I have been labouring under the illusion that the JREF forum was: A place to discuss skepticism, critical thinking, the paranormal and science in a friendly and lively way.Even if a hundred posters lose interest, I can hope that the may be others who are interested. I shall continue to use this thread as a 'shop window' for an important issue; anyone who prefers can pass by and shop next door.
It is indeed such a place, but:
1) You are, in fact, being addressed in a quite friendly way. Lively too, to be sure, but certainly friendly. Real friends tend to tell you the truth, however.
2) You are not discussing the things you mention. You are not even actually discussing your obsession with your genesis seal, as of yet: For the first several pages of this thread, you were quite condescending and were expressing impatience. You stated that we needed to understand (meaning
accept) your premise before you could move on, ignoring the fact that several posters told you that they (we) had indeed understood your premise, but had rejected it.
Now, I recognize that you seem to move a bit; you seem to recognize that your first premise, that the initial words and patterns were rare and unique, may be wrong, but you are as yet unwilling to consider that this alone may shatter your hypothesis.
You are, currently, like someone who thought a pattern in the pebbles he found on the beach is unique and fantastic. After having been shown that the beach is littered with similar patterns, you are now claiming that YOUR particular pattern is still somehow different.
So now, without much patience, since you have claimed this many times, and you tell us you have studied this for years, we ask you: Then
present such evidence that you might have.
When presenting this evidence, I have a hint: If you feel even the slightest need to use terms such as 'may', 'possibly', 'not unlikely', yay even 'probably', then your evidence does not stand.
Why is this? Well, you have been shown that patterns, including, but not restricted to words, abound in an essentially random set of letters, it follows that this property must be recursive: Any next layer you conceive will, for all practical purposes,
also equal an essentially random set, and as such abound in patters. This will be true of any subsequent layers, simply because it is a property of random sets of meaningful units to seem to form meaningful patterns. So, to hold any weight, in the face of this overwhelming probability of randomness, your evidence must be clear, distinct, and incontrovertible.
As for your hypothesis about historical impact, it is an entirely different hypothesis, because it is absolutely detached from the discussion of purpose. As already discussed, people have been constructing imaginary patterns since the beginnings of humanity, so it is indeed possible that others have trod the same way as you, persisted in their illusion, and having happened to have power, made an imprint on history with it.
Now luckily, pragmatism seems to ultimately prevail in human undertakings, if only because reality imposes it on us, so perhaps even this quest is unlikely to show anything, but try you might. One word of warning though: I have already seen you assign a perfectly unwarranted reliance on single historic sources. In reality, our knowledge of details in even relatively recent history is often shockingly sketchy.
Hans
(It's 4:30 AM here, and I can't sleep, probably for jet-lag, but I'll now give it another try)