Sorry this happened in your city

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(10-30-2018, 01:48 PM)PhilHos Wrote: For some maybe, but for many others, no they are not a "canned response". 

Canned doesn't have to mean insincere.  I'd say thoughts and prayers is a canned response because it's predictable, pre-loaded, ready at a moment's notice, unchanging, and (this is where people can disagree) ultimately disconnected from the actual situation. We can predict "thoughts and prayers" just as we can predict the laugh track in a sit-com.

My response of "It's out of my hands" is canned, because it's always ready.  Does it help?  No, I guess not, but I believe it.  I'm cynical enough to think that it would go from a bad response to a good one if I could sincerely say "It's in the Lord's hands" instead.

Again, total cynic here, so feel free to disregard.