Sticks and Stones may brake my bones, but your words will never hurt me??

One of the fundamental things I would learn my kid is to not get too angered or saddened by mere words, for the reasons that I have already stated.
The fact that teaching endurance against "verbal violence" is so often forgotten is one of the main reasons why it's such a vicious and powerful form of abuse in the first place.

 

^This guy's good!^

Anyway, what i think is, well, I'm a very insecure, low self esteemed person, and yet i have never been physically bullied. Its worse when there are girls who are nice to your face, and then torment you and they all turn on you. Like I said, Sticks and stones break my bones and those scars heal...eventually. as for emotional scars, your left with a low self esteem for life, thats just my opinion of course.

 

like if you told a younger sibling how stupid they are and call them names..theyd start to cry...and they would remember it..or if your parent call you a beep..youll remember it..it will always remain in your thoughs, but if someone slaps you the pain goes away eventually..or if someone shoots you with a a gun..youll heal...

 

kinda depends on where you shoot them ;3
But, yeah, I see what you mean : o you have a point :3

 

hee hee yeah.....

 

Even if it's in your thoughts it wouldn't hurt them forever. Sooner or later they should make up fixing the problem. Even though it's still remembered its been resolved, so nothings hurt. There are some cases of pain where you won't heal, such as getting paralyzed.

 

Depends on the ability of the one tossing out the words. if they know enough about you then they can do some serious damage. but if they are just being a ****** about something then why should you care?

 

If they were to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, then what would give you the right to feel offended or to sustain damage?

 

both can hurt you
if you're getting dumped by someone the words will hurt you
otherwise if you're insulted you're only hurt if you choose the word as offensive or not :l

 

have you ever been stabbed or punched? Yeah, I didn't think so.
If words hurt you as much as a really good punch to the face, or knife to the hand, then your an emotional pussy.

 

Excuse me, there is no need for this. Don't belittle people just because you prefer to fight things out. I have met some people who can flay you alive with words quite easily, especially if they know you well. If someone knows enough about you, they can degrade you and play on your insecurities and fears like a demented puppet master. It happened to me all through elementary school and until I decided to shut myself off from the world in middle school. All a person needs to know is what annoys you and what makes you feel bad.

 

I bet that you've never broken the carpal bones in your wrist before and that hurts, my brother did it, but thew things that people said to him before that still stick in his mind a lot more than the pain of breaking those bones.

Also, think of self harmers, I know someone who self harms and usually it's because of what other people say. She would rather hurt herself physically than endure the pain of the words, think about that.

Also, you need to stop being such a hard headed cantankerous pleb and start thinking more about the feelings of us more palatable hoi polloi.

 

English, dude, English...

All kidding aside, yea, words can cause a HUGE amount of mental anguish and in some cases, physical harm (depression can actually affect your health, decrease appetite, and cause numerous other effects)

 

Of course they do but thats depends on the strength of your will to not let them get to you.They might get to me but i turn it into rage and use it at the GYM.

 

Words can hurt a lot actually. Physical pain fades away and after a while you can't even remember how much it hurt except that it hurt, whereas pain caused by words is just as fresh in recollection as it was the first time around, in some cases anyway.

I was bullied a lot at high school xD but it was the taunts that hurt more than anything physical.

I agree that the phrase is just a way for those who are hurt to try and console themselves.

Some words can't be ignored, Ok so maybe it is just a matter of not letting the words get to you, but everyone has a point where that is no longer an option.

I love my friends, but I even now can't forget some of the things they have said to gain points in an argument.

There was no need for that at all.

 

I think you'll find that cantankerous, palatable and hoi palloi are all in the English dictionary.


cantankerous - bad tempered and quarrelsome
palatable - agreeable
hoi palloi (in English dictionary but borrowed from Greek) - Common people, the majority.

^_^

 

Ah. Ok, thank you. Learn something every day.

 

i think this may be true, because no matter how much we try to denie it we want people to like us. i dont know thats just my opinion

 

Words can really hurt if you let them get to you but whenever someone says something hurtful to me I just block it out because it isn't worth listening to so yea

 

Let me put it simply, words obviously do hurt as many people are effected by the words of mankind in multiple ways. But the song refers to being able to not let those words get to you although that hardly ever happens. A perfect example is this site, its argument city. Its all words that have to be read and people still get hurt and offended by them meaning words can hurt but not in a physical way.