--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Sounds to me as if several people are buying into > > the pre-publication memes being spread by Dan Brown's > > publicists to pave the way for his next best seller. :-) > > To follow up, here's some information from Wikipedia. > I just think it's hilarious that people like some of > the folks who are so full of fear on this group are > working themselves up into a full-fledged obsession > based on the work of *publicists* who are spreading > memes to hype the sales of an upcoming book. :-)
Uh-huh. Except that folks have been engrossed/obsessed with these "memes" for far longer than Dan Brown. Sorry to disappoint, but he didn't invent this group of conspiracy theories any more than he did those about Jesus and the Magdalene. *You* may be reading about this U.S. Freemasons stuff for the first time from Brown's publicists, but you're a bit behind the curve. Oh, and besides the post hoc propter hoc fallacy, you picked the wrong putdown. Conspiracy theories appeal to folks not because they're afraid but because they like to feel they're in on a big secret.
