The Georgia Guidestones - Do you know about them?

Question

Here is what they say:

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.

Basically, it states that about 6 BILLION people of the 6.5 BILLION people on the planet will be EXTERMINATED at some point. What are your thoughts? Click the link to learn more and then PLEASE reply with your thoughts.

http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm

Answer 1

I personally have heard of the Georgia Guidestones and have read their words. While I support "Freedom of Speech" greatly, I also speak out against the fools who put those silly things up in the first place.

Answer 2

Thanks for the cool link. I'd never heard of the Guidestones before, but it's interesting.

Well, I can see why most people are unaware of the stones.

Besides it being a local phenomena, most of the rules are ones that people would agree with.

I mean, who would argue that it's bad to rule through reason and have fair and just courts? Don't we generally let nations solve their own problems and submit external disputes to the UN? Don't we want to avoid unnecessary laws, and shouldn't we balance personal freedom with civic responsibility?

What's wrong with prizing truth, beauty ,and love, or searching for God?

One might not feel that humanity should have a universal language, but for many practical purposes, English is already that language. Most foreign countries teach English in their school system (China and India are the two I think of), it's a requirement for higher learning.

My biggest issue is actually with Rule #2, which seems to suggest eugenics (like the Nazi's practiced) of some sort. What does it actually mean to "improve fitness and diversity" through reproduction? It sounds like only certain people would be allowed to breed with others -- that people with "defects" would not be allowed to reproduce, and that interracial marriages would be denied in order to keep the races diverse and "pure."

The first Rule is just dumb, though. The world's population hit 1 billion in *1802.* That's twice as many people as this rule recommends, and besides, it says "maintains" -- as if the world population in 1980 was only 500 million.

This leads me to think that the rules on the stones had been floating around for years before being turned into stones, so the numbers were closer when the rules were made up. Either that, or the creators didn't do their homework. I don't think any person in their right mind who could write the REST of these rules would blithely be promoting the extermination of four billion people (the population in 1980 was 4.5 billion).

My assumption is that they meant simply that we should maintain a steady population, rather than letting it grow further and ruining the environment.

As far as "fighting" the stones, why bother? As I see it, people will agree with some of the rules... and the only rule that bothers people is the rule that literally everyone is laughing at and putting down as soon as they hear it. No one in their right mind seems to take Rule #1 seriously. Is there a real threat that someone will read Rule #1 and decide to practice genocide? No, I really doubt it.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. The Stones are a mere curiosity and don't really merit the time nor energy it would take to try to remove or change them. Everyone who reads them seems to be aware already of which rules are good and which ones should be dismissed.

Answer 3

I agree with the stones commandments. I do not believe it is referring to a new world orde as people think. It mentions other nations. If there are other nations. There can not be one world order. Also people believe that the 10th commandment is referring to a new religion. I think it is trying to say in the previous commandments not to have any religion, use reason instead. I also agree we have way too many humans on earth, depleting earths resources. We need to stop thinking of these commandments as a bad thing and start thinking of them in a reasoning way of thinking.

Answer 4

No, I had never heard of them before.

Could Mr. R. C. Christian have been an alien from outer space?