I find it funny that prior to the suspect being identified everyone was sure this was Islamic extremism.

How ironic that it's the Justicar Knight Commander of the Knights Templar of Norway.

To be believed or not, I find these sorts of stories to be a lot of fun.

If you agree, I suggest getting hold of a copy of Gabriel Knight 3, one of the last classic Sierra adventure games from 1999. It deals heavily with the themes of the Knights Templar, Bérenger Saunière, and Rennes-le-Château.

Oh, and vampires.

4 years later a <sarcasm>largely unknown</sarcasm> book would appear with a very similar plot: The Davinci Code.

Stirring the pot for no reason. If you don't like a video, downvote it, or avoid it. People have difference of opinion, this is not a little pond, you have to deal with it.

The reason the sift is a good place to be, is because we are so different people. If you don't like it and want to change it to only include your version of reality, then this is not the place for you. I don't think any of the internet really is, when you think about it.

Videosift has a fine filtering mechanism - or well, IS a filtering mechanism, to sift out the crap from the internet. Sometimes things get through that you may not like. Plenty of stuff on here annoys the crap out of me, but I just go around it or even downvote it.

A finishing note is, everything does not revolve around you. I certainly didn't promote that one to attack you or any of the women of the sift - I did it because I like boobs in motion and the video is fun if stupid, and to piss off all the white knights templar who have all the right opinions on the sift.

The cunt punching video is not sexist. The topless chair jousting (http://videosift.com/video/Topless-Chair-Jousting-New-Olympic-Sport-for-2012) video is not sexist. They are no more sexist than all the Old Spice commercials with Isiah Mustafa flexing his pecks to sell deoderant.

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
I appreciate you taking the time to point that out. I am pretty Knight Templar in my fight against organized religion, but as battles come, I think it's a worthy one.
In reply to this comment by enoch:
my first comment concerning shiny was after his initial comment.
which was rife with dogmatic doublespeak but i did not feel worthy of people ganging up on him.
i do not tolerate bullying of any kind (even with someone i may disagree with).
of course shiny then promptly threw me under the bus after my comment to prattle away is dogma-speak to passive-aggressively attack those who disagreed with him.

so.
i stand by my original comment due to the lack of information shiny had provided and the reaction of some people.
but you are spot on due to the fact that he had contracted diarrhea of the mouth soon after.prattling on like a preacher convinced of his own righteousness.

my comment was to defend shiny's right to be who he is and to point out that some people were being a tad hypocritical.
and it worked...at least it did for many of the commenting sifters who changed their tone concerning shiny.
shiny on the other hand just kept inserting his foot in his mouth.
and the sifters dealt with him accordingly.
i warned him but i have a feeling it made no impact.
a fundamentalist is convinced of his/her own righteousness because the cherry picked verse/chapter tells them so.
sad really...shiny let a good opportunity slip by him and he didnt even notice (another side affect of fundamentalism).

also..
if you scroll a bit further down on that thread you may notice that i call shiny out for that very thing.
missing an opportunity and to stop being preachy.
sighs..some people never learn.

anyways.
you know i think your a righteous dude but i just wanted to clear up my intent(which sometimes gets lost in text)and it was not directed at you.
you always deal with the content of the comment and i rarely see you deal with the commenter.
some people made it personal based on pretty much nothing but presumption.that shows a weak intellect and i felt obligated to point that out.

knights templar///snickers
nice reference.
they did obtain a new understanding of doctrine which placed them at odds with the church..hence friday the 13th and their utter obliteration perpetrated upon them by the church.
i am in total agreement with you concerning organized religion and the institutions therein.
i probably come across as schizophrenic to those that dont know me considering my disdain and abject rage towards organized religion but i will fight anything that seeks to dominate and suppress my fellow man.
and most of my atheist friends agree.
prolly why we get along bud.

I appreciate you taking the time to point that out. I am pretty Knight Templar in my fight against organized religion, but as battles come, I think it's a worthy one.
In reply to this comment by enoch:
my first comment concerning shiny was after his initial comment.
which was rife with dogmatic doublespeak but i did not feel worthy of people ganging up on him.
i do not tolerate bullying of any kind (even with someone i may disagree with).
of course shiny then promptly threw me under the bus after my comment to prattle away is dogma-speak to passive-aggressively attack those who disagreed with him.

so.
i stand by my original comment due to the lack of information shiny had provided and the reaction of some people.
but you are spot on due to the fact that he had contracted diarrhea of the mouth soon after.prattling on like a preacher convinced of his own righteousness.

