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Other arguments are that I think there is a slight indentation as Ken Olson said Take a look at Smith's Black and white photoes--the indentation is not apparent. Also, zoom in on the HIGH RES unprocessed gymnastic character--you'll see that where the "indentation" is is very much lighter ...

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Last post I mentioned that the Black and White scans of Smith's photos are also very useful. They are black and white, but they are very high-res. When I run my sober-operator + viewing he darkest pixels, I get much the same result with either set of images: Screen Shot 2024-05-02 at 10.59.22 PM.png...

[simas] Thanks for compiling those, after a few days of this I know it’s hard work. I’m looking forward to some fun times analyzing them! Did you experiment around any more with digital signal processing techniques? For sure there is no such thing as being for sure, but it would really be nice to a...

There was already a "balance" in Christianity before Acts was written. Paul says the pillars (James, Peter and John) approved of his Gentile mission in Gal. 2:7-9: Acts was written by a later generation than Paul. There are echos of the fierce debates which Paul had with his opponents. Bu...

Man, this world we're living in is so much different from the one I was born into....

There is a very active facebook group dedicated to old greek cursive handwriing.....the theotokos is smiling on us.


https://www.facebook.com/groups/644593159775658/

Fellow questers for the historical (or hysterical) Carpocratians, it is striking to me how beautiful the reconstructed omicron is. It was drawn by my wife, who has no particular skills in calligraphy. I saw my wife while she was stroking it in---she just did one take, one circular swoosh, and out po...

Here's a question for Randy. If Acts is anti-Marcion, why would it suggest (according to your reading) that Simon Magus (the guy that anti-Marcionites say was the root of Marcionism) was a good guy? Brilliant!!!!! That's a great question. It puts real pressure on my position. Time to start waving m...

Ok, this is a head-to-head comparison: The gymnastic example vs a known iota. The known iota is the same one in the previous animation. 1. Initial screen overlays translucent versions of the letters which my wife inked, using the putative reconstructed paths asa guide. 2. Then there is a demo of how...

Ok, courtesy of my very patient wife......who has the mad art skills needed to produce this. She was able to simulate how a pen held at the scribe used would look when writing out the letters. This is a movie which illustrates why I think I can recover the paths that the scribe used to write the let...