26-06-2016, 07:36 PM
Pardon me, but if you want to include the extraterrestrial and time-travel theories among the amateur lot, then clearly you've got a big head start. However, the professional side has also had some fairly spectacular misinterpretations and failures of interpretation as well. Even professionals are limited by their fields of expertise.
There is also a problem with the VMs in that the enigmatic nature of the manuscript is such that it is difficult to gain sufficient purchase and understanding of the contents for a professional investigator to stake her/his reputation, without a good deal of work and small prospect of success - given ongoing history of such investigations, the wacko theories already associated with the VMs, etc., etc.
Perhaps it may be interesting to consider that the enigmatic nature of the VMs is just that. The ms. is intentionally enigmatic. Made to be enigmatic - like a tortoise closed up in its shell. Not like a rock, which is rock trough and through, but like an egg in a shell, that cannot be cracked by force, but only by the understanding of what the text contains.
There is also a problem with the VMs in that the enigmatic nature of the manuscript is such that it is difficult to gain sufficient purchase and understanding of the contents for a professional investigator to stake her/his reputation, without a good deal of work and small prospect of success - given ongoing history of such investigations, the wacko theories already associated with the VMs, etc., etc.
Perhaps it may be interesting to consider that the enigmatic nature of the VMs is just that. The ms. is intentionally enigmatic. Made to be enigmatic - like a tortoise closed up in its shell. Not like a rock, which is rock trough and through, but like an egg in a shell, that cannot be cracked by force, but only by the understanding of what the text contains.