Thesis and silly scholars

[remmirath]

More pages into thesis, thank goodness. The section (IVB, "On Conspiracy Theories") dealing with the Knights Templar and the Priory of Sion are now finished, only slightly in need of editing. Only IVC left (I've already done IVA--Jesus, Mary Magdalene and the Jewish Concept of Marriage, IVB, and IVD--Leonardo and the Last Supper) and I am done.

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[nocturnus33]

Your thesis sounds very interesting. This year Da vinci code was a top read in Chile. I refuse to read it, not for religious reasons but for finding thm silly. People, knowing that I once study theology, interpret my attitude as close minded. I felt is not, one thing is being open mind an the other is reading every book that say Jesus was an allien. As relative as it could be, there is knowldge that has been built form social science that is much more ineteresting that those best sellers. All the Qumram discussion is fasinating and, one of my favorites, the apocriph (?) tomes of the new testament are awsome.

Let me rec you a very good book about conspiracy theories called "Foucault's Pendulum" wrote by Umberto Ecco, you'll love it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345368754/qid=1104327885/sr=8-3/ref=pd_csp_3/103-6493444-8671001?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[remmirath]

I've heard about that book; I have The Name of the Rose and I found it so interesting that I was intent on getting Focault's Pendulum. The only problem is that it's not in bookstores here in the Philippines, and amazon also doesn't offer shipping services to this part of the world. :) But that's ok, I'm going to get my cousins to mail it to me from the US.

there is knowldge that has been built form social science that is much more ineteresting that those best sellers.

Yes! Go you! :) You study theology? Now that *is* interesting. I was once intent on studying theology at Oxford, before discovering that my strengths lay more with chemistry. But I *am* glad that I got to wade a little in theological waters for my high school thesis. :)

[nocturnus33]

Now I'm lost, Philippines? Oxford? Chemestry? and a thesis in Da Vinci Coda?

Do you speak spanish?. I would love to know philipines better (a little more than Imelda shoes)

I was once intent on studying theology at Oxford,

:) I'm a religion teacher and bachellor in Religious sciences, I studied it at the Theology Faculty loooong ago. Our point of view was rather near to Theology of Liberation then, a latinamerican - or third wordler - theology. For me the problem of praxis is rather more urgent than a lot of other theological questions. If God is Logos Incarnate, and had choose the poorer among the poor...well that must raise up a lot of theological/political/echonomical questions to the globalization.

[remmirath]

I live in the Philippines but I have aspirations of studying in Oxford. :) I would like to study chemistry, as I said, once I finish high school, but for now I'm doing a Da Vinci Code thesis for my fourth year high school literature class.

I speak very little Spanish--it has been many years since the Spanish colonization. Although my grandmother spoke Spanish without having to study it because, in some homes, Spanish is still the first language. Imelda's shoes? Sigh. :) It's a bit saddening that we are known to most people because of Imelda's three thousand-or-so shoes.