![]() Someone who accepts-as I myself do, taking it on trust-the present-day scientific account of the Universe may find it impossible to believe that a living creature, once dead, can come to life again but, if he did entertain this belief, he would be thinking more 'scientifically' if he thought in the Christian terms of a psychosomatic resurrection than if he thought in the shamanistic terms of a disembodied spirit." No one has ever been, or ever met, a living human soul without a body. The dichotomy of a human being into 'soul' and 'body' is not a datum of experience. "Human nature presents human minds with a puzzle which they have not yet solved and may never succeed in solving, for all that we can tell. The 'Toynbee idea' most likely refers to the writings of Arnold Toynbee, who wrote that: Many have interpreted this to be referring to an obscure conspiracy theory that it is possible for humanity to be reborn (resurrected), after death, on the planet Jupiter. In the mid-eighties, strange tiles started appearing on the ground in and around Philadelphia, Washington DC, and New York, bearing the message: I urge any readers I have NOT to notify the city if a new tile appears- feel free to photograph it, but please keep its existence to yourselves and try to help preserve these mysterious little works of art. Chicago, among others, is notorious for removing the (now very rare) original Toynbee tiles from its streets back in the 80's. Topeka isn't the first city to do this, either. The last tile was removed without ever even having a photo taken of it, so we will never know the message it bore. After the quick removal process only a square of fresh asphalt is left behind. As soon as the city is notified of the existence of a tile, it is scraped up, usually within days. As of July 4th, the second tile had been removed from Kansas streets. The city officials of Topeka have stated that they view the tiles as a type of vandalism, while residents disagree, saying that these mysterious conspiracy tiles are works of art. ![]() ![]() Though Toynbee tiles keep cropping up in Topeka, Kansas, the city is removing tiles almost as soon as they are laid.
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