Comments on: By Request: Bless THIS http://atheists.org/blog/2006/01/16/by_request_bless_this A Blog of Atheist Thought Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Typhoon http://atheists.org/blog/2006/01/16/by_request_bless_this/comment-page-1#comment-23031 The Typhoon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-23031 It's a reflex for me too it just comes out automatically I don't really think of it in any Religious way . I can?t really help it...<br /> <br /> But I don?t think it?s a reflex if someone constantly blesses you after you sneeze for the fifteenth time. About saying thank you I don?t know why but I feel some how pressured to say it. It’s a reflex for me too it just comes out automatically I don’t really think of it in any Religious way . I can?t really help it…

But I don?t think it?s a reflex if someone constantly blesses you after you sneeze for the fifteenth time. About saying thank you I don?t know why but I feel some how pressured to say it.

]]> By: Donaldito http://atheists.org/blog/2006/01/16/by_request_bless_this/comment-page-1#comment-23032 Donaldito Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-23032 Ha! I've had to have this conversation at work. It's interesting when people try to "reason" with me that it's rude for me to neither say it to people or to thank people when it's said to me. Of course, when I asked for their reasoning for thinking I'm rude, they offer nothing.<br /> On the (sort of) flip side of my own reasoning, we have Jehovah's Witnesses who also refuse to participate because "only God can bless people." Ha! Ha! I’ve had to have this conversation at work. It’s interesting when people try to “reason” with me that it’s rude for me to neither say it to people or to thank people when it’s said to me. Of course, when I asked for their reasoning for thinking I’m rude, they offer nothing.
On the (sort of) flip side of my own reasoning, we have Jehovah’s Witnesses who also refuse to participate because “only God can bless people.” Ha!

]]> By: reluctantatheist http://atheists.org/blog/2006/01/16/by_request_bless_this/comment-page-1#comment-23033 reluctantatheist Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-23033 Hey, I get to be the 1st poster! Long time!<br /> Bless you (actually, r4d & I discussed this at the EA many mos. ago) has a religious connotation.<br /> Somebody blessed me when I sneezed last month. "God bless you!" I replied back, "There is no god!" <br /> Young guy, knew I was an atheist. "Man, thass pretty hardcore, man."<br /> "Gesundheit" is acceptable, German for "Health be to you."<br /> Actually, it's (as I understand it) a primarily Euro-American habit, because it's supposed to prevent your spirit from dislodging itself from your body. <br /> The song 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder comes to mind.<br /> Better post quick!<br /> Hey, I get to be the 1st poster! Long time!
Bless you (actually, r4d & I discussed this at the EA many mos. ago) has a religious connotation.
Somebody blessed me when I sneezed last month. “God bless you!” I replied back, “There is no god!”
Young guy, knew I was an atheist. “Man, thass pretty hardcore, man.”
“Gesundheit” is acceptable, German for “Health be to you.”
Actually, it’s (as I understand it) a primarily Euro-American habit, because it’s supposed to prevent your spirit from dislodging itself from your body.
The song ‘Superstition’ by Stevie Wonder comes to mind.
Better post quick!

]]> By: reluctantatheist http://atheists.org/blog/2006/01/16/by_request_bless_this/comment-page-1#comment-23035 reluctantatheist Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-23035 D'oh! Foiled again!<br /> That's okay, I never got the bloody damn toaster from the last time I posted 1st.<br /> We do get a toaster, don't we? <br /> As to saying it: I catch myself at times.<br /> So "Gesundheit!" is what I say mostly.<br /> After that, I say, "Ditto if you do it again!" "Ditto!" "Ditto!"<br /> If they sneeze 15 times or more? Yeesh, how polite can 1 person be? D’oh! Foiled again!
That’s okay, I never got the bloody damn toaster from the last time I posted 1st.
We do get a toaster, don’t we?
As to saying it: I catch myself at times.
So “Gesundheit!” is what I say mostly.
After that, I say, “Ditto if you do it again!” “Ditto!” “Ditto!”
If they sneeze 15 times or more? Yeesh, how polite can 1 person be?

]]> By: island57 http://atheists.org/blog/2006/01/16/by_request_bless_this/comment-page-1#comment-23036 island57 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-23036 Whoa, this really is intense. I sometimes find myself saying gesundheit reflexively when I'm with someone who sneezes. (I wouldn't say anything to a stranger). When someone blesses me, and that's pretty frequently because I have allergies, I am usually silent in the reply. Sometimes, I tell them "no thank you". I've never said "because I'm an atheist". I don't think these folks mean any xtian harm, I think these old habits are hard to break, and this is a very old habit. Whoa, this really is intense. I sometimes find myself saying gesundheit reflexively when I’m with someone who sneezes. (I wouldn’t say anything to a stranger). When someone blesses me, and that’s pretty frequently because I have allergies, I am usually silent in the reply. Sometimes, I tell them “no thank you”. I’ve never said “because I’m an atheist”. I don’t think these folks mean any xtian harm, I think these old habits are hard to break, and this is a very old habit.

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