minder, specjalnie dla ciebie. to ju¿ nie tylko teoria na temat podskórnych tre¶ci p³yty, ale teoria na temat teorii o rzekomej prawdziwo¶ci lub ewentualnej nieprawdziwo¶ci listy utworów, ktora jaki¶ czas temu wyp³ynê³a w ¶wiat, czyli fani toola w najlepszym wydaniu:
I'll try to keep this post as brief as possible.
I should preface this by stating that when the track listing for the new album was released, I liked it and believed it to be true (and I think I still might).
That said, I have a new theory that, if true, might suggest that the track listing posted on Toolband is a hoax.
My theory ignores the alleged title track (10,000 Days) and focuses instead upon the other two independently "confirmed" song titles: Rosetta Stoned and Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann).
Most of the discussion surrounding Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann) has centered on Albert Hofmann, the man who first synthesized LSD. I offer an alternative Hofmann: Mark Hofmann, the man behind one of the greatest hoaxes in American religious history.
Mark Hofmann was born in the 1954, and was raised as a Mormon. He soon came to resent the Church of Latter-day Saints, and became an antiques dealer. He eventually turned to dealing in fogeries and counterfeits as a means of making money, and began to fabricate significant historical documents. (Again, for the purposes of brevity, I'll cut this short and allow you to do your own research on this topic.)
To tie this back to Rosetta Stoned:
First, I will quote from my earlier post on the Rosetta Stone:
"The Rosetta Stone is what allowed us finally to understand Egyptian hieroglyphics. It's a stone - literally - with the same (partial) text inscribed in three different scripts. One of the three scripts was hieroglyphics, which up to that point we were unable to understand. Another of the scripts was Greek, which, of course, was perfectly readable. After about 30 years of study, researchers were eventually able to "decode" Egyptian hieroglyphics by comparing it to the Greek."
Now, consider the following (which is taken from Wikipedia, a questionable source at best, but this information can be independently verified, and this paragraph provides a convenient summary):
"The first forgery Hofmann sold to the LDS [= Latter-day Saints = Mormon] church was the so-called Anthon Transcript. Hofmann claimed he found this document April 1980 pasted between the pages of a 1668 Bible with the apparent signatures of Joseph Smith's [the founder of Mormonism] great and great-great grandfathers inside. The document seemed especially significant as the transcript that Smith's scribe Martin Harris presented to Charles Anthon, a Columbia University classics professor, in 1828. According to the Joseph Smith-History, the transcript and its bizarre "REFORMED EGYPTIAN" [emphasis mine] characters were copied by Smith from the Golden Plates from which he translated the Book of Mormon."
In the end, this document proved to be a hoax, and was at the center of one of the greatest controversies in Mormon history.
This "reformed Egypitian" language that Hofmann claimed legitimized, in some sense, the Mormon faith, dates back as far as 600 BC. And, remember: the Rosetta Stone is what allowed us initially to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.
I conclude, then, that it is possible that the two tracks (excepting the title track) of which we have indpendent confirmation (= not from Toolband or Adam's Myspace messages) COULD suggest that this track listing is a hoax. That is, "Hofmann" and "Rosetta Stone" are both components of what I have already described as one of the greatest religious hoaxes in American history.
If what I have suggested is true, the clever (and humorous) aspect of Tool's hoax would be that they had us thinking on a relatively obvious level: drugs. Many of the posts in this forum have suggested that "Rosetta Stoned" refers to pot, and that "Blame Hofmann" refers to Albert Hofmann and LSD. It is possible, though, that there is something more significant going on here. "Rosetta Stoned" and "Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)" could, by referring to a famous and well-orchestrated relgious hoax, suggest that the track listing we have been given is a hoax, as well.
Again, there is lot more that can be said about this, but people are in general hesitant to read long posts, and this post has already gone on far too long. Could it be a coincidence that these were the two track names given to Rock Sound? Absolutely. But, if you're interested, do some research, and let me know what you think.
Edit: "Hofmann was one of the most skilled forgers in this century. The lengths he went to fool all the experts were extraordinary." - Daniel Lombardo, museum curator
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