Conspiracy theory checklist

[venta]

I'm reading "The Search for the Grail", a book which could well contain a lot of rubbish.

So far, the checklist for conspiracy theory goes as follows:

Page 2 - First mention of King Arthur (since it's on the grail, I'm prepared to cut them a certain amount of slack there...)
Page 4 - first occurrence of the phrase "seems too close a comparison to be mere coincidence"
Page 4 - First mention of Kinghts Templar (Hurray!)
Page 7 - First citing of Geoffrey of Monmouth in support of a theory
Page 13 - First occurrence of 2 consecutive paragraphs blatantly contradicting each other (always a good sign, this)

Plus, of course, the usual crop of arguments ex silentia and leaps of deduction.

Looking good so far :)

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You can play at home too !

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Score points if the following turn up:

* Rosicrucians (10pts)
* Sangréal (5pts)
* Order of the Realm of Sion (10pts)
* Other gospels [Mary, Philip, Thomas, Egyptians and Mary Magdalene] (2pts each)
* Alexandria (12pts - raised to 18pts for mention of at least one text which appeared in the library there)
* Scroll of Jasher (20pts)
* Aliens (30pts)
* Elvis (45pts)

Re: You can play at home too !

[venta.livejournal.com]

You missed out

* the Merovigninan (spelling optional) dynasty (10)
* Rennes-le-Chateau (15)
* the Bavarian Illuminati (2)
* pyramids (20)

Shall we write the I-Spy a Conspiracy?

Re: You can play at home too !

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes. And shame on me for missing Rennes-le-Chateau since I have in fact read The Tomb of God.

I was most amused by it, actually. So much so that one of the Easter Eggs in my DPhil thesis is a Binary Decision Diagram with more than a little sacred geometry in it.