Last night, we had call-ins, which is where we "call-in" and report numbers for the week, in my case, to the district leader. All of the sudden, Elder Brennan sneezed.
Me: "Wow, how did you do that? There's no sun."
Brennan: "Yeah, I heard about that. Sister Stratton told me that if you look at the sun and say 'blue dolphins,' you sneeze. But that sounds fishy."
Me: "Classic. People telling half-truths but then adding in a lie so that people don't believe the part that's true."
Brennan: "Like how people say they believe in God but organized religion is unnecessary?"
Me: "Right. One might say, 'I believe in sneezing, but I don't need to look at the sun to sneeze.'"
People say that a sneeze comes from the inside, which it does. Just like going to church doesn't in and of itself make you a better person, you need to have a sneeze already coming in order for looking at the sun to work. On the other hand, only about 1 in 5 is affected by this phenomenon, and there's almost nothing you can do apart from pinching the bridge of your nose to cause a sneeze, so the analogy only goes so far.
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