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Do I look like a priest to you?

On randomly breaking out into unintentional prayer.

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Jim Dalling
May 02, 2022
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The first point that I would like to clarify is this:

I am not a religious man. Spiritual? Yes. But no religion provides a story or structure that is enough to support what I imagine that which is beyond our comprehension to be.

If that doesn’t make sense, read it twice. If it still doesn’t make sense, don’t worry about it. Life, the universe and everything else don’t make any sense either. That’s just another example of the random miracle that these shapes are being made by fingers and beaming into your head as words and stories DAYS LATER!

Time travel and telepathy. Writing is rad.

Here’s something else that doesn’t make sense: There are many times, where I’ve ended up holding hands with someone, praying in public.

It’s happened more than twice.

I know that I really don’t want to pray with them.

Not at all.

But when someone asks to pray with you, what do you do?

I’ll tell you what most people do,

They avoid the kind of people who take your ands and want to pray with you in a public space.

Thi…

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