The da vinci code

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  1. water the sea Registered Senior Member

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    Hm. Alrighty. Then I won't read it.

    But I did like "The name of the rose" (sic!). But that may be because I am different, special and educated.
    Eh.
     
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  3. guthrie paradox generator Registered Senior Member

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    *splutter*
    History????

    He didnt exactly follow the history books, at least not that much.
     
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  5. slotty Colostomy-its not my bag Registered Senior Member

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    So i have a copy by my bed, is it worth reading, or is it a waste of my life investing time on? What do you guys make of it?
     
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  7. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    i herd it makes more sence if you read angles and deamons first
     
  8. Roman Banned Banned

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    I just got back from a school trip that took me from Paris to Barcelona that was in search of the holy grail.

    I just drank a lot and slept with two girls named Katie.


    Anyhoo, as part of the class I had to read the Da Vinci Code. It was poorly written, and pretty lame. It was pulp history, like cheap porno for academics. It's literary whoredom. I felt dirty after I read it.

    I saw a painting of Da Vinci's Last Supper at the Lourve, and there was no knife, no disembodied hand, and the man to the right of Jesus was definitely a man. There was an 'M' in the picture, formed out of Jesus and his disciples.
     
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  9. 4 things;
    1) could it be that, Mary just happens to know what powers Jesus is capable of?
    2) unless your last name is "Cohen", I'm not going to take your word for what jewish ritual, customs & practice were or are,
    3) I don't see any point in believing that Jesus married or didn't, if the Bible doesn't mention such an important event happening in Jesus' life, then it didn''t happen. Listen, if there is one thing that you should take from the Bible, is that it shows people "warts & all"; it shows David's & Solomon's failings, the anguish of sorrows of many prophets & Jesus, the cunning of Jacob, Moses's reluctance to lead the Israelites from Egypt, read it for yourself, it doesn't hide marriages, or God's feeling that man is an unruly, evil child, an adultress wife, a prostitute.
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    4) da Vinci is just a novel, read for fun, because if you think that da Vinci was in any secret society, read his notebooks

    (Mind pebbles),haven't hear the song, but in Christianity, it is a big deal "who" rolled away the stone, as Paul said, if Jesus was not raised from the dead, we Christians are the most pitiful people
     
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  10. Roman Banned Banned

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    And unless you're in the clergy, I'm going to ignore all your ramblings about the bible.
     
  11. ashwini This is because man in never. Registered Senior Member

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    has anyone read the prequel to the da vinci? it goes by the name angels and demons and is a much better read than the da vinci....
     
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  13. ashwini This is because man in never. Registered Senior Member

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    tht was brilliant!!!!!!!thx a ton....

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  14. Actually, I am a 'priest', & if you read & understood the Bible, you would know that I don't ramble, but follow closely the Word of God. BTW, here is the definition by 4 diff churches that follow Christ;




     
  15. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    ashwini, i just made a thread about angels and demons
     
  16. Insanely Elite Questions reality. Registered Senior Member

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    I completely agree that the passage proves Jesus was indeed hosting his own wedding. I can't for the life of me understand the unwillingness of mainstream christians to scrutinize this essential fact. That Jesus was a married rabbi in no way changes his message. Imagine if the church had embraced sexuality as part of the natural order of Gods gift of life! sic gloria mundi...

    Regarding the Da Vinci code, although I have not read it I saw a history channel unlocking secrets of.... and I get the gist of the story. There are many interesting historical aspects that pique the imagination for sure.
     
  17. slotty Colostomy-its not my bag Registered Senior Member

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    Well i've just seen a programme all abot the Da Vinci code. It appears its utter rubbish, so after reading this thread and seeing the programme, i still do't kow wether to read it

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  18. guthrie paradox generator Registered Senior Member

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    Whats even more funny is that there was TV program on last week about the book, presented by tony Robinson, (I'm in the UK) and he went about the variosu sites in the book, talking to mainstream experts about it all. The sum total of most of the talking was that:
    Some people probably did sneak off from the CAthars mountaintop castle before it was surrendered.
    You can read just about anything you like into a painting.

    and most interestingly- that the priory of sion was a hoax. They interviewd someone whod written a book on it and had signed confessions form one of the people involved in the hoax. So, from the TV watching non conspiracy theory minded person, the whole da vnici code thing is blown asunder.

    And as an aside, its not even well written. OK, he writes better than me, but I'm a begginer. HIs characters are fairly stock, though drawn well enough, but the attempts at mystery about the baddie were badly done.
     
