George (Guidestones) On My Mind

Once in awhile you have to have Georgia on your mind, as Ray and Paul once said.

Today it's the Georgia Guidestones, a weird monument which I haven't written about in awhile. It was brought back to an article I came across entitled, "Ten Commandments of the AntiChrist: The Georgia Guidestones."

Great title.

I find them a bit on the spooky side myself. A couple of the "suggestions" carved into the granite columns are fairly innocuous but some display a downright antipathy toward people, and advice contrary to that of Nature's God. There's also a couple of websites devoted, and I use the word literally, to the monument. One has a weird graph that has you praying that these people don't work in a bio-lab somewhere.

Since the story I link to doesn't have the 10 "precepts for a better society" listed, here they are.

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

I've gotta call this a really bad idea, since it would require losing about 5.5 billion existing human beings to enact. Who gets to do the culling? If it ain't me or God, I'm definitely against this one.

2. Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.

Sounds like eugenics, which is a branch of science that fascinated and motivated such well-known philanthropists as Adolph Hitler. Besides, my reproductive days are over. I did the best I could the old fashioned way.

3. Unite humanity with a living new language.

Ever since the Tower of Babel this has been an impractical suggestion. See "Esperanto."

4. Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.

Who's against tempered reason, whatever that is?

5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

That's why the U.S. has a great Constitution. Everyone else needs to get on board. The United Nations charter is a joke book.

6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

Please tell that to the aforementioned U.N. And let's make sure we can agree on the definition of "external."

7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

This sounds good, but I guess "petty" and "useless" are in the eye of the offender.

8. Balance personal rights with social duties.

If this is individual advice, okay. If this is meant to be a government mandate, go to hell!

9. Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.

Who writes this stuff? Yoko Ono? No. She just wrote a song about the "Georgia Guidestones." I'm sure she has a lovely singing voice, somewhere.

10. Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.

Why tell us twice to "leave room for nature"? That unnecessary duplication is somewhat reminiscent of, er, cancer, don't you think?

The words themselves aren't nearly as creepy as the granite columns upon which they are engraved. Someone actually paid money for this?

If it was an agent of the AntiChrist, he wasted the cash.