I was listening to this show (A Better Moustrap, for those who stumble across this link later) and in the third segment they feature a guy who, for some reason that I failed to catch, was hosting a focus group for a new religion.
I had numerous issues with the focus group...one of them being that most of them didn't know jack about what was in the bible...but I did predict the celebrity voice they would choose to endorse the new religion: Morgan Freeman.
I've heard Morgan Freeman recently in March of the Penguins. More importantly, I'd seen him recently in Bruce Almighty, playing, of all beings, God. It was during one of my unstable, ragged periods and I remember crying during this movie, even though it was supposed to be a comedy, because Morgan Freeman made God seem like some One who was 99% everything I subconsciously wished He was like. Specifically he sounded calm, rational, caring yet powerful, threatening...but in a way that you knew wasn't arbitrary or petty. More importantly, it was a voice I imagined could speak a word and instantly heal my mental turbulence.
I've briefly tried to analyze what exactly makes Mr. Freeman's voice so, well, so that way, and came up with diddly-squat. Which is good because maybe if I had figured it out, the 'it' of it would be lost. And I'd rather keep it around because I may just need another dose in the future.
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