Morten St. George > 03-04-2019, 05:03 AM
(03-04-2019, 01:07 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.NO I DON'T HAVE A HANGUP AGAINST THE AMERICAS. I included the Americas in every phase of my plant research. Also Africa, East Asia. I ALWAYS searched the entire globe.
And I've already read those papers. I've read most of what VMS researchers have written about plants. It's garbage research. Poor scholarship.
The Bonolobus chloranthus picture? That's an ATYPICAL picture of the plant. It usually doesn't look like that. They cherry-picked an atypical picture of the plant TO FIT THEIR THEORY. They did NOT include the European plant that looks more like the VMS plant than their example. BAD SCHOLARSHIP.
The Philodendron mexicanum? They picked it to fit their theory. There are a DOZEN European plants that ALSO look like this drawing and they didn't include them. BAD SCHOLARSHIP.
BAD RESEARCH.
When I told you that there is a pocket in the U.S. where the climatic conditions are similar to a region in Italy, I was not putting down the Americas. I was INFORMING you that there are places on the planet where some of the same plants are found or CLOSE LOOK-ALIKES are found.
I have written blogs about the Janick/Talbert/Tucker research. Maybe you should read them before you trust their "evidence" and their conclusions:
Janick/Tucker misinterpretation of medieval characters: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Janick/Tucker questionable interpretation of animal drawings: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Talbert/Tucker questionable identification of plants (tunnel-vision): You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Janick/Tucker HIGHLY questionable identification of fish: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
They're not doing honest research. They are choosing examples that fit their theory and ignoring the ones that contradict their theory.
BAD SCHOLARSHIP.
-JKP- > 03-04-2019, 05:29 AM
Morten St. George > 03-04-2019, 04:58 PM
(03-04-2019, 05:29 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I never called them crackpots and I don't question their sanity in any way.
I said it was bad scholarship.
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And I need to point out to you AGAIN that I have never rejected the possibility of the Americas. How many times do I have to say it? Assigning it a lower probability is NOT the same as rejecting it. The lower probability is based on data.
It doesn't matter if no one has provided an indisputable argument for Europe. You can't reject Europe based on that. The research isn't finished yet... for any region.
Quote:But the worst danger was that the triumph of the heretical principles meant the extinction of the human race. This annihilation was the direct consequence of the Catharist doctrine, that all intercourse between the sexes ought to be avoided and that suicide or the Endura, under certain circumstances, is not only lawful but commendable.
Morten St. George > 04-04-2019, 11:35 AM
(31-03-2019, 06:18 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:In medieval mystic literature, the original book that held the VMS prophecies glowed in the dark, ie. emitted light. By chanting the names of God in the presence of this book, the mystics were able to increase its luminosity, so presumably the book could hear as well or, at least, was sensitive to sound. Due to its light-emitting qualities, the mystics assumed that the book was divine revelation written in heaven itself, black fire on white fire drawn from the primordial light of the universe.
Question: ah, actually, never mind.
ReneZ > 04-04-2019, 01:53 PM
Morten St. George > 04-04-2019, 04:32 PM
(04-04-2019, 01:53 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Crackpots eh?
The crackpot calling the crackkettle black, if you ask me.
Morten St. George > 12-04-2019, 07:29 AM
(01-03-2019, 01:08 AM)VViews Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Your task is to reciprocate JKP's efforts by actually reading the many posts on JKP's blog.
Quote:What's even more surprising is that there seems to be another line at the bottom in another hand. It's not small and neat like Voynichese, and it doesn't look like Voynich characters. It's reminiscent of the large straight angular block letter scribbles that are drawn by children, somewhat like the scribbles on a few of the VMS pages. It looks like it might be "S A L" which is "salt" in some languages, and which might apply to a cube in a page of plants. Salt was a preservative, an ingredient in medicinal recipes, and was, of course, used in food.
-JKP- > 12-04-2019, 10:09 AM
Morten St. George > 12-04-2019, 11:56 AM
(12-04-2019, 10:09 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I hope people don't think from your post that I was definitely saying it says "S A L". That's only what it appears to resemble. It might mean salt, or it might be initials for something, or it might be something else (other people have proposed credible alternate readings).
davidjackson > 13-04-2019, 08:12 AM
Quote:And indeed we find that ola (the first three letters) is the Spanish word for wave, which fits quite well with the saline sea of the first verse. Meanwhile, dabas is the Spanish word for you gave, from where we understand you gave wave, fair enough for a free city on the sea. But now look closer at that d in the middle of oladabas