Hi Elisabeth, It looks like your thinking cap was in the microwave getting super-charged.:=)) I have to state at the outset that I am not as smart in connecting the dots (real and imaginary) as you. Perhaps you are a member of Mensa.
I could not find the decode words as Dan Brown found in his research when he read all those documents from Jerusalem to Southern France. I could not find those (real and imaginary) connections even after it was pointed out. But I felt vindicated when another authority on the TV program said, "There was never any link between a V being a feminine symbol or a woman's womb in any artistic language" that he knew off etc etc. I do not know if you saw the History Channel on the "Beyond the Da Vinci Code" program. My responses to you specific points follow your statements. Kind Regards, GL Elisabeth Carvalho: How are you? GL: Thanks for asking. I am on top of the world. Work is busy and very gratifying. Next week our second 3-million-dollar Linear Accelerator (for the production of X-rays) will be coming on line in our department. With it, among other things we will be able to do radio-surgery which is (bloodless) surgery using an X-ray knife. This has been done routinely for deep seated brain tumors. And now it is being applied for lung cancer among other sites. EC: How is the grandchild? GL: The grandchildren are doing great. Grandma is busy (actually having fun) with them in California rather than in New York. EC: The only thing I would like to add is that Dan Brown is neither a historian nor a theologian. He's a novelist. GL: Fictional novel are nice stories. It's like a fresh wind. For most of us that air is a passing moment in our life. For a few that air stays in their make-belief environment. EC: Far more damning books have been written about Christ by the likes of Freke or Gandy. The reason the Church routinely dismisses them without so much as a second thought is because they never make it to the mainstream. They are the companions of lonely agnostics such as myself on a journey of self-discovery. GL: I wish you (and other agnostics on Goanet) could respond to my post (a few days ago) which was in reply to Santosh Helelkar. And feel free to be more generous with your thoughts and response in giving your perspectives about absence of God. The agnostics are usually articulate about criticisms of other peoples' beliefs. Just a thought for you and other agnostics - During the solitary journey of discovery, Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, and Faith looks up! EC: To me, the personal life of Jesus is as divorced from his message as Clinton's should have been from his politics. GL: I cannot make head or tail of this statement as it related to Jesus Christ or to Bill (I assume) Clinton. I should not assume you are referring to Bill, as Hillary is our fine New York senator and the likely next President of the USA. I need to let you on my bias - Even as a Republican, I love all three of them AND this includes their messages and their politics. For any true believer, the message should be in their personal life especially regarding what they believe. Or else they would be the biggest hypocrites to exists. EC: If the historical Jesus was crucified, in all likelihood given the severity of Roman crucifixions, he died. If he died, his Resurrection is irrelevant. Being God, he wouldn't need to make petty points to human beings by chauvinistically resurrecting himself in any form. It is only the human mind unable to come to terms with its own mortality that yearns for postmortem assurances. GL: Can you put this into plain English? Is your point that Jesus is not God like the Gnostics belief? Just asking to make sure what you are trying to mean. I have a problem with someone who does not believe in God, jumping three leaps in analyzing the nuances of a particular religion; or a belief in one or the other faith. Another pointer: Unless you can create the WHOLE universe, then perhaps giving "advice" to God, isn't such a good idea. In summary, as a friend, I applaud you for your thought process. It reminds me of the saying, "a turtle only makes progress when it sticks out its neck". And yet, standing in the middle of the road can be dangerous. One can get knocked down by the traffic from both ways. I look forward to your thoughts on the questions posed to Santosh. Please keep your writing and logic very simple and rational for a supurlo Goenkar like me.:=)) That should be easy, as agnostics claim they are very logical and rational people. _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list ([email protected])
