[Leanan]

Newsweek has a little Flash animation this week, about weird places in the U.S. (In honor of Halloween, probably.) One of them is the "Georgia Guidestones."

http://www.thegeorgiaguidestones.com/Message.htm

A mysterious man ordered them erected, and carved with ten "commandments" in eight different languages. No one knows who he was. Some people think it's evidence of a vast socialist conspiracy. Other think these are predictions of some sort. In any case, the first commandment is to keep the human population of the world under 500 million. Not out of the question in an overshoot-and-crash scenario...

[Aaron]

Carved from the bones of neocons by feral ompa lumpas no doubt.

[EnviroEngr]

These damn things must be sentient. They keep following me around like that karmic slot machine in the Twilight Zone.

What the hell do I keep missing in my practices?

Franklin!

[skiwi]

Has anyone here actually been and seen them?
Whose feeling like one of the lucky 500 million?

[Jack]

Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

Just courts? Sure, no problem. Justice is not for sale. Now a renewable lease, on the other hand...that's a whole 'nother matter!

[greenworm]

This takes an already bizzaro monolith and adds an extra element of bizzarorama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG5TMCrOTIM


I love the cows.

[Bongoman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

"The Message of the Georgia Guidestones

A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Ancient Chinese, and Russian. The message in English reads:

* Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature*
* Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
* Unite humanity with a living new language.
* Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
* Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
* Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a one world court
* Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
* Balance personal rights with social duties.
* Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
* Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.

*In order to achieve a population of 500,000,000, 90% of all people would have to die. The world is currently over a population of 6.6 billion.

A shorter message appears on the four vertical surfaces of the capstone, again in a different language and script on each face. The explanatory tablet near the Guidestones identifies these languages/scripts as Babylonian Cuneiform (north), Classical Greek (east), Sanskrit (south), and Egyptian Hieroglyphs (west), and provides what is presumably an English translation: "Let these be guidestones to an age of reason." This last may be a reference to the book, The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine and is no doubt a nod to Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus.

The content of the message bears a remarkable resemblance to the so called Earth Charter, a statement of vision of the Earth Charter Initiative of Mikhail Gorbachev (Green Cross International) and Maurice Strong (Earth Summit). [1]"

[btu2012]

The Georgia guidestones have been discussed here ad nauseam. Seach for roccman's posts -- he never misses an opportunity to remind us of them.

[Byron100]

I've been to these things myself in person...cool thing to see...hehe. Sure is way out in the middle of nowhere, though...expect to burn a lot of uber-expensive gas to get there from anywhere.

And can anyone guess who built these things in the first place? It's a secret not many people know..but here's a clue: Look for an aerial view of the Guidestones and look at the pattern that is visible as the result of the layout of the stones themselves as well as the paths around them, and compare that to a comprehensive list of so-called "religious" symbols.

Another clue, the man responsible for them was a certified nutcase...LOL.

[mos6507]

Overshoot is not a new concept.

[greenworm]

It was actually posted by Leanan and the thread is here:

http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic2316.html

And can anyone guess who built these things in the first place? It's a secret not many people know..

R.C. Christian aka Rosicrucian cross aka Rosy Cross. (do I win?)

[JPL]

* Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature*
* Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
* Unite humanity with a living new language.
* Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
* Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
* Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a one world court
* Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
* Balance personal rights with social duties.
* Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
* Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.

Apart from the first & last precepts, everything else was also the stated goals of Adolf Hitler. Be careful what you wish for...

JP

[PrairieMule]

Mmmmm, twinkies for the brain. Not much nutritional value but sometimes they hit the spot. Sure to make coast to coast tonight.

High school vandals, Patriot Prank, or False Flag Op? Prison Planet

[mos6507]

a couple of drunks who need to read Overshoot.

[POAlex]

If anything, its suspicious.

Alex

[RedStateGreen]

Mmmmm, twinkies for the brain. Not much nutritional value but sometimes they hit the spot. Sure to make coast to coast tonight.
High school vandals, Patriot Prank, or False Flag Op? Prison Planet

It's either some adolescent-mentality 20-something pseudo-patriot group or someone deliberately trying to make Christians look bad, although it doesn't take much these days.

[vision-master]

THE MESSAGE OF THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES

A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the monument from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Russian.

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.



A shorter message appears on the four vertical surfaces of the capstone, again in a different language and script on each face. The explanatory tablet near the Guidestones identifies these languages/scripts as Babylonian Cuneiform (north), Classical Greek (east), Sanskrit (south), and Egyptian Hieroglyphics (west), and provides what is presumably an English translation: "Let these be guidestones to an age of reason."


The stones are placed so that a slit at eye level in the central upright slab permits an observer to view the eastern horizon and aligns with the position of the rising sun at the Summer and Winter Solstices. Through the center stone, from south to north, a two-inch diameter hole is inclined at an angle of 34 degrees and points to the North celestial pole. A beam of sunlight passing through a hole in the capstone forms a spot of light below. The position of the spot can be used to determine high noon and the day of the year.


A few feet to the west of the monument, an additional granite tablet has been set level with the ground. This tablet identifies the monument and the languages used on it, lists various facts about the size, weight, and astronomical features of the stones, the date it was erected, and the sponsors of the project. It also speaks of a time capsule buried under the tablet, but the positions on the stone reserved for filling in the dates on which the capsule was buried and is to be opened are missing, so it is not clear whether the time capsule was ever put in place.

[hillsidedigger]

Even with only 500 million people worldwide, if those people were prosperous in the modern way, petroleum would still soon be depleted.

(A not yet widely publicized fact is that the Guidestones appeared overnight at that location either having been physically placed by aliens or somehow 'telepathically beamed' to that position!)

[vision-master]

Even with only 500 million people worldwide, if those people were prosperous in the modern way, petroleum would still soon be depleted.

Why would it even be needed?

[Rod_Cloutier]

Recently a small cube box was attached by the people who erected the Georgia Guide stones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma3DCEa ... ilpage#t=0

Yesterday activists climbed, vandalized and smashed the block off of the artifact before being arrested by police:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdvuZop ... ilpage#t=1

Today people are actively trying to decipher the weird code symbols on the block:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... z8Kjpc#t=0

As if the world wasn't strange enough; anyone here have any suggestions what the symbols on this cube represent?

20, 14, 16, 8, MM, JAM

Any info will be helpful !