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[Bulsajo]

Something like that.
Method actor supreme, perhaps.
I know she came back in a couple more cultural impersonations...
Whether Rteacher is serious or not, I don't think my responses would change much either way...

[Rteacher]

Nah, I'm the "real deal" (much more so than Evander Holyfield, whose career went downhill fast when he misplaced his faith in Benny Hinn...) To continue with the boxing analogy, I identify more with George Foreman - 'cept I'd be peddlin' a grill for veggie burgers ... Anyway, sometimes there may be a fine line between BS and Absolute Truth - it's not BS to affirm that God is the most attractive and "far out" (and most "in") person...

[Porter_Goss]

[Rteacher]

I may have multiple personalities... Anyway, my devotional self believes this:

One candle may light many other candles, yet each candle has the same intensity as the first. Yet the first still remains the original candle.
In the same way the Supreme Personality of Godhead expands himself in unlimited forms. He yet remains the cause of all causes.
In the Vedic scriptures the supreme original cause is known as Krsna because he posses unlimited transcendental qualities which attracts all living beings.

Five hundred years ago that same supreme cause Lord Sri Krsna appeared as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and declared that the chanting of the Lords holy names of;
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna
Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama
Rama Rama, Hare Hare
is the only way of liberation in this age. He also declared that these names would be spread beyond India to every town and village in the world.
http://www.gauranga.org/prabhupada.htm

[Rteacher]

Although Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi had impersonalist ideas and put forth his own concocted philosophy in his commentary to Bhagavad-gita (rather than conveying the original philosophy as it was spoken by Krishna...) he nonetheless placed great importance on the chanting of the holy name of Rama (Ramanama) Here's a quote from an historical thesis:

With belief in the efficacy of Rama, and with the desire to have the name of Rama on his lips when he should die, Gandhi commenced the walk from the interior to the garden of Birla House. If indeed he uttered the words, "He Ram!", as he slumped to the ground, he would appear, from the standpoint of Gopal Godse and his other detractors, to have outfoxed them — yet again. On 20 January 1948, Nathuram, Gopal, and a handful of others had engineered a bomb explosion at Birla House with the hope of killing Gandhi, but the attempt was a resounding failure; two days later, Gandhi took Manu aside and told her: "I wish I might face the assassin��s bullets while lying on your lap and repeating the name of Rama with a smile on my face. But whether the world says it or not — for the world has a double face — I tell you that you should regard me as your true mother." On the evening before his death, Manu has written, Gandhi suggested that the moment, and manner, of his death would reveal to the world whether he was a real Mahatma or not: if he were to die of a "lingering disease, or even from a pimple", she was to shout from the rooftops to the whole world that he was a "false or hypocritical Mahatma." Yet if an explosion took place, as it had last week, "or if someone shot at me", Gandhi told Manu, "and I received his bullet in my bare chest without a sigh and with Rama��s name on my lips, only then should you say that I was a true Mahatma." (1 That is precisely the manner in which Gandhi appears to have died, judging from the overwhelming consensus among his biographers. Thus, to enumerate two instances, B. R. Nanda relates that "Gandhi fell instantly with the words ��He Rama�� (Oh, God)", while in her critical biography Judith Brown captures the last moment in Gandhi��s life in similar language: "The frail old body slumped to the ground; but his last words were, as he had wished, to call on the name of Ram, the God whose presence had sustained him and made him a prisoner of hope." (19)
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/HeRam_gandhi.html

[Dan The Chainsawman]

Warning to all readers you maybe attacked with mindless religious gorp at anytime. Keep your barf bag ready at all times and should you meet a vaporous manifestation of vishnu to remain calm and light a match.