We all have emotionally-charged words.  I have some too.  What are yours and your definitions of them?   Here are some I listed, define them in one word or short phrases what they mean to you personally?   List and briefly define others you have that I didn't list?  :-)   No flaming, please...keep it peaceful, loves?\n\nscience, attitude, "god" / God, prayer, soul or spirit, religion, belief, silence, salvation, logic, relationship, moral, ethic, christianity, atheism, agnosticism, nonbeliever, believer, tolerance, understanding, acceptance
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My defintions of your words:\n\nscience: the study of the physical world based on the accumlation of factual evidence and the construction of theories to explain said evidence.\n\nattitude: the general manner in which an individual views or acts towards something.\n\ngod: a devine being that is the object of religious worship\n\nGod: the Judeo-Christian god\n\nprayer: a form of spoken (including silently spoken) worship\n\nsoul/spirt: the conceptual essence of the human conciousness\n\nreligion: a system of belief in and worship of a divine being, a system of traditions\n\nsilence: the absence of sound\n\nsalvation: being saved from something, often used by sects of Christianity to describe being saved from enteral damnation\n\nlogic: reason, rational thought\n\nrelationship: the interaction between to people or things\n\nmoral: adhering to a code of right and wrong\n\nethic: a set of moral principles; the code to which one must adhere to be moral\n\nChristianity: a religion\n\natheism: not believing in the existence of any god or gods\n\nagnosticsm: believing that a god or gods may or may not exist and we can't be sure; not knowing what religion one wants to believe in (one can be agnostic because one is certain we can never be certain or because one is in the process of deciding what one believes)\n\nnonbeliever: someone who does not believe in something, particularly a religion\n\nbeliever: someone who unquestioningly accepts or believes in something, particularly a religion\n\ntolerance: not attacking or discriminating against certain groups that are somehow different from oneself, often doing so with reservation or out of obligation\n\nunderstanding: comprehending something or empathizing with someone\n\nacceptance: the result of understanding, similar to tolerance but without reservation\n\n________________\nA few of my own:\n\ncreationism: the belief that the creation story described in Genesis is literally true despite scientific evidence to the contrary; the rejection of the scientific theory of evolution based on its contradicting a literal interpretation of Genesis\n\nintelligent design: creationism masquerading as psuedoscience\n\nretarded: slowed in some way, often refers to mental retardation, which is defined as an IQ below the first quartile (I think that's where it is anyway); should not be used as an insult\n\ngay: either cheerful (as in skipping gayly) or homosexual; should not be used as an insult
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Faithfreedom\n\ngoogle it
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♥=The most spectacular,indescribable, deep euphoric feeling for someone. \n\nLove is an incredibly powerful word. When you're in love, you always want to be together, and when you're not, you're thinking about being together because you need that person and without them your life is incomplete.\n\nThis love is unconditional affection with no limits or conditions: completely loving someone. It's when you trust the other with your life and when you would do anything for each other. When you love someone you want nothing more than for them to be truly happy no matter what it takes because that's how much you care about them and because their needs come before your own. You hide nothing of yourself and can tell the other anything because you know they accept you just the way you are and vice versa.\n\nIt's when they're the last thing you think about before you go to sleep and when they're the first thing you think of when you wake up, the feeling that warms your heart and leaves you overcome by a feeling of serenity. Love involves wanting to show your affection and/or devotion to each other. It's the smile on your face you get when you're thinking about them and miss them.\n\nLove can make you do anything and sacrifice for what will be better in the end. Love is intense,and passionate. Everything seems brighter, happier and more wonderful when you're in love. If you find it, don't let it go.\n\nOne word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: \n\nThat word is love.\n\n♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥An inexplainable yet incredibly strong feeling for someone...Most people use the word "love" to get into someone else's pants. Love is overused in today's world, people say they love someone because of the way they look or their body. That isn't love. Love is when you can't do anything without thinking about that person, you always want to be with them. It's not that you want to have sex with them, you just want to spend time with them and you just want to hold them and never let go. Love can be fooling, you can think you're in love and it can lead to the most horrible feeling in the world. Also you can wait so long for someone, loving them, and waiting for them to love you back, but they don't return it for a long time and you spend years thinking and thinking and it tears you up inside but when that person realizes that they love you back it's miraculous. Love is a very strong word, don't overuse it.
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To have a joy unspeakable when all your sins are forgiven and you are promised eternal life without cost... then to hear the ridicule of such a wonderful gift as being an evil thing, how could we not be passionate in our response? However, we are admonished not to repay evil for evil, that a soft word turns away wrath. But we all slip, even myself, and get too zealous in our rebuttals.\nFunny, in the business world, being aggressive is a good thing. If a Christian even appears aggressive--well, that is different. Could we not say that we are creating a misimpression? That what you describe as aggression could actually be passionate debate. Something I have often seen in these posts.
