Who is the bigger conman? Dan Brown or Graham Hancock
These to rewrite history based on rubbish who is the better conman.
Hancock:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Graham_Hancock.htm
http://doernenburg.alien.de/alternativ/pyramide/pyr03_e.php
What a ****
Dan Brown
http://petragrail.tripod.com/hoax.html
another ****
hilarious rubbish being passed off to the ignorant as reality. 😄 I enjoyed the book and Holy Blood, Holy Grail before it though.
Originally posted by Fishy
What do you have against Dan Brown? I've never even read something from the other guy so I really wouldn't know anything about his books but seriously...
Originally posted by Fishy
You do realise that a lot of what he claims is based on facts, or highly likely theory's. And that a lot of historians agree with a lot of his claims or at least admit that they could be right, don't you?
A lot more do not 😄 Show me a credible historian that backs Brown at all. It means you have to believe in the bible to start with as historic fact.
lmao
Article by Joe Nickell sums it up well
The record bestseller, Dan Brown’s 2004 The Da Vinci Code, has renewed interest in the quest for the Holy Grail, restyling the medieval legend for a public that often gorges itself on a diet of pseudoscience, pseudo-history, and fantasy.
Unfortunately, the book is largely based on obscure, forged documents that have now deceived millions.
The adventure tale begins with Paris police summoning Robert Langdon, an Indiana Jones type, to the Louvre to view the corpse of curator Jacques Saunier. Saunier has been murdered in bizarre circumstances. Soon Langdon and beautiful cryptanalyst Sophie Neveau lead readers on a page-turning treasure hunt across France and England, propelled by a series of puzzles and clues. Along the way, the pair search for a hidden "truth" that challenges mainstream Christianity. Brown drew heavily on the 1982 bestseller, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, written by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln (1996), with Lincoln as the conceptual author.
Brown’s novel is predicated on a conspiracy theory involving Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Supposedly the old French word sangreal is explained not as san greal ("holy grail"😉 but as sang real ("royal blood"😉. Although that concept was not current before the late Middle Ages, Holy Blood, Holy Grail argues that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, with whom he had a child, and even that he may have survived the Crucifixion. Jesus’ child, so the "non-fiction" book claims, thus began a bloodline that led to the Merovingian dynasty, a succession of kings who ruled what is today France from 481 to 751.
Evidence of the holy bloodline was supposedly found in a trove of parchment documents, discovered by Bérenger Saunière, the priest of Rennes-le-Château in the Pyrenees. The secret had been kept by a shadowy society known as the Priory of Sion which harked back to the era of the Knights Templar and claimed among its past "Grand Masters" Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, and Victor Hugo.
Brown seizes on Leonardo—borrowing from "The Secret Code of Leonardo Da Vinci," chapter one of another work of pseudo-history titled "The Templar Revelation." This was co-authored by "researchers" Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, whose previous foray into nonsense was their claim that Leonardo had created the Shroud of Turin—even though that forgery appeared nearly a century before the great artist and inventive genius was born!
Among the "revelations" of Picknett and Prince, adopted by Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code, is the claim that Leonardo’s fresco, Last Supper, contains hidden symbolism relating to the sang real secret. They claim, for instance, that St. John in the picture (seated at the right of Jesus) is actually a woman—Mary Magdalene!—and that the shape made by "Mary" and Jesus is "a giant, spreadeagled ‘M,’" supposedly confirming the interpretation. By repeating this silliness, Brown provokes critics to note that his characterizations reveal ignorance about his subject.
Alas, the whole basis of The Da Vinci Code—the "discovered" parchments of Rennes-le-Château, relating to the alleged Priory of Sion—were part of a hoax perpetrated by a man named Pierre Plantard. Plantard commissioned a friend to create fake parchments which he then used to concoct the bogus priory story in 1956. (See Carl E. Olson and Sandra Miesel, The Da Vinci Hoax, 2004.)
Of course, Dan Brown—with the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Templar Revelation—was also duped by the Priory of Sion hoax, which he in turn foisted onto his readers. But he is apparently unrepentant, and his apologists point out that The Da Vinci Code is, after all, fiction, although at the beginning of the novel, Brown claimed it was based on fact. Meanwhile, despite the devastatingly negative evidence, The Da Vinci Code mania continues. Perhaps Brown should go on his own quest—for the truth.
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I've seen that post three times already and it means absolutely nothing...
Historical fact about what? Jesus not being the son of god?
Muslims have a book about it, you should read it.
Maria M.
Scrolls have been found by here recently, I don't think they are fully translated yet. Lets wait for that shall we.
