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TEXT 45 on Little-boxes.net
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Pokpok1
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TEXT 45 on Little-boxes.net

Currently we have 4 accounts identified on the website

Phillip
Guest
Beth
Deleted

When you go the archive and you make a search by account, you find one document that has been made by "Deleted" ( 45 - Locusts).

Who is Deleted ?? and why he made only one text?

PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:42 am
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Pokpok1
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In the bible this Exodus N° 10.1.20 ... might help

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catherwood
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Re: TEXT 45 on Little-boxes.net

Pokpok1 wrote:
Currently we have 4 accounts identified on the website
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Who is Deleted ?? and why he made only one text?


'deleted' created two documents, #45 and #28.

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Pokpok1
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Document #28 is no longer in the archive !!


When you looking in the browse directory , locusts is the first in 2003. And there is no text number before 45

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Wix
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Vox Stellarum, as mentioned in the Paranormal Journal that just got released, is an astrological prediction almanack from 1701 (actually spans many years).

Author is Francis Moore. Dealt with constellations, astrology, birth years, etc.

I believe that the "deleted" archive number 28 may be an excerpt from it.

http://www.little-boxes.net/archives/KnowledgeBase/script_view_document.php?data_id=28

Discuss amongst yourselves.

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Wix
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Loose translation that we have (so far):

It is nothing. Also nothing pure, he loves seeing himself, the flap of a garment but, he follows or, not. Blacken but the infernal regions. Until pure love, sometimes he loves himself, guilty and the flap of a garment, [omare] as, indeed. Also not the Moores. [Morbi] (almost incomprehendable: molestie not being a plausible word) he wants a louse. Until Having been placed among the pure gods which [diam]. The Moorish shovel, [mi] as he will have [hendrerit] [laoreet], there was sometimes no liquid, not [laoreet] [nibh(this is not a word)] wisdom nor Moore. Sometimes to hang oneself, nothing but arrows' [imperdiet], indeed morally(fouly) arrows before, from the moral(foul) vestibule which is not pure. Also of hatred. Also flying arrows cover. But as moral(foul).

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Pokpok1
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I think there might be a link with the 9 plagues of Egypt.

Moses send the 9 plagues of egypt to free his people from pharao :

1 / Blood Water : Red Tides, Fresh Water ( 69)
2 / Rainning Frogs :Rainning Frogs ( 82)
3 / Gnats : Missing
4 / Dog flies (missing) or maybe linked with the flying cat (??)
5 / Cattle die in Rural Spain 63 / Cattle Plague
6/ Water Boiling : Missing
7 / Hail : Congo Hail 79
8 / Locusts : locusts 45
9 / Darkness : Power grid Failure 59


The following step is the death of firstborn child, but it is not considered as a plague.

Beth is also referring to the plagues in a mail to Phillip

A repeat of the Plagues? That just doesn't happen. Logic would almost have to dictate that it is nothing more than an elaborate hoax. Yet one that is so complex? That spans the world? I have been poring over images, articles, and emails and it just does not add up. Nothing adds up

The latin text might be in the bible, in the old testament. I go checking

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catherwood
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Forget about what the words of the latin say. Look for a code hidden there.

http://www.little-boxes.net/archives/KnowledgeBase/script_print_document.php?data_id=45
and
http://www.little-boxes.net/archives/KnowledgeBase/script_print_document.php?data_id=28
are a pair because they are both created by 'deleted' (as is seen on the Print display of each doc.)
[yes, you must be logged in to view these -- i use 'phillip'/'timaeus' regularly]

Read the last paragraph of doc#45:
"...to a depth of 2 to 3 inches..."
"...within an area roughly one square block..."

Count the number of words in the latin body of doc#28:
81
which can be put into a "one square block" of 9x9

Brainstorm what might be found "2 to 3 inches" -- or 2nd/3rd letter -- deep? Skip every 2 or 3 words and build a proper Latin sentance?

Is there any further hint to be gleaned from the "Summary 5" and "Anomaly 5" fields? Should "2 to 3" become 2+3 perhaps?

I've mentioned this in chat a few times, but no one has been inspired by it yet.

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Tonamel
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Well, I'm inspired Very Happy

I'll give it a look. I, too agree that we're not looking for a translation (at least, not directly.)

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Giskard
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Catherwood wrote:
Brainstorm what might be found "2 to 3 inches" -- or 2nd/3rd letter -- deep? Skip every 2 or 3 words and build a proper Latin sentance?

Is there any further hint to be gleaned from the "Summary 5" and "Anomaly 5" fields? Should "2 to 3" become 2+3 perhaps?


Very interesting Catherwood. I've tried to find a pattern in the text, for example by looking at every other 2 or 3 words, but it didn't turn anything up yet.

Looking at the Latin text though, there are a few odd words there. From what I remember of 6 years of Latin classes, the words 'nisl' and 'nibh' certainly don't exist, and I'm very suspicious of the words 'hendrerit' and 'laoreet'. My Latin dictionary (which also had all important names of figures from Roman and Biblical history) seems to confirm this.

NISL and NIBH seem especially suspicious though... I'm gonna try and work on this some more...

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Worker
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If you generate some Lorem Ipsum at www.lipsium.com, "nisl" and "nibh" are words that are generated.

Not to say that there isn't some hidden message in the piece of text though...

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arkzor
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strange

I don't know it it has been mentioned but the font on lipsum.com is the same as drleokane.com

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dragonfyre
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Just my lil two cents... That whole converted latin blurb sounds similar to "Random"... one of our hacker friends (.ypt I believe) Any sort of connection here, perhaps something real that connects the two groups together. I suppose this is a little far fetched, but wanted to see it out there

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WedgeGold
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Step

How bout this. Put the words in a 9x9 grid. 9 words on each line in order.

In stead of every two to 3 words, Start with the top right corner go over 2 words and down 3 OR over 3 or down 2. Like a Knight on a chess board.

Weeee!
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Marl64
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Re: Step

WedgeGold wrote:
In stead of every two to 3 words, Start with the top right corner go over 2 words and down 3 OR over 3 or down 2. Like a Knight on a chess board.


I bet you win a lot at chess don't you (with knight moves like that) Very Happy

But this did occur to me.

Picking say the 2nd letter from every third word wouldn't need the words to be arranged any differently from the way they are.

If the 9x9 Grid is relevant, there has to be vertical moves to justify it.
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