Re: The Hoax Theory (was: VMs: Codex Seraphinianus...?)

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Seth Morabito <sethm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been a proponent of the theory that the
> VMs is a hoax for some time.  

 [...]

> All this points to "Hoax" to me, a 16th century
> hoax.  The seller manufactures a manuscript,
> manages to obtain an audience with Rudolph 
> II, convinces him that the manuscript is an
> undecipherable herbal and astronomical manuscript 
> written by Roger Bacon, and walks away with a 
> purse full of money.  

Yes, that is a perfectly simple and even credible 
scenario to me. The problem is that we should be
able to reconstruct how the text was composed,
and we're not. 

That is a problem of about the same magnitude as
having an uncrackable 15th century code.

Having an unintelligible 15th century language
seems a far more acceptable problem to me, in the
sense that it is a far more acceptable type of 
'incompetence' on the side of the VMs community,so
I wonder what Occam's razor would have to say about
that.
The balance in favour of the 'unknown language' 
is however countered (IMHO) by the fact that this
is the only known text that uses it.

That brings us to the possibility that this is
an invented language.
You come up with the same suggestion (as others
must also have in the past), and it is a valid
option, IMHO. 

Cheers, Rene

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