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Weekly Words from Forrest Fenn

Weekly Words for March 4th, 2016, are as follows:

*After reading HOD I am prompted to ask, have you considered the “what ifs?”

(I should note: these weekly words were sent to me recently to use for today)

 

Best of luck with The Thrill of the Chase and all that you seek!

 

Other Links of Interest:

Forrest Fenn Treasure Facts

The Dunlap Broadsides of the Declaration of Independence: Lost Treasures

The Mysterious Unsolved Code of Kryptos

 

 

 

84 Comments

    1. Almost missed that … good one, Forrest … March 4, a hodi ( but is there a difference ? ). Reminds me of the joke about the chicken tender making a bold approach. As a kid, I took turns with my brother, going into the basement and emptying the ash bucket under the furnace. But, my upstairs room was still cold.
      .

      astree

  2. I find these words especially interesting…… I will never tire of The Thrill of the Chase…… isn’t it awesome!?

    Thanks Forrest for sharing them with us….and of course all who visit here too. It’s such fun…..

    Jenny Kile

    1. Hello Jenny,
      Would it be too much to ask on what day or how recently these words were sent? Thank you for your site I enjoy it immensely, not only TTOTC info but also the other interesting article’s. The coin collectable error coin especially. I don’t like carrying change so I throw all of mine in a bucket, then once a year I go through all of it. I find a couple of keepers every time and just like searching for arrowheads after you find a few they become easier to find.
      jl

      JL

  12. What if… the blogs really are only good for entertainment; the HOD is one of the blogs. What if people are using ideas from the blogs for WWWH and their other clues for solutions… What if you thought that the entertainment would somehow give you the correct solution to the poem?

    What if searchers weren’t so over-confident and deluded in their solutions where so many think they are going to go pick up the chest as the warmer months arrive?

    The what if game can be anything you want if you use your imagination… 🙂

    JCM

    2. Ha ha, I think you’re right too, Ramona. This is going to take some working out. “Ifs” are conditional statements, and they’re all over the place at Dal’s blog. There’s even two in the poem itself on the home page. “What” ifs, indeed?

      Jeremy P.

  18. Like Forrest Gump’s ‘Life is like a box of chocolates’…you never know what “words” you’ll get on Fridays.

    The word “considered”…if being used as “having thought carefully before making a decision or before being drawn toward a course of action”…Makes me wonder if, rather than looking for either a Yes or No answer, Forrest is wondering if someone is thinking many moves ahead (like in playing chess).

    Thought provoking to say the least!

    Ellen

  20. What if fenn does not want his bracelet back? Honestly I think he put the bracelet in as a ploy to get the finder to reveal themselves. A certain way to put a hook in that person. A fishy fishing method. If he was serious he’d put up an offer for all the blogs to see instead of hiding in a dark corner. Something “serious” and “official”

    Aplomb

    1. Hello, Aplomb. I for one like the mystery surrounding The Chase. I find it apeeling that not every banana is in clear view all the time. The fact that the true value of the chest is (intentionally…by Forrest) not known gives each person the opportunity to decide for himself or herself what it might be worth to them …and how much time and money they are willing to devote to this Endeavour.

      https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/multimedia/gallery/2011-05-16-9.html

      Don’t get me wrong…the chest is clearly VERY valuable from what we already know.

      And to what length is someone willing to go to get it? Each person must come to their own conclusions and discover their own motivations.

      I also like the mystery surrounding the bracelet. If I was lucky enough to be holding the bracelet in my hand…or, better yet, wearing it on my wrist…I’d be happy to just trade the bracelet for a swift kick in the ass. 🙂 You won’t catch me crying about THAT! YouknowhatImean?

      Thank You Forrest and Jenny…and for the break in “protocol”. 🙂

      JC1117

  23. There are too many “What ifs” to consider to pinpoint exactly what he’s getting at… As you can see from the comments above. Either he’s talking to someone specifically by using the word “you” (singular) or he’s talking to us as a group. It’s hard to tell. It sounds like maybe something was said by someone on HOD in the past few days and he’s sending that person a message or some advice.

