Posted on 05/08/2006 7:42:20 AM PDT by NYer
There may be, in some offices. I don't see the point in antagonizing people I have to work well with, for the sake of making personal points. That would not work well at all at my company, which is not in academia.
a picture would be nice as well.
You are absolutely free to paint it as a huge threat, if you wish. I may think you're overreacting, but it is entirely your right to do so. Panties are just more comfortable without knots. ;-D
So when a Hells Angels initiate is getting his "red wings", he is actually performing a "divine healing ritual" and "gaining knowledge"? Learn something new everyday...
An interesting concept is that most atheists and idiots say that the bible is just a work of fiction. do they deny that it has had any effect on our society today.
Thanks. I didn't know that.
wtf does a painting by Da Vincey have to do with the bible?
You've heard of the `Last Supper', I'm sure.
The thread is titled `The Da Vinci code: Reviving Religious Sex', so it's about Brown's book (w/o giving up too much) and his contention that John the Baptist was a greater figure in the minds of early Christians (`Cathars' in France, Europe) than Jesus, and that Jesus 'hooked-up' with Mary Magdalene.
Leonardo Da Vinci, who was supposed by Brown to belong to this secret society outlawed by the Cathlic church--secret decoder rings and handshakes and stuff--painted his interpretation of the last supper as described in the new testament, a painting entitled "The Last Supper". It's really famous, and stuff.
Snoozing in Sunday school, were you?
For later reading, thanks.
I want to throw up after reading that article.
You're not a sucker because you want entertainment for
money. You're a sucker because you thought that
the entertainment proffered to you was worth the money.
My sunday school doesn't teach Bullshit. We do arts and crafts (if we are good that is)
"If you wish to disagree, you're going to have to document it before I will accept it."
This may not satisify you, but it does shed some doubt on your stand. From the longer version of Mangalwadi's proposed presentation:
Charles Schmidt, a 19th century historian, found that quite a few married women of high-ranking families in the pre-Christian Roman Empire ?asked to have their names entered amongst the public prostitutes, in order that they might not be punished for adultery.?1
1 C. Schmidt, The Social Results of Early Christianity, trans by Mrs. Horpe (London: William Isbister Limited, 1889) p. 47
Gasp! Read the post! Now there's a wild idea. :D
Absolutely cryptical! I am being ENTERTAINED by the book, and soon the movie. My question to the Christians is why are so many threatened by a book of fiction?
So my subjective opinion of the value of the entertainment was wrong?
See the link in #65.
It's well documented and appears to indicate that such practices were generally viewed by Greeks and Romans as bizarre foreign rites.
Young, upper-class Greek and Roman girls were tremendously sheltered and secluded. Again, an exception was Sparta, where girls and boys both competed naked in the games. But even in Sparta it was well known that the women were extremely chaste in their behavior.
Greek and Roman marriage ceremonies often included some variant of the "display of the bloody bed linen" to prove the virginity of the bride. This doesn't tie in very well to the "sacred prostitution" idea.
After marriage, many late Republic and early Empire women got quite a reputation for friskiness. This just wasn't viewed as reflecting on the honor of the husband in the same way as in later Christian times. Caesar was highly unusual in dumping a possibly unfaithful wife. He was also well known for seducing the wives of just about every one of his political opponents and even those of his allies.
Marketed as fiction by who ? - certainly not the author:
"The problem is that “Da Vinci” is billed as more than mere fiction.
Brown’s opening page begins with the word “FACT” and asserts that all descriptions of documents “are accurate.”
Brown told National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition” during a 2003 publicity tour — he declines interviews now — that his characters and action are fictional but “the ancient history, the secret documents, the rituals, all of this is factual.” Around the same time, on CNN he said that “the background is all true.” "
British Justice Peter Smith, who recently backed Brown against plagiarism charges, perhaps best summed up the situation in his decision:
“Merely because an author describes matters as being factually correct does not mean that they are factually correct. It is a way of blending fact and fiction together to create that well-known model ‘faction.’ The lure of apparent genuineness makes the books and the films more receptive to the readers/audiences. The danger of course is that the faction is all that large parts of the audience read, and they accept it as truth.”
From : Cracking the Code
By RICHARD OSTLING of The Associated Press
Published Sunday, May 7, 2006
You are obviously not from the South...LOL.
No. I currently live in NORTHERN Virginia, which is not at all southern, and this is the farthest south I've ever lived. Why would that be a southern thing, though?
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