|
I'm right with your comments
Francois
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 12:46
PM
Subject: Re: The Hoax Theory (was: VMs:
Codex Seraphinianus...?)
--- 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
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
SBC Yahoo!
DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!
http://sbc.yahoo.com
______________________________________________________________________
To
unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body
saying:
unsubscribe vms-list
|