Georgia Guidestones blown up

Well, of course they blew it up, because if you don't understand something as innocuous as words on a stone, you kill it

It's funny, the guy who paid for them was a white supremacist. You'd think the QLoons would treat this as a holy site.

That’s sad to me personally because as a kid I was interested in overpopulation (still am). When I learned about the guidestones I became interested because their minimalist messages and structure made sense to my young mind. They should’ve just erected them outside the south where their messages would have been better received and the stones themselves less threatened.

Not on the same scale or history lost, but familiar.

I wonder which stone they obliterated.

@r2, If he wanted them to worship it the stones should have said...

"In the future all you good ol' boys will get free beer, a free widescreen TV and a free pick-up truck. It's on me" - Baby Jesus

John Oliver just did a bit on them around a month ago.

Next do Stone Mountain!

R7 obnoxious creature

Somebody probably thought this was a Confederate monument

Wrong, R10. Its reputation locally and internationally is, rightly or wrongly, as part of an internationalist, depopulation world government site.

[quote] A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles was engraved on the Georgia Guidestones[20] 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 were: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, and Russian.

I guess French didn't make the cut.

[quote] Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

And once the limit is reached, then what?

[quote] Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.

Good luck with that.

[quote] Unite humanity with a living new language.

They tried that with Esperanto. It didn't work.

[quote] Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.

Yeah, that won't work in 2022's America.

[quote] Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

Too late.

[quote] Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

Like the United Nations? They have proven to be completely useless.

[quote] Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

That would be all of them.

[quote] Balance personal rights with social duties.

I don't care, do you? (-Former First Lady Melania Trump)

[quote] Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.

Yeah, it's called social media and selfies.

[quote] Be not a cancer on the Earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

How about we give the entire Earth to nature?

Problem solved!

Some of that stuff makes a lot of sense

^ That's why it had to be killed

[quote] Wrong, [R10]. Its reputation locally and internationally is, rightly or wrongly, as part of an internationalist, depopulation world government site.

Huh?

r2, you don't think Klaus "Son of Nazis" Schwab is a white supremacist?

They blew it up to get the time capsule beneath it.

[quote] I guess French didn't make the cut.

All those gender nouns were disqualifying

What was the point of this thing? Who paid to have it made?

R2 I didnt they'd ever worked out was behind the Georgia Guidestones, let alone who paid for them?

[quote]That’s sad to me personally because as a kid I was interested in overpopulation (still am). When I learned about the guidestones I became interested because their minimalist messages and structure made sense to my young mind. They should’ve just erected them outside the south where their messages would have been better received and the stones themselves less threatened.

R3 quite so. The West has finally got the message about overpopulation, but parts of the Third World still havent. We've probably only just dodged the bullet, and if we dont depopulate, nature will do it for us. And NOT gently or mercifully

R5 yeah I was wondering that too, probably the English language one

Unfortunately Elon Musk is still reproducing rapidly.

Have they said what is in the time capsule, R16?

[quote] I wonder which stone they obliterated.

[quote] yeah I was wondering that too, probably the English language one

[quote] On July 6, 2022, an explosion hit the stones, destroying the Swahili/Hindi language slab and causing significant damage to the capstone. Nearby residents reportedly heard and felt explosions at around 4:00 a.m. The remaining stones were later removed by a construction crew.

[quote] What was the point of this thing? Who paid to have it made?

Some old guy who had enough money to build it, just so that he could boss everyone else around and try to tell us all what to do.

As usual.

[quote] Christian explained that the stones would function as a compass, calendar, and clock, and should be capable of "withstanding catastrophic events".

Rofl!

Yeah, not so much.

It couldn't even handle a little bit of TNT!

r21, nope…And the blew it up the day after CERN had the collider at its highest setting…Interesting we have this footage but no idea who exactly blew it up. All of it has been leveled now.

I had never heard of this thing until today. Is this a well-known monument outside of Georgia? It does seem esoteric if I'm being be honest.

R18 at least read the OP. It's only a paragraph.

R24 I do not see what it has to do with CERN.

And they have surveillance footage, so it's likely that they have some idea who blew it up and are tracking them down. It's most likely going to be some anti-globalist right winger, because these Guidestones have had a long reputation for being some sort of One World Government population control / Bill Gates / Soros / CERN / etc. conspiracy. All of these tie in together and the people who think the world is ruled by the Illuminati and they meet at the Bilderberg conference.

