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Have a blessed day!
November 23, 2019 at 2:36 pm
Today I contacted customer service for a utility for which I pay, and after they helped me and while they were signing off, they said "Have a blessed day".
I am a big proponent of minding my beeswax when it comes to religion, but this has not set right with me.
How would you feel about it?
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RE: Have a blessed day!
November 23, 2019 at 2:44 pm
Stuff like this doesn't bother me.
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RE: Have a blessed day!
November 23, 2019 at 2:47 pm
(November 23, 2019 at 2:36 pm)Mermaid Wrote: Today I contacted customer service for a utility for which I pay, and after they helped me and while they were signing off, they said "Have a blessed day".
I am a big proponent of minding my beeswax when it comes to religion, but this has not set right with me.
How would you feel about it?
Meh just a way of saying hope you have a good day, it seems to me she obviously meant it as a sincere kind of good luck, so I would overlook it she can't possibly know your situation and its likely the way she says goodbye and meant no ill intentions. I get "have a blessed day" all the time and "bless you" after I sneeze I feel likes its a douche move to go "I don't believe in god don't say that to me" when their intentions are good. I don't believe in it so it really doesn't affect me when someone uses something like that.
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RE: Have a blessed day!
November 23, 2019 at 2:47 pm
I think my issue is that I am a customer who is paying for it. I haven't fully formulated thoughts on why it bugs me though.
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RE: Have a blessed day!
November 23, 2019 at 2:55 pm
(November 23, 2019 at 2:47 pm)Mermaid Wrote: I think my issue is that I am a customer who is paying for it. I haven't fully formulated thoughts on why it bugs me though.
Yeah I see your point a company you give money to might be a proponent of something you think is wrong, but I'm a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to that, Chic Fil A is a very religious company but damn I love their chicken sandwiches. Also its probably just her way of saying have a good day not the company making a statement on their views.
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RE: Have a blessed day!
November 23, 2019 at 2:59 pm
(November 23, 2019 at 2:36 pm)Mermaid Wrote: Today I contacted customer service for a utility for which I pay, and after they helped me and while they were signing off, they said "Have a blessed day".
I am a big proponent of minding my beeswax when it comes to religion, but this has not set right with me.
How would you feel about it?
Bemused. I would have replied with "And Allahu akbar right back at you" or something similar. Maybe "May you be touched by his noodly appendage, Ramen"
The bottom line here is you are not going to get into some mad theological debate with a CSR drone because that simply does not happen except on planet sausage perhaps
It might amuse you to get offended in some way, but what is the point? You cannot stop anyone from believing utter crap on some random CSR call. That is not a venue which allows that kind of room for any debate of anything. That is not the purpose of such a call.
You had an issue with some utility, you called CSR to resolve it. That is the end of it. It is not their task to resolve the existential nature of the universe (unless the universe is the utility to which you refer). I wouldn't care what nonsense the particular CSR believed. The aim of that game is to resolve a utility issue not the existence of a god.
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RE: Have a blessed day!
November 23, 2019 at 3:01 pm
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Well said, ire. Very well said.
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RE: Have a blessed day!
November 23, 2019 at 3:02 pm
It doesn't trouble me at all. If I sneeze and someone says, 'Bless you', I thank them and get on with my life.
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RE: Have a blessed day!
November 23, 2019 at 3:23 pm
(November 23, 2019 at 2:59 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: (November 23, 2019 at 2:36 pm)Mermaid Wrote: Today I contacted customer service for a utility for which I pay, and after they helped me and while they were signing off, they said "Have a blessed day".
I am a big proponent of minding my beeswax when it comes to religion, but this has not set right with me.
How would you feel about it?
Bemused. I would have replied with "And Allahu akbar right back at you" or something similar. Maybe "May you be touched by his noodly appendage, Ramen"
The bottom line here is you are not going to get into some mad theological debate with a CSR drone because that simply does not happen except on planet sausage perhaps
It might amuse you to get offended in some way, but what is the point? You cannot stop anyone from believing utter crap on some random CSR call. That is not a venue which allows that kind of room for any debate of anything. That is not the purpose of such a call.
You had an issue with some utility, you called CSR to resolve it. That is the end of it. It is not their task to resolve the existential nature of the universe (unless the universe is the utility to which you refer). I wouldn't care what nonsense the particular CSR believed. The aim of that game is to resolve a utility issue not the existence of a god.
Thanks for your thoughts. This helps.
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RE: Have a blessed day!
November 23, 2019 at 3:33 pm
(November 23, 2019 at 3:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It doesn't trouble me at all. If I sneeze and someone says, 'Bless you', I thank them and get on with my life.
Boru
Exactly. Why should anyone be offended that someone responds in a way conditioned from childhood and actually autonomic in nature?
If one is so determined to become offended, then have a carve at the likes of William Lane Craig, or Sye Ten Bruggencate. or whoever of that lot. And do it in an appropriate venue FFS. Resolving a utility issue is neither the time nor place.
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