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Caius -> RE: So, if you don't believe in God.... (5/20/2010 9:50:09 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MissAsylum
anyway, from my position, i dont like saying that phrase, be it GD or simply, "damn you"- regardless if somebody believes in any type of religion, in my mind, i am saying, " i damn you to a horrible life. i want you to go through pain and suffering to an endless extent...all because you pissed me off."
Fair enough, but this would hardly apply to uses like "Goddamn this thing!" (presumably my electric razor doesn't care whether it burns in hellfire for all eternity....though it knows exactly what it it did to to deserve it) or the more general "Goddamn!"
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ORIGINAL: eyesopened
I worked with a guy who gave me a lecture after I had simply said "bless you" after he sneezed. I didn't even invoke a Diety, just said "bless you". He told me how it offended him that I would subject him to my blind, illogical, superstitions and proceeded to tell me how anyone who believed in God was a delusional moron. I was shocked. And I swear this is true... the next time he sneezed I said "fuck you, get a tissue" For some reason that didn't make him any happier.
Yeah, I've observed the likes of this exchange before myself. It's always good for a sense of perspective to be reminded that the hyper-religious do not have a patent on the overzealous application of dogmatic views. The same principles that define expletives as being separate in function from abstractive speech apply equally here, the only significant difference being that at least your utterance was based in a social instinct derived from empathy as opposed to a voicing of vexation. Talk about an clueless douche. I rather like your response.
On a more general note, I'm not sure why the OP is suddenly catching so much flak here. Her views on the subject matter may seem overly-sensitive to some of us, but she's been perfectly civil in discussing them here, so I'm not sure how piling on the contempt so immediately became the method of expressing a contrary position.
And for the OP, don't mind Domiguy's gash request. It's kind of his modus operandum for investigating a new female presence on the boards. Not unlike when a dog tries to smell another's ass (actually, he may ask you to do that as well). It's really rather reliably translatable as "Hello and welcome to the community, I accept you as a fellow member. Also, I would like to see your twat."
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