Author Topic: Most Americans read less than one book per year (Read 16756 times)

wavelength · « **Reply #175 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:12:06 AM »

Quote from: DonkeyKong on April 21, 2009, 02:04:46 AM

The "intellectuals" read Baigent, that's the guy Dan Brown stole from.

I have his nonsense book "The Jesus Papers" and i was lmao at how dumb this guy is.

I met this guy 1978 in Jerusalem, he had some original photographs of Jesus from the Year 33, but he couldn't show me in the restaurant. He told me he will sell them to me for 10.000$$, but when i came back from the bank he had been kidnapped by some Vatican secret agents.

kind of stuff like this.
LMAO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jesus_Papers:_Exposing_the_Greatest_C over-Up_in_History

all marketing I hope

Mars · « **Reply #176 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:13:23 AM »

this comes closer.

Deicide · « **Reply #177 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:15:11 AM »

Quote from: DonkeyKong on April 21, 2009, 02:08:07 AM

Are you saying Jesus wasn't white, blonde haired and blue eyed?

Einen historischen Jesus hat es wahrscheinlich niemals gegeben. Wenn man all die Beweisstuecke sammelt, sieht man schnell, dass sie auf eine mythische Figur hindeuten.

DK II · « **Reply #178 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:15:38 AM »

Quote from: wavelength on April 21, 2009, 02:12:06 AM

all marketing I hope

Marketing for what?

Michael Baigent lives of his pseudo-scientific crap, and i can't even blaim him. If i could earn good money and sell books that are made into blockbuster by telling you that the Chinese Wall was build by american time travellers from the 22nd Century to prevent the chinese to export their stuff into the American-European Republic of Russia i would gladly do so.

DK II · « **Reply #179 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:16:30 AM »

Quote from: Deicide on April 21, 2009, 02:15:11 AM

Einen historischen Jesus hat es wahrscheinlich niemals gegeben. Wenn man all die Beweisstuecke sammelt, sieht man schnell, dass sie auf eine mythische Figur hindeuten.

Kann sein, andere Hypothesen meinen, dass er eher eine politische Figur war. Was auch immer, er war NICHT der Sohn Gottes.

wavelength · « **Reply #180 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:17:36 AM »

Quote from: DonkeyKong on April 21, 2009, 02:15:38 AM

Marketing for what?

Michael Baigent lives of his pseudo-scientific crap, and i can't even blaim him. If i could earn good money and sell books that are made into blockbuster by telling you that the Chinese Wall was build by american time travellers from the 22nd Century to prevent the chinese to export their stuff into the American-European Republic of Russia i would gladly do so.

You just described his marketing strategy.

wavelength · « **Reply #181 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:18:14 AM »

Quote from: DonkeyKong on April 21, 2009, 02:16:30 AM

Kann sein, andere Hypothesen meinen, dass er eher eine politische Figur war. Was auch immer, er war NICHT der Sohn Gottes.

That depends on what is meant by it.

DK II · « **Reply #182 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:19:21 AM »

Quote from: wavelength on April 21, 2009, 02:17:36 AM

You just described his marketing strategy.

Will you finance the movie? Please?

Quote from: wavelength on April 21, 2009, 02:18:14 AM

That depends on what is meant by it.

Sure, we can also start on a debate of this. Let's say, he wasn't what is written literally in the bible.

wavelength · « **Reply #183 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:22:13 AM »

Quote from: DonkeyKong on April 21, 2009, 02:19:21 AM

Sure, we can also start on a debate of this. Let's say, he wasn't what is written literally in the bible.

of course not, nothing in spiritual scripture is to be taken literally

Deicide · « **Reply #184 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:22:51 AM »

Quote from: wavelength on April 21, 2009, 02:18:14 AM

That depends on what is meant by it.

Verglichen mit anderen bekannten historischen Personen der Antike, wie z.B. Caesar, ist die Jesusfigur nut ganz schlecht belegt, was Quellen angeht. Man muss denselben Standard der geschichtlichen Forschung bei Jesus anwenden, den man sonst bei antiken Personen anwendet, und wenn man dies tut, sieht es nicht gut fuer ihn aus.

Mars · « **Reply #185 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:23:40 AM »

stop talking in german morons.

DK II · « **Reply #186 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:28:39 AM »

Quote from: Deicide on April 21, 2009, 02:22:51 AM

Verglichen mit anderen bekannten historischen Personen der Antike, wie z.B. Caesar, ist die Jesusfigur nut ganz schlecht belegt, was Quellen angeht. Man muss denselben Standard der geschichtlichen Forschung bei Jesus anwenden, den man sonst bei antiken Personen anwendet, und wenn man dies tut, sieht es nicht gut fuer ihn aus.

