[UA] Jesus Christ, SuperAvatar!

[James Palmer]

> > 
> > True, but generally the Western Hindus are too sappy to do anything about
> > it
> 
> Or are actually paying attention to the pacifistic elements in Hinduism...

Nah.  Sappy.  Hinduism has a fine tradition of religious persecution, why
waste it now?

Actually, the Hindu convert community in Britain can be *very* nasty in
its infighting (like most commmunities), the Hare Krishnas tend to be
somewhat dogmatic and a couple of the Hindu schools are terribly run, from
what I hear.  But they're generally a nice bunch, though I prefer Sikhs.  
Beards, swords, social justice, religious equality and good meals at every
service.  What more could you want?

> 
> > and the Indian Hindus prefer to all get together and gang up on the
> > Muslims and the Sikhs.  Boy, the BJP are scary.
> 
> Quite, although they actually really haven't done that much, even
> though they're technically the government in India.
> 

Well, they've lost some of the more extreme right-wing elements of the
party - the ones who were responsible, on a fairly regular basis, for
stirring up some really bloody anti-Muslim riots - and an awful lot of the
current members jumped ship from Congress in order to stay in government,
which has moderated them somewhat.  Still, they're a worrying bunch.

> > 
> > I don't think Krishna has Avatars per se, though I may be wrong - he's an
> > Avatar of Vishnu himself.  Compte as Vishnu Avatar makes sense, given the
> > whole preservation of the world thing.
> 
> I wasn't thinking of the Compte as an Avatar of Krishna - I was
> thinking of Krishna as a past identity of the Compte.

Ah, yes.  That makes sense.  

> 
> > What if the PC's discovered that we're actually in the best possible
> > world, and it's all downhill from here ...
> 
> Urr... nasty... although it doesn't quite fit with the
> Godhead-determines-the-next-reality UA idea. Possibly there tend to be 
> trends, and we are at what would normally be the peak of those trends, 
> but the proper Ascentions can turn the trend around? It'd be a basis
> for a Cosmic-level game.

Maybe there's only actually one Godhead per cycle, and ours is just a
particularly bad year, as it were?

> 
> Evil or not is a rather good question. He's a being who can dance
> things into and out of existence, and is said to be the one to dance
> the Illusion out of existence (as he did with the Berlin Wall in
> Kult)... the problem being that he also may be destroying sections of
> True Reality (he doesn't make a real distinction between the two). His 
> followers can become able to do Time and Space Magick by dancing. He's 
> in Legions of Darkness, BTW.

Neat.  I will have a look.  Haven't seen any Kult stuff for a while, but
it was always entertaining.


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