Did they save the remaining stones, or did they not take any care when they knocked them down and dragged them off? If it's just one stone I'm sure someone will replace it.

R25 if you aren't in tune with Alex Jones and people of that nature and don't live in Georgia you likely wouldn't have heard about it except randomly like in that John Oliver piece. The mystery of it makes it popular and it's seen as part of a much, much larger dark conspiracy.

R23 few things can withstand a direct explosion like that. If it were left to its own devices it probably would have stood for a lot longer.

I think it's cool that the stones were also aligned with the sun and such.

A design like that was asking for trouble. They should have embedded the message in a monument like the Vietnam Memorial

I'm having a hard time reconciling a message that promotes diversity and equal rights with a white supremacist 🤔

R25, it's a favorite for conspiracy theorists. It's a weird personal project by some rich asshole with some kumbayah bullshit and the sinister part is that the earth should only sustain like 1 million people which is significantly fewer people than the 7.5 billion current earthlings, I mean people, on the planet.

A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles was engraved on the Georgia Guidestones[17] 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 were English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, and Russian.

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 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.

There's also a time capsule buried under it. I wonder if they will excavate that.

Oh, and people claiming it was built by a white supremacist - that actually isn't proven. The person who had them placed is still a mystery. For all we know the documentary could be part of the conspiracy, or a way to explain them away.

And the white supremacist bit seems like a misreading - the person the documentary alleged to have designed and paid for the stones was just an associate of a white supremacist, but it doesn't say HE was a white supremacist.

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The 2015 documentary Dark Clouds Over Elberton claimed that the Guidestones were designed and paid for by Herbert Hinzie Kersten (1920 – 2005), a doctor from Fort Dodge, Iowa. The documentary makers claimed to have acquired a letter from Wyatt C. Martin of the Granite City Bank and found Kersten's address as the return address. Kersten was a friend of Robert Merryman, who published Common Sense Renewed in 1986, a book which aimed to explain the Guidestones. Historian William Sayles Doan described Kersten as a white supremacist and supporter of David Duke, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Kersten was also an associate of William Shockley, a Nobel laureate in physics who was also a white supremacist and eugenicist.

Also, this kinda makes sense - built when everyone thought WW3 was just around the corner:

One interpretation of the stones is that they described the basic concepts required to rebuild a devastated civilization. Author Brad Meltzer notes that the stones were built in 1979 at the height of the Cold War, and thus argues that they may have been intended as a message to the possible survivors of a nuclear World War III. The engraved suggestion to keep humanity's population below 500 million could have been made under the assumption that war had already reduced humanity below this number.

Yoko Ono said the inscribed messages were "a stirring call to rational thinking".

I have to admit I laughed: "Built to survive the apocalypse..." OK Bob.

Ok I misread the above too in r35. It sounds like the only person asserting Kersten was a white supremacist was the historian, so who knows.

Assuming that he is in fact the one who paid for them - he actually sounds like a decent guy, aside from the claim of white supremacy (note also an 80s Republican was much different from today's Republicans).

At one time Ted Turner's name was associated with the Guidestones.

You cannot build a strange sculpture in that part of the South without curious onlookers. There was a lot of controversy at the time re the financing. All construction workers were supposedly sworn to secrecy re specific details of whom was behind the entire project.

Notice there's no mention of God let alone Jesus Christ on the stones let alone a cross. Again this is the Deep South. Ludicrous to think the Guidestones were ever associated with anyone on the Far Right.

This was in the 1980s, much different political landscape and "far right" seems like an improper way to describe him.

The guy who made them was "R.C. Christian".

I expect the reason it didn't mention Christianity or have a cross is because he was trying to be egalitarian to ensure the message wasn't seen as a religious monument. Note he also didn't say white babies are preferred.

R38 continued,

Watch this informative interview re the creation of the Guidestones and its history.

R29 I live in the UK and I remember when they were first placed there.

My immediate response was that it was a man who thought he had the right to tell the rest of the world, how they were to live. Arrogant. Then I didn't care enough to think about them.

It's interesting that they've been blown up though. Why bother? No one really mentions them anymore. I doubt that younger generations even know about them. Unless they put money/gold/diamonds/whatever into the time capsule?

"My immediate response was that it was a man who thought he had the right to tell the rest of the world, how they were to live. Arrogant."

Kind of like Twitter engraved in stone 🤔

R39, Agreed. Just the audacity of the obviously fake name or fake corporation of "R.C. Christian" unnerves many. Ripe for conspiracy theories.