    WiseOne

    1. Hello, WiseOne, I’d like to think he’s referring to my La Caja Pueblo search story part 3 that was posted on hoD in January. I don’t think he is telling me specifically if I considered the “what ifs” in my story (I mentioned several what ifs near the end of it)…I think he is talking to all you searchers as a group. I think he is referring to Digging Gypsy’s assumption that the drawing on page 99 of TTOTC was drawn by him and is the treasure map….in my opinion.

      cynthia

      1. Hi Cynthia 🙂 You could be right I suppose… But if your La Caja story with the “what ifs” was from back in January (1/10), why would Forrest wait until now to all of a sudden (Wednesday) give Jenny these new words to post here today? That doesn’t make sense to me. Can you explain?
        Jenny states above: (I should note: these weekly words were sent to me recently to use for today)

        WiseOne

        1. Wise, I know…it seems like “something” or “someone” prompted him recently to send these words to Jenny. My thoughts are that he knows some of us are already searching again, at least in NM. Until a week or so ago, everything was about searching for Randy. I searched for Fenn’s treasure last Friday and encountered a disturbing situation. I sent him an email explaining. Another searcher I met at the book signing was here a week prior searching…so maybe ff just decided that if he wanted to release the “treasure map” “hint”, it was time. But this is all IMO, and I am probably totally off base.

          cynthia

  24. Mark,
    Forrest has said there’s something in the chest he wont talk about. Meant just for the finder ,just a guess here but maybe an IOU or a check . Or maybe a title that’s not signed. Something other than the bracelet.He has said a few times he want’s his bracelet back.

    Lisa

  27. So yes, I don’t think this refers to home of Dal. Even though it has been called by many names. Just don’t ever recall hearing those exact words, but it would be in spirit. Only with more in-depth understanding might we see the connection between people, places, and things and even puzzles read. 

    astree

    1. Hello astree , I ‘m just getting started on my “Chase” so still gathering all the info I can wherever I can and that story on Dal’s site “reasonable doubt” MAN! I’m not an emotional type “Boohoo” person H**Y S***!!! the keys are hard to see through the tears rite now. The more info gathered the more I’m sadden by his story

      oneway

      1. I mean after all this story is about a man that finds out his life has an expiration date and that date is fast approaching. I could just see him struggling to accomplish this amazing feat. The pride he must have felt at the completion of the deed but then I see how much pain he is enduring “coughing up blood” and it saddens me to read such things. Most are just looking for the Chest and not thinking what that Chest represents, it represents a mans death and the pain he must go thru. It just makes me want to give Forrest a hug and tell him everything is going to be alright.

        literaly

        1. Maybe this is so touching to me because at the ago of 42 I had “it wasn’t my choice” to watch my Father die slowly in a ICU room of cancer. Over a 4 week period he would drift in and out of reality “some drug induced some not” . As I sat night after night thinking of ALL the memories we shared , sometimes he’d come out of the haze and with a tear in is eye say “take me home, I want to go home” I’d gently stroke his head and kiss his forhead and tell him I can’t (I wish I could go back and change that answer). One week before he passed my wife decided she didn’t want to be a mother nor a wife anymore. These are memories that play over and over in mind everyday, it is one of those “Defining moments of ones life”

          literaly

  30. A Public Safety Interpretation:

    Looking over Dal’s blog there are a lot of folks saying that are already searching, or are planning to search soon. This comment from Forrest could simply be a statement about considering the “what ifs” of not waiting until Spring or Summer since there are still harsh conditions in the Rockies.

    Safety first.

    Jeremy P.

    1. It is my belief that someone has solved the poem and HOD is FF’s way of giving directions once you have found the blaze. But what do I know.

      What if the weather is breaking sooner then expected?
      You would need a motorcycle, 4 wheeler, bicycle and you have a 35 mile drive. Cant get there by car right now. Don’t get stuck out there at night because you will get soaked to the bone when you retrieve the chest.

      ” Netzach and Hod are likened to the two feet of a person i.e. the right and left foot. The feet are usually only the means for a person’s activity. While the hands are the main instrument of action, the feet help bring a person to the place where he wishes to execute that action.”

