He has a very boring name so I doubt I shall bother to read any of his works.
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He has a very boring name so I doubt I shall bother to read any of his works.
I rather like the idea, to imagine that sons and daughters of Jesus still walk this satanic Earth...
Yeah, cause everyone knows boring names result in terrible literature. :dry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Khan's Grape
WhyQuote:
Originally Posted by Damnatory
Name me 10 good writers with only one syllable in their surname.Quote:
Originally Posted by Damnatory
I rest my case.
Anne RiceQuote:
Originally Posted by Khan's Grape
Dean Koontz
Dan Brown
H.G. Wells
Edgar Allen Poe (Not an author, but you said writer didn't you...)
Stephen King
Mark Twain
Jules Verne
John Case
Oscar Wilde
:ermm: Those come to mind rather easily...
Koontz for feck's sake? Are you a mental at all?Quote:
Originally Posted by Damnatory
Rice, Brown and King are all average writers at best. John Case is a fictional construct. Verne is French, Poe & Twain are American and Wilde doesn't count.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...1.THUMBZZZ.jpg
That's a very... lenient usage of "good."
:shuriken:
Given the limit of one syllable, I mean, come on... :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicNakor
Yeah, but you chose to ignore that rule anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Damnatory
ExplainQuote:
Originally Posted by JPaul
Which partQuote:
Originally Posted by Damnatory
...see thread, " Post Something"
Is the Pope a Catholic? :huh:Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicNakor
the pope is really a t-rex which was born really small, small enough to bite a mans face off and wear it me thinks.
..but that's OK because you can get a face-transplant these days....in France erm. .:lookaroun
An interesting theory and perhaps slightly more convincing than the Dracula one I have seen :shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spider_dude
With regards the book, I haven't read it although I have seen a couple of documentaries. A hotch potch of conspiracies it would seem which as a novel is fair enough.
Clearly something was going with Leonardo and his Last Supper but Leonardo was a strange man given to performimg autopsies at night and writing his notes backwards etc., The depiction of John is seriously feminine no matter how it is spun but that might have more to do with Lenardo's sexuality than anything else.
are you saying leonardo and baz were in a gay relationship? whatever will junno think?
It's not at all surprising, after nearly 2000 years ...
What actually happened to Jesus and his family, that's what the real story over the " code" and the Holy Grail, is about.
Mary plays an essential role in the Catholic belief, but not the Mary we are led to believe. The baby is also not Jesus. The baby is the Holy Grail, Jesus's blood line, protected by the Catholic church itself. Mark my words...within a short time the truth will be made public... I would say within 6 years...
....I have not read the book yet, although I do have it shared :)
Whether the basis of the story is true or false does not stop it being quite a good book, imho.
Of course, even if it's all true, so what? Jesus was just an ordinary bloke after all... :dabs: Also, the fact that the Catholic church has shaped the bible and moulded the Christian faith in order to control the populace is much more accepted now than it was, say 100 years ago.
That is spite of the fact that it didn't exist when the Old Testament was written.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarossa
The Catholic Church has no postion on whether Jesus was married or not. Neither has it any position on whether he had children or not. It really makes no difference with regard to either his divinity or his humanity.
Mary (of Magdala) has been ill treated by history. She was one of the most important figures in the New Testament.
The Old Testament may indeed have remained untouched, which is probably why God is depicted as a vengeful spiteful old bastard in the OT, and some kind of peace n' love hippy-character in the NT...Quote:
Originally Posted by JPaul
It probably does to the Catholic church though, which is why I thought we are led to believe he was celibate, because he was above such things as pleasures of the flesh.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPaul
Didn't they do a cut n' paste job on teh Gospels, keeping the ones they liked and binning the ones they didn't like?Quote:
Originally Posted by JPaul
I admit, I'm commenting on a subject I have only a cursory knowledge of, and even less of an interest in.
Maybe I have in fact been brainwashed? This is quite likely... :ermm:
maybe that jesus general should come in here?
No, honestly, the Catholic Church does not take a position on whether Christ was married or not. It sort of follows from that they don't take a position on Him being celibate or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarossa
Some people argue that the "gnostic" Gospels were rejected by the early Church, the sectio which prevailed obviousement. This includes the Gospel according to Mary (of Magdela). The reason for this was that they thought they may be a wee bit mental. One speaks of Jesus as a child and how he used his miraculous powers to turn lumps of clay into living birds, do away with other children who annoyed him and stuff like that. The Church questioned where they got this information from and how likely it was to be true. It seemed incongruous with His later life and teachings.
i liked in southpark the bit where they are reading the tablet moses brought down and it says celebrate not celibate. i dont however like the insinuation that priests molest wee boys.
Of course they do, so do accountants, teachers, telephone technicians, bank clerks, policemen, graphic artists, plumbers, lumberjacks, doctors, sailors, students, chefs, football managers, tree surgeons, driving instructors, vets ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Spider_dude
I think spd's point was that they're just not interested in him anymore :no:Quote:
Originally Posted by JPaul
Too old mate, he turned 14.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
Ah. Happy 14th, spd :01:
He was racing at Cowes, nobby.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
A child prodigy.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPaul
You don't get many of them to the pound - even less to the dollar.
You want to pound a child prodigy.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
One can only hope you mean punch to the ground.
On a completely related note, that Dougie Howser guy was in Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle.
Looked almost normal, he did. I didn't want to pound him and never have, FYI :smilie4:
I'm sure Mrs manker is pleased you have never pounded Dougie Houseboy.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
the flim the davinci code any got it
Is it even out yet?
comes in theatres in june I think