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RE: VMs: Facts and Fallacies
Larry:> You are correct in that Teague numbers, etc are not facts. The sad
thing is that there appear to be few "facts" in regards to the Voy. In that
case, everything is a theory. And like theories in all disciplines they are
accepted by the general community or not. That does not make them any more
facts than the theories not accepted.
There will be no facts until a major breakthrough comes with a proof.
EXACTLY.
Larry:> The statement "won't hold up to any kind of criticism no matter how
many times we repeat them" in regards to Teague numbers (or any other
theory)....I would dispute that. With proper written proof I think it
*would* hold up to criticism.
DISPUTE AWAY... HOWEVER, I DID NOT say that a theory won't hold up to any
kind of criticism if it was backed up with proof... What I was saying is
that repetition of a theory doesn't make it stronger - you are right... it's
confirming the accuracy of the theory with rules/facts that could make it
stronger.
Larry:> It is a matter of turning ideas into written proof. And I must say
that process is lax here. Many ideas a are put forth but no-one ties them
together or writes up the proof. I plan to change that in my own case.
Turning ideas into written proof is lax here - mostly because there are
still far too many unknowns to call something proof. I've asserted the pages
are in the wrong order as many others have - but the fact that I use the
quire numbers (specifically quire 9) to justify my reasoning still doesn't
prove that I am right - nor does lining up two seemingly congruent images.
Both are subject to a lot of other what-if's... that can't be discarded.
Currier's HandA/HandB isn't a fact either - there seems to be something
there, but there might be explanations for slight variations and those
slight variations may in fact only be in our perspective. A long time ago
there was a fair amount of discussion about light/dark Aries & Taurus
representing good/evil...I think most of us now look at that as a byproduct
of the copyflo. The byproduct became an accepted bias, but in reality the
light/dark were shades of colour not represented in the copyflo. I'm not
recommending that we discard anyone's theories - only that we need to make
sure that we don't accept statements as fact that aren't - otherwise we end
up with solutions in our own mind that nobody (or few others) will accept.
John.
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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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>>> John@xxxxxxxxxxxx 06/07/03 08:19 AM >>>
December 1988, Reader's Digest published a book with that title.
There is no surprise that the VMS was listed as one of the oddities they
covered. However, "Brumbaugh's Breakthrough" didn't make much sense to me.
Digits 1-9, with the alphabet broken down in four rows underneath...
A-I
J-Q +US
-R-S-T-U-
V-W-X-Y-Z
The only 'successful' example they gave was mention a picture that looked
like a pepper and the code 757752 spelling (among other possibilities
PEPPER).
the fact that the spelling is modern English is always completely ignored,
as
is the fact that it didn't really explain any other words in the whole VMS.
It was alluded to that other words could be made up (no-brainer with four
letters
for every digit) that seemed to make some kind of sense.
Speculation is certainly necessary because we have to do a lot of guesswork
before we can make any direct hits. The danger that I see so often (and
probably
have done so myself often enough) is to consider our 'theories' as fact.
Stating
the 'date 1533' is on the page isn't a fact, neither are the possible
matches to
plants or astronomical events certain. They may well be good guesses - but
they don't
and won't hold up to any kind of criticism no matter how many times we
repeat them.
That said, we do want to make our point(s) clear and that we believe we are
heading
down a right path and will try continually to strengthen our position
against a
barrage of others that are out there.
It is very easy, I think, to put a bias into our own research by convincing
ourselves in the first glimpse (or for that matter at any given time) that a
Eureka moment
has made it clear to us that the VMS represents something we are already
familiar with.
We all have a desire to 'get a clue' out of this thing that seems to point
us toward an
avenue of study - but we have to keep in mind that the stronger that clue
seems to us
- that it might actually implant a strong bias in how we look at the whole
VMS.
No matter what we believe the VMS to be - we have to keep asking ourselves
- What else could it be?
And keep up the good work!
John.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Nick Pelling
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 3:17 AM
To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: VMs: Finding_02
Hi GC,
> > ...to be more precise, the <ain aiin aiiin> pattern
> > seems to me most likely
> > to be some form of steganographic Roman numerals: and
> > as I don't see the
> > evidence for the VMS' being an obviously
> > mono-alphabetic cipher, I don't
> > buy into Teague numbering either.
>
>You keep poking holes in my heart and ask me not to bleed! :-)
>God I love it!!!!
Errrrm... I do my best, I think? :-9
>Seriously..... never mind... I just can't get serious about this.
>Every time I look at a post with these strings attached, <dain
>daiin daiiin>, this looks seriously impressive. And when we can
>narrow our discussion down to <ain aiin aiiin>, well that's even
>more impressive. Any strings the length of these characters
>*must* be significant, yes?
The EVA string length has no significance in my mind. I'm simply looking at
the structure of a set of (perhaps morphologically related) shapes and
wondering (in no particular order):-
- "what function could they perform?"
- "why were they necessary?"
- "what could they mean?"
In the absence of any definitive answers, I'm sure my (current) hypothesis
is neither better nor worse than anyone else's.
>My question would be - if you are NOT separating the strokes in
>dain, daiin, daiiin, dumass, then how do these reflect roman
>numerals any better than say, 89, oe, os, oy as word endings?
I refer the honourable gentleman to my three questions above. :-)
Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
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