Comment on Good vibes

realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• blackris@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I wish you the best.

  I wish you a lot of strength to get through the situation.

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  • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Classics! Work well for most things.

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• roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The most comforting thing you can generally offer someone is presence and acknowledgment in my experience as an atheist nurse.

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• OccultIconoclast@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Comforting people with your voice is a form of magic and atheists don’t believe in magic, so they haven’t developed any incantations.

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  • sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “I things are bad now, but I can 100% guarantee you won’t got to Hell when you die.”

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  • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We need to think of some then!

    How about:

    “On average, the chances of you dying in the next week are only .1%, so buck up!”

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    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Probably wouldn’t work very well if you’re talking to a terminal patient

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      • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Would have to redo the math for sure.

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    • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This actually sounds great.

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  • blackris@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nah, comforting people is a form of social interaction. We are social animals and that helps us to survive bad situations. No magic in that.

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    • OccultIconoclast@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Social interaction is magic. You have an organ for creating special waves that transmit your thoughts into other people’s heads? That’s just telepathy. Language is a superpower. And it only works because everyone believes a bunch of vibrating air molecules can have meaning, which is some spiritual woo-woo.

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• cRazi_man@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If I were dying, or lost my job, or had a bereavement; I would find any one of these to be incredibly comforting:

  May the force be with you

  Live long and prosper

  Here’s looking at you kid

  My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get

  You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain

  Cowabanga

  Apes together strong

  If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead.

  You have my sword, and my bow, and my axe.

  Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.

  I live my life a quarter mile at a time.

  I’ll be back

  Which would be worse, to live a monster or to die a good man

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  • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m saving this in my notes for future reference!

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• ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Talking in terms of hope or wishing them luck is a good substitute. Serves the same purpose, but doesn’t carry the god baggage. It also has the extra benefit of sounding more sincere, since it’s just non-standard enough to give the impression that you actually put thought into your well-wishes without sounding seriously unusual.

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