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RE: What do atheists say when someone sneezes?
March 18, 2014 at 5:20 am
(March 18, 2014 at 3:37 am)fr0d0 Wrote: I won't do you
Not even if I buy you dinner?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: What do atheists say when someone sneezes?
March 18, 2014 at 5:25 am
I say "salud"
Pointing around: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you, I'm out!"
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RE: What do atheists say when someone sneezes?
March 18, 2014 at 10:28 am
I just say "bless you". It's a habit.
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RE: What do atheists say when someone sneezes?
March 18, 2014 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2014 at 7:18 pm by Cyberman.)
Like others, I don't necessarily feel obliged to say anything in response to a sneeze, any more than I do to any other bodily expulsion. If I do say anything, it's most likely going to be dependent on context - such as "Can you please not sneeze on me" or "I don't think I want that pizza now, thanks".
In any case, responding with a "bless you" is merely a linguistic hangover and carries just about as much meaning as saying "good morning":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtnoK-kf3uc
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: What do atheists say when someone sneezes?
March 18, 2014 at 7:22 pm
I just say bless you. I don't feel the need to get hung up on basic etiquette just because I don't believe in something.
