'On the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh.'





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_{Open your minds. We all fear what we do not understand.}

What do you think this person intends to do?

Major hint: This ritual takes place in the place of worship

Church on sunday with holy communion?
Catholic version?

Get to church on sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix and take the communion wafer.

^^^ Yep - from a truly Brilliant set of "writings". From Dan Brown

You guys are spoilsports 

I expected some fanatics to come and scream something about cultism

I love Dan Brown's writings - all of them.

I like the way he wraps his thoughts around history so people can generate conspiracy theories from them.

Yeah, the statement was made by Robert Langdon in Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol".   I love Dan Brown!

Let Chukwudi come and catch you guys . . .

Purist:

This statement was made by Robert Langdon in Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol". I love Dan Brown!

Thank God for google.

just kidding.

Yeah, google is the closest thing to omniscient God in this modern world.

kokoye:

Thank God for google.

just kidding.

lol. . . naah, I read the book last year September.

reading it now . . .just got the free e-version on my android phone.

I dont pay for these books . . .actually prefer to see Dan Brown's writings as movies before reading the books . .so I dont get too disappointed.

But I am enjoying this read.

I also read the e-book. The hard copy novels I read, I borrow.

I don't like watching movies before I read their book. The suspense would have been lost already, which is what primarily makes a book a good read for me. That's why I haven't read The Da Vinci Code till date, 'cos I watched the movie already.

I also have not read the Da Vinci Code - I love it so much I watch it at least once a month . . got all of Dan Brown's movies on my DVR.

But I do have the e-book already though, so I know I will be reading it.

Guess I could not wait for the Lost Symbol movie to come out.

The Angels & Demons movie is different from the book. same concept but a whole lot of differences.

I love it!

This is a riddle? it's EASY, plus it's not even original. Next.

^^^ Bros: That wasn't very fair and remember, "there is nothing new under the sun".

I think it was better than much of the rubbish bandied about here - at least this particular quote from "the Lost Symbols" could engender a desire to look under the obvious for other realistic realities.

kokoye:

The Angels & Demons movie is different from the book. same concept but a whole lot of differences.

I love it!

I was so so not happy when I watched that movie. So many things were changed. That's why I'm bothered about them doing a movie on "The Lost Symbols".

Dolemite:

This is a riddle? it's EASY, plus it's not even original. Next.

Like you ARE original . . show me your papa house for London.  

In case you want to know, I created this thread so that people could free their minds. People fear what they do not understand.

Obviously you did not see that line at the start of the thread . . or you are just full of negativity.

Relax and have a nice weekend.

Purist:

I was so so not happy when I watched that movie. So many things were changed. That's why I'm bothered about them doing a movie on "The Lost Symbols".

That is exactly whay I prefer to watch the movie first. Just could not wait for the movie this time around.

But I'll enjoy both all the same.

vescucci:

Yeah, google is the closest thing to omniscient God in this modern world.

Googlism, eh?

You took the holy communion on sunday?

kokoye:

'On the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh.'





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_{Open your minds. We all fear what we do not understand.}

There was no weekly day of worship for Ra.
He only had one specific day set aside - 26th May.
The instrument of torture that Brown refers to (obviously meaning the cross) was more connected to Horus and not Ra.

The main reason I can't stand Dan Brown is that he totally distorts religion but presents it in a way that makes gullible people swallow it.

@Bastage:

Maybe you should look at it like this -

"On the day named after the Sun God, I kneel at the foot of the crucifix (designed for implementing a painful death) and consume symbolic ritualistic fare."

I'm not certain Brown believes Sundays are set aside for Ra or that crosses were symbols affliated to Ra

Bastage:

The main reason I can't stand Dan Brown is that he totally distorts religion but presents it in a way that makes gullible people swallow it.

It is not his fault some people are gullible. 

Same with the church today unfortunately. Some pastors present their cases in usch a way that gullible people swallow it hook line n sinker

Bastage:


. . . The main reason I can't stand Dan Brown is that he totally distorts religion but presents it in a way that makes gullible people swallow it.

kokoye:


It is not his fault some people are gullible. 

Same with the church today unfortunately. Some pastors present their cases in usch a way that gullible people swallow it hook line n sinker

@^^^

Inspite of the half truths, distortions, fiction and falsehoods

Dan Brown's novels are good enjoyable reads that can be revealing

Take "The Da Vinci Code" for example, talking about an object of seduction and romance - the rose

the Da Vinci code:


"The Rose has ties to the five pointed pentacle of Venus and the guiding Compass Rose.

By the way, the word rose is identical in English, French, German, and many other languages.

Rose,  is also an anagram of Eros, the Greek god of sexual love . . .

The Rose has always been the premiere symbol of female sexuality.

In primitive goddess cults, the five petals represented the five stations of female life?

birth, menstruation, motherhood, menopause, and death

And in modern times, the flowering rose's ties to womanhood are considered more visual

. . .  the blossoming flower resembles the female ittybits,

the sublime blossom from which all mankind enters the world."

In the same novel, he gives some information about phi (i.e. 1.1618)

and why it is called The Golden Ratio or Divine Proportion

What really beats me is how do readers miss the below disclaimer

Dan Brown's Disclaimer:


“This book is a work of fiction.

Names, characters, places and incidents are product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.”

http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/18061/:


Some of the book’s inaccuracies may be no more than mistakes, if glaring ones.

For instance, Angels & Demons depicts Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome at Piazza Barberini, a half mile from its real location.

More problematic is a key reference to a tile in St. Peter’s Square pointing “West,” supposedly a clue pointing the way ahead in a 400-year-old scavenger hunt — a tile that is actually one of a circle of 16 tiles aligned to the points of the compass pointing in every possible direction.

Even more damaging, in a way, is Brown’s account of the Passetto di Borgo, the hidden passageway between the Vatican and Castel Sant’Angelo.

The passetto is an elevated passageway, but Brown describes it as an underground tunnel beneath the streets of Rome

— not only in the novel, but on his own website, in a Q&A billed as an “interview,” purportedly explaining how he himself was inspired to write Angels & Demons:

“I was beneath Vatican City touring a tunnel called il passetto — a concealed passageway used by the early popes to escape in event of enemy attack.”

^^^

The problem with people is that they get too carried away and forget that it is purely fiction.

Locations and timelines do not have do be accurate in fictions.

But of course, some others fuel the fire because they want to generate income by creating chaos and conspiracy theories from those fictions.

^^^ True.