I guess. Is that the same as “taking the name of the Lord in vain”? I had a hard time even saying “gosh dammit” as I knew it was just substitution. Nowadays, I say “goddammit” all too frequently, and would actually like to remove it from my vocabulary since I don’t believe in a deity anymore it seems stupid to keep invoking the name of one. (which I guess is a weird thought process to have) “Odindammit!” “Zeussdammit!” or even “Tymoradammit!” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
neeks
Sometimes I reference gods’ body parts if I’m trying for a curse and the usual “goddammit” doesn’t quite cut the mustard. “Odin’s left nut!” “By thor’s sweet beard!” That kind of thing.
Cholma
“By Loki’s twisted grin, you vex me so!”
Deanatay
This makes me think of Hiddles!
(Just watched Thor: The Dark World last night…)
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Goshdangit to heck, Joycy! *_*
Eh, I was dragged to church as a child (Methodists in particular), but I was never a religious person myself, and the swearing was always there. In everyday speak, I do blurt out swear words fairly frequently, whenever I bollocks something up, for instance, or accidentally injure myself. Of course I’m quick to alter these to more family-friendly utterings when working as a Scout Leader. xD (Such as “Fu…or crying out loud!”)
Warfoki
Fun fact: that’s how most Hungarian curses involving god work. Although the curses usually involve more… private body parts: god’s manhood, backdoor entrance, etc.
Jalathas
If Odin’s left nut isn’t private, I really don’t want to go to any of his speeches.
tyersome
Well, most ‘gods’ seem to have no problem with exposing their testisness …
i saw your avatar first and was like ‘man that’s really familiar’ and then i saw your name and i was like oh that’s why. hi j.
Kryss LaBryn
“Thor’s teeth” is a good one, but yeah, “By Odin’s hairy left one!” is also extremely useful, lol.
Zayl
I find Zuuldammit to be my go to deity invoking curse nowadays
Screwball
There is no s=cursing, only Zuul…
Screwball
Well that was a weird typo, don’t know how that got in there…
gwalla
You started to type “swearing”, decided to use “cursing” instead, tried to delete the “s” but accidentally hit the equals key next to backspace and didn’t notice.
Cody B
You could try Zuul damnit?
Yet_One_More_Idiot
You could try Zod dammit? Or is that only applicable for Kal-El?
Lone Wolf
“God” isn’t his name, though, it’s his job title. So technically saying “god dammit” or some variation thereof isn’t actually taking the Lord’s name in vain.
John Small Berries
I felt like that too (not wanting to refer to a god I no longer believed in) until I realized that just using the names of the weekdays requires me to name five gods in whom I don’t believe (Tyr, Wodin, Thor, Frigg, Saturn).
So I quit worrying about it, and just say it whenever I goddamn well feel like it.
David M Willis
So many of the words we use have lost contact with their original meaning, I feel fine using stuff like “goddamn” as nothing more than an intensifier.
Rex Vivat
Yeah, but it doesn’t stop the idiots that say “Ha! You say you don’t believe in god, but your subconscious knows better!”, which is why I trained myself to say “gods” instead of “god” (it’s more noticeable in Spanish, which is my first language).
Kryss LaBryn
Something I find interesting is that while I will use “Jesus Christ!” and “God dammit!” if I drop something on my foot, if I’m in having a painful medical procedure, am sedated, but in pain, I exclusively call on my actual gods, so I end up calling out to Odin and Thor in real situations.
So apparently my subconscious is fine with me calling on gods I don’t follow anymore, as per my upbringing, for everyday use; I guess it doesn’t see a reason to call for help for realzies unless it figures I really mean it, lol.
HOW DARE YOU TAKE THE NAME OF OUR MILK-BASED SAVIOUR IN VAIN!!!
wwwhhattt
Goudammit
L. E. Hairstylist
I had a weird thing about taking the Lord’s name in vain for a long time myself, and I was never even raised to be particularly religious. My neighbors, on the other hand, were, so when little tiny five-year-old me was playing with my friends from next door and they reacted to me saying “oh my God” with a gasped “God doesn’t like when you say that!” I was pretty worried about making God unhappy. Aaaand then it turned into A Thing that followed me into my twenties.
Well, considering the preceding comment, this is gonna be a little awkward, but… What comic is that?
Cynthia
It’s an art piece I found on Reddit/r/elsanna.
Mehzus
Suuuuure… In front of a fireplace right?
