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Post by goldwatch on Jul 12, 2018 17:14:19 GMT -5
He replaced the ruler. That's worthy of an LOL. |
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Post by zaphod73491 on Jul 12, 2018 17:28:25 GMT -5
It's funny: nobody gets why Forrest quotes Einstein. I admit it, I don't know what you mean. But it seems likely there's a meaning to it. Hi Goldwatch: I'll expand on the Einstein hint. See Scrapbook 73: "Einstein said, 'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'" ANOMALY. Einstein didn't say that, Churchill did. Tells me it's not the quote that matters -- it's Einstein himself. |
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Post by goldwatch on Jul 12, 2018 18:35:32 GMT -5
I admit it, I don't know what you mean. But it seems likely there's a meaning to it. Hi Goldwatch: I'll expand on the Einstein hint. See Scrapbook 73: "Einstein said, 'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'" ANOMALY. Einstein didn't say that, Churchill did. Tells me it's not the quote that matters -- it's Einstein himself. Zaphod, that would match with the way he does other things too. That bit about the books in "Important Literature" works sort of that way. It's not what's in the books, it's what's around them. Just like you are suggesting. But the missing 'D' is a hint too. There's a hint to the solve, and there's a hint to more that's outside of the solve, a "story" of sorts. It's really pretty cool. I have to give a huge amount of kudos to Forrest for what he did with this Chase. A HUGE amount. The ingeniousness is astounding. The things he did are amazing. But I can't tell about them without giving away the things I've worked hard to figure out. I hope the time comes that I can, but that requires someone finding the treasure and telling what they have themselves. I wish it were me (finding it), but I'm having problems there. I've got some mixed signals that I can't figure out. Confusion rules my days. |
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Post by lookinup on Jul 12, 2018 21:57:58 GMT -5
I find the page number relating to 'Teachers with ropes'... (109), to be significant in terms of coordinates along with a few other observations.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Jul 12, 2018 22:23:30 GMT -5
Forrest uses a lot of numbers in his stories and books. Ones are EVERYWHERE. Lots of twos and threes, too. The statistical significance is roughly linear with the value of the integer searched for. If there were 783s everywhere, people would pay far more attention vs. an equal number of twelves (of which there are plenty, btw).
In my opinion the 109s do not rise above the two-sigma level as compared to random chance. At the three sigma level, I might start to take notice.
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Post by renardmiroir on Jul 13, 2018 10:01:06 GMT -5
Zaphod, the "109" originally came from OH!'s discovery of it on the edge of the picture of the chest on page 3 of TTOTC. There's an edge around the actual picture that's a copy of an old Kodak film with writing on it. Some sort of code. This kind of stuff...  It had to be mirrored, reversed, to read it. The rest of the numbers and letters showed that it had to be mirrored, not just the "109". That's where the "109" came from. Why would Forrest have done that if it's not a hint? (Maybe I should right a book. I might have enough connectors and links to make it worthwhile. I don't know though. I don't like not being in the drivers seat of my own car, but I got to admire genius.) |
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Post by zaphod73491 on Jul 13, 2018 23:35:22 GMT -5
Renard: you give me a 3-digit number and I can find it somewhere in Forrest's voluminous communications. Show me a 109 in the poem. I can find a different 3-digit number in there at least four times. 109 is nothing but a rabbit hole.
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Post by heidini on Jul 14, 2018 8:02:57 GMT -5
Einstein Name Meaning. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of various places named with a Middle High German derivative of einsteinen 'to enclose or surround with stone'.
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Post by lookinup on Jul 14, 2018 8:34:27 GMT -5
I never knew this! Thank you, heidini.
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Post by heidini on Jul 14, 2018 9:36:40 GMT -5
I never knew this! Thank you, heidini. I feel that should not be taken literally as the chest being enclosed in stone. The focus of Einstein is imagination is more important than knowledge. So I feel we are to use our imaginations to carry this idea further. |
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Post by lookinup on Jul 14, 2018 10:50:21 GMT -5
I concur - An emphasis of the word "resourceful" comes to mind.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Jul 15, 2018 20:08:59 GMT -5
Einstein Name Meaning. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of various places named with a Middle High German derivative of einsteinen 'to enclose or surround with stone'. Doubling down, Heidini: OUAW: "Doug Hyde in Stone" instead of Doug Hyde in Full Flourish. |
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Post by heidini on Jul 15, 2018 21:09:15 GMT -5
Einstein Name Meaning. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of various places named with a Middle High German derivative of einsteinen 'to enclose or surround with stone'. Doubling down, Heidini: OUAW: "Doug Hyde in Stone" instead of Doug Hyde in Full Flourish. That’s awesome! |
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Post by lookinup on Jul 15, 2018 21:46:19 GMT -5
Another gifted individual whose life has been touched by Forrest Fenn. Doug Hyde and his works; awesome indeed:
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Post by zaphod73491 on Jul 15, 2018 23:00:57 GMT -5
Heidini: as long as I'm feeling generous today, let's not forget the TFTW picture of Gloria Steinem with Bella Abzug. "Glory Stone".
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