31-10-2025, 04:58 AM
(31-10-2025, 01:36 AM)tavie wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(31-10-2025, 12:30 AM)asteckley wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The latest tactic seems to be to shut down any thread in which that evidence threatens to enter the discussion, using the justification of "one theory per thread", whatever the hell that means.)
Please stop this. This is - as you are aware - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. You may disagree with it in general, or its application in specific cases. I've extended multiple invitations to PM me to discuss this privately and politely so that this did not become another open row and defeat the entire purpose of the rule. You are within your rights to have not taken this offer up for whatever reason, but it is neither fair nor acceptable for both you and Rich instead to take to other threads to make accusations about me.
I am asking you to stop and stay on topic, which in this thread is purely about the modern hoax theory. Let's have a respectful debate about the evidence for and against this, which may or may not include the watermark.
Honestly Tavie, I was not aware of your offering to talk in PM was anything but optional. I prefer, in any case, to keep things like this public. There I can make my case without have it ignored or mistated... in this case I was absolutely on topic, to the watermark, and to the other information relating to it, other watermarks, and the stated philosophy of Lisa Fagin Davis as to what she thinks it means if we find no more watermarks, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"... and a few other topics, brought up by others.
All varied, and I, following the rules discussed those things, along with their use, and related implications. It is very obvious that your "red line in the sand" was simply any discussion of how any of these discussed topics might relate to the letter, or the Voynich, being a forgery.
We've done nothing wrong, even by your own rules! So of course I have no intention of having a private conversation with you. You complained about my posts in public, so you should be willing to hear my rebuttal to those complaints in public, too.