peace be with you

i was thinking just now about the phrase “Peace Be With You” as part of a church service and realizing why it’s usually my least favorite part. I get that the point of it is to like express fellowship and stuff with the other people in the church and its supposed to let you feel a sense of peace knowing this, but this, my friends, is not what i get out of it. instead i just feel really anxious and wish people would quit touching me. and i was curious as to why this is. but i realized it today. basically i think no one is actually wishing you peace, they’re just saying this as part of the bizarre ritual of insincere peace-wishing. the first time i tripped mushrooms, i had a talk with pat and ush about how much better the world would be if when you said “peace” to someone you actually meant it. and here i am like 8 months later, not really wishing peace to these people. it would be my guess (though due to a general failure to interpret the Bible it could be something else) that the reason for this part of church is to recreate when Christ said it to His disciples and they knew He was as they said. so dude. let’s go back to that. Peace.

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