VMs: Re: Facts and Fallacies

["Robert Teague" <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

So far, nobody has shown where the number correspondences are wrong;
just a general reaction of "I don't buy into it because the time period
revealed
isn't what I think it should be".

> 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

Only one critcism of the astronomical evidence supporting the numbering has
been made, and that by a non-astronomer.

> 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.

I haven't been looking at the whole VMs; just the Astro section. I don't
have a theory about the whole thing as of yet. I willingly admit my weakness
in the areas of history, botany, linguistics, etc. But I DO know astronomy.

> No matter what we believe the VMS to be - we have to keep asking ourselves
>
> - What else could it be?

That's certainly true. But before that question is asked, one needs to have
reached a certain level of coherence with a particular theory.

> And keep up the good work!

Robert

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