Re: VMs: Goat vs. sheep

[Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Elmar

Well, your point is taken.  You cannot imagine that
the VMs author took astrology seriously, it seems.

<<Well, it's not really up to us to chose, hm? ;-)

You have chosen this hypothesis, and it is your own.

> I wouldn't be surprised to find NASA diagrams,
> showing the schematics of the
> moon shots, with overly stylized representations of
> the moon, which clearly
> don't show the real moon. This does not devalidate
> the diagrams in themselves.

The analogy is weak.  If we were viewing material
about a Moon landing, and sylized depictions of the
surface of Venus were interjected. . . that would be a
more valid analogy.

Your point seems to be that you choose to believe that
the VMs author was indifferent to astrology, and you
are not interested in any other hypothesis.

Thank you; I believe that concludes our discussion on
this topic.

Warmly,

Pam


--- elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Zitat von Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Hi, Elmar
> > 
> > 
> > I think we need to distinguish between "hoax" and
> > "charlatanery" here.  The VMs might be the
> authentic
> > work of a c. 1500 con artist--do we call that a
> hoax? 
> 
> I used the term "hoax" in such a manner -- anything
> which is void of "real"
> content, but is made to look like it had any,
> regardless of the time of creation.
> 
> > It would perhaps have value as history to some
> (not
> > much to me--yawn.  Excuse me.).
> 
> Well, it's not really up to us to chose, hm? ;-)
> 
> > ...
> > If the VMs author applied the same care to the
> text as
> > you imagine he did the illustrations, no wonder we
> > can't make progress de-encrypting it!  We really
> can't
> > expect to see any consistency throughout.  It's
> > probably gibberish.
> 
> OTOH, I also think it's possible that the VM is
> "serious", but that the artist
> just was more interested in other aspects of the
> matter than an exact depiction
> of the images.
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised to find NASA diagrams,
> showing the schematics of the
> moon shots, with overly stylized representations of
> the moon, which clearly
> don't show the real moon. This does not devalidate
> the diagrams in themselves.
> 
> Tallyho,
> 
>    Elmar
> 
> 
> 
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