      ” have you considered the “what ifs?””

      I have considered as many as I have been able to think of at this point. But the most important is “what if there are no issues” I hope I quoted you correctly Forrest. I have since found there are no issues. You have a very good lawyer.

      Chris

            1. Chris,
              ok, I’m now following you. This is very complex and interesting, right up FF’s alley. There is a lot of good stuff in here that applies even more to my scenario.
              Thank you, I would have never made this connection.
              jl

              j

          2. Netzach and Hod are likened to the two feet of a person. The feet help bring a person to the place where he wishes to execute that action.

            To the PLACE. The Blaze. Execute what action? Finding the chest. Down and left of the blaze.

            chris

  36. Last night,while I lay thinking here,some “what ifs ” crawled inside my ear and pranced and partied all night long and sang their same old ” what if” song:
    What if they,ve closed the swimming pool?
    What if I start to cry?
    What if green hair grows on my “chest”?
    What if I get sick and die?
    What if a bolt of lightning strikes me?
    What if the fish don’t bite?
    What if the wind tears up my site?
    What if I never learned to dance?
    Everything seems well and then the nighttime “what ifs” strike again.

    These are just some of the What ifs from Shel Silverstein,s poem that I find might have something to do with what Forrest has written/commented on in the past. What if the Joker is just jesting.

    Onuat

  38. Notice there is no apostrophe in his if’s. It could be an acronym.(IFS) Initial Flight Screening, flight screening used as a prerequisite for Air Force Flight School.

    So what does that mean? Does anyone know where Forrest went to Air Force Flight School? – Colorado Springs?

    -CG

    Chris Ginsburg

    1. Chris – there should not be an apostrophe in “ifs”. The word is a plural of if and therefore should not have an apostrophe. If a cow joined one of its kind in the field there would be two cows, not two cow’s. Misuse of the apostrophe has become an epidemic in this country.
      Don’t mean to be preachy, but I see this mistake all the time.

      Spoon

      1. Hey Spoon — I was thinking it’s properly a slang contraction of ‘what if it is’…. and not the noun form of ‘if”.

        In either case it can still be an acronym. It may not actually be about the acronym meaning itself but Fenn trying to relay insights into the nature of the solve.

        -CG

        Chris Ginsburg

  40. All,

    “What if” Forrest is speaking to a specific person and is asking that person have they considered the “If’s” found within Rudyard Kipling’s Poem “If”

    Is it possible that there is a solve and Forrest is asking this person if they are ready for what is to come?

    Seannm

    Seannm

    1. Q: “How much of an influence would you say… other books/poems have had over your treasure hunt – (both the creation and execution of it)?”

      A: None at all Maddox.

      We could argue that Forrest was just being obtuse here, and he’s really meaning that poems *have* had an influence, and he’s just answering the part about whether he would say (it’s a poorly worded question). However, at face value, Forrest is simply saying that poems have had no influence over the creation or execution of his treasure hunt. The imprecise and imaginative nature of poetry is such that you can find connections to many things, so one needs to be wary.

      Helen

  42. @Helen,

    Based on my theory, I do not believe other poems had an influence on Forrest’s chosen location and poem. I do believe however that they may have influenced his reasoning and message he is trying to convey through “The Thrill of the Chase”.

    Seannm

  44. All,

    OK i believe i have identified what Forrest may have been referring to when it came to the “what if’s”

    http://dalneitzel.com/2013/08/28/legal-ponderings/

    Read this thread, it discusses legal ponderings on the treasures location & taxation.

    then watch the following 2 minute video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLqqxClGN-g

    I think Forrest is laughing, why didn’t i see this before, oh i know why:

    Forrest Fenn says:
    March 24, 2016 at 3:56 pm

    A hypothetical example of a “what if” might be, what if I was looking so far ahead that I neglected to notice what was beside me.

    We fail to notice things because we are all concerned about the legal issues with finding the treasure rather than going out looking for it.

    Seannm

    Seannm

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