6/7/2013 10:15:02 AM |
Where did "Have a Blessed Day" come from? |
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ol39er
Cicero, IL
44, joined Jul. 2011
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For the longest time, people have said "God bless you" to convey a religious well-wishing to someone. As a person of faith, I have used it many times, and received it as well. Today, it seems to have been replaced by "Have a blessed day." I suppose it means roughly the same thing, but it sounds very different to me. The phrase has almost reached buzzword or catch-phrase status. I don't as a rule try to read into people's minds when they say things, but I can almost sense that some people, when they say "have a blessed day" are actually using it to show that they are hip to a trend, and some even sound condescending when they say it. I never got that impression when I heard "God Bless You."
Where and did "have a blessed day" originate? Does it have a different meaning in different contexts?
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6/7/2013 10:23:29 AM |
Where did "Have a Blessed Day" come from? |
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ol39er
Cicero, IL
44, joined Jul. 2011
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No one has ever said " Have a blessed day" to me. Is it an American thing?
It apparently must be an American phrase.
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6/7/2013 10:28:00 AM |
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rlm68
Aurora, CO
47, joined Apr. 2010
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It apparently must be an American phrase.
i would agree to that and clarence is sharp enough to know better than us lol
blessed be
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6/7/2013 11:08:08 AM |
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begbear1952
Easley, SC
64, joined Jan. 2010
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"Have a Blessed Day" is a way of saying "God bless you" while staying out of jail.
It is Politically Incorrect to say "God Bless You." That's because the political Left Wingnuts are so psychotically thin skinned and hypersensitive. Rather than just say, "And Marx bless you too," which would be the rational thing to reply, they get emotionally overwrought and try to make it a criminal act to say "God Bless You."
Perhaps they should outlaw sneezing too. That would at least be practical.
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6/7/2013 3:53:02 PM |
Where did "Have a Blessed Day" come from? |
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ol39er
Cicero, IL
44, joined Jul. 2011
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"Have a Blessed Day" is a way of saying "God bless you" while staying out of jail.
It is Politically Incorrect to say "God Bless You." That's because the political Left Wingnuts are so psychotically thin skinned and hypersensitive. Rather than just say, "And Marx bless you too," which would be the rational thing to reply, they get emotionally overwrought and try to make it a criminal act to say "God Bless You."
Perhaps they should outlaw sneezing too. That would at least be practical.
I didn't think it had any political overtones. I kind of thought some popular televangelist came up with it, and it caught on.
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6/7/2013 6:14:00 PM |
Where did "Have a Blessed Day" come from? |
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vanir
Victoria
Australia
46, joined Mar. 2008
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First time/place I heard/saw Have a blessed day was in greeting cards. You could get the classical God Bless You, then Enjoy Your Day became available and finally the intermediary Have a Blessed Day struck that midpoint in the role of state religion.
First place I heard Blessed Be was on television, specifically Buffy series and Charmed. It was after this it became the standard catchphrase of wiccans, because it was an invention by the writer for the movie The Craft. He wanted occult overtones for the direction he was taking wicca/witchcraft in the film and wanted some unique phrases. Be blessed is something midwives and neo-pagans often said so he flipped it to make Blessed Be. Reverse phraseology was immediately fashionable in wiccan and neo-pagan circles, when self appointed druids started engaging regular conversation using phrases like "the falling of waters from the sky" and you're like you mean rain? And they're like, "No the falling of the heavenly waters", well it was time to write that group off as omfg stupid.
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6/8/2013 8:20:04 PM |
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mr_crowley
Aynor, SC
48, joined Feb. 2009
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some brain dead shit stain made it up like them f**king moronic rejects who wrote the bible
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6/8/2013 10:29:15 PM |
Where did "Have a Blessed Day" come from? |
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furchizedek
Kingman, AZ
73, joined Sep. 2010
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I didn't think it had any political overtones. I kind of thought some popular televangelist came up with it, and it caught on.
I'm not sure it's ever been said to me.
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6/8/2013 10:33:48 PM |
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puddleofmud
Cedarville, NJ
49, joined May. 2011
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My honest opinion is that old black ladies started saying it, but I don't know that to be fact.
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