  19. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    PEOPLE, the da vinci code is no more fact than picnic at hanging rock is a "TRUE" story. They are both works of fiction set on a historical contex. Its no different from Ellis Peters setting her books in the middle ages or shirlock homes being set in london. The setting maybe real but the books are just a bit of fun
     
  20. Nasor Valued Senior Member

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    Really? I thought it was utter crap, much worse than The da Vinci Code. Maybe I just know a bit too much about antimatter, but I couldn't even finish it. I made it about half way through, then chucked it. Dan Brown doesn't make even the most basic effort to check his facts, and the way the characters were behaving was beyond stupid. I mean, they all know that Rome is about to be incinerated in a nuclear fire ball, and it doesn't even occur to anyone that perhaps they should warn people to evacuate? Bleh.
     
  21. charlesesl Registered Member

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    This book is just a beefed up version of Nancy Drews. The book try to keep the story original by bashing every other grail quest story but end up not being all that defferent from what it bashes.
     
  22. Don Hakman Registered Senior Member

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    Leonardo is sleeping It’s that strange time aging, the rhyme of the ages again; when perspiration fills the room, and even the water is conducive to a real inspiration. Leonardo was sleeping. One day, as he walked over the streets of his neighborhood he noticed that he too, was conducive to water. He flies over his city; his own city punching wholes in the sky with brilliance! Leonardo paints. Pastel manic magic on the canvass of the sky. And you know what? On a clear day, if you look at them at just the right speed, they seem to transcend the reality of sky. It’s better than the sky we see because it’s his sky, Leonardo’s. He’s found a way to capture the day by his real impressions of it. Once while flying over the city that he built he pointed to the sky, his own picture, and below, reading, he sat too. Thinking, “will I fly?” It's so unfixed, relenting… Leo was a boy once. Hard to believe in the impression of that. He punched holes in walls, faces, garments, mostly his own. Once again, pay attention. The impression is everything: They will love you for your art And impressions just won’t count as the Fans measure the flow of a new master squared And everyone points to the whole in the sky Where your picture is already sitting Comfortably Afraid of the simplicity of it all, he learned to peel back the layers, upon layers of “stuff” to reveal glimmers that didn’t appear to be there. Surfaces didn’t appeal to him. But he was there, and there found a way. He pointed to this and that and they said, “Whatever, eat your dinner!” Leonardo is thinking: “If I look deeper and faster at the landscape, will It come apart for me?” (Leonardo experimented with form). He tried both and succeeded. He, like a dove, was sent above the waters Of a great lake, and fell straight down. Always experimenting this one. Especially with gravity. Time will tell. In his presence reality shrank away and he survived to paint. Another day. And what a Day! The natives of this land of whom the lake is named after say this: If you hold a bird, or any wild thing in your hand (they are all free in spirit) release (realize) it and it will return to you (sometimes gravity does co-operate) I swear to you, as the dove fell hard to the ground, and was sown back together, he punched a whole in a meadow and replaced it with his mind’s pictures. Those are better than what we are, think we see, as our impressions have been diverted by an outside surface. Form: He loves a girl. He keeps her impression in mind on walls and sky. (The whole place is a hole punched into a conducive gravity; this balance, it’s a strange feeling). His friends, too disturbed to sleep in their harsh reality wake to the music of their own paper and say to themselves; ”I don’t know where it’s coming from. Is this good? I was thinking of Leonardo and this just Came out...I had to wright it...” and... “I’m a businessman, not a writer” (inspiration is like iron. It seldom bends even while under extreme heat) Welcome to my world. Where inspiration lies by the side of the road and we pick it up conducive to our environment, his playground. (The peripheral stuff will drive you a bit.) He plays hard in it and no longer runs from a bully. This stuff is so soothing. It heals scars. I have a song that I® listen to when feelings of inspiration confuse me into an impressionist nightmare. It calms me, and now I can see that he does the same. He has ohm's law devising on his walls to provide the very same recipe, as his wind machine is sitting idle and has strained itself by overheating – (heat – wattage – put some fans around it it won’t happen again). Now his light machine plays the same self-music but lower. It’s less of a strain, as light travels at the speed of sound also, but faster, at a lower volume. This man inspires me. And his feet are still on the ground. He wants to be in orbit and stared and stuttered at a mantra with his eyes open on his light machine in an environment conducive. Remember Leonardo? He’s a whole® man now . Equation: his light is equal to his energy times his mass squeezed. He asked for a Mantra. Because he wanted to be in orbit. He’s beyond there now. (Again, but not theirs) And we, none of us who are watching, with eyes focused on the sun, are disappointed. The whole world’s watching and so am I®. That little bit of work cost him plenty but it was worth it in the future as the whole world and I see his new mind machine rushing toward us, and then some. Art is holes in the sky imitating life, only better. Leonardo: There is a plane waiting for you at Ego side road. Jump in and pull the throttle. You already think like Divinity.
     
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