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Sharpsniper99
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Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 42
[SPEC] Clues in the hidden text in the video/ email Combine the text? the text im referring to is in really short, less than a frame parts in the video + in the forerunner email:
Hmm I wondered why the 2 lines -
IF YOU ARE THAT WITNESS, AND IT SEEMS THAT WE PINNED ALL OF OUR HOPES ON THIS SINGLE SUICIDAL PLAN
And
MILLIONS OF BRAVE AND HONORED SOULS DIED TRYING TO AVERT THIS DESPERATE, TERRIBLE SITUATION
Where so well hidden in the video + in log 5 transcript:
THIS IS MY FINAL ENTRY, AND I AM LEFT WITH ONE HOPE
THAT ONE DAY, SOMEONE, ANYONE IS AROUND TO WITNESS THIS WARNING
{//}
KNOW THAT A THOUSAND OTHER PLANS WERE TRIED AND FAILED
{//}
KNOW THAT ENERGETIC AND TENACIOUS AS LIFE IS
IT HAS AN ANTITHESIS JUST AS POWERFUL
IT IS THAT THING THAT WE MUST OBLITERATE
And then I remembered the 2 white lines in the forerunner email that stood out:
The enemy is almost upon us
+
Yet a journey must commence
And well it seems obvius that these lines that stand out link – to me it seems like its supposed to read as –
IF YOU ARE THAT WITNESS, AND IT SEEMS THAT WE PINNED ALL OF OUR HOPES ON THIS SINGLE SUICIDAL PLAN
The enemy is almost upon us
MILLIONS OF BRAVE AND HONORED SOULS DIED TRYING TO AVERT THIS DESPERATE, TERRIBLE SITUATION
Yet a journey must commence
Now I reckon the more emails and servers that are unlocked, the more 'hidden' or lines that seem out of place will crop up, and eventually these lines will end up making a story of theyre own, is there nywhere else these could have popped up, anything on sota.com that seems out of place?
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:20 pm
Slothboy
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Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 76 Location: Salem, OR
I see what you are thinking. It makes sense to keep track of the lines that are "called out" through their differences from the rest of the text. I don't think the way you have assembled them works but there may be more pieces that will fill in the gaps.
Something to keep an eye on.
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:48 pm
guided
Greenhorn
Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 3
Reference to a "journey" could be the source of Covenant's religious Journey. Over the millienia they've gotten it wrong?
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:23 pm
bbro
Kilroy
Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 2
Slothboy wrote:
I see what you are thinking. It makes sense to keep track of the lines that are "called out" through their differences from the rest of the text. I don't think the way you have assembled them works but there may be more pieces that will fill in the gaps.
Something to keep an eye on.
I was thinking the same thing. I thought of this when I read it in its current form.
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:34 am
ThereIsNoSpoone
Boot
Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 15
Guys.. um... how about this.
THIS IS MY FINAL ENTRY, AND I AM LEFT WITH ONE HOPE
THAT ONE DAY, SOMEONE, ANYONE IS AROUND TO WITNESS THIS WARNING
IF YOU ARE THAT WITNESS, AND IT SEEMS THAT WE PINNED ALL OF OUR HOPES ON THIS SINGLE SUICIDAL PLAN
KNOW THAT A THOUSAND OTHER PLANS WERE TRIED AND FAILED
MILLIONS OF BRAVE AND HONORED SOULS DIED TRYING TO AVERT THIS DESPERATE, TERRIBLE SITUATION
KNOW THAT ENERGETIC AND TENACIOUS AS LIFE IS
IT HAS AN ANTITHESIS JUST AS POWERFUL
IT IS THAT THING THAT WE MUST OBLITERATE
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:01 pm
DM
Decorated
Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 225 Location: Perth, Western Australia
Yeah. The {//}'s are actually hidden frames in the video itself which were found and placed into the writing.
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:42 pm
Sugarfiend
Boot
Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 17
on to something
ThereIsNoSpoone wrote:
Guys.. um... how about this.