Cynthia
Hearth, in my own words. I unknowingly reposted it,but it’s amazing enough to see twice. I don’t like the concept of anal, but the raw need demonstrated is beyond a simple act or idea.
Sadly, no one has as of yet informed the cast that it’s terminal.
For their eyebrows, I mean. If something shocking enough happens, the eyebrows will detach and float too high to come down. The victim will be eyebrow-less forever.
gwalla
I woke up this morning with a bad hangover
And my eyebrows were missing again
This happens all the time
They’re detachable
Sentient eyebrows which live a parasitical life on top of eye brow sockets. They survive by digesting emotional brain-waves. Of course, when they receive a shock they tend to leap off.
“Rugged, self-assured, adult. These are the words that describe the man who wears a mustache. Yes, it says to the world: I’m a man of action! Ah, but action tempered with maturity. Like…a fireman! Or…or somebody’s dad!”
Becky’s still all religiositied. Such a person wouldst likely indeed think of religious cussing as way fucking worse than sex cussing and shit. Kinda 19th century of her, really.
Truth. My whole family’s pretty lax on the religion thing, but my mom and aunt will sit and listen to me drop a hundred f-bombs without a word, then flip the hell out if I saw Goddammit.
Saying fuck: Using a word that we as a society at some point decided was a swear.
Saying Goddammit: Taking the Lord’s name in vain, which is against the 10 commandments.
It’s the same reason that they censored the word ‘God’ in ‘Goddamn’ in I Write Sins, Not Tragedies, instead of censoring ‘Damn’. God = word that should be respected and not used in such context, Damn = word that people use all the time and occurs as used here in the Bible itself, and therefore does not need to be censored.
tofusmith
That’s… really, *really* not what the biblical “Taking the Lord’s name in vain” means, but it’s a very common mistranslation among English-speakign Christians.
StClair
Ignoring, or being ignorant of, the meaning in favor of the form and ritual (property translated or not) is very common, period.
Arianod
It’s always freaked me out that so many English-speaking people take even things like “Jesus!” of “For God’s sake!” as blasphemy. I used to think it was a Protestant thing, but I’ve seen Irish Catholics get riled up about it too. Where I’m from, though, even priests say stuff like that and think nothing of it O_o
Agreed – it’s not like ‘God Damn It’ is saying ‘Damn God’. It’s usually saying, “God, this person/thing is being an asshole, please damn it to some horrible fate!”
Jonathan
The Jewish version of that commandment is “Thou shalt not swear falsely by the name of Adonai your God”.
Which I always understood to mean: if you swear by God’s name, you better be legit. Don’t say “I swear to God, I didn’t run over your cat” if you actually ran over the cat.
Of course, due to the rich Jewish tradition of building fences around the law, nowadays Jews don’t swear oaths at all, and will “affirm” instead if called to testify in court.
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Demon Something
Becky is a code-shifter, easily switching between Fundie and English.
Cholma
Meh. I could say “fuck” loooong before I could let “God” slip past my lips. Took years for that restriction to fade away.
t
That just a blasphemy thing?
Cholma
I guess. Is that the same as “taking the name of the Lord in vain”? I had a hard time even saying “gosh dammit” as I knew it was just substitution. Nowadays, I say “goddammit” all too frequently, and would actually like to remove it from my vocabulary since I don’t believe in a deity anymore it seems stupid to keep invoking the name of one. (which I guess is a weird thought process to have) “Odindammit!” “Zeussdammit!” or even “Tymoradammit!” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
neeks
Sometimes I reference gods’ body parts if I’m trying for a curse and the usual “goddammit” doesn’t quite cut the mustard. “Odin’s left nut!” “By thor’s sweet beard!” That kind of thing.
Cholma
“By Loki’s twisted grin, you vex me so!”
Deanatay
This makes me think of Hiddles!
(Just watched Thor: The Dark World last night…)
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Goshdangit to heck, Joycy! *_*
Eh, I was dragged to church as a child (Methodists in particular), but I was never a religious person myself, and the swearing was always there. In everyday speak, I do blurt out swear words fairly frequently, whenever I bollocks something up, for instance, or accidentally injure myself. Of course I’m quick to alter these to more family-friendly utterings when working as a Scout Leader. xD (Such as “Fu…or crying out loud!”)
Warfoki
Fun fact: that’s how most Hungarian curses involving god work. Although the curses usually involve more… private body parts: god’s manhood, backdoor entrance, etc.
