15-04-2021, 08:04 PM
... but as for other "specific sources" in the sense I mean it, and have explained it, above, of course I'm interested in others. In my blog post I've made it clear there are others. And of course I have seen a majority of them, and maybe like the crayfish, missed a few. But no, it is not intended as a comprehensive list...
And while I am interested in other such comparisons, and am always interested in seeing more, long passed is the point where they have told me what is up here. I mean, step into my shoes for a moment: If ten, then a hundred, then dozens of comparisons are found, they only continue to increase the validity of my argument. That is because it becomes increasing difficult to explain these comparisons in any other way than the one I suggest. These images cover such a wide range of places, times, cultures, meanings, and so on, that as more and more are found, it... IMHO... only decreases the likelihood that one to a few scribes in the distant past had access to all of them.
At what point do more help? I feel the case was made long ago, through an overwhelming mass of evidence. But I do understand that if one still believes the Voynich is old, and genuine, then it is a necessity to keep looking at each and every detail of each and every image, in a hope that one will somehow, someday, explain the Voynich in some genuine old context. But ironically, the continuing quest only raises more questions than it ever answers.
Again, in my opinion, as long as fake and modern are removed from the investigation, no amount of images will ever make any sense at all.
And so yes, there are a great many likely candidates on the pages of your forum, and in many blogs and so on. And I love looking at them all, and many are very good. But to me it is like finding yet more fingerprints, yet more hairs and DNA at a crime scene, when the case has already been made, and the convict on death row. And the defense lawyers will demand more fingerprint dusting, more tests, in the constant hope it may get their client off.
Maybe that will happen someday, and I will of course be interested in seeing it if it is found.
And while I am interested in other such comparisons, and am always interested in seeing more, long passed is the point where they have told me what is up here. I mean, step into my shoes for a moment: If ten, then a hundred, then dozens of comparisons are found, they only continue to increase the validity of my argument. That is because it becomes increasing difficult to explain these comparisons in any other way than the one I suggest. These images cover such a wide range of places, times, cultures, meanings, and so on, that as more and more are found, it... IMHO... only decreases the likelihood that one to a few scribes in the distant past had access to all of them.
At what point do more help? I feel the case was made long ago, through an overwhelming mass of evidence. But I do understand that if one still believes the Voynich is old, and genuine, then it is a necessity to keep looking at each and every detail of each and every image, in a hope that one will somehow, someday, explain the Voynich in some genuine old context. But ironically, the continuing quest only raises more questions than it ever answers.
Again, in my opinion, as long as fake and modern are removed from the investigation, no amount of images will ever make any sense at all.
And so yes, there are a great many likely candidates on the pages of your forum, and in many blogs and so on. And I love looking at them all, and many are very good. But to me it is like finding yet more fingerprints, yet more hairs and DNA at a crime scene, when the case has already been made, and the convict on death row. And the defense lawyers will demand more fingerprint dusting, more tests, in the constant hope it may get their client off.
Maybe that will happen someday, and I will of course be interested in seeing it if it is found.