Then there was the stated objective of keeping the world's population at a low number. Ripe for wild speculation on how that was to be done. Another World War? Doom on steroids of pestilence, pandemics, incurable diseases supposedly predicted in the Bible and the New Testament? "Hell, Fire, and Damnation preachers of the Deep South would have a field day."

If you read through the stories you'll see that behind all this there's a crazy Republican woman running for Governor who is calling for the destruction of the guidestones. Coincidence?

The man in r40 seems like a reasonably intelligent well-spoken person. A rarity for this part of Georgia

R43 the article bit above when it mentions these were made at the height of the Cold War, when everyone thought WW3 was around the corner, it makes sense if he thought most of the world's population was going to be wiped out already.

Really these seem like well-meaning advice from an environmentalist. But people will make all sorts of stuff up to suit their own fantasies and agenda.

The message is good, but because there's no hate, God or politics involved in it, it must be destroyed ☹️

[quote]It's funny, the guy who paid for them was a white supremacist. You'd think the QLoons would treat this as a holy site.

All the crazy "new world order" rumors started long before anyone figured out who was behind the guidestones, and Q-Anon believers and fundies aren't known for changing their minds once they have been presented with facts.

[quote]he actually sounds like a decent guy, aside from the claim of white supremacy (note also an 80s Republican was much different from today's Republicans)

"Sure, he was a white supremacist, but he seemed like a decent, nice kind of white supremacist" is peak Datalounge.

^ Pretty sure that the poster was saying that we can't infer that he was a white supremacist based on his having been a Republican several decades ago, i.e. at a time when there were Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller. Also, they said he sounded decent "aside from" the claims of white supremacy.

R44, Agree that the man in the video I linked sounds very rational and diplomatic. Please read the comments when he's called out for not revealing who actually funded the granite structure. Obviously he signed a confidentiality agreement (s) which then fueled rampant speculation and future controversy.

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@r50, Wow, there's a whole lot of stupid in those youtube comments 😳

^ They actually make some of these DL comments sound smart 😂

Damn you Jewish Space Lasers!

I'm shocked at how many of you think these are benign ideas.

[quote]Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

That means 6.5 billion people will have to go. Too bad for them, but hey, that's what it takes to have "balance with nature"!

[quote]Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.

Also known as eugenics. A favorite with Nazis. Never thought I'd see eugenics fans on DL!

[quote]Unite humanity with a living new language.

That means every culture will have to give up their native language. Bad when colonizers force it, but if it's to unite humanity, it's good.....?

I realize this is just some random guy's vague blather and there's no need to take it seriously. But some of the ideas are pretty sinister, nonetheless.

^ Look who escaped from the youtube comment section ^

I'm embarrassed for you. You're going through life thinking you're smart and we're all laughing at you 🤦‍♂️

R12 interesting. Very rational.

Of course someone in the thread has already called it “white supremacist.”

There's a documentary on this. Something very similar to the "original" Koch network set them up. Everyone directly involved was a eugenicist. You know, the kind who would have suggested half of your mother's be sterilized rather than birth "defective" units. The funding and planning was all purposely disguised though, just like much of that Koch bullshit is today.

So no wonder fangurling for these "monuments" is going on here. Although most of you fangurling don't realize that the eugenicists have eliminating you in mind as well.

R59, there seems to be some overlap with the incel world among certain DLers. They think eugenics means they will be pumped all day for their precious, uniquely genetically perfect sperm, and the government will breed an endless supply of genetically perfect, hot twinks for them.

Real eugenicists, as you mentioined, view homosexuality as a defect and gays as a genetic dead end.

@r59, On more time... the guidestones were a post-apocalyptic blueprint for a better world. They're not calling for the destruction of the human race. They're suggesting what to do if something should happen to the human race

@r60, you're just as bad (dumb) as r59 🙄

There was a time capsule buried underneath. I wonder whether the workers who tore down the rest of the monument knew about it and whether it's been retrieved. That hasn't been mentioned in any of the news stories I've seen.

Oh noes! Must love Globalism. It's a sin to say that it's come up short. We must even have monuments to it.

^ Oh, do shut up, Karen

R60 that's just a mask these people wear.

There is a very clear agenda that comes through on this board, and nearly all threads (even those promoting Dems as favored political party) is trying to promote it.

