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Sanfranjoshfan | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:15 pm     I think he realizes that stating his lack of religious faith will make him unlikeable by a lot of viewers....I don't see him reading the Bible as trying to make himself look good. That brings up a question, though....do we know he is agnostic or atheist because of things he said on the TV show or is that all just from the interrnet feeds? That would make a difference in whether or not he will be villified by millions of Americans rather than thousands! :-) I used to have a friend, *very* intelligent, who would come over and if there was lull in the conversation or even during commercials on a video tape (that I was fast-forwarding thru!) he would be compelled to pick up a magazine or anything handy that had words on it and read. It got to be a joke...as soon as he'd grab for reading material, I'd tease him, acting like a robot saying in a robot voise "Must have input....Must have input". I think Roddy just can't stand the lack of input in that house. As I recall, a lot of the folks there spend the days talking about sex or episodes of "Friends"...and Roddy's brain needs to process something other than pop culture once in awhile. |
Sanfranjoshfan | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:17 pm     If someone is kicked OUT of atheism, wouldn't that mean he was kicked INTO religion? LOL |
C1mag | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:20 pm     SanFran are you saying it's one or the other? LOL Now that is funny! |
Yellek | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:20 pm     Sanfran, LOL! I can just picture it. All the atheists band together and tell him "If you stray from us you.. you... will go to the hell you don't believe in!" Quite a threat. hehe |
Twiggyish | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:22 pm     An excellent point San! |
C1mag | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:29 pm     Sun I've heard Roddy make referrence to how funny it must be to see the guy who doesn't believe in God actually reading the bible several times. Thats really what I base my feelings on as too him trying to control his image for the lens. Here's a thought... He's had all these years to reach for a bible and it isn't until he gets in that house that he reach's for it out of boredom? Sorry thats a stretch for me. We are talking about Roddy here. The guy has long since made up his mind. To him he has been right about there being no God and the last thing he would do is pick up that book. I've met too many agnostics and atheists and they have no use for that Bible. Some are even offended by it. However, for 500 grand, and image sake, you will pick that sucker up and play it for all it's worth. Here's another example... Last night Gerry tells Roddy to read about the story of Job. Roddy is sitting in bed reading it and jumps up laughing and goes to Gerry and says, "hey what about that sentence, a yoke of oxen?" The man wasn't reading the meaning of the story of Job he was looking at sentence structure as a writer and in fact probably thinks the whole story was pure b.s. and that it wasn't even structured properly. Like I said, he's only reading it for image. |
Twiggyish | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:34 pm     Yes, he's very aware of his image. |
Costacat | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:37 pm     Seamonkey... it was Gerry about whom it was discussed that the bible was "borrowed" from the hotel room. From what I saw, I sorta agreed. It looked suspiciously like a Gideon's Bible. Sanfran... OMG! Totally ROTFLMAO! C1... although Roddy is talking about how ironic it is, I do believe that he's reading cause he's bored. Also, it gives him an excuse to get away from the others and be quiet a while. *Most* people tend to respect someone whose nose is buried in a book (respect = leave alone). Maybe he's reading it thinking of how he can work up a treatment for a film? (JOKING!) |
Sanfranjoshfan | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:39 pm     I dunno, C1mag - I been known to be sitting on the throne and reading the back of a Lysol can....not because it was so interesting, but because I NEEDED to read something at that point in time. I've read the back of a cereal box while eating breakfast and read the writing on a box of rubber gloves while waiting the examination room for the doctor. Remember, he's been in there with nothing to read at all for about 37 days....and he's a writer! He must be going nuts! |
Twiggyish | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:39 pm     Costa..LOL!! Do you think he'd plagiarize? |
Battlestar | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:40 pm     Also remember that Roddy was raised a Catholic--and the Catholic Bible is quite different then other Bibles. It has more books in it and the English Translation is different then what you are use to with the King James or mdern translations. Biblical references & symbolism are everywhere in literature, philosophy etc. Writers need to have a handle on these references. |
Rolandcat | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:43 pm     In one of the BB# trailer's showing the HG, Roddy said I hope I am not around a bunch of biblethumpers. (my pp) I also thought in one of these threads or feeds, he said he went to seminary? Maybe he got to the point he does not believe in religion. But he loves to think he knows more on any subject. So I can see him reading up because Jason knows more, Gerry throws out quotes, etc! |
Twiggyish | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:43 pm     Battlestar, do you actually think Roddy would use Biblical symbolism? He's very cynical of anything religious. |
Hillbilly | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:46 pm     Goddessatlaw...yur crazy bout me...admit it. Sanfran...I don't dislike or like people based on their beliefs...that's personal....I mean...I still like you!....nuff said |
Battlestar | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:49 pm     --as a writer of course he would!!! any and every English language writer does. It doeesn't have to be blantant and to encourage a belief structure but simple things like Noah's ark, pillar of salt etc. The Bible and it's stories have had a strong influence on writers's over the centuries and an atheiest's use of the symbolism is just as important and valid as a believer's use of them |
Hillbilly | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:52 pm     ..didn't Hardy read the tampon box last year?.. |
Twiggyish | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:54 pm     Yes Battlestar,that is true. I've seen examples of that, as well. It's possible he's using it as a guide to learning how to be Omnipotent. |
Twiggyish | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:55 pm     LOL Hillbilly! I didn't see that, but hey, when you're bored, as San says, you'll read anything. |
Oregonfire | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:56 pm     Well I'm not a believer in Christian theology, but I'm pretty sure that I'll turn into a pillar of salt like Lot's wife if I look back in the archives of this thread. I took a bible as literature class in grad school for that very reason; I needed a familiarity with the bible to interpret a lot of poetry and literature, just like taking a class in Greek mythology would be helpful. T.S. Eliot, anyone? there is no way to understand the Wasteland unless you have the background references. |
Battlestar | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:59 pm     oregon---better said than I. |
Twiggyish | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:01 pm     Exactly O. I was reading an Emily Dickinson poem tonight with crucifixion symbolism. (Not the poem I posted in the other thread) (Disclaimer to any reading this: by mentioning the religious reference in this post, I am not in any way opening another debate on religion) |
Battlestar | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:04 pm     Stephen King books and most-many horror/fantasy/scFi books are chock full of references--and most are not easy to see, unless you have read some the Bible |
Twiggyish | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:10 pm     Yes, the book, The Stand, comes to mind. The battle of good vs. evil. |
Toolhound | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:12 pm     I think most Atheists have read the bible or at least some of it. I even went to church for a few years before becoming an Atheist. |
Bmh | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:14 pm     I am no atheist but I am not a very religious person..I only go to church during Easter and Christmas..and thats basically it..but I have an atheist friend that has read the bible before |
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