Koen G > 07-05-2021, 05:06 AM
geoffreycaveney > 07-05-2021, 05:16 AM
(07-05-2021, 05:06 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I now imagine some guy with a vision who hired the cheapest bunch of scribes and painters in all the land.
Scarecrow > 07-05-2021, 07:51 AM
(05-05-2021, 03:21 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.On the question of whether the VMS makes sense or not, I can only repeat myself at this point. I think if you consider the effort that was spent on the creation of the VMS, then you have to assume that it makes sense. If it were only a few lines of code, then it would be also conceivable that it concerns a hoax. With a whole codex the thing looks however different.While I do agree that VMS is readable with a real meaning, I am hesitant to assume *anything* in relation with the VMS. As logical it may sound, the effort put to something does not still demonstrate the importance or usefulness of it. It is a non-sequitur.
(05-05-2021, 03:21 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[/font]
(07-05-2021, 05:06 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I now imagine some guy with a vision who hired the cheapest bunch of scribes and painters in all the land.
Scarecrow > 07-05-2021, 07:57 AM
(07-05-2021, 02:36 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If the VMS was financed by a patron it certainly broadens who might have been involved in creating it.
Koen G > 07-05-2021, 08:59 AM
geoffreycaveney > 07-05-2021, 01:39 PM
(07-05-2021, 07:51 AM)Scarecrow Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(05-05-2021, 03:21 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
What is quite possible is that the content should only be accessible to an "exclusive" group of readers. That is, anyone without the necessary prior knowledge of the writing system should be excluded from the outset. So it was not about the distribution of information / knowledge to everyone who could read but about the transmission from insiders to insiders. The complete absence of any plain text (annotations, marginal notes and so on) reinforces this assumption.
(07-05-2021, 05:06 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I now imagine some guy with a vision who hired the cheapest bunch of scribes and painters in all the land.
geoffreycaveney > 07-05-2021, 01:55 PM
(07-05-2021, 07:57 AM)Scarecrow Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(07-05-2021, 02:36 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If the VMS was financed by a patron it certainly broadens who might have been involved in creating it.
True. A lot more possibilities, but then that would have exposed the system and potentially the content to a wider audience, a thing that it seems to me, they tried to avoid in the first place.
And that makes me wonder why a one-shot, why not reuse the system for more things? People tend to have more than one secret in their closets.
Scarecrow > 07-05-2021, 03:15 PM
(07-05-2021, 08:59 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
geoffreycaveney > 07-05-2021, 03:26 PM
(07-05-2021, 03:15 PM)Scarecrow Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(07-05-2021, 08:59 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Don't forget that a massive amount of documents has been lost to history. This should be especially true for documents like the VM, which could be interpreted as containing magic, witchcraft, herecy or other forbidden subjects.
Koen G > 07-05-2021, 03:28 PM