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To: horse_doc
I'm doubly sorry that you feel like you need to get into a fight with a peace officer, just so you can swear.

I did not swear at any time during this incident.

• Swearing is the use of God's Name in vain or otherwise deliberately profaning that which is holy (as in the Quebéquois term "Tabernac'").

• Cursing is the express desire for someone's eternal damnation ("Go to hell!" "God d--n America!") and it is a sin (against Charity). I did not use these words either.

• Vulgarity is the use of common speech. Words such as f--k, s--t, and other such words are merely the common Anglo-Saxon words for "copulation" and "feces" respectively, which were contrasted with the Norman French terms used by the aristocracy after the conquest of 1066. The use of such Anglo-Saxon words as expressions of surprise or exasperation is not sinful; they're vulgar words, yes, but vulgarity is not a sin. (Please note that I did not say "F--k you" to the DPS employee or State Trooper; that would have been a sin.)

I did not swear or curse during this incident. I did use vulgarity.

Now, to your questions: I didn't want to fight him just so I could use the F-word. I wanted to fight him because he was attempting to make me fear him, and I wanted to show him that I was not afraid of him. A younger, stupider B-chan would have done so. Thankfully, I simply bent over and let him give it to me up the metaphorical pooper. A dad has to take a metaphorical anal raping every now and then for the sake of his children.

Would it really have killed you to swallow your pride, turn the other cheek, apologize to the woman, and actually live out the Christianity that you advertise in your tagline?

1. I did swallow my pride. I left without stuffing that runt cop's 9mm up his ass, as he so richly deserved. I turned the other cheek in this instance for the sake of my family. However, backing down in the face of intimidation will eventually kill one's self-respect, without which no man can live.

2. The DPS employee should have ignored my vulgarity. This is how polite people react when they encounter offensive behavior. Instead, she acted in an arrogant manner towards me, and I do not tolerate arrogance from government servants. She should have apologized to me for her high-handed and threatening actions, not the other way around.

3. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a poor example of a Christian. No one with any sense would ever confuse me with a saint. I'm a sinner, big time.

85 posted on 08/14/2008 10:05:32 AM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: B-Chan

Reminds me of the granny that calls 911. Granny: Hello 911, there are people running around naked outside my window. 911: Running around naked? Granny :yes sir. 911: We’ll send someone right over..........knock, knock , knock, Granny: Who is it? Policeman: It’s the police mam. Granny Oh, come right in. Policeman: You say there are people running around naked outside your window? Granny: Yes sir, look right here. Cop: I don’t see any naked people! Granny: Just step up on this milk crate and look through that window next door!


86 posted on 08/14/2008 10:23:11 AM PDT by eastforker (Get-R-Done and then Bring-Em- Home)
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To: B-Chan
No one with any sense would ever confuse me with a saint. I'm a sinner, big time.

You seem to be more proud of your attitude, and of your vulgarity, than you are of your faith.

Why jump through the hoops to justify the difference between vulgarity and swearing? In the Texas of our youth (a much freer place), neither was tolerated in public, in front of women and children - not even in the oilfield town I grew up in. It wouldn't have been a peace officer telling you to clean up your language - it would have been ordinary, simple men in your community.

Have you really forgotten what public life was like, even 30 years ago?
90 posted on 08/14/2008 12:41:09 PM PDT by horse_doc (Visualize a world where a tactical nuke went off at Max Yasgur's farm in 1969.)
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