Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles Page #2

We were there for one reason,

you know?

And that was to look

on the asphalt for tiles.

The Toynbee Idea tiles'

message

is basically a four-part

message.

So what are all

of these things?

What do all of these

things mean?

Well, the Toynbee referenced

is almost definitely

the historian, Arnold Toynbee.

Toynbee was known as

a universal historian

because he was not only

a historian

but a philosopher as well.

So he would write books dealing

with all of human history.

The general sweeping

arch of the history

of the human species

on the planet Earth.

The movie "2001," of course,

is the movie

A Space Odyssey,"

directed by Stanley Kubrick.

And that was considered,

when it came out,

I mean, I think it

was pretty much--

as far as special effects

and everything-

pretty much

the most spectacular movie

that anybody had ever seen

on the big screen.

And, you know, I'm sure

that it was a...

you know, some sort of

proto-religious experience

for many people

that saw it.

Frankenstein's daughter.

Resurrect dead, obviously,

is the idea that

there will be some sort of

physical resurrection

of the dead.

And then planet Jupiter,

the largest planet

in the solar system by far.

And it's a gas giant,

it's mostly

made out of gas.

I don't think it has too much

of a solid surface, really.

The message itself

has been such a mystery

to people over the years,

and each of the parts,

in and of themselves,

makes sense.

The mystery mainly

lies in the way that

the parts intermesh

with one another.

There was always these little

sidebar text pieces

on tiles, and after a while,

those started to become

more interesting to me

than the main message 'cause

I had seen the main message

hundreds of times,

but these little

sidebar texts started to

get really exciting because

I'd be like--

sometimes they would say

stuff that was unprecedented.

Sometimes there would be

tantalizing clues

where one would say:

People had always speculated,

"Well, do you think it's more

than one person

making the tiles?"

And I always said

no way.

I always

thought it was one person

'cause they all look so similar,

et cetera, et cetera,

but it was always

open to conjecture.

We see this claim on this tile,

"I am only one man,"

so, all of a sudden,

we know more information

than we knew before,

that it's one man.

There'd be this other

sidebar text that said:

That's when I begged them not to

destroy it.

Thank you and goodbye.

I always pictured him

on his hands and knees

in front of the table

at the board room,

you know, where the Cult of

the Hellion is gathered,

begging them not to

destroy it, with tears,

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