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Lovehas several different meanings in the English language, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something for which one would die for (patriotism, pair-bonding). It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love. As an experience usually felt by a person for another person, it is commonly considered impossible to describe. Dictionaries tend to define love as deep affection or fondness. In colloquial use, according to polled opinion, the most favoured definitions of love include the words:\n\nlife - someone or something for which you would give your life. \ncare - someone or something about which you care more than yourself. \nfriendship - favoured interpersonal associations or relationships. \nunion - a synergistic connection, as in the perfect union of two souls. \nfamily - people related via common ancestry, religion, or race, etc. \nThe concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love, calling it a recently invented abstraction. Moreover, approximately 13 percent of cultures reportedly have no word for love. Others maintain that love exists but is undefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature, etc. Perhaps due to its emotional primacy, love is one of the most common themes in art.\n\nLove might best be defined as acting intentionally, in sympathetic response to others to promote overall well-being. Or to put it simply, "love responds intentionally to promote well-being" (Thomas Jay Oord). Love promotes overall flourishing, but often focuses on those close at hand.\n\nCultural differences make any universal definition of love difficult to establish. See the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Expressions of love may include the love for a soul or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, love for the respect of others, et cetera. Different people place varying degrees of importance on the kinds of love they receive. Love is essentially an abstract concept, easier to experience than to explain. Many believe, as stated originally by Virgil, that "Love conquers all". However, love may be confused with lust.\n\n\nTypes\nCourtly love – a late medieval conventionalized code prescribing certain conduct and emotions for ladies and their lovers. \nErotic love – an aesthetic focused on sexual desire. \nFamilial love – affection brokered through kinship connections, intertwined with concepts of attachment and bonding. \nFree love – sexual relations according to choice and unrestricted by marriage. \nPlatonic love – a close relationship in which sexual desire is nonexistent or has been suppressed or sublimated. \nPuppy love – romantic affection felt between or as though between adolescents. \nReligious love – devotion to one’s deity or theology. \nRomantic love – affection characterized by a mix of emotional and sexual desire. \nUnrequited love – affection and desire not reciprocated or returned.
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When you fight fire with fire, you get ashes.  I wonder... if you have no problem  with gays.. why the subject?  Why is it on your mind?  God's "word"... is that first hand or second hand or heard it?
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Well it's generally your own personal interpretation of them but anyway here's how I see it...\n\nRed - Anger\nBlue - Peace\nGreen - Calm/Tranquility\nWhite - Purity/Innocence\nYellow/Orange - Wild\nPurple - Mysterious\nBlack - Depressive/Dark\nGray - Boring
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WOW, Powerful topic.  Not only are Words our most common (physical) means of communication, they hold the key to what we manifest in our lives. Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Words are the most critical factors in our life experience.  What we choose to think produces emotion or feelings, our feelings dictate our Words.  We can choose to be negative and think about all of the dis-empowering possibilities, creating feelings of fear and lack, producing words like I'll never and I can't, and such will be our reality.  Or we can take a risk and decide to think positive and feel blessed in every situation, saying things like, "I can", "Thank You", and "I Love".  Human nature is such that we gravitate toward the familiar, if so, in reconsidering what is familiar for us we may begin to understand why and how are lives are effected.  If unhappy with current circumstance try re-thinking your life, imagining how it would feel, and speaking as if it were so.\nGood Luck on speech!
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My family used to be (when my parents were still alive and us kids were closer to home) prone to getting into heated "discussions" about most any topic. Whatever the popular opinion, my dad would always play the devils advocate, and off we'd go, debating darned near anything. One Sunday, we got into it about cursing. Part of us took the stance that only the designated curse words were truly curse words, and who decided what they were anyway? And part of us took the side that ANY word would be a curse word if used with the right emotion. Ex: if you say darn and you really meant damn, or really WANTED to say damn, then you may as well have gone ahead and said damn! The others were no way! Only the word damn is a curse word, and darn and heck and shoot are all perfectly good alternatives...well, so it went in my house!\nPoint being, I personally think that it's the emotion behind the word used, and say, in the case of Tourette's, there is no emotion intended, just an uncontrollable outburst of words that just happen to be considered foul by society. Now, having said all that, the Bible does have something to say about not allowing a rotten saying to come out of our mouths, along with swearing (as in "I swear to God I didn't take your purse!" The Bible says to let our yes mean yes and our no mean no) You'll find those verses at Eph 4:29 and Matt 5:37.
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Heart of possibilities\n\nMiss. Potentiality\n\nGolferchic seeking putter \n\n\nBe blessed
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Simply Understanding, Simply Adorable And Never\nPrideful or Righteous. Always Kind And Simply Happy!
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None... but todays a good day for me... :D \nLets face it people... we all have our bad days... and everyone vents on someone when they shouldn't have... no one keeps their cool all of the time... it's part of being human... \nBTW... My Grammar SUCKS Too!!!
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Telling other people about Christ without turning them off is also an issue I, as a Christian, deal with. My pastor told us to use actions, not words. Be kind, loving, generous, slow to anger, forgiving, faithful, joyful, and peaceful in tough situations. Though it may be hard, those consistent qualities will make others want to know how you can be so nice and stay so calm. Then you can tell them.
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Though the language may have many words but they all revolve around being a good human.\n\nCleansing: - to clean your heart, remove all grudges,anger, ill-feeling towards others.\nForgiveness:- to forgive other who hold -ve feeling or acts towards you,\nholiness:- is being good...being godly.
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You can go to Google and type Define: then the word you want explained. This one means:\nAn offense which disturbs the peace and tranquility of the community in general
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wrath.\n\nBe careful what you allow in your mind or it'll come out your mouth sometime.  Thoughts become deeds & words.
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eccentric,eclectic,\neclipse,ecstasy,\nedge,effect,embryo,\nemerald,enfold,escape,\nesoteric,ethics,\nexistence,essayist,\nessential,ego,epic