WOE ON RON HOWARD, T. HANKS' D.C. FIB (a riddle)

5/15/2006 | unlearner

[Full Court]

I totally agree.

[CGVet58]

bttt

[Full Court]

You obviously never saw Flashdance and wore the ripped sweatshirt!

[unlearner]

I hope you mean because it is too obvious. Surely you are not foolish enough to claim movies do not impact our lives in this way? If so, I would venture to guess your chosen profession is not in marketing.

[Full Court]

If images didn't have the power to sawy people to some degree, advertisers wouldn't pay millions to get their spots on during the Super Bowl.

[linda_22003]

That's a good one. I never worked in a steel mill all day and used all my excess leftover energy in the evenings to dance at a club. Repeat of the buckets of water theme, too.

[Stentor]

There was a British Channel 4/ Discovery Times show called The Real DaVinci Code that tore both Dan Brown's book and Holy Blood Holy Grail to pieces on factual grounds. The presenter Tony Robinson (Baldrick of The Black Adder) seemed have fun doing it. Worth a look if yopu can find it. The Priory of Sion scam is particularly hilarious.

[NCSteve]

And what's more, even if the Gnostics were an alternative Christianity, they would never come close to supporting Brown's fascination with "the sacred feminine". Gnostics despised women, the physical, and the sexual.

Someone on another DVC thread made a claim that Gnostics were libertines. This claim is no more accurate than that one. There were at least a dozen different flavors of Gnosticism before and including the Cathars. They all varied widely on their doctrinal beliefs regarding carnality.

In any case, Brown's novel has nothing to do with Gnosticism. It is based on the mythology of the Priory of Sion. Brown made a couple of oblique references to Gnosticism in order to give his work intellectual credibility. Gnosticism's doctrinal errors are subtle. The Priory of Sion and Dan Brown are about as subtle as a kick in the groin.

[Full Court]

Do you know David Cloud?

[linda_22003]

I think they pay way too much, considering the major advertiser seems to be Budweiser, and that's in high use anyway during that game. :)

[Full Court]

Or any advertising for that matter.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Surely you are not foolish enough to claim movies do not impact our lives in this way?

Wow!!!!

Better up those meds.

[linda_22003]

Right... where are all the wizard academies by now? :)

[Alex Murphy]

Did you know that if you re-arrange the letters DA VINCI CODE you spell: DAVID CLOUD IS A SHADOW-CHASING LOON ?

BWA HAHAHAHA

It's been a long time since anyone brought it up, so I'll ask - did you know that David Cloud is a missionary in Nepal?

[angkor]

Surely you are not foolish enough to claim movies do not impact our lives in this way?

So there really *is* a Masonic treasure under Wall Street, and the Declaration really does have maps on it, and Hitler really did obtain the Ark Of The Covenant?

Wow, so many movies documentaries I'd merely dismissed as entertaining fiction.

[JamesP81]

You're missing the point. Dan Brown is trying to discredit the Bible. I don't think that God's Word is a subject for entertainment. It's a bit more serious than that.

He's not getting my money. Ever.

[angkor]

Be sure to tell that to those who are already citing it as evidence of the "Christian conspiracy." I've met them already.

They didn't call themselves "Unitarians", by any chance?

[angkor]

The Priory of Sion scam is particularly hilarious.

Discovery Channel ran that one last night. I'm sure it'll be repeated again soon.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Where on the "fact" page is the Bible discredited???