The Georgia Guidestones

I am ashamed to say I had never heard of this until today. It is a shame, really, since this monument named The Georgia Guidestones was so close to me when I was in Georgia.

Just in case you, too, are in the dark. Let me give you a link that provides the official story and then summarize the stuff, should you choose not to do the investigation yourself. Here is the link: http://www.wired.com/images/multimedia/magazine/1705/Wired_May_2009_Georgia_Guidestones.pdf.

Now for the summary. Sometime in June 1979, a mysterious man approached the owner of the Elbert Granite Finishing Company with a proposal to construct a unique monument. The man purported to be one of a group of loyal Americans who loved God and who wanted to provide future generations, regardless what calamities and destruction might befall humanity, with a guide to living on earth. The stones would contain the same message in 8 different languages. The monument was identified with the hope to "Let These Be Guidestones To An Age Of Reason." It might be considered a hoax, but someone, or someones, paid a lot of money to erect this stone monument.

Here are the Ten Guidelines that purportedly will save humankind:

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 earth -- leave room for nature -- leave room for nature.

It has hit the news again because some in Georgia are taking exception to the benign purposes expressed for the construction and see it as a step toward the one world government that threatens all true Bible-believing Christians.

What do you think? Will these principles save the world? If you could delete one, which would it be? If you could add one, what would you add? If you came up with your own list of Ten, what would they be. [I would say you have to do more than recommend the "Ten Commandments" in whatever version you prefer to have your comments published here.]