Da Vinci Code

[dimwit]

ARRRGH! For what seems like only about the 100th time I have had another student ask me about the Da Vinci Code and I have run out of fun responses. How about the rest of you? Have you been accosted by Japanese and asked to explain it. And if so what have you told them?

[FG Lurker]

ARRRGH! For what seems like only about the 100th time I have had another student ask me about the Da Vinci Code and I have run out of fun responses. How about the rest of you? Have you been accosted by Japanese and asked to explain it. And if so what have you told them?

I tell 'em the movie is all true and that Christianity is just a cult that made it big through murder and deceit.

[FG Lurker]

We need more options... Like:

It's basically as provable as the rest of the books of the Bible.

or

No one knows because historically anything that didn't agree with what bigwig Christians thought was systematically and violently destroyed.

or

It's all fiction, like the rest of the Bible.

or

Flip a coin.

or

...

[Hanakuso]

D: all of the above

[dimwit]

I really wasn't trying to ellict anyones views on Christianity, I more interested in strategies for getting hamsters to stop pestering me about the subject.

I agree I should have added another option in the poll such as 5 it is unprovable but I don't think I can change the poll once it was been sumbitted.

[nullpointer]

I tell 'em the movie is all true and that Christianity is just a cult that made it big through murder and deceit.

Blasphemy! OMG I am sure I will go blind because I read that.

[Mike Oxlong]

The most plausable part of the story, that Jesus married & had a kid/kids, seems to be the part that gets all the sky-pilots all up in arms. The more fantastical parts, like the Priory of Scion bit, Leo & the cryptex, the roseline and so on, don't really raise many eyebrows.

Many are overlooking the most important fact of all, that buddy Hesus was a FG too! All those years in Egypt...

[Taro Toporific]

I really wasn't trying to ellict anyones views on Christianity, I more interested in strategies for getting hamsters to stop pestering me about the subject.

Wow! Are your hamsters actually interested about a novel?
In the mid 80s an Irish FG forced me to read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" (Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, 1983). It was an amusing enough book---kind of long and totally irrelevant except for Xians interested in Pope theater.

My hamster strategy is to put on my best demented smile and say, "that drooling old fart ain't my fucking Pope...all God's childrens are da Pope! We'd all be Jesus!" Then I go into my raving street preacher routine, start foaming at the mouth and speaking in tongues: Oh, oozums own wootsy squidlums!




(Actually, it's too bad the Da Vinci Code is only a work of speculative fiction. )

[dimwit]

My hamster strategy is to put on my best demented smile and say, "that drooling old fart ain't my fucking Pope...all God's childrens are da Pope! We'd all be Jesus!" Then I go into my raving street preacher routine, start foaming at the mouth and speaking in tongues: Oh, oozums own wootsy squidlums!

I usually save that for encounters with Japanese who want to speak Engrish at me at train stations and the like.

[kamome]

My hamster strategy is to put on my best demented smile and say, "that drooling old fart ain't my fucking Pope...all God's childrens are da Pope! We'd all be Jesus!" Then I go into my raving street preacher routine, start foaming at the mouth and speaking in tongues: Oh, oozums own wootsy squidlums!

LOL! I keep laughing every time I read this.

[Greji]

Blasphemy! OMG I am sure I will go blind because I read that.

Naaaaah! You're safe. You only go blind from wanking!

[otakuden]

MANKO!!!!!
feh. haven't even read the book or seen the movie. have no desire to either. much like the million little "lies" fad, i am so not interested. as for those who take personal religious offense to the book and/or movie, get a life and get over it i say. it's F.I.C.T.I.O.N.

OT - good morning hurricane season ~sips coffee~

[Yorik]

Sorry, I missed the last supper because
-I was drunk.
-with your missus/mum.
-in the kitchen.

I can't read.

My psychiatrist says that we shouldn't talk about that part of my life.

sssh.. Don't talk too loud, they are everywhere you know!!!

When I traced my family tree, all I found was pimps and prositutes, so I guess I worked for the vatican..

This is just another media hype created by the vatican to move media interest away from organised crime and child sexual abuse.

I know nothing of Cricket!!

Or my favourite answer to anything I don't want to answer or couldn't care about

Goats!

[sillygirl]

I'd tell 'em it's made up by Disney...

Look out for the new Crucifixion ride at DL Tokyo....

[otakuden]

I'd tell 'em it's made up by Disney...

Look out for the new Crucifixion ride at DL Tokyo....

~sprays coffee all over moniter~

[Mulboyne]

It's a conspiracy...

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[Mulboyne]

[Mike Oxlong]