kujo Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 [quote name='Winchester' post='1771119' date='Feb 3 2009, 02:43 PM']You should read something good. Like Vonnegut.[/quote] I'm reading a book by Phillip Roth right now called [url="http://www.amazon.com/Plot-Against-America-Philip-Roth/dp/1400079497/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233686786&sr=8-1"][u]The Plot Against America[/u][/url]. Pretty good piece of political and historical fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Haven't ever read Roth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pan!c139 Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 [quote name='CrossCuT' post='1770978' date='Feb 3 2009, 09:14 AM'][size=1]I JUST saw the teaser trailer for this when I was looking through the superbowl commercials! I WANTED TO BARF! Is the world really getting this bad? I cant believe it. Talk about hate...a whole movie on it! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSyWqCdqCZ0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSyWqCdqCZ0[/url] [/size][/quote] Yeah I saw it too. Grrrrr. Tom Hanks is lookin real old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veridicus Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 (edited) What the Church does not need is more bad representation in modern culture. There are a million, million idiots in the world waiting for more reasons to hate catholicism and to destroy respect for its hierarchical structure. And when sensationalist conspiracy-theorists like Dan Brown begin their novels with what is found on page 1 of 'The DaVinci Code" stating "FACT:....All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate" and then proceeds at a sloppy attempt at constructing fantasy and historical drama...[i]IT IS[/i] sickening. Of course everyone knows the characters and storyline are fiction, but when the author begins the novel guaranteeing that the facts about history, documents, etc. have been "accurate"ly presented...the average idiot reader takes it at face value and never looks any deeper. Especially if the garbage presented fits comfortably into a worldview already held by the reader, namely that the Catholic church is run by a bunch of whackjob power-hungry killers who corrupt history and theology in order to enslave the masses into confusion and submission. I doubt if 1/3 of Dan Brown's readership has a discriminating enough eye to see through the bs or has taken the time to really evaluate the historical/architectual/documentary claims made in his novel. I have and he's astoundingly "INaccurate" on virtually every level; no surprise. But then again I have an informed conscience regarding the Catholic Church and I take the time to challenge the information I'm given. What the Catholic Church does NOT need is any more bad PR, any more reason for people to distrust her hierarchy, or any more reason to think her theological pronouncements are just the whims of power-hungry clergy (or their sycophantic underlings). And I feel like at this point in history I can't drop a quarter in a video-store without it bouncing off a movie with a pedophile priest, or a corrupt bishop, or a sniveling cardinal, or a Pope hiring assassins to knock-off people who disagree with their 'contrived' theology. Edited February 3, 2009 by Veridicus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 You're missing an apostrophe. It totally throws off your argument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veridicus Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Sorry...had to get that out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veridicus Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 [quote name='Winchester' post='1771148' date='Feb 3 2009, 02:01 PM']You're missing an apostrophe. It totally throws off your argument.[/quote] Haha...thanks...really... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kujo Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 [quote name='Veridicus' post='1771144' date='Feb 3 2009, 02:58 PM']What the Church does not need is more bad representation in modern culture. There are a million, million idiots in the world waiting for more reasons to hate catholicism and to destroy respect for its hierarchical structure. And when sensationalist conspiracy-theorists like Dan Brown begin their novels with what is found on page 1 of 'The DaVinci Code" stating "FACT:....All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate" and then proceeds at a sloppy attempt at constructing fantasy and historical drama...its sickening. Of course everyone knows the characters and storyline are fiction, but when the author begins the novel guaranteeing that the facts about history, documents, etc. have been "accurate"ly presented...the average idiot reader takes it at face value and never looks any deeper. Especially if the garbage presented fits comfortably into a worldview already held by the reader, namely that the Catholic church is run by a bunch of whackjob power-hungry killers who corrupt history and theology in order to enslave the masses into confusion and submission. I doubt if 1/3 of Dan Brown's readership has a discriminating enough eye to see through the bs or has taken the time to really evaluate the historical/architectual/documentary claims made in his novel. I have and he's astoundingly "INaccurate" on virtually every level; no surprise. But then again I have an informed conscience regarding the Catholic Church and I take the time to challenge the information I'm given. What the Catholic Church does NOT need is any more bad PR, any more reason for people to distrust her hierarchy, or any more reason to think her theological pronouncements are just he whims of power-hungry clergy (or their sycophantic underlings). And I feel like at this point in history I can't drop a quarter in a video-store without it bouncing off a movie with a pedophile priest, or a corrupt bishop, or a sniveling cardinal, or a Pope hiring assassins to knock-off people who disagree with their 'contrived' theology.[/quote] Fair enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 [quote name='kujo' post='1771155' date='Feb 3 2009, 02:04 PM']Fair enough.[/quote] Yeah, soothe the psycho. Good move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veridicus Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 [quote name='Winchester' post='1771162' date='Feb 3 2009, 02:08 PM']Yeah, soothe the psycho. Good move.[/quote] "You surely are a meanie." (Fezzik, The Princess Bride) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 [quote name='Veridicus' post='1771182' date='Feb 3 2009, 02:17 PM']"You surely are a meanie." (Fezzik, The Princess Bride)[/quote] Hey, that's cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piano_freak184 Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 [quote name='Winchester' post='1771192' date='Feb 3 2009, 02:22 PM']Hey, that's cool.[/quote] hey yeah don't make fun of that dude on there he was awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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