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[Puzzle] Against The Will Of God
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SarahKiddo
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 		Shocked why why why is there not a jawdropping emoticon?

Kelis, is that a solve, or the position of the words in the speach?

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SarahKiddo wrote:
Shocked why why why is there not a jawdropping emoticon?

Kelis, is that a solve, or the position of the words in the speach?


That is the the words that corespond to the numbers ie 205 403 etc.. still look a little jumbled.
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 		On a completely different note:
Why would they use
http://againstthewillofgod.com/gainsay/rainbow.jpg
and
http://againstthewillofgod.com/einstein/rainbow.jpg
when the image is identical? (I checked the binaries, they are identical)

And why did they use a css stylesheet on this page and none of the others?

And why is the background here #121212 while it is #000 on the other pages?

Sorry to provide more questions than answers this time Crying or Very sad

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Kelis wrote:


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when ridicule the is your sorry you coming medallion those i a should moved what cause i have been when general


Confused


My guess is that we have to reorder the words to form a phrase.

Oh wait.
Googling "ridicule+medallion+general+sorry+ridicule" some interesting results come out:
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the words are part of a famous speech Gen. Mac Arthur delivered, known as the "Duty, Honor, Country" speech, or the Thayer Award Speech. It was his farewell speech to West Point. Obviously related to the image.


Now let's look for a word to put in the web address.

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Nadif wrote:

Googling "ridicule+medallion+general+sorry+ridicule" some interesting results come out:
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the words are part of a famous speech Gen. Mac Arthur delivered, known as the "Duty, Honor, Country" speech, or the Thayer Award Speech. It was his farewell speech to West Point. Obviously related to the image.



Nadif, that's the text that was used to get the words from in the first place. Of course they're all in there. Wink

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 		Ouch. Trout (trout self).
I've been out all day and found a lot of solved stuff, sorry if I missed something. In fact, I don't think that the way we found the words was explained in any post...


edit: never mind, I found the post now. That's what happens when you can't follow the events during the day and jump into the game late at night. Or when you're simply an asshole. One more trout for me.

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 		Nadif, the way it works it you look at a selected text (in this case, the speech) and count off words. The first word happens to be "General" so "1" in the code will be "General".

Kelis, your counting seems to be off because you included the words "Thayer Award" which are an addition to explain the General's comment. They aren't actually in the speech.

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Nadif wrote:

Googling "ridicule+medallion+general+sorry+ridicule" some interesting results come out:


Did the same thing, dude. No shame. Gotta be honest. I think we're barking up the wrong tree here.
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I guess we all sometimes just work in automatic pilot.
"see odd words" => "google odd words"
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 		Kender wrote:
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And why is the background here #121212 while it is #000 on the other pages?


Hmmm... 12 12 12, half of 12 is six so could this be a reference to 666, the mark of the beast?[/b]

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jbd wrote:
Kelis, your counting seems to be off because you included the words "Thayer Award" which are an addition to explain the General's comment. They aren't actually in the speech.


No I didn't. Count them yourself then. Evil or Very Mad


And don't forget to close the space between prof ession in that next line.

And, to quote from that speech:
Quote:
master yourself before you seek to master others

Quote:
some others of an entirely different character will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.

Step off! Evil or Very Mad
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jbd wrote:
Kelis, your counting seems to be off because you included the words "Thayer Award" which are an addition to explain the General's comment. They aren't actually in the speech.


No I didn't. Count them yourself then. Evil or Very Mad


Hey, no need to get testy. I checked the first word and it was two off from yours and I noticed if you added those words it would go back. That seemed to work for a couple others so I thought that could be why it wasn't making sense yet.

ARGs make people tense. Relax. I wasn't disparaging your ability or anything.

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 		Looks like I had a mistake in my version anyway. But this one works even less:

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courage but of is build am what coming of of I a I moved be little I have been courage general


I seem to have one less word early on.

Clipping some of the intro gets:

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seems before the a as will will people is descent where so ideal I your unhappily been cannot moved seems as


Clipping some more of the intro gets:

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ridicule of story be before the say of when fail tribute moral tell symbolize an character well and this ridicule no


Anyhow, I attached the version I'm using broken up into lines.

The original I used is at http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/douglasmacarthurthayeraward.html
split_Version.txt
Description  Speech split up into lines
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jbd
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 		There's an interesting discussion of the accuracy of the text here.

Hard to say which version the ARG makers used, though.

Also, one more attempt:
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all never what all and as unhappily code be with tribute great what to that slogan well culture this all no


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 		I just feel like we're going in the wrgon direction here... how manay of the clues before had anything to do with the clue before them?

Actually, I think chippy might be onto something. If it isn't some mathematical translation, it might have something to do with Vatican 2.

Why not take a suggestion from a mysterious guest....?

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