Re: VMs: some thoughts/observations

[Mariusz Wesolowski <shamshir@xxxxxxx>]

Jim,

With due respect, I don't think that either the Book of Mormon or Hubbard's
revelations are comparable with the VMS (if we consider it a fake) simply
because the latter is a material artefact while the other two are not (Smith
never produced the original tablets with the text of the Book of Mormon, and
Hubbard - as far as I know - never claimed to receive his inner teachings in
any physical form). If I were to try and answer this question, perhaps
Hitler's diaries are the closest comparison.

Regards,

Mariusz Wesolowski


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Gillogly" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: some thoughts/observations


> Nick Pelling wrote:
> > PS: FWIW, what's the biggest fake you know of? (Please nobody say
> > "WMD"). :-p
>
> Dang!  I was just going to say that!
>
> I think it's a useful question, though.  Piltdown Man's effect was pretty
> pervasive in science for a good while, but didn't require the amount of
> effort required to produce the Voynich Manuscript.  The Beale Ciphers have
> probably triggered more code-breaking effort than the Voynich Manuscript,
> but certainly also required less effort to create.
>
> With some trepidation at giving offense by attempting to eviscerate one or
> both sacred cows, let me suggest:
>
> - The Book of Mormon and associated backup materials including the Pearl
>    of Great Price and the Doctrine and Covenants.
>
> - The "inner sanctum" writings of Scientology, including the Xenu (Xemu?)
>    revelations.
>
> Each represents a greater expenditure of effort than the Voynich, and (to
> be charitable) because of the contradictory theology at least one of the
> authors (Joseph Smith and L. Ron Hubbard) knew he was perpetrating a
fraud.
> --
> Jim Gillogly
>
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