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My 'pet' sin is a tiny little ring I found deep in a cave.... I call it My Precious!

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Cussing. I loved it... it was so... expressive. It took me years to stop and then I still thought in cuss words and sometimes when I am really angry I still do (think them).

I am quick to repent but that does not always make me feel better about it.

Smoking is a sin? J/K, it's the catholic background :)

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One thing I was told that helped me quit the cursing is cursing shows a weak vocabulary. Try this out...try to replace your curse words with actual definitions of what you're saying. HUMAN EXCREMENT! always got me, I usually cursed when I was angry and just the thought of having to say human excrement was enough to make me giggle instead of curse. Try it out!

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Nope I don't lack vocabulary... and I could cuss in some extremely inventive ways... not proud of it but that's how it was.

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What I want to know is who sat down and listed all of the cuss words.... made a list and said this is it!

Titus2woman did you work in any of the churches that you attended and if you did what did you do?

Do you play the piano?

Been Thinkin

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I've wondered the same thing but profanity really bothers my husband so it was a no brainer that I needed to stop out of respect for him.

In the Pentecostal church I wrote the weekly devotional for the bulletin and kept up with the announcements. I play the harmonica, no piano. In the Baptist church I did street ministry and fed the homeless two weekends a month and shared Jesus with them.

My husband is an incredibly gifted guitar player who made his living in music before we were in church. Why do you ask?

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Oh, just wondering. Can't say right now. May PM you at a later time.

Been Thinkin

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I'm guessing you need a piano player who can cuss like a sailor?

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:thumbsup

BT

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Lol, I am resonating with this "Catholic background" that we all seem to have, at least here in the West. I won't rant on that too much more, except to say that there are other, creation-centered modes of believing that are mostly foreign to us. I note we are all, as a rule, hyper-sensitive to "sin," or death, but seem to be at a loss as to how to "branch, flower, seed," unlike some delightful Christians I have met, who incidentally don't seem to have any Godhead or tongues debates, even among their Bible worshippers.

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I started wondering a few years ago just who decided that cussing was a sin. Clearly "cursing" is a biblical no no, but "cussing" and biblical cursing are not the same thing IMO.

Im not pronouncing a curse upon someone if I smash my finger with a hammer and let an expletive fly am I?

I wonder why some words are so evil supposedly. Why is it sin to call excrement "s#@t" instead of poop or ........? Why is the F word the mother of all bad words, when it is a legit word that had a true practial meaning centuries ago? It's all a great big ball of politically correct hoopla to me.

Now that doesn't mean I want my 5 year old popping off cuss words. I just tend to want to knwo the real "why" behind things, including this.

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I've asked a few times for a list of all the words God has banned. Never got it. :lol

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That is the view of my wife anyone who felt it necessary to bust into our house in the middle of the night, would see.

And she loves Dexter!

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Well here's how I think of it. We are setting an example for the rest of the world, cursing is by anyones standards a vulgar thing. It's about respect. Even when I was living in sin, I didn't feel right cursing around my mom, dad, elders, or people who I knew were in some kind of church. That's how I feel.

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All of you are nothing but fobbing, shard-born, clotpoles!!

For more, click here.....

http://www.tastefullyoffensive.com/2...nsult-kit.html

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I would never look at your wife. promise- I might get shot. :happydance

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:dogpat
My 4 cats all look at me when they are about to pet sin. that is how I know they are about to do something naughty. :thumbsup

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Ok so keep in mind that when one cusses, they can be considered to be a "nice" person. Yeah. You read that right...at least by the origin of the definition of the word. Today the word "nice" means:

nice   [nahys]
adjective, nic·er, nic·est.
1.
pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
2.
amiably pleasant; kind: They are always nice to strangers.
3.
characterized by, showing, or requiring great accuracy, precision, skill, tact, care, or delicacy: nice workmanship; a nice shot; a nice handling of a crisis.
4.
showing or indicating very small differences; minutely accurate, as instruments: a job that requires nice measurements.
5.
minute, fine, or subtle: a nice distinction.

