I stopped praying, and began to see that a structure that demanded compliance was not one that I wished to be part of.

我停住了祈祷，开始明白这是一个要求服从的体系，而它不是我所想要加入的体系。

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However, every time I stopped praying, my mind immediately started planning more Bronson style justice and the flashback phenomena would returned.

可是，当我每次停止祷告的时候，我的心完全开始几环布兰森类型的正义，那些倒叙的影像就会回来了。

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Me, I had stopped praying not long after I had read The Talisman, by Sir Walter Scott.

我，在我读了沃尔特·斯科特爵士的《魔符》之后就停止了祈祷。

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