The Message of the Georgia Guidestones (aka American Stonehenge)

[LunaC]

With the exception of decimating the earth’s population, there’s wisdom in the Georgia Guidestones that our fearless leaders should take to heart.


"The Guidestones' mysterious origins go back to the summer of 1979, when a man calling himself R. C. Christian came to Elberton in search of both a granite firm to execute his design for a monument and a suitable site for the construction of it.

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"The area chosen was in close proximity to what the Cherokee Indians called "Al-yeh-li A lo-Hee,"—the center of the world.

"The inscriptions on the Guidestones are meant for current and future generations. Sandblasted along the square capstone sitting atop the structure is the basic message: "Let these be guidestones to an age of reason," in Babylonian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Sanskrit, and classical Greek. The four granite slabs, each weighing 42,137 pounds and standing more than sixteen feet in height, list ten "guides" for mankind in eight different languages. The languages represented on the four major stones are Arabic, Chinese, English, Hebrew, Hindi, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili. The engraved messages can be subdivided into four major areas: governance and the establishment of a world government, population and reproduction control, the environment and humankind's relationship to nature, and spirituality.

"While some of the "guides" are self-explanatory, others are open to discussion and interpretation. The rich variety of interpretations evoked by the Guidestones has likewise caused much controversy and debate to swirl around the hidden or intended meanings of the messages. According to the Guidestones, the following ten principles are offered to ensure humankind's future survival:

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule Passion — Faith — Tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?path=/HistoryArchaeology/HistoriansHistoricalOrganization/Sites&id=h-3163

[porphyrian]

1. Why 500,000,000?

Isn't that sort of an arbitrary cut-off?

[LunaC]

3. Nobody knows

The whole thing is a mystery. With a world population of 6 billion, 11 out of 12 people would have to die to fulfill that recommendation. More than a little harsh.

[Tesha]

8. Alternatively, a lot more people could limit their reproduction.

No need to force a die-off; just limit everyone's reproduction
to one or two kids and wait...

Tesha

[LunaC]

10. That's how I understood it too

Thanks! I'm not seeing the evil fascist overtones that others apparently do. I saw it as a message to play nice with your fellow humans and walk in harmony with the planet. Simplistic but peaceful.

[HereSince1628]

2. I'm not sure #2 eugenics is a particularly good idea either.

[yella_dawg]

4. I like the idea of Eugenics.

As long as I get to make the rules.

I don't trust anyone else to do it right.

[HereSince1628]

6. I don't quite know how someone would look past that without.

noting the call for eugenics was preceeded by a call for 5 billion deaths. Together than makes for a real genocide.

What we get from the stones is a genetic master race that speaks the same language and loves nature. It's an almost perfectly Arian concept.

[LunaC]

7. I took it to mean birth control and abortion were okay

Considering the sentiment of the other recommendations, I doubt they were proposing the extermination of the designated "unfit". At least I don't want to think so.

[HereSince1628]

9. Be careful, you are much too nice a person to survive Fascism

[Ian David]

5. That's something the right-wing has been pointing to as evidence...

of a pagan-satanic conspiracy.

I bet Tom Clancy had this in mind when he wrote his "eco-terror" thriller.