my comment was to defend shiny's right to be who he is and to point out that some people were being a tad hypocritical.
and it worked...at least it did for many of the commenting sifters who changed their tone concerning shiny.
shiny on the other hand just kept inserting his foot in his mouth.
and the sifters dealt with him accordingly.
i warned him but i have a feeling it made no impact.
a fundamentalist is convinced of his/her own righteousness because the cherry picked verse/chapter tells them so.
sad really...shiny let a good opportunity slip by him and he didnt even notice (another side affect of fundamentalism).

also..
if you scroll a bit further down on that thread you may notice that i call shiny out for that very thing.
missing an opportunity and to stop being preachy.
sighs..some people never learn.

anyways.
you know i think your a righteous dude but i just wanted to clear up my intent(which sometimes gets lost in text)and it was not directed at you.
you always deal with the content of the comment and i rarely see you deal with the commenter.
some people made it personal based on pretty much nothing but presumption.that shows a weak intellect and i felt obligated to point that out.

try don milo duqette qwiz.
his books on crowley,the golden dawn,enochian magick and the knights templar are fantastic reads (if your a geek like me).he also happens to be a nice guy (met him a few years back..ooo i'm such a lil name dropper).

lets remember that there are 4500 religions on the planet and the ones you are referring to are the abrahamic.
it is easier when you break them down into "eastern" and "western" theologies.western being predominantly the judau/christian/islam.

now as for the "do as thou whilt".that can easily be transcribed as "do unto others",different idioms with similar intentions and can be found in all religions in one form or another.it is the church that focuses on the subservience while the actual teachings of say jesus or mohamhed tend to be much more open in their interpretations.

Kurt Vonnegut jr. is indeed the master. It's hard to pick just five, so this list might be a little random, but here are five books I have enjoyed immensely:

1. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut jr.
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
4. Mengele Zoo by Gert Nygårdshaug
5. The Brothers Karamasov by Fjodor Dostojevskij

I especially like the religious themes in Cat's Cradle; that's why I picked it out to be on the list. But I have yet to read a Vonnegut book I didn't like, so many others could be there as well.

I really recommend Mengele Zoo to anyone who hasn't heard of it. It paints a horrible picture of the exploitation of South America, and has a main character you instantly fall in love with.

What the heck, I'll throw in a few more:
Everything by Tolkien, the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, The Eyes of the Dragon and the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, The Knights Templar series by Jan Guillou.

from wikipedia - In 2004 genealogists discovered that George W. Bush and John Kerry shared a common ancestral couple in the 1500s, making them ninth cousins twice removed. Also in 2007 it was revealed that Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are eighth cousins.

500 years ago 1 common couple, bah, not the Knights Templar / Jesus and Mary Magdalene conspiracy shocker i was hoping for!
Likely >50% of everyone on this site is within 8th-11th cousins of each other, 2-3x removed.

It's not so mysterious, like everyone else the wealthy ruling elite tend to breed within their own peer group and pass on the greed & goodies & power to the kiddies, just as trailer park trash and junkies would likely find that their ancestors were scofflaws and ne'erdowells 500 years ago and passed on those traits to the present generation.

Of course pouring over ancient tomes and speculating on the genealogy of the AntiChrist is far more interesting. You know you wanna know!

The reason to worry is because it is a matter of degrees (no pun intended). We are at a point where it is very likely inevitable that many of the lowest lying inhabited lands will be below sea level within decades. The question is, how far do we let it go?

To be honest, I'm generally of the opinion that any "damage" humans have caused over the last century or two is not going to get "fixed" in the next decade or two, no matter how hard we try. But it's not about "fixing" the whole thing - it's about mitigating the future costs to humanity, whether those costs are directly counted in human lives, national economies, or the size of your children's backyard.

I am continually amazed by those who claim all the human-induced climate change science is bunk and/or propaganda. The implication would seem to be a world-wide conspiracy being conducted by thousands of scientists, economists, politicians, activists, etc. I mean, why not just come right out and say it - the Knights Templar and the Zionists are behind the whole thing right? They've been running the world for 2000+ years, and will continue to do so no matter what we do. When they need to shift the world economy in a particular direction, they dream up crazy things like the cold war, moon landings, global warming.

The choice we have before us is one of resource allocation. We've done a crap job of it so far - should we continue to do so because it's convenient to "our way of life"?

And here's the question I can't get out of my head... If the USA's dependence on "foreign oil" is such a major risk to national security, why are we providing tax subsidies to companies that are willing to do business with the likes of Chavez, Putin, and the Saudi royal family? Does that make sense? Should we not be providing that kind of support to companies that operate solely in the interests of the United States?

just a thought....