But the Origins of the word ...well..it was a slur to call somebody nice.


Word Origin & History

nice
late 13c., "foolish, stupid, senseless," from O.Fr. nice "silly, foolish," from L. nescius "ignorant," lit. "not-knowing," from ne- "not" (see un-) + stem of scire "to know." "The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj." [Weekley] -- from "timid" (pre-1300);
to "fussy, fastidious" (late 14c.); to "dainty, delicate" (c.1400); to "precise, careful" (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to "agreeable, delightful" (1769); to "kind, thoughtful" (1830). In 16c.-17c. it is often difficult to determine exactly what is meant when a writer uses this word. By 1926, it was pronounced "too great a favorite with the ladies, who have charmed out of it all its individuality and converted it into a mere diffuser of vague and mild agreeableness." [Fowler]
"I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should I not call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk; and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything." [Jane Austen, "Northanger Abbey"]

Courtesy of www.dictionary.com

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We have a border collie who has always been deathly afraid of the fly swatter, and no we don't beat him with it. BUT you can always tell when he is thinking of doing something bad because he will look at it and contemplating whether it is "worth it" or not.

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I see what you did there...

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I never cursed anyone. To me cursing is something entirely different. 'Go to h*ll' would be a curse. Name calling is definately a no no but I see a lot of folks on AFF OK with calling someone stupid... But yes, as in the example above I've never seen anything wrong personally in whatever I say when I drop something heavy on my foot.

When we were new converts we were playing volleyball with some friends from church. Having been somewhat of a volleyball star in my youth I couldn't believe I netted a serve and said 'Oh Darn!'. 5 pairs of Pentecostal eyes turned around to stare at me horrified... Boy was I surprised, I thought I had done so well giving up the big three. :blah

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....and what is that I did?

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I'm sorry, cursing is cussing to me. It's just how I think of it. I guess I oughtta rethink about that eh?

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....just so it is clear.

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brought back an original meaning to make a good word a bad one, followed by ruining the fun of being a nerd by stating a catchy internet phrase hmmph *crosses arms*

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Uhmm, thinking about this one, perhaps this may sound a bit unusual to call "food" a pet sin, but I think it is. I read one statistic the other day, and it said obesity is the major cause of death in the world. And I know how hard it is to deny myself of foods I love sometimes. It takes a lot of effort to be healthy, and deny oneself the foods that will eventually hurt you, or even kill you.

Soo... I guess I could say food is my pet sin. I have to work daily to try to keep my body healthy.

Here's what Jesus had to say about what I think are "pet sins"

Luke 21:34 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares.

Definition of Surfeiting:
1: an overabundant supply : excess 2: an intemperate or immoderate indulgence in something (as food or drink) 3: disgust caused by excess

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:heeheehee

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Is rocking the boat a sin? Stirring the pot? Chainsaw massacring a group of traveling teenagers?

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Yeah. I love powdered donuts and sherbet better than a good healthy meal.

But I have learned that there is a difference between "food" and substances.
Food is nourishing, substances are things like soda pop, donuts and sherbet. :icecream

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Sometimes I add to the week's shopping list: "something chocolatey and bad for me." :)

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Rocking the boat and stirring the pot could possibly be a sin. If one would know willfully that doing so could get someone to turn away from Jesus' truth and salvation, and if one were doing so exactly for that purpose, I believe that could be a sin. I could be wrong though.

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How about the massacring? If they really, really deserved it? ;)

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What about if this group of teenagers came to your cabin in some sort of weird suicide ritual and just started killing themselves around you?

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Joshua 10:19 And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; :heeheehee

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:thumbsup

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My downfall is not sweet, but salty... in a desperate moment needing something to "pick me up" I look for anything salty...

I agree, there is a big difference between food and junk!!! Why I don't reach for an orange, instead of chips or pretzels, I don't know, but would be much healthier LOL!

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Yep, that's what they get at my house too only replace the cutie with an old greyhair :)