Jeeze, I can't stand the BCE/CE claptrap...Acert93 said:James the Just was murdered in ca. 62 CE...
Jeeze, I can't stand the BCE/CE claptrap...Acert93 said:James the Just was murdered in ca. 62 CE...
Do what I do when you think a film at the cinema is going to be shit. Get £3 of pick 'n' mix, wait half an hour to see if you're keen on it. If not, eat as much as you can to induce short-term diabetic shock. The twitching off your eyelids and leg muscles will keep you occupied for the rest of the film, and by the time you walk out you'll be so hyper you'll have forgotten what the shit was onlondon-boy said:I enjoyed the book, as an action-y thriller-y book and nothing else. I am being forced to go see the movie even though i have no interest whatsoever in seeing it, as i know the story already... It's not like the Harry Potter movies (for example) where at least you can go to see the pretty special effects, and how the movie was translated from the imagination of the books... The Da Vinci Code is gonna be 2 and a half boring hours...
Rys said:Do what I do when you think a film at the cinema is going to be shit. Get £3 of pick 'n' mix, wait half an hour to see if you're keen on it. If not, eat as much as you can to induce short-term diabetic shock. The twitching off your eyelids and leg muscles will keep you occupied for the rest of the film, and by the time you walk out you'll be so hyper you'll have forgotten what the shit was on
Chalnoth said:I always thought that the book was supposed to be pure fiction anyway...
Chalnoth said:Or the hands, or the forehead...or any number of other possibly non-intimate locations.
With the same basic theme ("an earth shatterring secret") and since you enjoyed TDVC, I'd recommend the book I just finished (I finished the last third of the book all of last night) : "The Last Templar" by Raymond Khoury. No, it doesn't have all those puzzles and anagrams as in TDVC but towards the end there's more action than TDVC. The man and woman protaganists have a relationship (unlike TDVC), the Vatican and the CIA (!) are determined to keep that secret hidden, there's land and sea action and most of all, and very unlike my experience with TDVC book, I really wanted to know what happens to the two protaganists as much as I wanted to know what the secret was (helped no doubt by the fact that the secret was revealed, kind of, quite a bit before the end, again unlike TDVC... and this is a good compliment for the book because although I knew the secret at that point in the book, my attention was still rapt because I wanted to know how the book would end wrt the two protaganists).london-boy said:I enjoyed the book, as an action-y thriller-y book and nothing else....
I'd more believe that he fell in love with somebody before he died, personally.CouldntResist said:Lastly, what a coincidence, Jesus was 30 yo unmarried man, who had just became charismatic leader of a large group (I guess chicks dig it as much as they did 2000 years ago)
Too many of those coincidences, if you ask me.
Which is to say you think Jesus Christ is only (a) man. Hey, a Man on a Mission with such a specific Message surely cannot risk or afford to fall in love! Or maybe God told Him "Oh, it's Love you're saying... well, in that case, forget what I told you and what you're supposed to do or not do... it's Love I want and it's Love you'll get! "Chalnoth said:I'd more believe that he fell in love with somebody before he died, personally.
Nom De Guerre said:Anyone here read this forum more than they do their copy of the Bible?
Nom De Guerre said:Which is to say you think Jesus Christ is only (a) man. Hey, a Man on a Mission with such a specific Message surely cannot risk or afford to fall in love!
Chalnoth said:That said, from what I do know of the Bible, I see no reason to believe that Jesus was celibate.
Luke 20:34 So Jesus said to them, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. 20:35 But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
I actually agree, I just don't see why anyone cares about it._xxx_ said:Just the amount of interest for the book/movie tells me that we're still with one foot in the dark ages. I really don't get it, we're in the 21st century after all.
Sxotty said:I actually agree, I just don't see why anyone cares about it.
It is very unoriginal, Dan Brown just copied stuff that was already done and happened to be in the right place at the right time...
PARANOiA said:Jesus was a Jedi????