^ Nah, just a handful of trolls who like to stir shit up... Like you

Interesting to me that the local officials were so ready to take the entire thing down within hours after the explosion ... "for safety reasons." It's almost like they had this plan in place for a while.

Will they investigate to figure out who blew up the stones and hold them accountable? Seems unlikely.

Read the Wikipedia article that was already linked, r58. The guy probably behind these stones was a white supremacist and fan of eugenics.

R68, I also wondered about that, but I imagine the county that owned them didn't have a lot of money and wasn't interested in forking out for restoration costs. They probably didn't want more explosives planted there by someone who wanted to take the rest of them down, either.

R63, no one knows if there is a time capsule. There is a stone placed there saying there's a time capsule, and it has a space for listing the date it was placed, but the date was never filled in.

[quote] Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

Let us honor the noble sacrifice of the billions of unnecessary Africans, Asians, and South Americans. And thank Silicon Valley for robotic lawn care.

From WIkipedia:

[quote]On May 1, 2022, Kandiss Taylor, a candidate running in the Georgia Republican gubernatorial primary, released a campaign ad calling for the destruction of the Guidestones

Behind every heinous act there's always a MAGAt with a ludicrously misspelled name.

It's heinous to knock down a eugenicist construction, and monument to gross ideologies?

How many Confederate statues were blown up with explosives, and left behind a dangerously damaged monument that could have hurt someone if it fell over?

[quote]Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

[quote]Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.

These theoretically—despite their eugenicist background—leave room for a gradual, humane implementation—through zero and less-than-zero population growth and selective reproduction (the monument was put up two years after the first IVF birth)—rather than killing billions of people. The inscriptions' language seems pretty anodyne.

[quote]Unite humanity with a living new language.

This doesn't mean wiping out existing languages; constructed international languages (e.g. Esperanto) are designed to be universal second languages to make global communication easier. "Living" presumably distinguishes the design from dead languages once used internationally, like Latin or Sanskrit.

Destroying a public monument because you don't like it is beautiful, R75! It's progress, it's justice!

However, in [italic]this[/italic] case, destroying a public monument because you don't like it is evil and regressive.

Get it straight, okay, R75?

Nice straw man, there, R77.

I didn't say any of that, r77. Stop being a childish asshole just because you're bored and unemployed.

I'm reasonably certain that the guy who wrote "Unite humanity with a living new language" was not talking about Esperanto.

This gentleman might be able to answer your question, R75.

I do remember that, r81.

Because people are either very stupid this morning, or pretending to be stupid because they think it fits their agenda, let me be more clear: there is a big difference between protesters taking down long-standing monuments that were put up in public spaces, often government spaces, by politicians for racist and politically motivated reasons, and some crackpot white supremacist's weird faux Stonehenge, placed out in the middle of nowhere back in 1980.

The usual troll types on here who are claiming that if it was okay for the protesters to take down Confederate monuments, then it's perfectly okay for some guy to blow up the guidestones at 4:00 a.m. with a shitload of explosives, are comparing 2 different things, but they want us to think it's all the same. It's not.

The protesters who were using sledgehammers on the statue that hit Chris Green were being incredibly irresponsible. I agree with that.

However, we live in a climate where Q-Anon and the current Republicans were calling for the guidestones to be destroyed because they believe it's part of some conspiracy, and where these same people are frequently using violence to get their way and terrify the public, so I'm not thrilled that it seems like one of them got a bunch of his granpappy's fertilizer offa the farm and blew the guidestones up. That was what I was referring to at r75.

Fuck you if you have a problem with that.

All good messages that make sense to maintain a better society and world....of course it has to be destroyed!

@r77, Thanks, troll, for trying to fuck up an otherwise intelligent conversation. Don't you trolls have future shooters to raise? Parades and classrooms aren't going to kill themselves you know

The creepy mural at Denver International climaxes with the depiction of the oppressive world-wide warlord having been overcome with peace and unity being restored globally.

And just like that all the trolls disappear... Is it Prime Time?

Comment at my previously linked video claims that R.C. Christian refers to "AMORC. Rosecrusian secret society." Another poster claims that's linked to Freemasonry.

Anyone into this stuff who can be more revealing?

^ Yeah, it's called another Q-Nut conspiracy theory, where have you been?

@r85, Wow there's a whole lot going on in that mural 😳

what a FUCKING STUPID thing to get your patties in a knot about!

