enough with the blessings...

[low_delta]

I don't need your blessings when I have an unexpected respiratory eruption. I wouldn't mind so much if I wasn't expected to return the favor. But what's the point? Our bodies just do this. Like burping or hiccups. Why do we feel the need to acknowledge any of it, let alone just the sneeze? You'd think people would bless you after your farted. Maybe they feel the demons are too powerful?

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[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Ok, start with the multitude of blessings for me at home. ;-D

I think Escher needs some too.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Someone feeling angry lately?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Not that I've noticed. Why?

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Two angry sounding posts... that's all. :^D

[vwip.livejournal.com]

A sneeze is more likely to be a sign of (impending) illness than any of the others - maybe that has something to do with it? (Not that I think that blessings are in any way medically effective.)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Whichever superstition started it, I'd prefer we got over it.

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

The proper blessing after a fart is, "Mercy!".

[lacachet.livejournal.com]

*Laugh*

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I do get the occasional "bless you" after a good belch.

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

That makes sense actually.

[emschin.livejournal.com]

Excellent!!

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

*laughing*

Blame it on our ancestors. Blessings after a sneeze started because people thought that your heart stopped when you sneezed. I don't know WHY they felt they HAD to bless the person whose heart stopped.. perhaps god leaves you when you "die"?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I thought it was because of the demons.

But I think we've moved beyond either superstition.

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

Since most don't have a clue why they say it, that could be. Don't you love when "polite" becomes "irritant"?


Demons is probably a better guess than mine.

[eideteker.livejournal.com]

I say "gesundheit" so as not to look like a dick. I'm not religious, so "bless" don't mean jack to me.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I used to say that. I should use it again. Yeah, it doesn't mean anything to me either.

[lacachet.livejournal.com]

*Laugh*

[philrancid.livejournal.com]

Yes. They are too powerful. And they are angry. Disenfranchised. They DARE you to try blessing them. They'll jump in your mouth and give you a taste.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

That's probably why I'm the way I am.

[sunshine-two.livejournal.com]

they're blessing you because it wasn't a fart.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

mda doesn't like the blessings either, but it's so hard for me not to automatically say it, so then I end up apologizing! There's some French phrase he taught me, but I keep forgetting it. So I try to say, "Eta Kooram Nah Smech!" from the movie Serenity. The character Simon Tam says this as a trigger phrase to his sister, River, when she's gone on a fightin' rampage (it makes her fall asleep instantly). mda tells me that it means something like, "this is for the chickens to laugh at."

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Does it actually annoy him? It only annoys me insofar as I need to reciprocate.

That's a good idea, though, to just say something nonsensical in a different language.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

It annoyed him one time, in which he first brought up the French phrase during our discussion. I suggested "Eta Kooram Nah Smech" when it was clear to me that I couldn't remember the French thing he told me. That definitely shows the benefits of watching Serenity about 8 times.