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Arnold J. Toynbee's book was discussed as a potential source of inspiration for the Toynbee tile maker's ideas. The tile maker's interpretation of Toynbee's work on civilizations and the resurrection of the dead was explored.
Toynbee was kind of a popular historian. He wrote about civilizations and the history of civilizations and the history of politics and how it all kind of banded together and how the civilizations that...
— Episode: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Episode: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Arnold J. Toynbee's book was discussed as a potential source of inspiration for the Toynbee tile maker's ideas. The tile maker's interpretation of Toynbee's work on civilizations and the resurrection of the dead was explored.
Toynbee was kind of a popular historian. He wrote about civilizations and the history of civilizations and the history of politics and how it all kind of banded together and how the civilizations that rose and fell over time were all part of the same kind of current, that they were all related to one another and that they rose and fell in predictable ways.
And it's a good thing his name was Toynbee. Yeah. It really made it a lot easier to narrow down the first mystery, basically.
Toynbee's book experiences, it seems to be the centerpiece of the crux of the idea that the tile maker is, let's just say fixated on, the concept of the soul and the possibility that you could resurrect after death down to the molecular level.
And that's where the astronauts are being dispatched to, is Jupiter to figure out what's going on with some weird signal coming from that planet, right?
But Toynbee was talking about scientifically resurrecting people or whether it was possible. And the tile maker took that idea and ran with it and basically came to believe that science was meant to carry out the project of creating the afterlife that God promised.