Believing you know where a treasure is, is like a honeymoon. Men marry with great expectations of a marital paradise, right? If you didn't think so, you wouldn't get married in the first place. Soon, harsh reality sets in.
There are many stories on T-net of men who have a great idea where a large treasure might be located. They all firmly believe it, just as I sincerely believed the treasure of an Emperor is located a short distance from my home.
But, always the belief is based on a suspension of reality in some area. For example, many people think the treasure of Moctezuma is located somewhere in Utah; Arizona; or New Mexico... Really, that is a good place to look. Large areas to explore with few restrictions. Plenty of fresh air and good exercise.
To believe it's there, they must simply overlook the impossibility that the Aztecs would ever have walked for months to hide a large treasure in a place where they could never retrieve it. Still, it is a good place to look. And since there is no chance of finding it anywhere, anyway why not look there? Spending a week wandering around the boonies is good for you.
In my case, I also overlooked reality. There is a tendency to exaggerate the positive and ignore the negatives.
The mental and emotional exercise recommended in a PM woke me to harsh reality. Of the 'facts' I based my theory on the statements of a man who would never take anything by force if he could take it by lies and deceit. (Not that he waited long before using force.) Yet, I believed his statement of nearly 20 tons of treasure and most of it recovered by Aztecs after falling into the lake.
Most of my theory was excellent, though it was based on lies by Cortes, therefore doomed in the end.
But, there were still flaws. For example, I assumed the uncles were resistant because they knew the treasure was there. Once I contemplated people coming here actually looking for it, I realized they are sick and tired after 70+ years (just their own lifetimes) of having people come around, snooping and asking permission to dig. PLUS THEY DON'T WANT THEIR CORN CRIB BLOWN UP BY RICH KIDS FROM UK!!!
I realized this after realizing I didn't want a bunch of noisy, obnoxious tourists ramming around on my private property, to get there. I had suspended the reality of having strangers invade your property all the time when I attributed the uncles' resistance to proof the treasure was there. Dumb!
So, yeah, I got bit by the gold bug, just as the guys looking in the USA are.
I really was convinced the treasure was there. Now, I see I was deluding myself, just because I wanted it to be there, even knowing I could never see it. It made me feel good to think there was an incredible treasure not far from my house. Plus I like solving mysteries.
The person who wrote the PM said he actually thought my theory made a lot more sense than any other theory he has seen. (It should, it took me thirty years to develop.) But, as an isolated observer he was able to see the flaws that I was overlooking. Thanks, guy, for setting me straight. You only cost me 500,000,000 dollars.
Anyway, if you find out where I am, and you must, pay the tourist committee their blood money. There are other things to see in the area. Just don't come to my house by yourself and start banging on my door without first being invited or escorted properly as tourists should be in isolated places in Mexico.
I think I am going to recommend a mandatory 'tip' for tourists touring the ruins. It is private property. The committee can decide if that makes sense. Not a big tip.
Did you ever get involved in something, hoping it fails? I can live here forever without tourist traffic. At the same time, if my neighbors can benefit from tourists, I have no right to stand in their way.
There are many stories on T-net of men who have a great idea where a large treasure might be located. They all firmly believe it, just as I sincerely believed the treasure of an Emperor is located a short distance from my home.
But, always the belief is based on a suspension of reality in some area. For example, many people think the treasure of Moctezuma is located somewhere in Utah; Arizona; or New Mexico... Really, that is a good place to look. Large areas to explore with few restrictions. Plenty of fresh air and good exercise.
To believe it's there, they must simply overlook the impossibility that the Aztecs would ever have walked for months to hide a large treasure in a place where they could never retrieve it. Still, it is a good place to look. And since there is no chance of finding it anywhere, anyway why not look there? Spending a week wandering around the boonies is good for you.
In my case, I also overlooked reality. There is a tendency to exaggerate the positive and ignore the negatives.
The mental and emotional exercise recommended in a PM woke me to harsh reality. Of the 'facts' I based my theory on the statements of a man who would never take anything by force if he could take it by lies and deceit. (Not that he waited long before using force.) Yet, I believed his statement of nearly 20 tons of treasure and most of it recovered by Aztecs after falling into the lake.
Most of my theory was excellent, though it was based on lies by Cortes, therefore doomed in the end.
But, there were still flaws. For example, I assumed the uncles were resistant because they knew the treasure was there. Once I contemplated people coming here actually looking for it, I realized they are sick and tired after 70+ years (just their own lifetimes) of having people come around, snooping and asking permission to dig. PLUS THEY DON'T WANT THEIR CORN CRIB BLOWN UP BY RICH KIDS FROM UK!!!
I realized this after realizing I didn't want a bunch of noisy, obnoxious tourists ramming around on my private property, to get there. I had suspended the reality of having strangers invade your property all the time when I attributed the uncles' resistance to proof the treasure was there. Dumb!
So, yeah, I got bit by the gold bug, just as the guys looking in the USA are.
I really was convinced the treasure was there. Now, I see I was deluding myself, just because I wanted it to be there, even knowing I could never see it. It made me feel good to think there was an incredible treasure not far from my house. Plus I like solving mysteries.
The person who wrote the PM said he actually thought my theory made a lot more sense than any other theory he has seen. (It should, it took me thirty years to develop.) But, as an isolated observer he was able to see the flaws that I was overlooking. Thanks, guy, for setting me straight. You only cost me 500,000,000 dollars.
Anyway, if you find out where I am, and you must, pay the tourist committee their blood money. There are other things to see in the area. Just don't come to my house by yourself and start banging on my door without first being invited or escorted properly as tourists should be in isolated places in Mexico.
I think I am going to recommend a mandatory 'tip' for tourists touring the ruins. It is private property. The committee can decide if that makes sense. Not a big tip.
Did you ever get involved in something, hoping it fails? I can live here forever without tourist traffic. At the same time, if my neighbors can benefit from tourists, I have no right to stand in their way.