Here’s something I heard about that falls into the
“better check this out” category. I recently got into a conversation with someone
who suggested I look up “Georgia Guidestones.” I did a search and found tons of
information on something I never even knew existed. The only one
I’ve read so far is an article on Wikipedia. A few excerpts follow:
The Georgia Guidestones
is a large granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, USA. A message
comprising ten guides is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages,
and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient
languages' scripts: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian
hieroglyphs.
The structure is sometimes
referred to as an "American Stonehenge." The monument is almost 20
feet (6.1m) tall … and made from six granite slabs weighing more than 240,000
pounds (110,000 kg) in all. One slab stands in the center, with four arranged
around it. A capstone lies on top of the five slabs, which are astronomically
aligned. An additional stone tablet, which is set in the ground a short
distance to the west of the structure, provides some notes on the history and
purpose of the Guidestones.
There's a lot more information about the Guidestones in
the article, including a large section dealing with the ongoing controversy
about who created and paid for the monument and more controversy about the
meaning and intent of the Guidestones’ originator/creator. Here are the ten
guides inscribed on the Guidestones:
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.
Before you panic, try to catch a rerun of the Brad Meltzer Decoded show on the History
channel. I’ve
only watched Decoded a few times, but think it’s as good a source as any for
what may be behind stuff like this or, in this case, the best speculation about
what it means and why it was created.
Decoded’s investigators agree that guides 2-10 are
rational, logical, and—if followed—would definitely make the world a better
place. What bothers most people is the first guide. Many evidently believe it
indicates a huge genocide event that would eliminate all but five hundred
million of the seven hundred billion people on the blue planet.
However… Most of us have heard about the event predicted
for December 21, 2012. Even scientists agree that there could be something to
it, because it could indicate a catastrophic event related to unusually large
solar flare/storm activity. There was some discussion on Decoded about the
possibility of a shift in the earth’s or the sun’s axis or magnetic fields, which
might change the earth’s position as it makes its annual orbit around the sun.
That might put it in the path of something (as yet unidentified) that could
smash into the planet and wipe out the majority of life on earth.
The Decoded investigators made a good point: the Georgia
Guidestones are probably a plan for what we should do after such a catastrophe. Mother Nature would be the only one
responsible for the wide-spread genocide.
If you care to make yourself really crazy, find out about
all the possible natural catastrophes Ma Nature can inflict on us. We’ve seen
plenty recently: hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and climate
change… I worry more about Yellowstone National Park blowing its top, or an
increasing amount of space junk returning to earth and not always landing in
the middle of an ocean. I worry about “the next big one” in California, as well as along the coasts of Washington and Oregon. The
possibility of another “Ark storm” on the west coast is also a frightening possibility. I have family and friends in the
places that would be seriously flooded should there be another such storm. The
last one, not long after the Gold Rush started, lasted for more than forty days
and forty nights, and pretty much wiped out a large number of towns in the San Joaquin Valley, including Sacramento. The valley became an inland sea for a period.
Fortunately, the population there was still relatively low. It’s not anymore!
Since the meteorologists didn’t really define “Ark”
storms, I'm assuming it comes from the forty-days-and-forty-nights
biblical flood story, implying that Californians would need at least one ark should
another of these monster storms happen.
One other point I think might be relevant… and this is one I heard many years ago from the
minister at the only church I’ve belonged to in my adult life. He and—most
recently—the cast of Decoded, point out how many times somebody has given a
specific date for the end of the world. Not counting the many ancient cultures
who all came up with the same date for the end of life as we’ve known it, we
know that for at least the last 2,000+ years, some of the religiously devout gave away everything they owned, donned their white robes, and went to
stand on mountain tops and wait to be wafted into heaven. Just think back to
the year 2,000 when so many people went to Jerusalem to wait for the
long-awaited second coming of Jesus.
Read the Georgia Cornerstones article. Think about it.
Check the first item in the list. That “500,000,000” number evidently indicates
a 90% reduction of the earth’s population, based on 1980s numbers. Current
world population: approaching 700,000,000,000 (that’s 7.0 billion). UN numbers
estimate we’ll be at about 7.7 billion in 2020; 8.3 billion by 2030, and 10.0
billion in 2050. That five-hundred million maximum population goal would
require that a whole lot of people be eliminated, one way or another, in the
near future.
Here’s our current situation:
· Overpopulation and not enough resources
remaining to support all of us without fighting for what’s available
· The dumbing down of (at least parts of) America
· Political correctness that rewrites history and
constantly lies to us
· The plunge to the bottom of the economic scale
for an increasing number of people—the top one- or two percent get richer and
richer, while the rest of us get poorer and poorer
· Rights we thought we had as citizens are
slipping away
· The very planet that provides the food we eat,
the water we drink, and the air we breathe is becoming more and more polluted;
and finally,
· Whether we like it or not, we may be witnessing
a rapid decline of the American and other western empires… well, you can come
up with your own theories about it.
I have no argument with any of the guides. In a perfect
world, adherence to them could be as
close to a perfect—and perfectly rational—world as we could get. But I question the possibility of it ever happening or, if it did, our collective ability to sustain it.
The most obvious challenge is finding honest, rational,
qualified people to create a world government, then administer it. By the looks
of things… in our country, in the world, on the news, I see very few truly
rational people who are also wise, qualified, and humane enough to overcome the
worst of human nature and work toward rationality, fairness, and the protection
of the only planet we currently have to live on.
It sounds too utopian to me, but only because I’ve lost
faith in our ability to learn from past mistakes and to shed our own sense of
self-importance, addiction to power and money, and other very human flaws that
seem quite impossible to eliminate, even temporarily. Hopefully, evolution will
continue long enough to produce such people. I’m not holding my breath!
My belief: The Georgia Guidestones guides are real and
really are rational, benevolent, and perhaps exactly what’s needed to ensure
the continuation of the human race on this planet. As of this date, we're not doing too well on our own!
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