Jack email - Do you need to understand the story to solve the clues?

[tootingjo]

I asked a few questions, Jack's responses are in bold.

1.There is so much debate about the capitalization of fish! You said the capital B in home of Brown made sense in that context. So, is it a brown trout or a Brown Trout?!

I think if you're interested in things like that as possibilities, you would need to analyze Forrest's writing to see if he would normally capitalize it or not

2.Do you think tackling hoB specifically would work as a good method of solving this?

I don't see anything wrong with trying to focus on a particular clue, but it's important to see the big picture at the same time and not try to work it out in a vacuum

3.Could the poem be solved by cracking particular location clues, all while totally bypassing the narrative you've spoken about that is part of the poem? Or do you need to understand the story to make the location clues work?

I don't see how they could. It's not a hodgepodge of different ideas like you could see in a scavenger hunt. It's a coherent narrative. You have to understand the overall story; how else would you be confident that's where he wanted to die?

[Star Shadow]

I remember skipping a couple periods in middle school?

[Cary_Galloway]

Honestly, what is Jack's purpose with all this?

I have no idea. NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS.
I think out of the 300,000+ searchers, 99% just want the solution. The game is over. No treasure is out there. No reason to put anymore work into it especially since we can never verify any solves because the chest is gone as well as the blaze.
All Jack is doing is trolling the community and making us sick of him.
He's been a troll all his life. Making fun of disabled people. Making fun of others. He can't stop being a troll. That is who he is.

[Presque vu]

Honestly, what is Jack's purpose with all this? If he is who he says he is and doesn't want to reveal the location then what is the point in him communicating with the community at all? Let's be real people. Everything he has said up until now has been useless. I've tried to keep an open mind but the more answers from Jack that I read the more irritated I become. He isn't doing anyone any favors by talking IMO because he doesn't have anything to say. Playing 20 questions with Jack is getting Old.

I have a question for you Jack, if someone found the chest before you did and decided to answer questions from the community, would you have found it helpful or would you have preferred that person keep quiet so as not to cloud your path and let you figure it out for yourself?

Yes he doesn't give much out but if it was Forrest giving out those little tidbits everyone would be slurping up every word and begging for more. I think Jack is playing Forrest or maybe the other way around.

[Cary_Galloway]

Yes he doesn't give much out but if it was Forrest giving out those little tidbits everyone would be slurping up every word and begging for more. I think Jack is playing Forrest or maybe the other way around.

Because when FF was giving tidbits out there was a chest FULL OF GOLD in the mountains.
Do you honestly not see the difference? Why beg like dogs to Jack? The contest is over. The chest is found and even the blaze is gone.

[Sal O'mander]

I kind of like the fact that Jack is being so incredibly evasive!
Every answer he gives adds to the plausibility of the proxy finder/solver hypothesis!
If he puts off selling the chest much longer I might become completely convinced that he is a fraud...

[BigOnus]

I get confused with it all, I mean think about it; I know he believes we understand what f said, but I am not sure we realize that what Jack may have been told is not what f meant! Jack may tell us f said what is, when it is not, or what is not, when it is, which could be false, while I say, what is that it is, and of what is not, when maybe it is not, yet could be true.

[Cary_Galloway]

Jack may tell us f said what is, when it is not, or what is not, when it is, which could be false, while I say, what is that it is, and of what is not, when maybe it is not, yet could be true.

Is everything okay? How many fingers am I holding up? Do you know where you are? Do you know what year it is?

[BigOnus]

Is everything okay? How many fingers am I holding up? Do you know where you are? Do you know what year it is?

Confusion is one of the few words I struggle to understand...

[Sal O'mander]

I get confused with it all, I mean think about it; I know he believes we understand what f said, but I am not sure we realize that what Jack may have been told is not what f meant! Jack may tell us f said what is, when it is not, or what is not, when it is, which could be false, while I say, what is that it is, and of what is not, when maybe it is not, yet could be true.

So what you're saying is that Jack must have known that he knew what Forrest knew but he he doesn't know that we don't know it.... And until we do know it we can't possibly know what he knew.... Does that sound about right?

[BigOnus]

So what you're saying is that Jack must have known that he knew what Forrest knew but he he doesn't know that we don't know it.... And until we do know it we can't possibly know what he knew.... Does that sound about right?

I don't know.

[Star Shadow]

Because when FF was giving tidbits out there was a chest FULL OF GOLD in the mountains.
Do you honestly not see the difference? Why beg like dogs to Jack? The contest is over. The chest is found and even the blaze is gone.

Maybe but when the fish are still rising and the sun still setting, there's always time for one more cast.

[Suzy]

Is everything okay? How many fingers am I holding up? Do you know where you are? Do you know what year it is?

Maybe Jack is a mirage or hollogram?

[Sal O'mander]

Maybe Jack is a mirage or hollogram?

That is utterly ridiculous!!!
He's obviously a highly advanced treasure finding animatronic!
I believe Disney might be involved....
Most likely one of the pirates of the Caribbean...

[Suzy]

That is utterly ridiculous!!!
He's obviously a highly advanced treasure finding animatronic!
I believe Disney might be involved....

Soon to be a new ride at Disneyland called, "Jack's Unbelievably Dizzying Treasure Ride".