Ok I just had an idea, I'm not sure if it's a good one, you'll be the judge.
It could be enlightening to revisit the most important podesta emails and dissect them. Perhaps we will discover new things or arrive at a different conclusion.
On another post, a user expressed his opinion on email #30613. According to this user, that particular email is not so significant because it could be that they are really talking about food.
excerpt from the email:
I think you should give notice when changing strategies which have been
long in place. I immediately realized something was different by the shape
of the box and I contemplated who would be sending me something in the
square shaped box. Lo and behold, instead of pasta and wonderful sauces, it
was a lovely, tempting assortment of cheeses, Yummy. I am awaiting the
return of my children and grandchildren from their holiday travels so that
we can demolish them.
Thank you so much. I hope you and your gang are well.
I miss you both
Best wishes fro a merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Herb
Ps. Do you think I’ll do better playing dominos on cheese than on pasta?
Link to email #30613
My own take: I cannot for the life of me conceive that they could be talking about real cheese here.
Let's break it down:
I think you should give notice when changing strategies which have been long in place.I immediately realized something was different by the shape of the box and I contemplated who would be sending me something in the square shaped box.
We can learn from the very first sentence that there is a "strategy" which have been in place for a long time... and the 2nd sentence tells us that this strategy concerns somehow a square shaped box. It is fair to assume that Mary and John send "boxes" to one or several recipients in a recurring manner.
Lo and behold, instead of pasta and wonderful sauces, it
was a lovely, tempting assortment of cheeses, Yummy.
It gets really bizzare from here. What John and Mary send in a recurring manner to at least one person are pasta and sauces. Also, does it make sense to use the term "strategy" when referring to the delivery of food?
Anyway, the change in strategy appears to be that instead of delivering pasta and sauce as usual, this time John and Mary sent an assortment of cheeses.
Oh and the use of the words "lovely" and "tempting" for describing cheese is kind of suspicious.
I am awaiting the
return of my children and grandchildren from their holiday travels so that
we can demolish them.
To me this is the most puzzling part of the email. It's the part that makes me think that maybe, just maybe, they are talking about real food and nothing else.
So the person in the email awaits the return of his children and grandchildren to "demolish" the assortment of cheeses together. Wow, if it's real food, it's fine. If it's something else (like: pictures/videos that pedophiles like to consume), this is completely insane and sick.
Ps. Do you think I’ll do better playing dominos on cheese than on pasta?
There you go. The line that makes it crystal clear that they are talking in code. This sentence makes no sense at all if there are no hidden meaning. No one plays dominos on food. Hell, who plays dominos anyway? And why would "John and Mary" care about that?
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AreWeSure ago
Hi, this is an example of a logical fallacy called argument from incredulity.
You are building an argument based on a conversation from people you've never met and don't know how they normally speak.
AreWeSure ago
For example, you might find it suspicious for someone to describe cheese as "lovely and tempting." But it might be true that people do.
People describe food all the time as tempting, especially if they are prone to gaining weight. https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/religion-yield_to_temptation-sacrifices-temptations-tempt-tempted-mban4298_low.jpg
AreWeSure ago
Also I think you're missing an important clue in the email. It's Christmas time. The gifts they give out to many people are Christmas gifts. They are recurring because they give them out every year. I have a "strategy" at Christmas time for my sister who is hard to shop for. I pick a dollar amount and then buy her that much wine. Some years it's 4 bottles, some years, it's six. I've probably done this 15 years in a row.
shillcrusher13 ago
You must be really good at playing dominos on pasta.