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One of my good friends is going to be on dateline this Friday...



Friday, Oct. 16: Secrets of 'The Lost Symbol'
Posted: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:27 PM by Elizabeth Chuck

One of the world's most popular authors, Dan Brown, sits down for a rare and exclusive interview with NBC News' Matt Lauer to talk about his new book, "The Lost Symbol," the beliefs of the Freemasons, the power of the human mind, whether people can become gods and a little known science that may tie them all together. For the hour-long report, "Secrets of the Lost Symbol," set to air on Friday, Oct. 16 (9:00 p.m. ET), Lauer travels to Washington, D.C. to interview Brown and explore the backdrop and secrets of this new bestseller.

"Secrets of the Lost Symbol" will take viewers behind the scenes of the secretive brotherhood of the Freemasons in attempt to make sense of what is fact and what is fiction for all Brown's fans, and find out from the Freemasons themselves what he got right, and what he got wrong. The broadcast also goes in search of what Brown calls the true meaning of his book and why, he says, its so unlike his others. Additionally, he speaks with Lauer at length about the beliefs of the nation's founding fathers, saying "America wasn't founded a Christian country. It became a Christian country."

http://insidedateline.msnbc.msn.com/arc ... 92154.aspx

Well, we had a real nice secret organization once...

Bigshankhank wrote:Well, we had a real nice secret organization once...

We would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!

*shakes fist*

GrooveMonkey wrote:

Bigshankhank wrote:Well, we had a real nice secret organization once...

We would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!

*shakes fist*

bwahahahahaha... good one! I never met a mason who was free. If you do, I need a walkway fixed and a retaining wall installed.

There's a mason's hall about an hour south of where I live. There's a bunch closer but this one always made me smile....it's a wood frame building.

There's a couple I know of but they don't check in all that often anymore.........

You're friends with Dan Brown? Doesn't admitting that publicly get you excommunicated or something?

Dan Brown is an idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. That's not to say that he isn't a fairly intelligent and savvy entertainer. But overall, he's an idiot, an idiot. Either that or he has absolutely no care about reality.
An idiot, an idiot, an idiot. An idiot.

Shouldn't they be off poisoning wells or something?

DerGolgo wrote:Dan Brown is an idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. That's not to say that he isn't a fairly intelligent and savvy entertainer. But overall, he's an idiot, an idiot. Either that or he has absolutely no care about reality.
An idiot, an idiot, an idiot. An idiot.

well, it is clearly labled as fiction.


i admit to reading "davinci" (some one gave me a copy) but i was not impressed enough to bother with any others.

12ci wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:Dan Brown is an idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. An idiot. That's not to say that he isn't a fairly intelligent and savvy entertainer. But overall, he's an idiot, an idiot. Either that or he has absolutely no care about reality.
An idiot, an idiot, an idiot. An idiot.

well, it is clearly labled as fiction.


i admit to reading "davinci" (some one gave me a copy) but i was not impressed enough to bother with any others.

It's not even the conspiracy stuff that pisses me off. It's the fact that he seems to dismiss E=MC² as some trivial nonsense of no interest.

I read DaVinci and Angels & Demons and it was the bad writing and one-sided characters that got to me. Never again.

I know a few Freemasons and even been pushed to join in the past. I don't know much about it except for the architect of the universe stuff.

Ames wrote:You're friends with Dan Brown? Doesn't admitting that publicly get you excommunicated or something?

I am not friends with Dan Brown. I am friends with the masons who address this part of the broadcast:
"Secrets of the Lost Symbol" will take viewers behind the scenes of the secretive brotherhood of the Freemasons in attempt to make sense of what is fact and what is fiction for all Brown's fans, and find out from the Freemasons themselves what he got right, and what he got wrong."

The Da Vinci Code was fiction... he obviously is not a mason based on his understanding of secret societies, occult, etc.

If you are looking for some decent masonic books, I would recommend something other than Dan Brown.