^ Actually destroying opinions you don't understand is a pretty good reason to get your knickers in a twist

Satan's Stones

More pics of the Denver mural

@r92, Dumb Frau

I am pretty sure that 60 Minutes did a segment about The Georgia Guidestones several years ago, that was the first time I had heard of them.

It's definitely a monument to Enlightenment-style Reason. Considering it was also built during the height of the Cold War panic, a guidepost to reorganising society after the bomb seems an appropriate explanation for its construction, and sadly its destruction.

Since it was erected people have been declaring it a Satanic structure. More proof that Christians are insane and the introduction of explosives into the arsenal of these Alt-Right/Christian fanatics should be of real concern to everybody.

Blowing up a monument is terrible enough, but bombs can do a lot more than that.

^ Faux-Christians will not rest until they fuck up everything. This has been known for a long time

Sounds like an idiotic monument to idiocy.

Actually r87 that makes sense. The Rosicrucians have been around a long time, I think the height of their popularity was the late 1800s? Maybe the guy was either a member of some extant order or had studied their teachings.

Rosy Crucians was also a nickname for them (R.C.)

Explosives are tracked in the US, although since this happened so soon after Independence Day maybe they took the gunpowder from a bunch of unsold fireworks and made their own bomb.

R98 you might be misreading it then.

I’d never heard of the guide stones until yesterday.

These nut jobs won’t even abide by the 10 commandments in the Bible they claim to revere, so I’m surprised these stones lasted as long as they did.

In the insanity to which we are witnessing in America today, it’s truly fitting to see them destroyed by QAnon nut jobs.

R9: agreed, and made worse by the fact that he isn’t funny at all

White supremacists probably wouldn’t have bothered adding the other 7 languages to the stone’s message

These are the kind of deep thoughts my brother and his friends come up with when they’ve been drinking and smoking cigars in Dubai.

Yeah, this isn’t a white supremacy thing.

The South/Southerners never cease to amaze/disgust me with its/their utter ignorence and bigotry.

^ I know, right? The only reason no one bothered the Guidestones for the last 42 years is because they were too fucking stupid to think about what was written on them. Until a nutjob Republican Frau came along and said they were bad and now all of a sudden these inbred hillbillies give a shit

There's dumb and then there's Georgia fucking stupid😠

There is evidence that the creator of the guidestones was Dr. Herbert H Kersten, who was a white supremacist and eugenicist. Just randomly saying otherwise, either because you didn't read the thread or don't want to believe it's true, doesn't actually accomplish anything.

A letter he wrote to a Florida editor in 1992 has some parallels with the guidestone text.

R12 Now engrave your reply in stone and put up your own guidestones. Competition is good for business!

[quote]More proof that Christians are insane

I have sufficient.

@r109, "There is evidence that the creator of the guidestones was Dr. Herbert H Kersten, who was a white supremacist and eugenicist. "

Really? there is nothing in the Wiki entry that even mentions his name, but is thorough enough to cover "conspiracy theories"

I welcome your "evidence"

Whether the creator of the guidestones was a far left wacko, a far right wacko, a moderate wacko, or a group of wackos, I can think of nothing more pointless in the event of an apocalypse than a bunch of bullshit like that. Real info on engineering and medicine with minimal materials would be far more helpful.

Leave room for nature... leave room for nature.. yeah, shove it up your ass.

R108, no one believes me when I tell them I met WHITE adults there who did not know how to read or write, but it is 100% true.

All of them had big trucks and their Trump MAGA stickers on the bumper, but you couldn’t get them to read the 3 Little Pigs or write the title of the book.

And the smarter and literate ones? All major conspiracy theorists.

@r114, I believe nature is in the process of "shoving it up humanity's ass" as we speak

Considering that advice was given 42 years ago I would say it was pretty spot on

The guidestones have been big in CT circles left and right since they were erected. Everyone one in the CT community seems to find them ominous and eugenicist. The population it proposes was the world population in 1600.

R117, and that’s why Mother Nature will be the fat lady who sings. She’s singing pretty loudly right now, but not all of us paid for the opera tickets willingly.

The stones were a silly vanity project, however, these things written on them are all common sense on their own face value, without attaching its origins to any group, benevolent or not.

We’re just all too silly and selfish to apply common sense principles in our consumerism and greed.

The thing that bothers me the most about this new grift we’ve got going on politically in the United States, is that we cannot seem to move forward and genuinely progress equitably and fairly, in an ethical order.

