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(DIR) Post #AtOzAJpTWyHWtszqwC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-24T02:26:41Z
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This is just a poll of what you think based on your own exposure to this topic for better or worse. The Voynich Manuscript Was Written By Someone Who...
(DIR) Post #AtOzORO8DuugOkwNw8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-24T02:29:08Z
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Sorry for the broken poll!
(DIR) Post #AtOzg1aurYnZc3IzC4 by evan@cosocial.ca
2025-04-24T02:32:20Z
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@futurebird this is a good poll.
(DIR) Post #AtOzmywR7n6bPbgl4i by Bongolian@mstdn.social
2025-04-24T02:33:40Z
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@futurebird The modern Codex Seraphinus, whose origin is known, is a good example of a similar enterprise.
(DIR) Post #AtP02pQsFMwKYNTvqy by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-04-24T02:36:21Z
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@futurebird I'm definitely not convinced the plants are meant to be informative diagrams but just decorative - repetitions of the same few elements in a particular drawing style in almost clip-art-ish combinations. Also... I'm betting more than a bit of the added coloration was done by one or more children in intervening generations? So much of the paint I look at and think a 2nd grader definitely did that.
(DIR) Post #AtP1aqM5QFHLDQ1fNI by rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social
2025-04-24T02:53:51Z
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@futurebird No "translation" can possibly be valid until it explains why there are little nude women bathing in flowers.
(DIR) Post #AtP23MpIHz9m1zHxMO by admin@wonkodon.com
2025-04-24T02:59:00Z
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@futurebird The what?
(DIR) Post #AtP3q8lBTYiMY6BeTI by MadameXimon@retro.pizza
2025-04-24T03:19:02Z
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@futurebird None of these options account for what I actually think is the purpose of the Voynich Manuscript. If it had been made in the 20th century, it could easily be considered a surrealist art project. It could also function as dream documentation. Assuming a scam purpose or a cypher or a straight effort to record plant information that is incorrect assumes a mainstream logic that is not necessarily applicable here.
(DIR) Post #AtP3uVM3PYdVmdVuQS by mav@masto.hackers.town
2025-04-24T03:19:49Z
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@futurebirdChicken strips?
(DIR) Post #AtP4EZnMbxe1LZrHhg by SordidAmok@mastodon.social
2025-04-24T03:23:26Z
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@futurebird It never occurred to me to speculate about the writer/artist's motivations.
(DIR) Post #AtPQFHyaXrapMbqzI0 by illumniscate@mastodon.education
2025-04-24T07:29:59Z
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@futurebirdNone of those. I think they were schizophrenic.
(DIR) Post #AtPaLsFpZmBf9ohIcS by Phosphenes@mastodon.social
2025-04-24T09:23:20Z
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@futurebird My choice isn't on the list, which is that it's the written version of speaking in tongues. Or like Nostradamus. Sincere mysticism via brain farts. Probably the author believed it had meaning even when they didn't understand it either.
(DIR) Post #AtPceY3z4OqhwjBkHo by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-04-24T09:49:07Z
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@futurebird never heard of
(DIR) Post #AtQjVPpNDLRcdPuGv2 by earthlightning@sfba.social
2025-04-24T22:40:33Z
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@futurebird I don't know enough to have an opinion, but I like the xkcd theory that the writer was larping.