Do The Mysterious Georgia Guidestones Signal The Coming Of A New World Order?

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Mon Jul 6, 2009 3:02 PM EDT

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Back in April, Wired magazine published a story on the history of a strange monument in rural Elberton, Georgia ("granite capital of the world") known as the Georgia Guidestones. The monument consists of four 16-foot-high slabs of granite arranged around a central column and topped with a capstone weighing 25,000 pounds. Carved onto the face of each slab is a list of ten precepts for creating a better society, written in eight modern languages. On the four sides of the capstone are written the words, "Let These Be Guidestones to An Age of Reason" in Sanskrit, Babylonian cuneiform, Classical Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The central column and capstone are also equipped with holes, astronomically aligned so that the Guidestones can serve as a compass and clock.

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luckydog

Sounds like a terrific tourist attraction for a little out of the way town.

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#1 - Mon Jul 6, 2009 3:06 PM EDT

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Ire

Yeah! I'd like to see them.

And the percepts etched in the stones are reasonable also.

It's interesting how people can't stand a mystery and so these things become a projection screen for all kinds of craziness...like anything else that's a mystery.

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#1.1 - Mon Jul 6, 2009 3:33 PM EDT

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Scipio~A

The story about how the stones came into being is actually quite interesting - it has all the plot points and characters of a caper.

Regardelss, if you think that maintaing a wolrd population below 500 million is "reasonable" I am curious to know how we should get to that number seeing as we are approaching 7 Billion.

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#1.2 - Tue Jul 7, 2009 5:33 AM EDT

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Ire

am curious to know how we should get to that number seeing as we are approaching 7 Billion.

Well, I don't have any answers on that, but it's quite likely that if we don't do something about our numbers nature will do it for us, one way or another.

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#1.3 - Tue Jul 7, 2009 10:22 AM EDT

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MinnieApolis

To build something so extraordinary with so little explanation created a vacuum of meaning. Much like the Guidestones’ inspiration, Stonehenge, this caused new meanings to be invented. The Guidestones are essentially a spiritual and political Rorschach test onto which any number of ideas can be imposed. Pagans and New Agers created new myths and rituals, imbuing the stones with sacred reverence. For others, the monument is not the marker of a sacred space but the evidence of a demonic plot. Should the Guidestones survive for centuries as their creators intended, many more meanings could arise, equally unrelated to the designer’s original intention.

I cannot make any assumptions or interpretations of these markers without even seeing them -- but ya gotta admit, at least they are bringing some people into the state, if only to splash paint on them.

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#2 - Mon Jul 6, 2009 3:41 PM EDT

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luckydog

Who, what, where, when, why? If we don't know then just make something up and say "what if?"

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#3 - Mon Jul 6, 2009 3:43 PM EDT

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upswing

Maybe someone will fly a "plane" into them ...

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