I do know that they denied having anything to do with the occult, and something like no being involved with Kabbalah
as such though it's useful as a tool. They've denied a few other things - I don't recall masons being in there but they may well be - there's just so many pages and emails now. Maybe I'll go through all the past communications and pull this stuff together - what they have to say about themselves.
Eri - there is that aye, I think maybe they did use 'brethren' as well.
I'm pretty convinced about the deliberate ommission thing - and they do speak of using '
scordatura' - which I take, in this non-musical context, to mean simply altering things from the norm to fit their purpose, which would include mispellings, words altered in quotes, ommitted words & letters etc. Similarly with words that have been capitalised or underlined etc, I reckon they convey an additional message. I've found other stuff through the pages, though I've not really posted much of it yet - the Gods know I've posted enough dumb stuff already so I'm holding off on that and a few other things for now. There's one example where there's misquoted words from the song 'The Boxer' followed by another misquote and put together the missing words form the phrase 'looking for bays' - but that's way back somewhere among the older pages. If you look at the Feb 5th announcement:
http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/texts/05-feb9.html
check out the underlined words - 'the ship' (in Greek), timetable, enforcement - then two partially underlined words 'plen' 'plen' which maybe some kind of code I can't figure out right now - but 'the ship, timetable, enforcement' - seems to be
something going on there.
Steve - that being able to edit other folk's clues did concern me. I reckon that it would be best just to let the duplications stay, a lot of it has additional details, peoples different viewpoints etc so it's not all just repetitions - if the site is wiki-ized then repetition should get less in the future anyway, as presumably we'll be able to see right away if someone else has already posted something. Also, we're all going to have a slightly different take on what is relevent and what isn't - that would depend a great deal on our own theories about the site. Myself, I really wouldn't want to start editing other people's posts, all I'd want to do would be to take out some of the really really dumb mistakes I've posted myself.