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Post by richard on Sept 13, 2019 15:24:48 GMT -5
I cannot tell you how many times I have seen people put on their profiles graduate of the school of hard knocks. Really? If that is the case, then they must have had a very easy school. Forrest is a graduate of that school. As a matter of fact he received a Doctorate from it. Honestly who else could play 350,000 people into the wrong locations for 9 plus years? I don't mean that in a condescending manor, I just point to the fact that the TC has yet to be located. No offense to anyone intended. Just an observation on how foxy Forrest has been.
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omni
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Post by omni on Sept 14, 2019 18:39:11 GMT -5
The above quote is from zap, on page 1 of this thread. The searcher who suggested YNP as WWWH obviously doesn't understand the concept of geographic (map) scale. And the idea of WWWH being the Continental Divide is just as ludicrous. (I think I know who started that theory, elsewhere). You and I are in agreement that WWWH is a precise geographic spot. And I will go a step further: even though there are many such spots north of Santa Fe, the poem alludes to one, and only one, such spot. So if the poem alludes to one spot, and only one, why didn't those who 'figured out the first two clues' know it? (Please know I'm not trying to be augmentative- just thinking) If they 'figured it out'.... it sounds like Forrest felt they found all there was given in the poem..... Because they can't ever confirm it. You can go down the correct thought process, but never know that you were right unless you have the chest. And when you can't find the third clue, you decide that you have it wrong and give up. I think a lot of people have it backwards. They think the clues are massively complicated, but once they somehow crack the first 2 clues with their brilliant revelations they will wander right down that canyon, find the HoB (because all those idiots just didn't know what they were looking for), and go get the chest. They think the clues are hard but the blueprint is easy. It's more like the opposite.
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Post by me9 on Feb 29, 2020 7:20:07 GMT -5
– Can you give me one quote that will inspire my readers that it is possible to find your treasure? Something to motivate them? Something to tease them. FF: Those who solve the first clue are more than half way to the treasure, metaphorically speaking. dalneitzel.com/2017/02/25/scrapbook-one-hundred-sixty-six-2/
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Post by fundamentaldesign on Feb 29, 2020 13:50:22 GMT -5
I agree...... it seems from comments made by Forrest that there isn't a way to know you have the first clue identified correctly, until you have found the chest--- and ALL the clues fell into place. That doesn’t mean the finder wouldn’t know the step before the first clue...the hint(s).
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