Hunch- I don’t mean to speak out of turn here. Craftsman 68514 Owners Manual. but many people have used a kind of numerology method to solve the poem. It involves counting letters of the alphabet and assigning them numbers. About two years ago it was a popular approach to solving the poem. If you are using that approach every letter is importantin fact essential. In my little mind when Forrest made his statement about typos and suggested it did not matter whether the “s” was there or not it put the squash on using a solution that counted letters in the poemothers disagree.

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I don’t know that this is why nardin feels the “s” is important. I am simply pointing out one reason the “s” could be important. Hello Dal, hunch here. And thanks to Decall. I agree with you two, i just like to read others thoughts on what FF is tryin to say. To me, when he says answers with the s it means there’s more than one answer to his own questionSo why is it that I must go and leave my trove for all to seek? He’s said because he wants families to get back to nature.

He’s said he wants others to experience the thrill of the chase. And, many other reasons for leaving the trove.

There may be as many answers to this question as there are places the poem has led searchers. Answer(s) works for me either way. Martin, author of Game of Thrones (who lives in Santa Fe) said: “I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house.

They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they’re going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there’s going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if they planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don’t know how many branches it’s going to have, they find out as it grows. And I’m much more a gardener than an architect.” ― George R.R.

I think that Forrest’s statement that an architect wrote the poem is a very logical statement. Given the above concept of gardeners vs architects it is clear that Forrest planned the poem from the start.after all.he knew he was creating a pathway that would lead folks to a particular place. He knew where he wanted people to start and he knew where he wanted people to end. He also knew why he wanted them to follow this pathSo the plot was establishedthe path was established long before he ever wrote the poem.

Forrest wasn’t guessing about where people would gohe already knew that.the task was to get folks from point A to point B in an interesting way. Here is one way of applying beginning to completion poem interpretation incorporating architectural components: **ALL FICTITIOUS for sake of discussion** TTOTC poem has 6 stanzas and 24 lines 1. Forrest selected his location in Wyoming – it’s near Forest Service road 24 2. He writes the poem with 24 lines. Hidden in the poem are the words ‘twenty four’ which confirm location.

He writes the book with 24 chapters which hint at 24 clues in the poem 5. In chapter 24 he writes about pioneers which confirms pioneer canyon in Wyoming near FS road 24 6. 24 gold nuggets of truth in the text are advice from his father 7. He placed 24 gold nuggets in the chest 8. The best time of the year to search for TC is after 6/24 9. His sister June’s birthday was 6/24.

Forrest is an organized person. You’ve seen his closet, his bath, his office. My guess is that his gallery and the staff that worked there were also very organized. He undoubtedly had a system and expected staff to follow it. That’s not to say that there wasn’t room for fun and adventure and spontaneity but the business of running the gallery would have been well planned and thought out by Forrest. He had a system.

In my opinion the poem is the same. It is a plan that will get someone from point A to point B. Forrest knows where both those points are located. We do not, and just as Forrest has said, in so many words, we cannot possibly follow the poem to get to point B unless we start at point A. Starting anywhere else will not get us to point B. Further, all the steps in between must also be followed accurately. Otherwise we end up at point F.

Like an architect’s plan, you will not end up with the house that is planned unless you follow all the directions in the proper order. It has been said many times that the most important part of building a house is starting with a good foundation. So, the most important step in the poem is to figure out where point A is located.

Start at the beginning. I think another analogy for the poem is that it’s like a recipe.

A chef wrote that poem. We know we want a treasure chest cake at the end.

To get there you have to follow the recipe precisely. We have a list of ingredients and we have the directions. Start at the beginning and add the other ingredients in the correct sequence and we will end up with a treasure chest cake. Screw it up and you end up with cow pies. I guess I like the architect analogy better than the chef analogy. Joyce- If you are having trouble with the “15 years” statement then I think you are thinking about it too hard I have a house that was built in 1905. I bought it 25 years ago.

I started working on it the day I moved in. I am still working on it today. I would commonly say that I have been working on my house for 25 years. But that doesn’t mean that every day.or even every month of those 25 years I have worked on the house. What it means is that I started 25 years ago and have not finished it. It does not mean that the only thing I’ve done over the past 25 years is work on this house. Some years I may not have worked on it at all.

To me that statement simply means that from the time he started working on the poem until he finished it was 15 yearsseems simple to me. Sometimes I think people look for the most difficult solutions to problems. Dal, Whole heartily agree with both analogies. We have the poem, it holds the directions to build from.it holds the ingredients to usewe are told to follow the instruction precisely. With that said, we still need to know what a 2×4 is to a 2×6 or olive oil to vegetable oil. If not we will end up with the desired goal.

So, what is it we are making or building? I know most believe there are physical locations that must be traveled, But it could be the poem is only a set of instruction that lead to one physical spot or the final produce, if you will. The “start at the beginning” may just be, Start with understanding what a 2×4 and olive oil are.

