Hold your tongue

I've been dented in my faith in mankind. Well, women any way. Never really had much of that.

A girl called Bex I've discovered, sits around in public talkuing loudly in an entirely unselfaware manner. Talking about her abortions, her STDs, how drunk she got, who used to masturbate in class at her school. I've said before that one of the things which sperates man from beast is the conscious control of the tongue.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
-- James 1:26

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
-- James 3:6

Want to be a good Christian? Shut up! Think before you speak! Don't rant on in a public place about you STDs and so forth. Speak only for meaningful and necessary communication. Try not to speak at all.

A dog can't stop itself barking because it's just a reflex machine. A human is meant to be better than that.

Also there was a documentary on the Channel 4 the other day. About the local English fundamentalists, not particularly interesting, but one piece sticks in my mind. A Tory MP, female, former nurse (a certain Tory Peer recently announced that nurses are dirty, drunken whores), wearing a very fetching white dress holding some sort of press conference flanked by several silent male Tory MPs. Something veneration-of-the-goddess-y about it.