JCC Drinking from the Holy Grail

So, if you believe in said Grail and even find the traps and the immortal guardian wouldn't than mean your God is real and some everlasting bliss awaits you? Should not have Mr Donovan turned good right then and helped Indy and his dad and have had a good old fashioned Christian redemption?

 

That's why he died and Henry was able to say "Indiana... let it go." They didn't believe, not really.

It's explicitly stated in the movie.

 

1. Donovan's plan was screwed from the beginning, simply by him teaming up with the Nazis. "I plan to be drinking my health when Hitler's gone the way of the dodo." Yeah if you really believe that Hitler would allow you to keep immortality for yourself, you've got another thing coming.



2. The problem with Christian redemption is that everlasting life only comes AFTER death.

Donovan wanted to cheat death completely, which is generally a horrible idea when it involves drinking holy water from a supernatural artifact.

Donovan's just lucky he didn't get pureed by a water tornado.

 

Well I don't think either Donovan or the Nazis "teamed" so much as tried to use each other as tools. It's like a friendly game of chess where each side is aware of the cheating habits of the other.

 

Pfft, all that could be explained by SCIENCE.

The immortal guardian has a large library of boring books that he reads to make his life longer. The water includes a chemical that becomes poison when it touches gold for longer than a few seconds.

And the traps have been kept in condition by a local group of short people who have nothing better to do.

 

They believed enough to go after a magic thingy. Hence what magic is powering the magic thingy?

 

They (Donovan / Ilsa) believed in the artifact, not in Christian doctrine. That's why they made poor life choices...

 

What they didn't know is that the cistern was also the knight's urinal.

"Because it's sterile and I LIKE it!"

 

How low must your Wisdom Score be though? You walk into a cave and this dude from an ancient world is there. How about a lil Q&A? Donovan = WIS: 3?

 

The magic was in the cave itself. "It cannot pass the Great Seal. That is the price of immortality."

You can live forever.....but you have to cloister yourself in the cave, because if you try to take the grail from the cave, you're going to collapse the entire thing and kill the kindly old knight that lives there.


Which begs the question....who placed the blessing/curse/spell on the cave to begin with? Was the knight actually Merlin?

 

The real Holy Grail appears in an entirely different film starring two girls.

 

I am The Cup of Immortality so ya'll can just end your debate.
thanks for playing.

 

But you never let us drink from you at Celebration...

 

I do enough drinking for everyone.

 

I'm sure she's a lovely woman in person, but I can't shake the dull lifeless eyes of her Goatse-Vajayjay ET-Muppet-Gargoyle Thing avatar.

 

I thought the Holy Grail was in the castle of Aaaarrrrggghhhh.

 

That sounds like a challenge.

 

It's not one you want to take.

 

somebody pointed out to me today that elsa deliberately picks the wrong cup for donovan in order to **** him up. i said, "yeah, you're right about that, i think."

 

Perhaps he should watch Sherlock Holmes more often.

 

ok, i'll let him know.