THIS IS MY FINAL ENTRY, AND I AM LEFT WITH ONE HOPE
THAT ONE DAY, SOMEONE, ANYONE IS AROUND TO WITNESS THIS WARNING
IF YOU ARE THAT WITNESS, AND IT SEEMS THAT WE PINNED ALL OF OUR HOPES ON THIS SINGLE SUICIDAL PLAN
KNOW THAT A THOUSAND OTHER PLANS WERE TRIED AND FAILED
MILLIONS OF BRAVE AND HONORED SOULS DIED TRYING TO AVERT THIS DESPERATE, TERRIBLE SITUATION
KNOW THAT ENERGETIC AND TENACIOUS AS LIFE IS
IT HAS AN ANTITHESIS JUST AS POWERFUL
IT IS THAT THING THAT WE MUST OBLITERATE
This just sounds right to me. I'd definitely say people are on to something with this line of thinking.
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:50 pm
srsizzy
Boot
Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 46
Re: on to something
Sugarfiend wrote:
ThereIsNoSpoone wrote:
Guys.. um... how about this.
THIS IS MY FINAL ENTRY, AND I AM LEFT WITH ONE HOPE
THAT ONE DAY, SOMEONE, ANYONE IS AROUND TO WITNESS THIS WARNING
IF YOU ARE THAT WITNESS, AND IT SEEMS THAT WE PINNED ALL OF OUR HOPES ON THIS SINGLE SUICIDAL PLAN
KNOW THAT A THOUSAND OTHER PLANS WERE TRIED AND FAILED
MILLIONS OF BRAVE AND HONORED SOULS DIED TRYING TO AVERT THIS DESPERATE, TERRIBLE SITUATION
KNOW THAT ENERGETIC AND TENACIOUS AS LIFE IS
IT HAS AN ANTITHESIS JUST AS POWERFUL
IT IS THAT THING THAT WE MUST OBLITERATE
This just sounds right to me. I'd definitely say people are on to something with this line of thinking.
Isn't that the exact form it was given to us in?
The point is that these 4 lines were accentuated by being removed from everything else. We already know that those are missing lines in the video, but we're taking them and adding them to the two other "important" lines.
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:52 am
DaRizat
Greenhorn
Joined: 23 Jun 2007 Posts: 8
IF YOU ARE THAT WITNESS, AND IT SEEMS THAT WE PINNED ALL OF OUR HOPES ON THIS SINGLE SUICIDAL PLAN
Doesnt the above sentence seem really wrong to you?
I mean, It would make way more sense to say
IF YOU ARE THAT WITNESS, KNOW THAT A THOUSAND OTHER PLANS WERE TRIED AND FAILED
So why did they put such a fragmented, wierd sentence together? The first thing I thought about was the possibliity of anagrams, but itd be pretty hard to put an anagram together out of that many letters. But that sentence seems very suspect to me.
Maybe we should just switch the orders of the sentences around. Something is fishy with that sentence.
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:51 pm
DiscipleN2k
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Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 113 Location: Oklahoma City
DaRizat wrote:
IF YOU ARE THAT WITNESS, AND IT SEEMS THAT WE PINNED ALL OF OUR HOPES ON THIS SINGLE SUICIDAL PLAN
Doesnt the above sentence seem really wrong to you?
Not really, although the phrasing is a bit harder to understand, it makes sense. What they're saying is if you are the witness mentioned in the previous line, and you're wondering why we've put all our hope in this one plan that may look like serious overkill, understand that all other options have been exhausted. Their way just takes up slightly less space
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:38 pm
eolith
Unfettered
Joined: 23 Jun 2007 Posts: 623
fyi, this was already assembled on the first day. "witness" is in both lines to clue us in to placing the two lines into the text where the {//} markers are placed. I don't think there's more to it than that. But I'll watch this thread to see if you guys come up with anything.
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:35 pm
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