(Just speaking for myself)
I'm comforted knowing that even now, over 35 years later, there would still be some atoms incorporated in my being that were once in Doyle Duane, and I am equally discomforted knowing I do not share that commonality with Brian.
Granted my experience with these men is not religious, but rather emotional, but while they are both frequently in my thoughts, it is somewhat distressing to me that not even a particle of Brian continues on in me the way it does with Duane.
For folks sincerely religious, I'd posit they have a religiously similar experience with their supposed smoke and mirror transubstantiation with Jesus. I'd say my experience with Duane is a little more real, if I wanted to, with just a few assumptions and a little session with a pocket calculator I could make an estimate of how many atoms of Duane are still extant in myself.
I'm comforted knowing that even now, over 35 years later, there would still be some atoms incorporated in my being that were once in Doyle Duane, and I am equally discomforted knowing I do not share that commonality with Brian.
Granted my experience with these men is not religious, but rather emotional, but while they are both frequently in my thoughts, it is somewhat distressing to me that not even a particle of Brian continues on in me the way it does with Duane.
For folks sincerely religious, I'd posit they have a religiously similar experience with their supposed smoke and mirror transubstantiation with Jesus. I'd say my experience with Duane is a little more real, if I wanted to, with just a few assumptions and a little session with a pocket calculator I could make an estimate of how many atoms of Duane are still extant in myself.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
