As you all know, I'm in a fight right now to be the best I can be. I've developed a personal ethical code (with the help of the DIAMOND CUTTER) to follow in my life. This is something I hope to pass down to my unborn children:
MY PERSONAL ETHICAL CODE
1) DO NOT LIE2) BE HAPPILY HELPFUL
3) ALWAYS GIVE PEOPLE MORE THEN WHAT THEY NEED
4) DON'T THINK BAD THOUGHTS OF OTHERS
5) DO NOT SPEAK NEGATIVELY OF OTHERS
6) DO NOT STEAL - AT ALL!!! (NOT A GRAPE FROM THE KROGER OR 38 cents of change)
7) PAY ALL DEBTS (even the ones I think are whack)
8) ENCOURAGE BEAUTIFUL WORDS FROM LEAVING MY MOUTH (Quit Cursing)
9) PROTECT LIFE (Wish I could be vegetarian...gonna cut down...animals have feelings too)
10) LEARN AT LEAST 1 NEW THING EACH DAY
11) DON'T ABUSE DRUGS & ALCOHOL
12) PROTECT OTHER's PROPERTY
Many of you know that some of these things will be particularly challenging - especially cursing. I have a horrible potty mouth. And sometimes I wonder the significance of not cursing at all. What does it really hurt? - it's just another form of expression which is sometimes REALLY accurate. What's the difference of saying Fudge instead of Fuck? Or not saying either one and thinking it? Nothing - really. I've just noticed for the first time that people express utter shock when they hear me curse. It was like when I used to smoke and people would look at me and say they would have NEVER in a million years expected me to smoke. Now - as I'm getting older - I want to match that perception that people have of me with true actions. What does that say about somebody when they think you are incapable of smoking or using profanity. To me, it is a form of respect to be envisioned that way. I know I have a particular form of respect for people that appear to live "clean" lives. Well - I want to be a role model. I want to be revered. With that being said - you now know my moral code of living. Here is a poem I wrote this morning when I woke up and decided I'd stop cursing:
Dedicated to Corey A Thomas for inspiring me to do so:
SHIP, DARN, MOTHERFUDGER
by Sonia "Sypher" Tyler
FUCK - My favorite proclamation of despair
which can only feel better, when prefaced with Mother
SHIT - What better way to express disappointment
then thinking of excrement; nasty, but quite relevant
BITCH - A word that cuts with great precision
Makes the user feel empowered, and the receiver sadly deflowered
DAMN - When something is utterly disgusting
The opposite of Godly, but used the most involuntary
All of these words have a punch when you say them.
And is the second thing more demeaning then a face spat on with phlegm.
When angry, these feel like the best way to express distress
Until people start looking perturbed and perplexed
Not for nothing naughty words are always associated
with the low class and extreme unintelligence
Now I wonder what this world would be, if I did not use words of profanity
~ I would always know how to exactly articulate my thoughts around children and their parents
~ No more hushed conversations on the phone, cause I know most my words come out wrong
~ That look one gets when they're beautiful, won't be taken away once they hear my mouthful
I imagine a transformation into Queendom
where the new cool is to be regal
And it wouldn't matter what your religion
you could never mistaken my words for evil
I also suspect life would be more peaceful
having to think before I speak ill
SHIP, DARN, MOTHER-FUDGER! I got to stop using all these flippin curse words!
O wow! This is beauty at its best in the form of poetry...I'm still a bit confused or better yet challenged in the psyche.Ship, Darn, Mother-Fudger, is appropiate but does it matter? As a performer yes, we dont want our children listening to profane language, if its on the radio or tv but when its on the block or in the household, we as a people dont ever tend to look at that aspect and even care about it. All of this seriously challenges our First Amendment right. Thats gone be the name of our Park Event, "First Amendment Rights Sypher" named after yours truly...The author of this fabolous blog. Personally its about discipline and with discipline I think we can get to that point where we dont have a filthy mouth. Ethical Relativism says that the only difference between right and wrong is what one believes. I support that theory because without restrictions fron governance we wouldnt really give too SHIPS :) about most things taking place around us 2day......
ReplyDeleteBITCH, ASS, NIGGA
ReplyDeleteNow if you want to make the city go to war
Call that Nigga a Bitch and not a Whore
And if you really want to get him out his fag
I suugest you try to get up in his ass
And the day u meet him he claiming he a killa
that'll be when u tell hin he a bitch ass nigga..
Its some errors in that posting but they werent there when I spelled checked my work....but its still prevalent to me..PEACE!
ReplyDeleteOh! The Shit
ReplyDeleteThe shit is the shit and I cant help it when I'm the shit....And if I'm the shit then that means that everybody can smell me. Please dont judge or react so quick when the brave soul stands up in class and say "I'M THAT SHIT!
LMAO! Prince - you crazy as Hell! (I can say that, right?)
ReplyDeleteI was reading this article in Oprah and it said that "Using your favorite four-letter word at the right time can alleviate pain. A recent study published in NeuroReport found that participants who immersed their hands in icy water and were allowed to shout expletives experienced significantly less prickly, numbing pain than when they repeated neutral words. Reseachers speculate that cursing activates the stress response, boosting the body's pain threshold to deal with crisis."
Guess I can do it when I'm having a baby - I'ma let baby boo boo hear a mouthful when it's first coming into this crazy world. Gotta prepare the child - ya heard?