Jalathas
If Odin’s left nut isn’t private, I really don’t want to go to any of his speeches.
tyersome
Well, most ‘gods’ seem to have no problem with exposing their testisness …
jefffwinger
i saw your avatar first and was like ‘man that’s really familiar’ and then i saw your name and i was like oh that’s why. hi j.
Kryss LaBryn
“Thor’s teeth” is a good one, but yeah, “By Odin’s hairy left one!” is also extremely useful, lol.
Zayl
I find Zuuldammit to be my go to deity invoking curse nowadays
Screwball
There is no s=cursing, only Zuul…
Screwball
Well that was a weird typo, don’t know how that got in there…
gwalla
You started to type “swearing”, decided to use “cursing” instead, tried to delete the “s” but accidentally hit the equals key next to backspace and didn’t notice.
Cody B
You could try Zuul damnit?
Yet_One_More_Idiot
You could try Zod dammit? Or is that only applicable for Kal-El?
Lone Wolf
“God” isn’t his name, though, it’s his job title. So technically saying “god dammit” or some variation thereof isn’t actually taking the Lord’s name in vain.
John Small Berries
I felt like that too (not wanting to refer to a god I no longer believed in) until I realized that just using the names of the weekdays requires me to name five gods in whom I don’t believe (Tyr, Wodin, Thor, Frigg, Saturn).
So I quit worrying about it, and just say it whenever I goddamn well feel like it.
David M Willis
So many of the words we use have lost contact with their original meaning, I feel fine using stuff like “goddamn” as nothing more than an intensifier.
Rex Vivat
Yeah, but it doesn’t stop the idiots that say “Ha! You say you don’t believe in god, but your subconscious knows better!”, which is why I trained myself to say “gods” instead of “god” (it’s more noticeable in Spanish, which is my first language).
Kryss LaBryn
Something I find interesting is that while I will use “Jesus Christ!” and “God dammit!” if I drop something on my foot, if I’m in having a painful medical procedure, am sedated, but in pain, I exclusively call on my actual gods, so I end up calling out to Odin and Thor in real situations.
So apparently my subconscious is fine with me calling on gods I don’t follow anymore, as per my upbringing, for everyday use; I guess it doesn’t see a reason to call for help for realzies unless it figures I really mean it, lol.
leadsynth
Cheese damn it!
Batmang
HOW DARE YOU TAKE THE NAME OF OUR MILK-BASED SAVIOUR IN VAIN!!!
wwwhhattt
Goudammit
L. E. Hairstylist
I had a weird thing about taking the Lord’s name in vain for a long time myself, and I was never even raised to be particularly religious. My neighbors, on the other hand, were, so when little tiny five-year-old me was playing with my friends from next door and they reacted to me saying “oh my God” with a gasped “God doesn’t like when you say that!” I was pretty worried about making God unhappy. Aaaand then it turned into A Thing that followed me into my twenties.
Bill
I recommend reading “Small Gods” by Terry Pratchett for an interesting and entertaining view on gods, followers, and religion in general.
Also useful if you need a couple of new deities to call upon in times of stress, anger, or ecstasy.
Varius
imagine that!
Cynthia
“Well, ding-dang darn-tootly tootin’!”
Mehzus
Love your gravatar, elsanna for the win!!!
Disloyal Subject
Eh. Even if it’s yuri, incest is awfully squicky IMO.
Wait… How can you tell that’s Anna?
Cynthia
It’s actually Elsa, nuzzling Anna’s ear.
Disloyal Subject
Elsa’s plainly visible; I was expressing suspicion that they recognized an ear.
Kamino Neko
Well, Anna is pretty much the only option, given the hair. Too long to be Hans, too red to be Kristoff, too extant to be Olaf, too human to be Sven.
Cynthia
Ah. Fair ball then. 🙂
Heavensrun
It’s also possible they were familiar with the picture it came from.
Kaoy
Well, considering the preceding comment, this is gonna be a little awkward, but… What comic is that?
Cynthia
It’s an art piece I found on Reddit/r/elsanna.
Mehzus
Suuuuure… In front of a fireplace right?
Cynthia
Hearth, in my own words. I unknowingly reposted it,but it’s amazing enough to see twice. I don’t like the concept of anal, but the raw need demonstrated is beyond a simple act or idea.
Mehzus
Agreed
Vklav
Now I want to see the original…
Wisharts
‘Goshdangit’ is a worse curse word in my books that ‘fucking’ if I’m honest
Plasma Mongoose
And in the world of “Leave It To Beaver”.
nothri
It lacks the same versatility, if nothing else.