The Priory of Sion
Well thats probably false
Knight Templars?
Very real
Holy Grail?
In the form its described in the book, probably fake. In the form movies describe it? Probably fake, is it fake? Probably not. Look around on the Internet I'm sure you can find some examples
Originally posted by whirlysplat
hilarious rubbish being passed off to the ignorant as reality. 😄 I enjoyed the book and Holy Blood, Holy Grail before it though.
So the Muslim faiths view of christ is the correct one? So his the prophet who will return. 😕
Knights Templar are real 😄
Scrolls more religious rubbish
Holy Grail real? Sorry, I thought it was a medieval invention as an idea of the quest for truth and hope. Must be my mistake 😕
Originally posted by Fishy
I've seen that post three times already and it means absolutely nothing...Historical fact about what? Jesus not being the son of god?
Muslims have a book about it, you should read it.
Maria M.
Scrolls have been found by here recently, I don't think they are fully translated yet. Lets wait for that shall we.
The Priory of Sion
Well thats probably false
Knight Templars?
Very real
Holy Grail?
In the form its described in the book, probably fake. In the form movies describe it? Probably fake, is it fake? Probably not. Look around on the Internet I'm sure you can find some examples
I havnt read the... watsis name.. graham hancock.. But I dont really care. Dan brownsbooks are cool. I love the way theyre written. I've read 2. Who cares if they are not antirely acurate. If people really believe everything they read, it just proves that they are gullible. Kinda looke behing you it's the "truth" about the holy grail! ah! made you look. I'm looking 4 holy blood holy grail cause I'm game to try new authors. Did anyone see "The real Davinci code"? oh, I guess thats what started this right?
Dan Brown's book are all factual and the secret societies he mentions are real but he likes to add bullshit around them all for the sake of creating a decent story. For example Dan Brown knows very well that the Priory of Sion is not the 'keeper of the holy grail'. Why? Well becuase there is no Holy Grail to begin with and there is no Jesus bloodline since Jesus never existed in the first place as he is simply another of the 2 dozen or so ancient deities that had the exact same story even down to the fine details of frankensense and Murh being given to them at their birth, I kid you NOT!
Other shit Brown has added to the factual foundations of his books are the Merovigian bloodline being that of Jesus.... again.... not true for Jesus never existed in the first place.
The Merovigian bloodline is the bloodline that desended from the interbreeding of the gods plural and human woman back in Sumer times which created the aristocratic royal bloodline which went on to rule civilization from then on and still do to this very day!
Dont beleive all the presidents of the USA, all prime-ministers..... everyone in all major seats of power are not only directly related to eachother but are of Merovigian lineage and therfore, related to all the kings, queens, pheroe's, ect, ect throught the whole of history? Then do the genaology 😉
Talking of Genaology this guy not only believes in bloodlines of gods but that, the british royal family come from aien lizards.
See here
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=4166181#post4166181
laugh
Originally posted by Novusordo
Dan Brown's book are all factual and the secret societies he mentions are real but he likes to add bullshit around them all for the sake of creating a decent story. For example Dan Brown knows very well that the Priory of Sion is not the 'keeper of the holy grail'. Why? Well becuase there is no Holy Grail to begin with and there is no Jesus bloodline since Jesus never existed in the first place as he is simply another of the 2 dozen or so ancient deities that had the exact same story even down to the fine details of frankensense and Murh being given to them at their birth, I kid you NOT!Other shit Brown has added to the factual foundations of his books are the Merovigian bloodline being that of Jesus.... again.... not true for Jesus never existed in the first place.
The Merovigian bloodline is the bloodline that desended from the interbreeding of the gods plural and human woman back in Sumer times which created the aristocratic royal bloodline which went on to rule civilization from then on and still do to this very day!
Dont beleive all the presidents of the USA, all prime-ministers..... everyone in all major seats of power are not only directly related to eachother but are of Merovigian lineage and therfore, related to all the kings, queens, pheroe's, ect, ect throught the whole of history? Then do the genaology 😉
Yes the Royal bloodlines of Europe who openly ruled the world up untill the around 15th century all came from the Merovigian bloodline and that bloodline came from Sumer and was fused between the "gods" and human woman.
The ammount of ancient historical and religious texts (not least the Bible), all share the same theme of "gods" decending from the "heavens" and interbreeding with human woman that created giant monsters called Nefilim.
Its that theme that is repeated throught the world on everything from books, scrolls to slates.
Its this fusion of alien and human DNA that made the Royal Merovigian line which still is in power to this day.
By the way the Merovigian bloodline is considered an historical fact.