Comments on: The Da Vinci Code Agenda

By: hf

hf — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:32:15 +0000

I know someone who calls herself a hereditary Gnostic. She claims descent from medieval royalty. Now, in itself, this does not seem terribly interesting. My own family tree supposedly includes Charlemagne as well as two “taxable mulatto” — most likely yours would look similar. But this suggests an interesting point: Britain still gives an absurd amount of wealth and attention to some family because they claim descent from a primate by the name of Bill, who bullied his neighbors. That seems like an extreme case of a fairly common behavior in modern society (see Hilton, Paris). In a different society I would see ‘royal treatment’ as a disadvantage, but ours manages to make it look good by comparison to poverty. So why do people allow all this, when any fool can see that chance distinguishes the royals from the peasants? (Chance, or arbitrary factors created in part by the royals.)

By the way, my friend claims that hereditary Gnostics like to distort the truth or make jokes when revealing their secrets. For example, they lied to the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail. (Or enlisted them in the joke.)

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 03:32:17 +0000

itâ€™s a pretty cool story. is that the only reason why anything happens at all?

I was thinking about something similar earlier. I’ve never seen why people are so into this concept to begin with, but the whole thing about like “why does god allow evil” - i was thinking: maybe cause it makes things interesting, exciting and dramatic, and that’s it. its just conflict in a plotline.

By: Haeresis

Haeresis — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:49:14 +0000

The bloodline stuff is meaningless…most anyone with European ancestry is descended from Jesus if the story is true. They ‘push’ that line because the old treasure line is too pat and the truth is too arcane.

By: carlos

carlos — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:06:54 +0000

As long as thereâ€™s no inbreeding involved…

oh there’ll be inbreeding alright. the problem is i’ve seen nothing that convinces me a historical jesus ever existed. so they’ll be the inbred descendants of whom? some crackpot royal family? for the life of me i can’t imagine why anyone would even care. oh yes i can, it’s a pretty cool story. is that the only reason why anything happens at all?

By: albion

albion — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:39:28 +0000

yes, it’s all a part of the merovingian master plan, mwahahaha…

By: Emerson

Emerson — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:44:29 +0000

One of the things I’ve always found weird about the whole idea of little Jesus grandkids among us is how long it’d have been since JC walked the earth. As long as there’s no inbreeding involved, there’s not a lot of “you” left in your great-great-grandchildren. That’s likely less than a hundred years time, especially back in the day. Move two thousand years forward, and nobody’s going to be commenting “you’ve got his chin!”

PS: Whoop whoop