c,

Are you telling me that Jesus had to worry about any of this? I have 
always wondered how the yoga mountain hermits that like don't move from 
the lotus posture for 40 years manage these things.

So yesterday I was told by a Sicilian Catholic that when the Pope dies 
they hit him in the head with a hammer three times in order to make sure 
he is dead. Histo presto content: I stood there with a mason hammer in 
hand prepared to go harvest a few terra cotta glaze samples. I must have 
looked like I needed to be brought up to speed on hammer techniques. 
Everyone was sober. Seems to me the Tibetan Book of the Dead would NOT 
recommend to wonk the recently holy deceased in the head w/ a hammer. I 
don't see that the Dalai Lama would be going in this direction. For any 
newborns check if they have three dents in the skull then figure out how 
to declare them the reincarnated Pope? Neither do I see that once dead 
and whacked in the the head that one would be particularly disposed to 
cure Parkinson's disease.

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> BUT ... Plato did not have newspapers!  Nor did Raphael, Pope Urban, 
> Marco Polo, Marcus Aurelius, or St. Mark.  Not to mention Jesus, Mary, 
> Joseph, Pontius Pilate, Spartacus, Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster. 
> (What, no Kirk Douglas in all this?)
>

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