The Toynbee Message Mystery

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I hijacked an ILM thread with this but it more properly belongs here.

I have seen messages about Toynbee's alleged idea regarding reincarnating people on the planet Jupiter since I was in college, at least (back between 1983-1987). The ones I remember seeing then were small pieces of paper (say, 3" x 2") stuck on street lights. I'm sure most people would not have bothered to read them, but I tend to stop for anything strange I see posted on the street.

In the past several years the messages have gotten larger and have been getting some attention.

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― DeRayMi, Friday, 6 September 2002 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

but what's the 2001 connection? i think i must always have achieved slumber by the point it is mentioned, if it is...

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 6 September 2002 12:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's a very strange interpretation of the scene with the old man dying and then the embryo. (I haven't seen the movie for a long time, so I may not be getting this right.)

I should have read the article before posting the link, since I am now disappointed that apparently something is known about who started posting this stuff.

― DeRayMi, Friday, 6 September 2002 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't one of the characters called toynbee though? (i may have dreamt this - did i mention yet that i have never watched the movie in one go w/o falling asleep)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 6 September 2002 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I think that the possibility that toneybee could be an AI trying to make its mark in the world without harming anyone in the process. Perhaps the top secret project was called JUPITER and IT MUST be reincarnated with new designers. JUST A THOUGHT! "NEMO" 9\93

― NEMOsgone, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been reading a bit about these the past few days, I'm still not sure what to make of it, except that I'm thoroughly intrigued.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

(props to Cprek whose blog I pulled that link from, and which began my descent into the madness that is the Toynbee Tile Mystery)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Read that article too. It is sorta fascinating--especially the logistics. And shit. My brain doesn't work today, sorry, I'm going to have to abort this post.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

It was kind of a fun little sci-fi mystery art project until anti-semitism was involved..

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That's what they said about Nazism, too.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this was going to be a Robin Carmody thread.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

http://photos5.flickr.com/6017075_e8550adc8b.jpg

one in st louis.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 6 March 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

There was enough sense spoken to suppose that the prime minister does not want war. He said several times that the Middle East conflict is an understandable root-cause of Arab anger that must be resolved - and resolved first, he implied. He called for a just peace for the Palestinians and an end to suicide bombings - but who was he calling upon? It was whistling in the wind unless he was calling on George Bush to take action there first.

Here stood a man trying to do what he can to avoid war.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/sep/04/iraq.politics

― Lux Iniesta (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 September 2015 13:05 (ten years ago)

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