Just seeing the cake on the table from a different angle. Dal, I completely agree with your assessment of Forrest. Everything about him seems to shout “organization”. (good trait for an archaeologist) Re: the picture of his closetGiven his penchant for organization, and his architectural abilities, why would there be two pairs of shoes on the bench behind him, rather than being placed in the obviously well-organized shoe rack??

Nothing else is out of place. What does that say? (picky,picky, I know.) I’ll probably get skinned for this, but there appears to be a picture in a picture!! 🙂 Thanks for hosting and for all you and goofy do!!!

Spallies, loco -I noticed and commented that there were 9 pair of shoes on the rack, thinking it was a reference to nine clues. But in hindsight, I truly believe Mr. Fenn was simply letting us inside his life, showing us he’s not perfect or a hero. I really like his relaxed smile on the adjacent photo with the blue jeans.

I’ll bet he’s a regular, really nice guy and tired of being Mr. The biggest oddity to me is why he’s not in the larger recliner with his feet up.

Actually, I would trade in future looking just to be his friend. Getting tired of the whole clue solving thing myself. @42: Yes the 9 pair were obvious, as well as what they represent. What I am curious about is what the resulting configuration of the remaining shoes depicts.(it is something that, while not central, plays prominently in a solution I am looking. I believe he was drawing attention to that by allowing the other shoes to be seen in the picture. As for as the chair: mainly I think he was reinforcing what the configuration depicts and secondly, force of habit.

That is the chair he sits in daily to put on and remove his shoes.The recliner was brought in strictly for the picture. IMO Thank you for your response, 42. And I am sorry you are tired of the clue solving. Stick Ranger Hacked Download here. I thought that was what the blog was about??loco. I recently decided to try the theory that no line should be ignored, in the poem. I thought, what if I am missing something?

And, since he took so long to write it with such skill and care, every word could have an alternative meaning than what we think it means. I have a lot of respect for the poem, and like everyone else, I feel like I am figuring it out. I treat every word with care, and act as if it is the most important word in the poem. If you built a house, and just one beam was missing, the entire thing could fall down. One misplaced plumbing pipe could mean the difference between your toilet being in the bathroom, or in the bedroom. So, using Dal’s house analogy, every word must be treated as precisely as each 2×4 of wood.

Every beam, electrical wire, wall, plumbing fixture, door, and window must be placed exactly so. An architect would not put unnecessary walls up in a house, and I don’t believe Forrest put any unnecessary words in his poem. To me all of the mysticism and deep meaning attributed to the poem is an example of the human condition. I have noticed and agree with others who have written that whenever we humans are confronted with things we cannot explain, we generally attribute those things to “magic”. Religion is a pretty good example. We started out asking two basic questionsthe same two questions every 8 year old struggles with: 1.

Why are we here? Why do we die?

The clues to the answers for those questions are all around us. But they are very hard to accept. We like to think humans are more important than a walnut or a horse fly. So our beginnings and ends must also be more important. There must be a god or gods. There must be a heavenor reincarnation or eternal life or whateverand the next thing you know we are sacrificing goats, blessing water and swallowing the blood and body of Christ.

I think the solutions to the poem for some are a great deal like this. If we cannot figure it out, it must be magic. So we begin looking at flutterbies and rainbows and covering up Philadelphia with a thumb, as signssymbology. Humans are good at this.

We have been taught to do this by our god-fearing folks and other influences since we were born. It is natural for us But in my humble opinion this is not how the poem was designed. Forrest did not say the poem was designed by a magician or a by the hand of god. He told us that an architect wrote it. A very real occupation. An architect starts out with nothing more than an idea and in the end has created a useful building for humans to occupy.

Dal, The circle of life begins with the child and ends with an adult. Why are we here? Because we didn’t ask to be. It was decided for us. Why do we die? To keep the circle of life going. Life is the empirical “engine”.

It must be refueled before it dies. Do we remember the day we were born? Of course not. Will we remember the day we die? The “white light” at the end of the tunnel, is nothing more than a spark in the engine. As far as architect is concerned, IMPO, He was an architect in putting together the Thrill of the Chase. The poem was crafted for the Chase itself.

Dal & German, I appreciate your always well spoken logic and respect your personally held beliefs. Like you I believe Forrest designed TTOTC for the chase itself. That said, what’s missing from your discussion above are references to Forrest stating in public interviews that he considers himself a very spiritual person; and in the memoirs that he rebelled against the idea that his life ended with physical death. Those statements logically lead me to the conclusion that Forrest either believes in or hopes his spirit will live on past physical death. “IF” that is the case, imo his solve and hiding place could reflect the spiritualism Forrest adheres to and could be more complex than following point A to point B.

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