Quote from: Mars on April 21, 2009, 02:23:40 AM

stop talking in german morons.

Sorry.

Deicide basically said that compared to Julius Caesar i.e., we know very little about Jesus.

He is right on that, there are people that are much older and we know more about them. What we know about Jesus is basically stuff that was written 50 to 100 years after his death, if he ever existed that is.

wavelength · « **Reply #187 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:29:50 AM »

Quote from: DonkeyKong on April 21, 2009, 02:28:39 AM

Sorry.

Deicide basically said that compared to Julius Caesar i.e., we know very little about Jesus.

He is right on that, there are people that are much older and we know more about them. What we know about Jesus is basically stuff that was written 50 to 100 years after his death, if he ever existed that is.

I don't think the essential truth in the new testament has anything to do with historic facts about the person Jesus Christ.

Mars · « **Reply #188 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:36:03 AM »

there were reliable historici that time and they never talked about jesus either.

DK II · « **Reply #189 on:** April 21, 2009, 02:40:20 AM »

Quote from: wavelength on April 21, 2009, 02:29:50 AM

I don't think the essential truth in the new testament has anything to do with historic facts about the person Jesus Christ.

Yes, very good point.

In essence, if you behave like it's written in the New Testament, you would be a great man. Just forget all the religiious crap around it, the hocuspocus of miracles and the historical setting.

Quote from: Mars on April 21, 2009, 02:36:03 AM

there were reliable historici that time and they never talked about jesus either.

good point.

lax · « **Reply #190 on:** April 21, 2009, 03:22:18 AM »

we don't read 'em
cause
we write 'em

DK II · « **Reply #191 on:** April 21, 2009, 03:23:20 AM »

Quote from: lax on April 21, 2009, 03:22:18 AM

we don't read 'em
cause
we write 'em

Dude, you suck. Your posts are totally lame.

lax · « **Reply #192 on:** April 21, 2009, 03:25:46 AM »

Quote from: DonkeyKong on April 21, 2009, 03:23:20 AM

Dude, you suck. Your posts are totally lame.

all 7 of my posts?

yes
all 17 thousand of yours have been purely Faustian

DK II · « **Reply #193 on:** April 21, 2009, 03:28:04 AM »

Quote from: lax on April 21, 2009, 03:25:46 AM

all 7 of my posts?

yes
all 17 thousand of yours have been purely Faustian

Thanks, but i think it was a waste of time to read them all. You should have picked up a book instead.

Eisenherz · « **Reply #194 on:** April 21, 2009, 03:39:55 AM »

The bibal mentioned Babylon before it was descovered in modern times.. King Solomon, Pontius Pilot and some others also mentioned in the bible where actual historical people, so maybe Jesus did exist, I cant imagine a huge group of people all of a sudden following some dudes teachings that didnt even exist.

P.S. erich von daniken has got nothing on Credo Mutwa

lax · « **Reply #195 on:** April 21, 2009, 03:40:45 AM »

Quote from: DonkeyKong on April 21, 2009, 03:28:04 AM

Thanks, but i think it was a waste of time to read them all. You should have picked up a book instead.

sorry

work hard to remove me from your cashew-sized brain

you will feel better about yourself and the world around you!

HTH

DK II · « **Reply #196 on:** April 21, 2009, 03:56:19 AM »

Quote from: lax on April 21, 2009, 03:40:45 AM

sorry

work hard to remove me from your cashew-sized brain

you will feel better about yourself and the world around you!

HTH

Good to see you back, Bluto.

lax · « **Reply #197 on:** April 21, 2009, 03:58:42 AM »

Quote from: DonkeyKong on April 21, 2009, 03:56:19 AM

Good to see you back, Bluto.

wrong

DK II · « **Reply #198 on:** April 21, 2009, 04:05:20 AM »

Quote from: lax on April 21, 2009, 03:58:42 AM

wrong

So what, soon you'll be at 45 posts per day and then we'll know you are SF -- or you will vanish in a few weeks like all the other gimmicks and noobs.

Chevron427 · « **Reply #199 on:** April 21, 2009, 05:56:25 AM »

Quote from: DonkeyKong on April 21, 2009, 04:05:20 AM

So what, soon you'll be at 45 posts per day and then we'll know you are SF -- or you will vanish in a few weeks like all the other gimmicks and noobs.

you have proved many times that intelligence isn't related to your number of posts you have....