VMs: John Stojko & the VMS...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

While I'm sure I understand what John S did and how he reached his results, 
I have strong doubts about their validity.

I think it is worth pointing out that he also applied his same methodology 
- that is, assuming the code is a simple cipher wrapped around a vowel-less 
Old Ukrainian - to some Lydian grave inscriptions. He comments:-

	http://home.att.net/~oko/sardis/s-intro.htm

	When I got this book and began to decipher I discovered
	that my previous assumption was wrong. The curious
	linguistic occurrence was not a coincidence related only
	to a few words or phrases. Every inscription, which I
	deciphered, I could understand in Ukrainian. So I returned
	to my original question: How is this possible? Why is it
	that when I decipher Lydian and Greek inscriptions from
	Sardis, written in two alphabets, consisting of
	consonants only, I am getting their meaning in
	Ukrainian, as illustrated by the example above?

	I can not explain why it may be possible to read the same
	inscription in Greek and Ukrainian, which are not related
	languages.

From this, I infer that the similarities John S is unable to explain 
almost certainly arose from the common *process* he applies to the to 
various sets of texts - that is, if the medium is his deciphering method, 
then the medium *is* the message.

Having said that, I don't think being misled (or, perhaps more accurately) 
misdirected by the VMS should ever be a point of shame. Many sharp minds of 
the 20th Century have found themselves blunted by its tricks, so John S is 
in the company of giants. :-)

I'm sure that the solution will emerge when it is good and ready: though I 
should, in fact, point out that the plaintext will prove to be largely 
unremarkable, as keeping heresies going for 200+ pages would probably be a 
work of even greater creativity than its remarkable coding system. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

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