Homeless Prophet

December 9, 2006 2:02 PM

Vivek Speaks - 38 minutes of a ongoing, heartfelt lecture about God, Personal power & the Truth by Vivek, a homeless guy. (YouTube)
posted by growabrain (12 comments total)

In England we ASBO people like that.
posted by public at 2:19 PM on December 9, 2006

Timecube Live.
posted by MythMaker at 2:27 PM on December 9, 2006

No mention of the Nerevarine? Rip off.
posted by cog_nate at 2:46 PM on December 9, 2006 [3 favorites]

sometimes i really like youtubeFilter
posted by localhuman at 3:21 PM on December 9, 2006

Some will say: 'Is not God alone the Prolific?' I answer: 'God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.' -- Wm. Blake
posted by uosuaq at 4:26 PM on December 9, 2006

Clicking this post was worth it for that Blake quote. Thanks, uosuaq.
posted by fleetmouse at 4:40 PM on December 9, 2006

The kids in this video are arrogant pricks. They interact with Vivek with such contempt for eccentricity... it's sad.
posted by moonbird at 6:59 PM on December 9, 2006

The kids in this video are arrogant pricks.

I wouldn't say arrogant pricks as much as naive. The guy speaking more or less is repeating some sort of amalgamation of Eastern philosophy. They seem to be glorifying it, but it's not obvious that they really understand what he's talking about (especially when he pipes in with comments like "let's start a cult" or "not the government" @ 9:25).
posted by spiderskull at 9:46 PM on December 9, 2006

On second thought, I take that back. They're pricks.
posted by spiderskull at 11:32 PM on December 9, 2006

I probably would have enjoyed this a great deal more without the constant interjections from those asshole kids.
posted by joedan at 12:21 AM on December 10, 2006

The guy who posted the video is the guy who made it. he realized the error he made in being an ass. skim the comments, he talks about how he started looking into the eastern philosophy and what not.
posted by JokingClown at 4:14 AM on December 10, 2006

If this guy were in India, he'd be a sadhu. In a traditional Muslim society, he'd be a Sufi/dervish. In Ancient Greece, he'd be a philosopher with an admiring crowd of devotees. But in America, he's a homeless nut getting filmed by flippant college kids. Not saying America's worse than those other societies overall, but it's worse for him. And I'd a thousand times rather hang out with Vivek than with asshole know-it-alls.
posted by languagehat at 7:24 AM on December 10, 2006 [2 favorites]