Da Vinci Code

On 21/05/06 0:12, in article , "Mister
Bartlett" wrote: w

Went to see Da Vinci Code tonight, which was a bit disappointing in
terms of touristy shots of Paris.

However (SPOILER ALERT)

the general idea seems to be that Audrey Tautou must be followed and
worshipped. Works for me.

Mr B;


The film has generally received poor reviews. Movie reviewers
are often economically wrong, however.

It had record attendance in Italy, which will not please the Vatican, and
apparently China has well received it. Hollywood's domestic movie goer
market has stagnated for years and currently is exceeded by an international
market. So a failure at home does not imply one abroad.

I have seen no French review yet. Prior to its release the articles
tended to concentrate at the positive tourist impact of the book
and the film.

As for Audrey Tautou, the American film credits in the film misspelled her
last name, as did this news item " Audrey Tatou Nearly Missed Out on 'Da
Vinci Code' Role"

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index....u_nearly_misse
d_out_on_da_vin

"Earl Evleth" wrote:
The film has generally received poor reviews. Movie
reviewers are often economically wrong, however.

Popular American reviewer, Roger Ebert, gives it 3 stars,
out of 4. "Ron Howard's movie is preposterously entertaining."
This makes it a go for me, for curiousity mainly.

On 21/05/06 11:51, in article , "Jens
Arne Maennig" wrote:

The Christian community seems to have funny problems. Being neutral
in this case, I wouldn't care too much if Jesus was asexual or just a
guy with normal desires including the according consequences.

I think the Christian development in the East (Greek Orthodox) had
a healthier attitude towards sex. The priests are married but one
can become monk or nun and avoid the sex part, take one's self out
of the general community. Jesus could or could not have been celibate,
the issue is not important. He does not come across as sexist in
the Gospels. But Paul was an absolute disaster along those lines,
a lot can be said about his sexuality. It was he and not Jesus
who took western Christianity off in the "wrong" direction.

Today's Le Parisien has a one page article on deconstructing
some of the items in the book about the the Eglise St. Sulpice.
I am not knowledgeable about this Church even though we have
lived in this area for 30 years. The only error in Brown's
book about the area was claiming that there were prostitutes
on the square (Place St. Sulpice) when the albino monk went to the church.
I have never seen prostitutes on that square, the 6th
arrondissement main police station is there. I have never
seen prostitutes on the left bank in Paris. They had congregated
historically in near Pigalle, St. Lazare, the Goutte d'Or and
rue St. Denis and in the two bois which border Paris on the
east and west. Mostly AIDS has driving the girls out of business.

Brown's saying that they were on St. Sulpice can be reassuring to his
wife, he was not whoring when doing his research in Paris.

On 21/05/06 14:20, in article ,
"Dave Frightens Me" wrote:

On Sun, 21 May 2006 11:51:45 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
wrote:

The Christian community seems to have funny problems. Being neutral
in this case, I wouldn't care too much if Jesus was asexual or just a
guy with normal desires including the according consequences.

Apparently some politicians here in Italy burnt copies of the book.
Shouldn't they be burning down cinemas instead?


Book burning is a old Christian tradition
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book-burning, a few of those
in which Christians are involved are ----

According to the New Testament book of Acts, early converts to Christianity
in Ephesus burned books of "curious arts". "Many of them also which used
curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men:
and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of
silver." (Acts 19:19, KJV) The term curious arts refers to magical
practices. [1]

The books of Arius and his followers, after the first Council of Nicaea
(325), for heresy.

Etrusca Disciplina, the Etruscan books of cult and divination, collected and
burned in the 5th century.

The books of Nestorius, after an edict of Theodosius II, for heresy (435).

In 1233 Maimonides' "Guide for the Perplexed" was burnt at Montpellier,
Southern France.

In the 1480s Tomas Torquemada promoted the burning of non-Catholic
literature, especially Jewish Talmuds and, after the final defeat of the
Moors at Granada in 1492, Arabic books also.

In 1410 John Wycliffe's books were burnt by the illiterate Prague archbishop
Zbyn?k Zajic z Házmburka in the court of his palace in Lesser Town of Prague
to hinder the spread of Jan Hus' teaching

In 1499 or 1500, in Andalucia, Spain, over a million Arabic and Hebrew books
from one of the richest collections in history were burned on the orders of
Cisneros, Archbishop of Granada (See: Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition,
London: White Lion, 1965, p. 98.) Many of the poetic works were allegedly
destroyed on account of their symbolized homoeroticism. (See: Erskine Lane,
tr. "In Praise of Boys: Moorish Poems from Al-Andalus," 1975).

In 1525 & 1526 William Tyndale's English translation of the New Testament
were burned wherever the authorities could find them.

In 1553, Servetius was burned for a heretic at the order of John Calvin, on
a remark in his translation of Ptolemy's Geography. "Around his waist were
tied a large bundle of manuscript and a thick octavo printed book", his
Christianismi Restitutio, three copies of which have survived [2].

1562 Fray Diego de Landa, acting bishop of the Yucatan, threw into the fires
the sacred books of the Maya[3].

There have been several incidents of Harry Potter books being burned,
including those directed by churches at Alamogordo, New Mexico, Charleston,
South Carolina, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Earl Evleth writes:

Brown's saying that they were on St. Sulpice can be reassuring to his
wife, he was not whoring when doing his research in Paris.

