Re: VMs: [VMS] Goat vs. sheep, Sagittarius

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Zitat von Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>  
> > No dispute about them being goats. But, as Pam observed in a later
> > message, that is only one of the oddities in the VMS zodiac
> > illustrations. 
>
> If the VM is a hoax, the author might have deliberately added this "exotic
> touch" to an otherwise boring and all-too familiar zodiac?

	Now this is something I was just thinking about!

	I just finished Kennedy and Churchill's book.  I thought it 
was good, better than I expected, and it gave me quite a bit 
of food for thought.  Right now I have been thinking about 
migrainous imagery in the VMs and will post more on it soon.

	Kennedy says he thinks the VMs is a hoax.

	He and Churchill both emphasize, though, as many have, the 
complete stangeness of the VMs, it unlikeness to anything 
else, and its sense of total alienness.  I think this is a 
good argument against the hoax hypothesis.

	A genuine hoaxer would want to produce something of 
immediate interest, something that looks like the product of 
a famous person and/or on a well-known topic of great 
interest.  Think of Hitler's diaries, some phony Lost 
Gospels of Jesus, Piltdown Man, or even the Donation of 
Constantine.  But who even knows what the VMs is about?  If 
it is a hoax, what of?

	I can see, though, that this could also be an argument in 
*favor* of the hoax hypothesis.  To make the VMs so 
unfamiliar makes it that much more difficult to falsify.

Dennis
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