bigscoop
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There is one back-breaker that will always be attached to the Beale mystery regardless how promising theorist try to dodge it or wherever they may go in attempting to escape it. It is a looming dark shadow that will always follow them and their claims of solution.
This back-breaking shadow is in regard to the issues surrounding the numbering of the ciphers and how the author can be certain that he has that numerical order correctly? By now it is an accepted issue that is well known to most who are familiar with the mystery and there can be no more escape from the circumstances that exist within this dark cloud. If the ciphers were not numbered when the pamphlet author examined them, as he claims was the true case, then how is it that he can be so certain that he has them numbered in the correct order?
You see, given that there are many ways in which information can be written, the length of a cipher presents no guarantee of its contents. One has to remember that the pamphlet author claims that prior to his decoding any of the ciphers that he laid the ciphers out according to their length and then he numbered them accordingly. Given that length provides no guarantee of a cipher's contents then how can he be so certain that he has them numbered in the correct order? And yet he is absolutely certain, isn't he.
If I were to take three random cards from a deck of playing cards and lay them face down on a table what are the odds that someone could identify the face value of all of those cards on the very first try? This is what your pamphlet author is asking his readers to believe, that without any prior insight whatsoever he was able to lay the ciphers on the surface of a table in the correct order with absolute certainty that his order is the correct order. If you believe this then you probably also own deed to beach front property in a desert.
This is the looming Beale cloud that can no longer be denied. Deal with it early or deal with it later but it will always be there casting its dark shadow of existing doubt.
This back-breaking shadow is in regard to the issues surrounding the numbering of the ciphers and how the author can be certain that he has that numerical order correctly? By now it is an accepted issue that is well known to most who are familiar with the mystery and there can be no more escape from the circumstances that exist within this dark cloud. If the ciphers were not numbered when the pamphlet author examined them, as he claims was the true case, then how is it that he can be so certain that he has them numbered in the correct order?
You see, given that there are many ways in which information can be written, the length of a cipher presents no guarantee of its contents. One has to remember that the pamphlet author claims that prior to his decoding any of the ciphers that he laid the ciphers out according to their length and then he numbered them accordingly. Given that length provides no guarantee of a cipher's contents then how can he be so certain that he has them numbered in the correct order? And yet he is absolutely certain, isn't he.
If I were to take three random cards from a deck of playing cards and lay them face down on a table what are the odds that someone could identify the face value of all of those cards on the very first try? This is what your pamphlet author is asking his readers to believe, that without any prior insight whatsoever he was able to lay the ciphers on the surface of a table in the correct order with absolute certainty that his order is the correct order. If you believe this then you probably also own deed to beach front property in a desert.
This is the looming Beale cloud that can no longer be denied. Deal with it early or deal with it later but it will always be there casting its dark shadow of existing doubt.
