Posted on 05/10/2006 8:05:29 AM PDT by Pokey78
Given my laziness with spell-check, I should be the last to criticize, but I think you want another word. Parabolic means that it is governed by a quadratic equation.
Oh, golly, I adore this man more each time I read him! Since I'm normally pretty cool and reserved, it is hard for me to admit that I could be, in his case, a fanatical groupie. ("Smart men are sooo very sexy" bump)
Thanks for the ping!
I made it a little longer than you, but your description of it being like a pretentious Scooby Doo episode is (ahem) dead-on accurate. John Case's "The Genesis Code" was much, much better, and didn't pretend to be anything other than fiction. Thanks so much for the smile!
You do Scooby an injustice, since the Great Dane could construct a better sentence than Dan Brown.
I "respect a hit"--generally because I love a good story, something ripping and compelling. I expected DVC to at least entertain, but I thought the plotting shallow, utterly predictable and the writing style juvenile.
A big fat "I don't get it"--sort of like Katie Couric. I don't get why she's remotely popular.
Schonfeld argues that Jesus realized his claim to messiahship was very vulnerable to misinterpretation by "the crowd," which is why he tried to keep it a secret for so long. He didn't want to die prematurely, before he could inaugurate the final drama in Jerusalem. He only came out in the open, so to speak, at the time of the entry into Jerusalem, when he rode into town in the ass, to fulfill prophesy. Then the cat was out of the bag, and he quickly met his fate - according to the Bible, on his own terms. Schonfeld largely agrees with that.
Truth is absolute, once you know the formula! :-)
Shouldn't that be: good writing regarding poor writing?
On the other hand, perhaps you were intending to use poor grammar to make it more humorous? < /sarc>
Gnosticism = knowledge. It started with Adam and Eve when they were promised "knowledge" that would enable them to be like God. We continue to see its influence in the New Age/Eastern Religion influences with their talk of "We are all gods if we could only tap into the God within each of us." We see it even in some Christian denominations in their emphasis on being guided by their "inner experiences" rather than the Word. Of course if we are all guided by our inner gods, we have little use for any external source of moral guidance.
Yeah...uh... < Slim Pickens voice > Ditto! < /voice >
It is, actually, a form of sentence structure popularized in newspapers, where the loss of the occasional article is a gain for the typesetter. Although it's a bit of a corruption I don't find it as objectionable as the use of footnotes to present the reader with synonyms instead of citations. That is essentially the author stating that the reader is an illiterate moron (who also happens to be reading his book, a most unhappy combination of messages).
Brown may be a literary hack but he's a very wealthy literary hack with a story that sizzles if you can swim through the detritus of his writing. I'd as soon not, but I'd take his paycheck.
Some pretty interesting visualization with that ...
Steyn rules! The novel is pure fiction and poorly written at that. However, the writer has made millions and now is making even more with the movie and the pocket book sales.
hey steve,
you give the leftist/libs way too much credit; they don't care what the historical foundations/premise is of anything... as it long is it fits in with their "let's deconstruct the hell out of everything NOW!" mentality.
Dostoefsky: "Anything is permissable if there is no God"
when people stop believing in God, they start believing in anything.
Mark Steyn is a treasure, one of our three Giants of the West (VDH & Thomas Sowell). God Bless & Keep him.
CGVet58
And Jesus not only viewed Himself as the Jewish Messiah, He was and is the Jewish Messiah (at least for any believing Christian). As with all discrepencies between beliefs held and God's Word, the problems are with people's interpretations and expectations, not with God.
Albert Einstein was arguing with Neil's Bohr about quantum theory and famously said "God does not play dice with the universe." It is less well known that Bohr replied "Albert, stop telling God what to do." If God wants to make a universie that can best be described by quantum physics, then I'm not going to try and tell Him that He's wrong.
One, two, ping-a-roo.
Some gnostics weren'r necessarily against sex, just pro-creation. To make a baby was to imprison a soul in coarse flesh.
"The peculiar thing about this trendy, liberal fascination with Gnosticism as that the Gnostics entertained beliefs utterly foreign to modern liberalism: they were contemptuous of the body, of sex, and of life in general, which they regarded as the misbegotten product of an inferior god. They entertained a bizarre mythology completely alien to the kind of scientific rationalism that liberals normally promote. I think that liberals are responding to a sanitized IDEA of Gnosticism, rather than to the real thing."
BINGO.
Maybe they are creating a "new" form of "spirituality" which is compatible with modern "values"./sarc.
Shouldn't that be "A note to self" ;-)
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