“Fuck those fucking fuckers for not fucking knowing what the fuck they were doing.”
Andalf
“Gosh dang those gosh dangers for not gosh danging knowing what the gosh dang they were doing!”
Kryss LaBryn
That unfortunately and hilariously inserts “dangers” into the middle of it, though. 😀
Khrene
Missed two at the end.
“Fuck those fucking fuckers for not fucking knowing what the fuck they were fucking around with. FUCK.”
Blue
“Gosh dang those gosh danging gosh dangers for not gosh dang knowing what the gosh dang they were gosh danging around with. GOSH DANG”
(I took the liberty of dropping the ‘ing’ from one ‘gosh dang’ because it sounded better that way.)
Doc
Becky scared the eyebrows off of Joyce. Literally.
Doctor_Who
They hit the ceiling fan above her, got flung across the restaurant, and landed in somebody’s soup.
MeghanTheWorldEater
Oh no that’s just a disease that everyone in Willis’ universe has that causes eyebrows to occasionally detach from the face.
MiaKitty
Sadly, no one has as of yet informed the cast that it’s terminal.
For their eyebrows, I mean. If something shocking enough happens, the eyebrows will detach and float too high to come down. The victim will be eyebrow-less forever.
gwalla
I woke up this morning with a bad hangover
And my eyebrows were missing again
This happens all the time
They’re detachable
Robert
Those aren’t eyebrows. It’s where she keeps her noodles.
Yet Another Laura H.
Quick! Get them back before someone canoodles them pre-maritally!
Willoughby Chase
Sentient eyebrows which live a parasitical life on top of eye brow sockets. They survive by digesting emotional brain-waves. Of course, when they receive a shock they tend to leap off.
Deanatay
Reminds me of ‘That Moustache Feeling’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6cetQBawE
gwalla
“Rugged, self-assured, adult. These are the words that describe the man who wears a mustache. Yes, it says to the world: I’m a man of action! Ah, but action tempered with maturity. Like…a fireman! Or…or somebody’s dad!”
The Tick is the best.
Kryss LaBryn
The Tick is TOTALLY the best.
Yotomoe
Becky’s got a fucking pottymouth. What the hell, girl. Where do you get off with that vulgar shit.
Arianod
Aye. That girl’s a motherfucking disgrace, someone ought to teach her some goddamn manners :c
Plasma Mongoose
You’re going to censor goshdangit??
Barf Ninjason
Becky’s still all religiositied. Such a person wouldst likely indeed think of religious cussing as way fucking worse than sex cussing and shit. Kinda 19th century of her, really.
MiaKitty
Truth. My whole family’s pretty lax on the religion thing, but my mom and aunt will sit and listen to me drop a hundred f-bombs without a word, then flip the hell out if I saw Goddammit.
Saying fuck: Using a word that we as a society at some point decided was a swear.
Saying Goddammit: Taking the Lord’s name in vain, which is against the 10 commandments.
It’s the same reason that they censored the word ‘God’ in ‘Goddamn’ in I Write Sins, Not Tragedies, instead of censoring ‘Damn’. God = word that should be respected and not used in such context, Damn = word that people use all the time and occurs as used here in the Bible itself, and therefore does not need to be censored.
tofusmith
That’s… really, *really* not what the biblical “Taking the Lord’s name in vain” means, but it’s a very common mistranslation among English-speakign Christians.
StClair
Ignoring, or being ignorant of, the meaning in favor of the form and ritual (property translated or not) is very common, period.
Arianod
It’s always freaked me out that so many English-speaking people take even things like “Jesus!” of “For God’s sake!” as blasphemy. I used to think it was a Protestant thing, but I’ve seen Irish Catholics get riled up about it too. Where I’m from, though, even priests say stuff like that and think nothing of it O_o
leadsynth
Even Joyce’s parents were like “Holy Lord, those are nice lofts.” http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/loft/
Deanatay
Agreed – it’s not like ‘God Damn It’ is saying ‘Damn God’. It’s usually saying, “God, this person/thing is being an asshole, please damn it to some horrible fate!”
Jonathan
The Jewish version of that commandment is “Thou shalt not swear falsely by the name of Adonai your God”.
Which I always understood to mean: if you swear by God’s name, you better be legit. Don’t say “I swear to God, I didn’t run over your cat” if you actually ran over the cat.
Of course, due to the rich Jewish tradition of building fences around the law, nowadays Jews don’t swear oaths at all, and will “affirm” instead if called to testify in court.