I have cracked a centuries old secret. ‘The DaVinci Code’ is an anagram. Now, my dad has a nice voice, but I was stumped by the ‘HT’. Then I realized that my dad sounds like Harry Truman! Easy enough.
If you can’t tell, I’m reading through Dan Brown’s book so that I can have an opinion. A lot of my co-workers asked me about it last year. I started last night and I am on 150 this morning. It does read quickly, but I find the albino hitman the most intriguing. Is it bad that I sympathize with a bad guy? It’s crazy how anti-Catholicism the book is. But that’s okay, right? It’s so en vogue to hate the pope. They’re all bad. Boo. (I’m being sarcastic. Hopefully that comes across. Now I have an image of Marge responding with, “Well, duh” when Homer is sarcastic about the Plow King. “Oh, I’m so happy for him. I’m the happy fairy of gumdrop lane.” or something like that quote.)
Now, I do find the murder part interesting and well written, but come on! Centuries old secrets are just anagrams and smiling paintings? I’m not quite certain about Amon L’Isa, but I’m pretty sure Sir Isaac Newton was not a Scion member.
Newton singlehandedly contributed more to the development of science than any other individual in history. He surpassed all the gains brought about by the great scientific minds of antiquity, producing a scheme of the universe which was more consistent, elegant, and intuitive than any proposed before. Newton stated explicit principles of scientific methods which applied universally to all branches of science. This was in sharp contradistinction to the earlier methodologies of Aristotle and Aquinas, which had outlined separate methods for different disciplines.
Although his methodology was strictly logical, Newton still believed deeply in the necessity of a God. His theological views are characterized by his belief that the beauty and regularity of the natural world could only “proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.” He felt that “the Supreme God exists necessarily, and by the same necessity he exists always and everywhere.” Newton believed that God periodically intervened to keep the universe going on track. He therefore denied the importance of Leibniz’s vis viva as nothing more than an interesting quantity which remained constant in elastic collisions and therefore had no physical importance or meaning.
This does not sound like a goddess worshipper. This sounds more like F=yo yo ma. (Thank you, Mr. Burton.)
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I should add that another reason I’m reading it so quickly is that I want to trade it in at Bookman’s and get more for my trade while the movie is out in theaters.
I should mention that I’ve got another article going. This one promises to be a doozy.
Okay, so Mr. Robinson left me with this cool link to a riddle.
I listened to part of the audiobook and it just drove me crazy. First, when the expert on religious history (or whatever) starts talking about the ancient idea of the divine feminine, but what he starts talking about are basically neo-pagan concepts, created in the past 50 or 100 years. I was also annoyed by how often he kept calling Sophie by her full name at first, and kept pointing out that she had green eyes. Okay, we get it!
I didn’t listen to too much of it, because what I heard seemed so poorly written. Morgan listened to the rest of it and told me it would have just annoyed me more.
But green eyes are magical!
Like the Irish.
Like the Irish.
Yeah, I agree with you about claiming ideas are ancient when they’re new interpretations. Robert Langdon’s a religious symbologist, but he does spout a lot of history. The parts that were dorky for me were when Sophie of the Green Eyes was trying to do some type of heroic thing and Langdon would stand in the background and say, “Y’know, in 1503, Mary Magdalene blah blah.” If I were Sophie Neveu of the Green Eyes, I would have turned around and said, “Dude. My grandpa got murdered. Do you think we could actually try and solve the case?” They never really actively pursue the murderer, they get distracted by the Holy Grail (who doesn’t, I mean?). The murderer seeks them out.
And then there’s the climactic battle over Sir Isaac Newton’s grave. I’ll ruin the book. It’s APPLE. The magic word that opens the cryptex is APPLE. Because that’s what Eve ate, and that’s what fell on Newton’s head, and it all represents Mary Magdalene’s goddess womb.
Go ahead. Continue thinking I’m joking.
Why travel Europe looking for answers. My friends and I could have solved the riddle in 5th grade. Then you would have had to only pay us in NES games. Ah, Mario…why does a leaf make you grow a raccoon tail? The mysteries of life…
And then there’s the part of the book where he reveals that Disney was also a Priory of Scion. That’s why Snow White (Mary Magdalene in disguise) eats the apple. That’s also why Sleeping Beauty is named Aurora (goddess of the stars) but is hidden as Rose (representing the Holy Grail and Magdalene’s bloodline).
And Ariel (magical name) has red hair, just like Mary.
Yeah, he makes those claims.
I only wish that I thought you were joking.
Now I’m certain that it’s a good thing I didn’t read the book, because I probably would have thrown it across the room at some point, tried to continue reading it later, and then thrown it across the room again. Repeat.
I thought you might find this amusing: Ten Things I Hate About Commandments.
Also: Shining.
Oh…my…crazy! I had seen the 10 Things before and cracked up. Shining is just as good.
Ah, youtube. If only I could get you on a regular TV.
I love Shining, because it’s just so heart-warming until you remind yourself what the source material is.
The guy who did Shining was friends with two people who did other trailers: this one, for Titanic, and West Side Story, as a zombie film.
D’ye have the link for the zombie movie?
Hmm, I don’t know how I botched the HTML on the last one. The zombie trailer.