Lonelygirl15

[Killthesmiley]

[ignatzmouse]

[Luminous]

[chershaytoute]

Even though a lot of writers still use typewriters, it's not easy... My mother tried really hard to keep using one - it was hard to do the upkeep...they just don't make parts for the darned things anymore! She finally gave up, but she never did get the knack of computers. <chuckle>

And the newer ones, they might's well be computers - even the ones in the late 70's/early 80's were already getting there, with the font, the way they allowed for erasure, the memory, the way they print out, etc...

If you didn't grow up using a typewriter and move to a computer, it's a whole different way of thinking, believe me! Just one concept to think of: wrap your mind around the idea of having to be aware of when you come to the end of the line so you can hit the RETURN key (where your ENTER key is now), because your typewriter wouldn't know to go to the next line for you... <chuckle> (before that pick up your right hand, and grab and little bar that's about 9" up and P-U-L-L halfway across the keyboard to get that sucker to move back over...but that's a whole 'nother kettle o' fish <snicker>)

Anyway, that document, to the eye of one who did way too much office work on way too many old typewriters, seems to have been made on a typewriter (Creators, ya done good work there! <g>). And I'm thinking an earlier one. Which, to me, negates the DLL, GTK, DMA theory... We hadn't even heard of computers then. Or videos. Or CDs. Heck, at that point, we were just getting into tape decks in cars (and I'm not talking about cassettes necessarily! )

(and yes, we DID use chisels in school )

[janesalteredstates]

[ignatzmouse]

[Killthesmiley]

[Mvidrine]

Ok well here's my two cents, as for the title of the article, it could mean several things. It could refer to the order functioning within a current government, such as the United States, though I find this unlikely. It could also seem to refer to the order functioning within the transnational system, such as the UN, the WTO ect. Or the order could be part of some super secret international shadow government, like the illuminati. It does seem to suggest that the order is part of a larger group. Though we won't know more until we see more of what is written. One final thought on the title. Post civil war the KKK was refered to as the "Invisible Empire" For its ability to spread its form of "justice" across the south. They were able to enforce their own laws, and sometimes even conduct kangeroo trials of people they opposed all under the nose of the Federal Authorities. I think they might be using the word empire to refer to the order in the same way the KKK used the word Empire to refer to themselves.

As for the groups of three letters at the bottom of the page I think we do not have enough information to figure out their meanings. This is one of the things that is frustraiting me with the way the ARG is being incorperated into the storyline. They give the Oppers a file which you guys decode and it has the symbols. You guys looked from every which way at them, but without any extra information from Op or Tach or Brother or somebody there is no way of knowing if we discovered the correct idea. Instead we sit here and wait till the brat pack takes credit for something that was most likely said 50 times on these forums. And now we have been given another bit of information with no way to solve it. What would be nice is if they gave us a bit more, without the answer. Also if we could hear from Tach or Oppy. That would be nice

Personally I wish they told us more about what was inside the paper. And as for my theory on the groups of three letters, I think they are just initials of people who agree with Jonas's dad, it might be psuedonyms, but I think it reprecents people who agree with him. Occum's razor, sometimes the simplest answer is the best.

[janesalteredstates]

[bethy]

For me...I'm leaning not to who those initials refer to but the number of them.

Remember, in the Semiotics file from Tachyon:

[raigne]

[bethy]

I was thinking more that "Mom and Dad" is a group or organization of sorts...rather than specific people.

[cynicar]

We have to remember that Tach seems to have been abandoned by Mom and Dad, so it's possible that even if these symbols once belonged to the group that Tach was apart of, there's very good chance that she might not know what they mean.

Didn't Daniel also say something about how the symbol represents textual criticism and "correction"? If so, it makes me wonder if the Foundation isn't just the Lutheran to the Order's Catholic. A related religious order thats broken off due to differences in theological interpretations.

[freakish]

maybe the manuscript was just sent to jonas' father to correct it..

[Killthesmiley]