The Davinci Code: fact or fiction?

[Polwarth]

Enjoy?

It was a badly written, badly researched CRAPPY NOVEL.

[rosslyntemplar]

No you missed the BIG point Pol, I said enjoy, not the novel but the interesting and absorbing subjects I mentioned.

Enjoy.

[Polwarth]

Sorry, we'll have to agree to disagree. It's all rubbish. The Holy Grail, the modern Knights Templars......

[Celyn]

Originally Posted by rosslyntemplar

The Knights Templar were not fiction, the Freemasons are not fiction, the council of Nicea was not fiction, Davinci himself was not a work of fiction.

So point here the book was written with real events, societies, and persons, Brown only speculated on the reasons of the involvement for the above.
Disprove I suppose is easy enough.

But why always this area, why always the KT, why always the RC church ( the biggest lie that man ever invented) why always the Masons, why always Rennes Le Chateau, why always Rosslyn, why always Temple, why always these?.

Real enough for me.

Disproving what, exactly? Who is planning to disprove the existence of Leonardo, or that the Councils of Nicaea took place, ... .or whatever? Your thesis here is rather difficult to discover. What, for instance, is meant here: it does rather seem to be a random list of that this seems to be a list of things/beliefs that you do not like ..

Originally Posted by rosslyntemplar

always the KT, why always the RC church ( the biggest lie that man ever invented) why always the Masons, why always Rennes Le Chateau, why always Rosslyn, why always Temple, why always these?...

Then, all of a sudden , they are

Originally Posted by rosslyntemplar

Real enough for me.

Oh, it is does look just a wee bit muddled. Do please explain why all those thing/beliefs/cults are easy to disprove, yet at the same time, real enough for you?

Note, I have absolutely no idea what KT is, but I rather imagine that lots of your fellow Christians, Roman Catholics, might feel a bit miffed at being quite so summarily dismissed.

Oh, not to worry, anyway, I have heard on the best authority that it is quite all right if it's

Originally Posted by rosslyntemplar

Real enough for me.”

and no doubt for and Bobby McGee too, I daresay.


But freedom of thought is something far too valuable to lose.

[kathyv]

There seems to be a real need in modern lit. (and I use that term lightly) for the search and shock value.

That film, National Treasure, was one of this kind. Unbelievable in that the authors of these kinds of stories want us to believe that documents and works of art created hundreds of years ago carry secret messages pertaining to the future that ONLY modern technology can unlock! Get real! Think about how unable Renaissance man was to use black lights or computers or binary codes.... need I say more? I mean, even paint form Davinci's life hasn't withstood time well!

There is a genre for this kind of work, Science Fiction!

That's all it is, that's all it will ever be.

[Sharp_Kid]

Originally Posted by rosslyntemplar

The Knights Templar were not fiction, the Freemasons are not fiction, the council of Nicea was not fiction, Davinci himself was not a work of fiction.

So?
The FBI is not fiction.
Every city and country location in the USA is not fiction.
The American Government is not fiction.
Does that make the X Files not fiction?
Are you really that stupid?

So point here the book was written with real events, societies, and persons, Brown only speculated on the reasons of the involvement for the above.
Disprove I suppose is easy enough.

That's just wrong in the wrongest sense of the wronging wrongness of wronging.
It was not based on real events.
As I said before, the curater of the Louvre was not found dead after being murdered by an albino member of that crazy cult, so your claim of "real events" is wrong.
There is no internationally renowned code cracker by the name of Robert Langdon who now knows the secret of the Holy Grale, so your claim of "real persons" was also wrong.

IT IS FICTION.
No matter how hard and badly you argue you can not change the fact that it is entirely a work of fiction.
Yes, it is based in the real world and involves recognised organisations and locations, but all that does is set it apart from Science Fiction.

The next person to say it is not fiction is going to be hunted down and stabbed repeatedly in the face because you're just too stupid to risk diluting the gene pool with.

[rosslyntemplar]

Not so sharp Kid wrote

`The FBI is not fiction.
Every city and country location in the USA is not fiction.
The American Government is not fiction.
Does that make the X Files not fiction?
Are you really that stupid`?

Wow thanks for that I really never knew.
Does anyone here not miss the point?


Events in Browns book are real, Historical characters are real, Ancient societies he mentions are real.

He used these `things` to build a novel: (a FICTIONAL prose work with a relatively long and often complex plot, usually divided into chapters, in which the story traditionally develops through the thoughts and actions of its characters main around. MSN ENCARTA)



Celyn wrote

`Note, I have absolutely no idea what KT is, but I rather imagine that lots of your fellow Christians, Roman Catholics, might feel a bit miffed at being quite so summarily dismissed`

KT really quite simple, Knight Templar, why do YOU presume that I am a Christian?

People jump to conclusions quite rapid, when all they really need to do is take a few seconds read the post again and THINK about it.

What is really amusing about the whole thing is Brown has achived his ultimate aim to make millions off the back of the RC church and the more they winge the more the $$$$ fly in.

Well done Dan.