It’s human nature, we are told, but why can’t we climb out of the proverbial bucket TOGETHER?

Smart people know that the answers to that question have very little to do with liberals vs. conservatives.

It sucks to be us.

If Rachel Maddow was still doing a daily show and it was a slow news day I could see her starting out tonight's show with this. Of course first she would start out by telling us about Stonehenge then explain the construction of this in Georgia and tie it into Stonehenge, she would attempt to do a deep dive into the creator. Then tell us about it being blown up last night. That would take at least a third of the show.

R118 the only solution will be that one side will win and grind the other into dust, or a major destabilizing event occurs (nuclear war, aliens, return of Jesus, etc.) that gives everyone bigger problems. Right now one side in particular seems to be winning. I am pessimistic that this time there may not be a swing back.

[quote] The South/Southerners never cease to amaze/disgust me with its/their utter ignorence and bigotry.

It's spelled 𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒

R117 The CT community finds everything ominous and suspicious. They think pizza stores are suspicious.

Honestly, the world population recommended is fine. It's larger than the time of the Roman Empire and people have romanticized that era for centuries.

r122 Yes, killing about 6 billion people and sterilizing indirectly and directly about 2 billions is acceptable.

R123. It's meant for after the apocalypse.

If there is no nuclear Armageddon than there's no need for the principles outlined on the stones. If there is a nuclear war than maybe the principles would be a good starting point for a post-fallout society so they don't repeat their ancestors mistakes.

Optimistic of them to assume anyone would survive, but whatever.

@r123, Tell us what it's like to be willfully stupid. I mean, do you walk into walls and fall off cliffs throughout your day? Can you drive a car or do you just run into trees?

r56 all of that would make sense in the context of an apocalyptic nuclear event.

r120 the entire concept of the pendulum is problematic in the first place. It implies a fixed arc that we can't deviate from. We need to bring everything back to the true middle, but no one wants to do that. They don't want to take an honest look at themselves, and work together w/other moderates.

[quote]R114: Leave room for nature... leave room for nature.. yeah, shove it up your ass.

▲ Says Don Trump Jr, trophy hunter.

If the monument couldn't withstand tannerite or dynamite, how was it supposed to withstand a nuclear war to share its wisdom with the survivors?

^ *sigh* I doubt if Elbert County, Georgia is in any danger of taking a direct nuclear hit 🙄

[quote] I doubt if Elbert County, Georgia is in any danger of taking a direct nuclear hit 🙄

The Guidestones were only about 37 miles from a significant target

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R128. Ask the construction crew.

But as R129 said, a stone monument of zero tactical value isn't exactly a high priority for bombardment.

Unless you're a right-wing nutcase I suppose.

R126 yes, so in other words, a fixed arc we can't deviate from because of human nature.

R128 Its highly likely they would still be standing regardless.

This thread is full of nattering nabobs of negativism, exactly who the stones predicted would develop a horrible virus and mutate into Morlocs. I certainly wouldn't want to be them around now!

Thanks Spiggy!

@r133, Love the Time Machine reference...

Again, the usefulness after a nuclear apocalypse of a bunch of ideals on a monument is very questionable to me.

No one said the guy that paid for this was a genius.

@r136, It was a wealthy man's opinion. You could go to any monument engraver and have your opinions etched in stone as well. No one will care, that's why the destruction of the Guidestones is ridiculous on so many levels. Destroying the stones won't destroy his opinion, if anything it's the old Streisand Effect. More people now know his philosophy than ever before

We think the 'guidestones' event is hysterical but we wonder what really happened?

Some say they were struck by lightening.

^ Yep, pretty sure it was a Ford F150 Lightning seen leaving the site

R139 there's actual video footage

They dug to try to find the time capsule, but didn't find anything.

Owen is becoming my favorite former Jehovah's Witness, turned Atheist. He talks about exactly who called for these stones to be destroyed and the severe mental illness in the religious party and government. My only problem is he thinks David Packman is wonderful... I find him to a lot like Trump, personality wise. Give me Brian Tyler Cohen any day over Packman.

This was not lightning, it was not anything but a bombing attack from the paranoid right.

Brian Tyler Cohen is walking sex (seriously, look for his shirtless pics, he is gorgeous) but he seems to be getting more shrill and preachy in some of his posts the past year.

Silly terrorists, the message will live on.

R145 even more so as all the news articles about the guidestones being blown up have brought them to the attention of far more people

Striesand Effect