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Subject: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: GUEST Date: 11 Apr 14 - 11:46 AM I'm 2/3 through the book and I'm waiting to read something I wasn't already aware of. As a mystery it seems to go from 'by the merest of chance' to 'luckily . . .'. Does the book get better? Thank you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 11 Apr 14 - 11:49 AM The end is a disappointing anti-climax. You have read the best bit already. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: gnu Date: 11 Apr 14 - 12:09 PM The Da Vinci Code sucks but the Da Vinci Flu is a real killer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: GUEST Date: 11 Apr 14 - 12:42 PM Thank you, Keith. Groaner, gnu. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: Larry The Radio Guy Date: 11 Apr 14 - 02:05 PM One of the few instances where the movie is better than the book. Not that it was a good movie.......but the writing in the book is so dreadful, the biggest 'mystery' in the story is how The Da Vinci code came to be a best seller. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: GUEST Date: 11 Apr 14 - 03:53 PM I've read most of the works of Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln, plus much internet stuff to do with the Grail legend, Priory of Sion, Templars, etc. Nothing in the book was new to me other than the cliff-hanger chapters (which always work out for the protagonists). I am like you perplexed as to how it became a bestseller. Different strokes I guess. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: GUEST,Jack Sprocket Date: 11 Apr 14 - 05:59 PM Read Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. How Dan Brown had the brass dial to write that crap after Eco I can't understand- oh, money, yes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: GUEST Date: 11 Apr 14 - 08:25 PM Thanks, Jack. I read Foucault's Pendulum when it was first out. (I think Eco is a Nobel winner. I agree with you. I think after all the hoopla about TDVC that I was expecting much much more. The book was a real disappointment. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: gnu Date: 11 Apr 14 - 08:49 PM "Groaner..." Never stopped me before nor will it in future. I shall never surrender until all the lupines are the peoples' lupines. Stand and deliver, Sirrah. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: GUEST Date: 11 Apr 14 - 10:29 PM Just to mail the Baigent myth, half of it has been exposed as a fraud, and the other half masonic BS - Baigent was also editor of Freemasonry Today, something he carefully failed to disclose. The underlying reality was that when he was Nuncio in Brussels in 1844-6, Pope Leo XIII had a mistress, Anna de Meeus, who gave him a son. The son was Camillo Pecci, the Pope's Capo di Garda Nobile and gatekeeper. He in turn had a daughter, Anna Pecci-Blunt, who blew the gaff of her ancestry by using her grandfather's papal insignia as the name of her Paris shop, La Cometa, a leading outlet of art deco and art nouveau. When she married, her husband, Cecil Blunt, was made a Vatican Count, despite being a New York Jewish lawyer/financier. They were members of the esoteric circles of Paris generally termed FUDOSI, which is now part of Crowley's Satanic Church OTO. Those circles were the ones Sauniere was introduced into by his Bishop, Felix Billard, who was confessor/spiritual director to Cardinal Henri de Bonnechose in Leo's Conclave. de Bonnechose was Leo's top theological adviser. Sauniere's mistress, Emma Calvet, was also a member of these circles and became a top singer after coaching by Mustafa, the head of the Sistine Choir. That implies she had Papal authority to work with them. Emma came to those circles through her cousin Melanie, who had vouched for Peter Julien Eymard, in establishing the Eucharistic Order (a setup: read his diaries for 1848, contrasting his sworn oath in establishing the credibility of the La Salette visions with where he actually was, and check the Curé d'Ars exposure of the fraud, which perpetrated by Eymard's chief acolyte, a M Dausse). His first seminarists included Auguste Rodin (the sculptor), fired for his first carving, showing Eymard's true diabolical nature. He remained in contact with his former colleagues, who went on to become the spiritual directors of the female Eucharistic Order Anna de Meeus established, but also developed a career inside FUDOSI, proof-reading Crowley's works for him. It is therefore extremely likely these circles indicate a Satanic Pope. This is further corroborated by Leo's other remarkable activity in Brussels, being more concerned with Renaissance Alchemy in the life of Jan van Helmont than one might expect of a theologian. It is likely that he was actually aligned with Rosicrucian Masonry, and was being blackmailed by Sauniere: his income stopped the moment Leo died. The proof completing the circle is in the HBHG text, "Poussin et Teniers tiennent les clefs", Poussin and Teniers hold the keys. Everyone's looked at Poussin, nobody at Teniers. Two keys, one gold, one silver, are an alchemical symbol. They are also the Papal symbol. David Teniers married into the Breughel family, known for their relationships with the neighbouring alchemist, and set up his studio on the ground next to one of the world's great alchemical sites. Anna would establish her Order on the other side of it, and when FUDOSI got kicked out of France, they moved into the site on the third side of it. Whether they were onto something or not is anybody's guess, but when the circles are all so close as this, it is, I think, reasonable to conclude there is something more than some kind of weird invented gnosis to it. So, a Pope with personal beliefs closely aligned with satanism, a mistress and son, and alchemy. The truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: Rapparee Date: 12 Apr 14 - 01:38 AM What's new about that? Check out the history of the Popes and you'll find all of it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: Will Fly Date: 12 Apr 14 - 09:01 AM To amuse myself one summer in France, I bought The Da Vinci Code to read in French. It still sucked |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: GUEST Date: 12 Apr 14 - 10:36 AM LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: GUEST Date: 12 Apr 14 - 10:36 AM LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: Lighter Date: 12 Apr 14 - 11:38 AM Regardless, "Holy Blood Holy Grail" and "Foucault's Pendulum" are *both* far more enjoyable reads than "Da Vinci," particularly when you recall that Dan the Man lifted the entire premise from Baigent et al. I've met seemingly intelligent people who were convinced that DVC, while "fictionalized," is so closely based on fact as to be practically gospel truth. Probably "Holy Blood," by persons who at least have actual writing skills, would have been way over their heads. Eco's novel, however, though a little long, is a 20th century classic. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: Jack Campin Date: 12 Apr 14 - 11:50 AM My headmaster at high school in New Zealand was called Baigent. NZ being a small country and the name not being common anywhere, I presume he was a close relative of Baigent the conspiracy faker. Baigent the headmaster was a short tubby little guy with a big pointy nose like a budgie and a Hitler moustache. He was ferociously authoritarian, liked whacking kids with a strap in front of the whole school at assembly and thought the Vietnam war was about defending the NZ way of life. If anybody wants to look for a hereditary paranoia gene they know where to start. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Da Vinci Code From: GUEST,a,c guest Date: 12 Apr 14 - 12:31 PM Load of irrelevant madness.Originally a 33deg mason was someone who had risen the kundalini.That is until some bright spark started selling degrees for wealth and favour.All the nonsense surrounding these secret societies is usually caused by ill disciplined evangelised half trippers.These days the majority of masons seem to be oblivious to the real purpose but do good in the community.Like most orgs they have their wrong uns.Just dawned on me how much AA and NA are very similar to the masonic way of living.Maybe that's the reason many ex addicts gain enlightenment. Read the Da Vi code and wasn't impressed inspired any fwiw. peacey |
