11:13 AM | Saturday, July 24, 2004
Ancient Truths and Conspiracies
The plot of this best-selling novel by Dan Brown begins with murder in Paris at the Louvre. But before dying, the victim leaves encoded clues about the killing and the ultimate issues at stake, and these codes send the book’s main characters on a consciousness-raising scavenger hunt that must be nirvana for crossword puzzle enthusiasts, feminists, and charter members of the conspiracy-of-the-month club.
According to the book, Jesus was the “original feminist” and believed in the “Sacred Feminine”. He along with “the ancients envisioned their world in the two halves — masculine and feminine. Their gods worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced, there was chaos,” explains Harvard Professor of Religious Symbology, Robert Langdon, the book’s leading male character. So while the story begins with a murder in the Louvre, the parallel and real target of the book appears to be Christianity. Yet it misses the target in which it is aiming at.....dot....dot...dot.....
at yan palang ang nagwa ko.... inulit ko sha dahil mali pala ung una. last minute naman kc magturo un eh.. rAr. curse you ms. castillo. curse you. someone please help me with this... i'm like spongebob without water. (hwaat?!)
1 still have a couple of papers to do and additional whats its for college. i'm multi-tasking again. oh what fun... ho hum.. coffee here i come. (?!)