He did research?

--
Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

On 21/05/06 13:30, in article ,
"Mxsmanic" wrote:

Earl Evleth writes:

Brown's saying that they were on St. Sulpice can be reassuring to his
wife, he was not whoring when doing his research in Paris.

He did research?


We all do, some better than others, some worse.

Mxsmanic wrote:

Earl Evleth writes:

Brown's saying that they were on St. Sulpice can be reassuring to his
wife, he was not whoring when doing his research in Paris.

He did research?

Sure. He read one book -- The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.

--
PB
The return address has been MUNGED

On Sun, 21 May 2006 11:51:45 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
wrote:

The Christian community seems to have funny problems. Being neutral
in this case, I wouldn't care too much if Jesus was asexual or just a
guy with normal desires including the according consequences.

Apparently some politicians here in Italy burnt copies of the book.
Shouldn't they be burning down cinemas instead?
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DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
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30 years !!
and not a single correct french phrase put together

"Earl Evleth" a écrit dans le message de news:
...
On 21/05/06 11:51, in article , "Jens
Arne Maennig" wrote:

The Christian community seems to have funny problems. Being neutral
in this case, I wouldn't care too much if Jesus was asexual or just a
guy with normal desires including the according consequences.

I think the Christian development in the East (Greek Orthodox) had
a healthier attitude towards sex. The priests are married but one
can become monk or nun and avoid the sex part, take one's self out
of the general community. Jesus could or could not have been celibate,
the issue is not important. He does not come across as sexist in
the Gospels. But Paul was an absolute disaster along those lines,
a lot can be said about his sexuality. It was he and not Jesus
who took western Christianity off in the "wrong" direction.

Today's Le Parisien has a one page article on deconstructing
some of the items in the book about the the Eglise St. Sulpice.
I am not knowledgeable about this Church even though we have
lived in this area for 30 years. The only error in Brown's
book about the area was claiming that there were prostitutes
on the square (Place St. Sulpice) when the albino monk went to the church.
I have never seen prostitutes on that square, the 6th
arrondissement main police station is there. I have never
seen prostitutes on the left bank in Paris. They had congregated
historically in near Pigalle, St. Lazare, the Goutte d'Or and
rue St. Denis and in the two bois which border Paris on the
east and west. Mostly AIDS has driving the girls out of business.

Brown's saying that they were on St. Sulpice can be reassuring to his
wife, he was not whoring when doing his research in Paris.

Very uninteresting and OT as usual
Another lecture by evleth

"Earl Evleth" a écrit dans le message de news:
...
On 21/05/06 14:20, in article ,
"Dave Frightens Me" wrote:

On Sun, 21 May 2006 11:51:45 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
wrote:

The Christian community seems to have funny problems. Being neutral
in this case, I wouldn't care too much if Jesus was asexual or just a
guy with normal desires including the according consequences.

Apparently some politicians here in Italy burnt copies of the book.
Shouldn't they be burning down cinemas instead?


Book burning is a old Christian tradition
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book-burning, a few of those
in which Christians are involved are ----

According to the New Testament book of Acts, early converts to
Christianity
in Ephesus burned books of "curious arts". "Many of them also which used
curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men:
and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of
silver." (Acts 19:19, KJV) The term curious arts refers to magical
practices. [1]

The books of Arius and his followers, after the first Council of Nicaea
(325), for heresy.

Etrusca Disciplina, the Etruscan books of cult and divination, collected
and
burned in the 5th century.

The books of Nestorius, after an edict of Theodosius II, for heresy (435).

In 1233 Maimonides' "Guide for the Perplexed" was burnt at Montpellier,
Southern France.

In the 1480s Tomas Torquemada promoted the burning of non-Catholic
literature, especially Jewish Talmuds and, after the final defeat of the
Moors at Granada in 1492, Arabic books also.

In 1410 John Wycliffe's books were burnt by the illiterate Prague
archbishop
Zbyn?k Zajic z Házmburka in the court of his palace in Lesser Town of
Prague
to hinder the spread of Jan Hus' teaching

In 1499 or 1500, in Andalucia, Spain, over a million Arabic and Hebrew
books
from one of the richest collections in history were burned on the orders
of
Cisneros, Archbishop of Granada (See: Henry Kamen, The Spanish
Inquisition,
London: White Lion, 1965, p. 98.) Many of the poetic works were allegedly
destroyed on account of their symbolized homoeroticism. (See: Erskine
Lane,
tr. "In Praise of Boys: Moorish Poems from Al-Andalus," 1975).

In 1525 & 1526 William Tyndale's English translation of the New Testament
were burned wherever the authorities could find them.

In 1553, Servetius was burned for a heretic at the order of John Calvin,
on
a remark in his translation of Ptolemy's Geography. "Around his waist were
tied a large bundle of manuscript and a thick octavo printed book", his
Christianismi Restitutio, three copies of which have survived [2].

1562 Fray Diego de Landa, acting bishop of the Yucatan, threw into the
fires
the sacred books of the Maya[3].

There have been several incidents of Harry Potter books being burned,
including those directed by churches at Alamogordo, New Mexico,
Charleston,
South Carolina, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.