Long time no Blog!
The first thing that happened was that Frank strongly recommended Dan Brown’s Demon’s and Angels (D&A) so I went out and bought a paperback copy. It thoroughly sucked me in for the duration; the TV didn’t go on for about three nights in the final stages of the story. Like The daVinci Code (dVC) the story involves, an ancient cult, lots of chicanery committed by the Catholic Church and Robert Langdon using his vast knowledge of symbology and art history to solve the murder mystery.
There were a few too many similarities to the setup of dVC in the early chapters - the corpse with a message, a significant character in a wheel chair and the insistent references to ancient brotherhoods (Knights Templar and Illuminati) in mortal combat with the papist church.
Among the symbols discussed in D&A are the Masonic symbols on the back of a dollar bill…
“The pyramid is an occult symbol representing a convergence upward, toward the ultimate source of Illumination.” Above the pyramid is another symbol, called a ‘trinacria,’ the eye inside the triangle which, according to Brown is an illuminati symbol…”They called it their ‘shining delta.’ A call for enlightened change. The eye signifies the illuminati’s ability to infiltrate and watch all things. The shining triangle represents enlightenment. And the triangle is also the Greek letter delta, which is the mathematical symbol for change, transition.”
In the dialogue that follows Brown claims that the symbols are a call for a new world order. Then he points out that the words beneath the pyramid, ‘Novus Ordo Seclorum,’ mean New Secular Order a phrase that “blatantly contradicts the phrase beside it, ‘In God We Trust.’”
While it’s true that there’s an apparent contradiction (no doubt that’s why the holier-than-thou crowd chooses to ignore the Latin phrase) I see no reason why we can’t believe in God and insist on a secular world order. A look at the world situation is enough evidence to show the dangers of letting religious fanatics codify their religiosity.
Speaking of religious wackos, Pat Robertson is at it again…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Nov 10, 2005 — Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson warned residents of a rural Pennsylvania town Thursday not to be surprised if disaster strikes there because "you just voted God out of your city" by ousting school board members who favored teaching "intelligent design."
"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city," Robertson said Thursday on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "The 700 Club."
The tragedy is that millions believe his bullshit. This is truly a case of the blind leading the gullible.
The other thing is that I've been backing up the entire Futurama collection onto DVD-R so the kids can watch them in Ireland and the originals will stay with me, in good shape. That's an ongoing project - I should finish the third season tonight.
There, I hope that satisfies the readers who've been clamoring for more posts. Just kidding.
There were a few too many similarities to the setup of dVC in the early chapters - the corpse with a message, a significant character in a wheel chair and the insistent references to ancient brotherhoods (Knights Templar and Illuminati) in mortal combat with the papist church.
Among the symbols discussed in D&A are the Masonic symbols on the back of a dollar bill…
“The pyramid is an occult symbol representing a convergence upward, toward the ultimate source of Illumination.” Above the pyramid is another symbol, called a ‘trinacria,’ the eye inside the triangle which, according to Brown is an illuminati symbol…”They called it their ‘shining delta.’ A call for enlightened change. The eye signifies the illuminati’s ability to infiltrate and watch all things. The shining triangle represents enlightenment. And the triangle is also the Greek letter delta, which is the mathematical symbol for change, transition.”
In the dialogue that follows Brown claims that the symbols are a call for a new world order. Then he points out that the words beneath the pyramid, ‘Novus Ordo Seclorum,’ mean New Secular Order a phrase that “blatantly contradicts the phrase beside it, ‘In God We Trust.’”
While it’s true that there’s an apparent contradiction (no doubt that’s why the holier-than-thou crowd chooses to ignore the Latin phrase) I see no reason why we can’t believe in God and insist on a secular world order. A look at the world situation is enough evidence to show the dangers of letting religious fanatics codify their religiosity.
Speaking of religious wackos, Pat Robertson is at it again…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Nov 10, 2005 — Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson warned residents of a rural Pennsylvania town Thursday not to be surprised if disaster strikes there because "you just voted God out of your city" by ousting school board members who favored teaching "intelligent design."
"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city," Robertson said Thursday on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "The 700 Club."
The tragedy is that millions believe his bullshit. This is truly a case of the blind leading the gullible.
The other thing is that I've been backing up the entire Futurama collection onto DVD-R so the kids can watch them in Ireland and the originals will stay with me, in good shape. That's an ongoing project - I should finish the third season tonight.
There, I hope that satisfies the readers who've been clamoring for more posts. Just kidding.
posted by Unknown at 11/10/2005 07:30:00 PM
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