Posted on 05/18/2006 10:14:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Next you'll be telling me that Sherlock Holmes only imagined Dr. Moriarity....
I don't understand why so much credence is given to Da Vinci's INTERPRETATION of the Last Supper. I mean, was the guy there or something? No. So why does HIS painting a person appearing to be female mean Jesus was married.
Furthermore, I personally don't care if Jesus was married. The Bible says he died without sin. Unless you consider sex with your spouse "sin", he died without sin.
bad second link to something on freepers that 'doesn't exist on this server'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634449/tv.htm
It doesn't exist on Howstuffworks.com's site either. Sony has moved the page.
Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with a mouth full of gravel.
apparently there are a lot of links on this article that give the same result, i.e. not exist on this server.
Bump for later read.
That is pretty ingenius. The French would never discover anything in a bar of soap.
So, the bottom line is, everyone is getting all worked up as to whether this piece of fiction is really fiction. Millions of people are going to go see the movie this weekend. The makers of the film are going to get rich. And, the debate will continue.............
Self-ping
Many points here are picky, picky indeed.
Because I'm a math teacher, I'll tackle this one.
To say that phi is 1.618 is about as accurate as stating that pi is 3.1416. That is, close enough for most things. (In fact, we jokingly refer to March 14 as "Pi Day" because it's 3/14, at least in the U.S.)
Phi is the Golden Ratio, which is found throughout history in artwork. It's the ratio of the Parthenon and probably the ratio of the screen on which you'd view this film (unless you're waiting for the video on TV).
Saying that a number is plus or minus the square root of 5 divided by two (adding a half, of course) is a bit clunky. I could just as easily describe it as the nth Fibonacci number divided by the (n-1)th Fibonacci number as n approaches infinity. But that would be wrong. (No, wait! That would actually be correct, but it'd be wrong to try to express it that way to someone who didn't ... ah, forget it. 1.618 is good enough for government work.)
Can you get these guys to look into "E.T" for me? I've got a boatload of Reese's Pieces stockpiled.
I thought it belonged to the waiter, who looked suspisciously like Mel Brooks.
yeah, but I really want to know is who they claim is the last living descendant of Jesus?
I saw a somewhat interesting program that was a reality check on The Da Vinci Code. The most interesting section of the program was the footage and description of a ritual at the seashore celebrating the lengendary day two of the Marys from the gospel came ashore in France (Gaul at the time) as refugees from the Holy Land, and Mary Magdalene was carrying an alabaster vase, which the celebrants consider to be the Holy Grail.
There was a girl child with them, and some claim it was Mary Magdalene's daughter, but the local priest says oral history makes her the Egyptian servant of the women.
Now it is possible that the San Grail (Holy Grail) was miswritten as Sang Real (Blood Royal) as the book claims, but it could literally have been Holy Blood/Royal Blood, not a child of Christ.
The alabaster vase may have been used to catch the blood of Christ, as I have vague recollection that corpses in those days were drained and washed of blood before wrapping for burial. So, this part of the oral history may have a germ of truth. Some of the followers of Christ may have bourne a container of his blood with them when they fled the Holy Land.
Still I'd like someone to FReep me a spoiler and tell me who they claim is the current living descendent of Christ. I heard the audience was incredulous when this surprise ending was revealed.
It's a French thing, so:
My guess is most don't.
My guess is that almost all
the internet "buzz"
is from people who
work for advertising firms
and blanket the web
pretending to be
"outraged Christians" all the while
pumping up the buzz . . .
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