Yes, I can sympathise with that view. After all, every single one of us was initially attracted by the mystery!
But the more I study the MS, the more I am convinced that even stripped of the alluring mysterious component, it would still be deeply satisfying to study its contents. Even if we understood how it was done, we'd still have this text which was, for some reason, presented in a way that misled humanity well into the 21st century.
Let me put it another way. I can't think of any "solution" that would make me say "oh, was it just that? What a waste of time".
Perhaps the most disappointing outcome would be if someone could prove how the text is a medieval hoax. For example, if the Old Testament was used as a seed to generate mysterious looking nonsense (as in a one-way cipher). This would tell us that the text is meant to be without meaning, and we're just left with the imagery, doomed to have its interpretation remain forever in "could-be" limbo.
But assuming that the text does have meaning, I would want to learn as much as possible about it.
But the more I study the MS, the more I am convinced that even stripped of the alluring mysterious component, it would still be deeply satisfying to study its contents. Even if we understood how it was done, we'd still have this text which was, for some reason, presented in a way that misled humanity well into the 21st century.
Let me put it another way. I can't think of any "solution" that would make me say "oh, was it just that? What a waste of time".
Perhaps the most disappointing outcome would be if someone could prove how the text is a medieval hoax. For example, if the Old Testament was used as a seed to generate mysterious looking nonsense (as in a one-way cipher). This would tell us that the text is meant to be without meaning, and we're just left with the imagery, doomed to have its interpretation remain forever in "could-be" limbo.
But assuming that the text does have meaning, I would want to learn as much as possible about it.