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 OrgoneConclusion
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 God Bless You All! 
#8179887 - 03/22/08 01:46 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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What is the point of this statement?
If I didn't remind God, he might forget.
or
I have the power to command God to bless you.
or
It is a totally meaningless feel-good statement to those that ascribe to Aramaic religions.
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Icelander
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This statement is used to identify who is and who is not on your side.
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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.
" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.
With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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 Re: God Bless You All! [Re: Icelander]
#8179950 - 03/22/08 02:04 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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Like a hot knife through butter...
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Middleman
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ethnoguy
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Re: God Bless You All! [Re: Middleman]
#8180125 - 03/22/08 03:04 PM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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Well, If you are Obama's minister you would "God damn us" all, so I will take the blessing and not get offended. I think God Bless is the same as may the force be with you. So I say C.
EG
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EternalCowabunga
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Maybe you should ask George Carlin 
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Edited by EternalCowabunga (03/22/08 03:06 PM)
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Diploid
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Do Satanists say "Satan bless you"? 
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Republican Values:
1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.
4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.
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Asante
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Re: God Bless You All! [Re: Diploid]
#8182538 - 03/23/08 03:58 AM (16 years, 28 days ago) |
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Quote:
Do Satanists say "Satan bless you"?
Well since Satan isn't in the blessing business it would be Satan Damn You All, which is an awkward thing to say at your retirement farewell speech at the office, though many may wish they had the courage. 
"God bless you all"
To me means:
"Remember all of us are blessed with the gift of life and the goodness bestowed upon us"
For me this is non-exclusive. All are blessed, some just have a messed-up way of dealing with the Gift that is Life.
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Diploid
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 Re: God Bless You All! [Re: Asante]
#8182660 - 03/23/08 07:04 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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All are blessed, some just have a messed-up way of dealing with the Gift that is Life.
This sounds like mushy feel-good nonsense that only a prosperous person could ever come up with.
Are those of us born in a poor country and condemned to a short life of abject misery, hunger, abuse, and hard work before death in late childhood from a horrible and painful disease also "blessed with a gift"?
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Republican Values:
1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.
4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: God Bless You All! [Re: Diploid]
#8182666 - 03/23/08 07:17 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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Quote:
Are those of us born in a poor country and condemned to a short life of abject misery, hunger, abuse, and hard work before death in late childhood from a horrible and painful disease also "blessed with a gift"?
They might be, if instead of agricultural and medical aid, we sent them all a copy of 'The Secret'. 
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Anxiety is what you make it.
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OrgoneConclusion
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Gomp
¡(Bound to·(O))be free!
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God bless, ..even God!
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TypicalTripper
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Re: God Bless You All! [Re: Gomp]
#8189539 - 03/24/08 10:06 PM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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I see it as a wish for good luck and good fortune. Simply a way of showing your gratitude/love/sympathy. When you think about it , it is THE less descriptive wish for good fortune. People don't want to think and make up something original like : Hope you win the lotto ! or Later man , wishing you to get laid soon!
God bless you just replaces it all oh-so-simply.
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NiamhNyx
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said:
They might be, if instead of agricultural and medical aid, we sent them all a copy of 'The Secret'.
Isn't spiritual wisdom an infintely more valuable gift than any trifling material handout? hmm?
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