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[Sister Mary Clarence]

The Toynbee Tiles

Toynbee tiles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Toynbee tiles (also called Toynbee plaques) are messages of unknown origin found embedded in asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in the United States and four South American cities.[1][2] Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered. They are generally about the size of an American license plate (roughly 30 cm by 15 cm), but sometimes considerably larger. They contain some variation of the following inscription:


TOYNBEE IDEA


IN MOViE `2001
RESURRECT DEAD
ON PLANET JUPITER


Some of the more elaborate tiles also feature cryptic political statements or exhort readers to create and install similar tiles of their own. The material used for making the tiles was initially unknown, but evidence has emerged that they may be primarily made of layers of linoleum and asphalt crack-filling compound.[3] Articles about the tiles began appearing in the mid-1990s, though references may have started to appear in the mid-1980s.[4]

The Mysterious Toynbee Tiles

In 1992, a chap in Philadelphia by the name of Bill O’Neill starting noticing strange tiles randomly embedded in local roads. They were generally about the size of a license plate, and each had some variation of the same strange message: “TOYNBEE IDEA IN KUbricK’s 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPiTER.” They varied a bit in color and arrangement, but they were all made of an unidentifiable hard substance, and many had footnotes as strange as the message itself, such as “Murder every journalist, I beg you,” and “Submit. Obey.” Some were accompanied by lengthy, paranoid diatribes about the newsmedia, jews, and the mafia.

So Bill started asking around about these tiles, but nobody knew anything about their origin or meaning. So, he created a website devoted to the mysterious tiles, and in doing so learned that it is not just a local phenomenon. Similar tiles have appeared in many US cities, including Washington DC, Pittsburgh, New York City, Baltimore, Boston, and many more. Some have even shown up in South America; in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. To date, about 130 tiles have been discovered. Somehow, someone is managing to embed these tiles into public roads— some of which are busy 24/7— without being spotted.

The tiles all mention “Toynbee,” most likely Arnold J. Toynbee, a religious historian born in England in 1889. Some of the tiles mention Kubrick, the filmmaker responsible for 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was a movie that made implications that a man was reborn on a mission to Jupiter, not exactly resurrected. There is only one known intersection between the works of Toynbee and Kubrick, and it’s pretty circumstantial: Toynbee’s writings spoke of a man named Zoroaster who conceived the idea of monotheism, and this name also occurs in the title of the famous 2001: A Space Odyssey theme song; it’s entitled “Thus Spoke Zoroaster.”

Due to strong similarity in craftsmanship and writing style, these tiles are most likely the work of a single individual (in the interest of conserving slashes and pronouns, we’ll assume this individual is a male). Either this man is disturbed, or he has a bizarre sense of humor. He is certainly creative, as the messages’ delivery system indicates, and he must be a patient and methodical man to have invested the time in making these 130 or so tiles by hand. And given the diverse locales where the tiles can be found, he has the means and money to travel. Some people also suppose that he is European, given that Kubrick and Toynbee are both English, and because one of the paranoid-ranting plaques indicates that he is/was hiding in Dover, England.

One Toynbee Tile enthusiast has claimed that a freshly laid tile was once found and examined:

The highlight of my search for answers to this mystery occurred one Sunday night of this previous winter. I had gone to my local convenience store for a snack around 4:00 A.M., noticing nothing unusual. On my way home I noticed something unusual in the street. Upon closer inspection, I discovered it to be a “Toynbee Idea” tile – freshly placed and only minutes old. Of course I was beside myself with excitement and I could now see exactly how, and of what materials these tiles are made. (This tile, by the way, is located on 13th. & Arch St. in Philadelphia.) The tiles are just that – tiles….although not the standard vinyl floor tile, as I had suspected. The letters are cut out of a material with, I assume, a higher rubber content than a standard floor tile. The inlay letters seemed to made from a less maleable substance, and in this case were red and yellow. The tile is secured to the street by intricately folded and layered tar paper, glued together. A layer of raw tar seemed to lie beneath the whole tile, anchoring it. The weight of cars, as they run over the tile, forces the layers of tar paper to impregnate the spaces in the cracks of the letters.

Documentary: Watch Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles Online Free Putlocker | Putlocker - Watch Movies Online Free


The Documentary goes into crazy detail- this guy became obsessed with finding these out. Did tons of research, dug up old radio shows, traveled all over trying to figure this out. Pretty good shyt.

 

[Sister Mary Clarence]

Battle of Los Angeles

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The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to the rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late 24 February to early 25 February 1942 over Los Angeles, California.[2][3] The incident occurred less than three months after the United States entered World War II as a result of the Japanese Imperial Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one day after the bombardment of Ellwood on 23 February. Initially, the target of the aerial barrage was thought to be an attacking force from Japan, but speaking at a press conference shortly afterward, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called the incident a "false alarm." Newspapers of the time published a number of reports and speculations of a cover-up.

Some contemporary ufologists and conspiracy theorists have suggested the targets were extraterrestrial spacecraft.[4] When documenting the incident in 1949, The United States Coast Artillery Association identified a meteorological balloon sent up at 1:00 AM that "started all the shooting" and concluded that "once the firing started, imagination created all kinds of targets in the sky and everyone joined in".[5] In 1983, the U.S. Office of Air Force History attributed the event to a case of "war nerves" triggered by a lost weather balloon and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

that 44 days of hell made me depressed...wow at the levels of disgust and torment!

 

[Fatboi1]

that 44 days of hell made me depressed...wow at the levels of disgust and torment!

seriously. shyts been on the back of my mind the past couple of days.

 

[Address_Unknown]

The fact that some of them may still be walking around society is .

People like that need to be either removed from society and thrown into the wild with animals alike.

Buried alive.
b*stards like this need to be buried alive. It's cases like this that really make me wonder who sees the need to save people like this? They did it be because they could. That was their reasoning.

That lot and them two kids than led that poor kid away and shoved batteries up his arse and killed him when they got bored should have been "Euthanised" because once people do sick horrid shyt like that and notice that certain people and the law will protect them from death and extreme punishment, they almost never gain any remorse.

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

shyts crazy. they basically got a slap on the wrist. The worst part of that story is that the parents of the boys knew about it and didn't do anything. Like

How could your conscious allow you to just let something like that happen without notifying people?

Japan takes misogyny to a whole different frontier of savagery.

 

[Lord_nikon]

 

[HipHopStan]

We back.

 

[notPsychosiz]

I'm honestly dreading going to sleep right now.

seriously.

He's one of the villains in American Horror Story season 4
The lil head whispers to him and tells him to murder ppl.

 

[HipHopStan]

Who would have thought driving for the Google Street View vehicle could be so demonic.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

We back.

 

[DaRealness]

 

[HipHopStan]

Good video. A few of those were already posted in this thread. It's insane how many pictures there are of people before something horrific happens.

 

[Neuromancer]

Does this look like an ordinary iceberg? Well, it is, but it's infamous for something. This is a photograph of the iceberg that reportedly sunk the behemoth of a ship known as the Titanic. It was taken in 1912, a few months after the disaster that killed 1,503 people. Scientists believe that it had floated in the ocean for millions of years before making contact with the ship. There's a good possibility that it could still be in the waters today despite global warming. So, you remember that if you're thinking of planning a cruise on the new Titanic in 2018.

There's something trapped in that Iceburg

 

[HipHopStan]

There's something trapped in that Iceburg