NationStates Jolt Archive

Myself I find this topic very interesting. I want to know if there are any others in the world of Nationstates who also find the subject of secret organisations and hidden historical links facinating. Whether it be an interest in organisations like the Mason's or the Illuminati, perhaps you have just read an amazingly captivating novel about espionage. For example I have just finished Digital Fortress By Dan Brown which is a brilliant book in my opinion with well founded research. Also on the subject of novels who in your experience is the best assassin character you have ever encountered. :sniper: :mp5: :gundge:

Thankyou

I would post a poll but the subject is so vast.

There's a movie called Cloak and Dagger... at least I think there is. It had something to do with federal information on a disk disguised as a video game called Cloak and Dagger... and the kid who played the kid in ET was in it. Or somebody who looked exactly like him.

I haven't read many spy books but the idea of spies and assassins and underground organisations and stuff like that interesting. I should check and see if the library has Digital Fortress.

I believe in a secret organization of assasins. They keep the peace and take care of anyone who might try to corrupt the world.

The world is ruled by power itself.

I don't doubt the existance of secret organisations and society's and you should look into reading Digital Fortress other good books by Dan Brown are Deception point, Angels and demons and the Da Vinci code I haven't read them all but if there any where near as good as Digital Fortress your in for a treat.

It is naive too think that all forms of media at our fingertips cannot be monitored. The world is ruled by the powerful, but you have too be thankful that such organisations with political clout exist. For example who in their right mind would leave Mr.Bush un-monitored.

Read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown; it deals with the (dramatic music) Illuminati (GASP!) :gundge:

Supposedly his next book deals with the Freemasons, the secret society which the Illuminati used as a front

You should read the Illuminatus! Trilogy.

Angels and Demons is the next Dan Brown book i'm about to read what do you think about it? :sniper:

*says quietly*
I wholeheartedly believe in assassins and secret organizations.
All you must do to come to the truth is look at the world today... and the many deaths that are unexplained.... or who's stories are full of holes no one can explain.

A&D is really good, made me think that many of his critics were premature (those that said he was anti-Catholic anyway) in their accusations. As the church isn't the vile institution that Opus Dei was represented as in The Da Vinci Code.

You know they are turning the DVC into a film. The last I heard, they were thinking of Russel Crowe as Langdon.

Assassins, huh.

There's a movie called Cloak and Dagger... at least I think there is. It had something to do with federal information on a disk disguised as a video game called Cloak and Dagger... and the kid who played the kid in ET was in it. Or somebody who looked exactly like him.

I haven't read many spy books but the idea of spies and assassins and underground organisations and stuff like that interesting. I should check and see if the library has Digital Fortress.
Are you thinking of this?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087065/

I believe in a secret organization of assasins. They keep the peace and take care of anyone who might try to corrupt the world.
But who will guard the guards.
who will maintain their "pure" infallibility.
Not everything is so black and white there is no such thing as good and evil it depends on your perspective and situation. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. A film would be very good, whether it could capture the liquid poetry of the novel I don't know.

The last I heard, they were thinking of Russel Crowe as Langdon.

I could see how that would work. I wonder who they'd get to play Sophie...

Assassins, huh.
It was a Sunni sect in 12th century Arabia called the Nizari Ismaili. Later called the Hashisharim (iirc) which is were we get the word assasin from. A lone assasin (some say the old man of the mountain himself) managed to single handedly turn back Saladin's army, by sneaking into his camp and leaving (hash) cakes and an assassins dagger by the bed.

The last I heard, they were thinking of Russel Crowe as Langdon.

I could see how that would work. I wonder who they'd get to play Sophie...
I would like Laetitia Casta. Purely personal reasons though. Although I think that they should use a French actress rather then an American one with a French accent.

Are you thinking of this?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087065/


Yeah that's it, thanks. I recognise the name Jack Flack. ^_^