This week in Google alerts

David Stockhoff · 04 Nov 2011, 20:57 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:57:50 -0400
Subject: (urth) This week  in Google alerts
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On 11/4/2011 4:10 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> On 11/4/2011 2:28 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> To me, the movie The Matrix uses gnostic logic if not actual 
>> references to gnostic mythology. This hardly means that the writers 
>> thought gnosis was way cool. It does suggest they smoked a little 
>> dope in their time.
>
> Actually, I found The Matrix to be profoundly Calvinist--although 
> largely inadvertent (but not so inadvertent as the creators claimed). 
> Other than the Nicholas Cage movie "Knowing" I can't think of another 
> that provoked that response from me.

Interesting. Well, that too, I'm sure.

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