There's apparently been some controversy over them lately, with some calling them 'satanic' for some reason that escapes me. I guess people didn't like that they were astrologically aligned, but that's if anything pre-satanic: Men of the West were aligning ancient stones with the sun and stars long before anyone knew the name, at least. They had some ancient languages inscribed on them, as well, but the 'guides' were more Star Trek than satanic; I'd guess it was a collection of new wave professors from the nearby University of Georgia who put the things up.
I rode out to them back in 2015 after I'd heard a rumor about their existence. Here's the panel talking about the astronomical alignment.
And here's one of the guideline panels, which includes at least one piece of very excellent advice we should be following even today:
The marble is from nearby Elberton, Georgia, where my son used to wrestle occasionally back in high school. It is the home of a notable quarry, which if were I Sherlock Holmes I is where I would begin my investigation into who blew the thing up. That explosion looks like dynamite to me: not big enough to be artillery but still sizable, and near a quarry where dynamite is available and where there are people who know how to use it. I am not Mr. Holmes, however, so I shall leave the matter in accord with the Two Rules of Business.
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WRT "satanic:" Ann Althouse noted:
The stones were engraved with 10 principles (in 8 languages), and the first one is blatantly evil, once you penetrate the euphemism "Maintain":
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Ann Althouse has some background.
I take from her post that she had heard about them via podcast call Skeptoid but since I haven't taken the time to listen to that episode I can't tell if Skeptoid reported on the Stones controversy or the documentary. Ms Althouse has a decent excerpt and summary plus a link to the podcast.
As I commented at her place, I hope any Iowan who was approached about hosting them told him to erect them where the sun don't shine.
The first two are outright eugenic, but that kind of thing used to be very popular among the educated elite -- recall Roe v. Wade was from the same era, as was Star Trek-y concerns about Earth descending into an overpopulated period of chaos before the rise of the Wise Federation and its age of Reason.
I arranged my camera to cut those two out of my picture on purpose. The rest was pretty good.
I guess the final one -- which apparently I also cut out -- contains some eugenic flavor as well. Still, it's good advice once you dispose of the idea of humanity as a 'cancer.' The metaphor they're aiming at is one of growth out of order with what nature can sustain, so that you might kill the host in your own heedless expansion. Conservationist principles are wise, though environmentalist ones often go overboard.
"Petty" and "useless" would attract universal approval and very little agreed-upon definition. It's nice to have it out there as a general reminder, however.
Thank you James for pointing that out- Greg
Maybe that comment would have done better using a little quadratic math expression:
Avoid (Petty + Useless)(Laws + Officials)
The 'humans are poison to Gaia' crapola might have been overlooked except for the recent troubles with Gates/Fauci/WEF/Dutch farmers/US fertilizer stuff.
They are playing for real, which inspires pushback.
The problem with that, D29, is that this was carved forty-two years ago; and they probably agreed on the basic language for the carving a year or two before that, spending time on project development and funding in between. You can't read the problems of 2022 back into the 1970s because, even where the seeds of 2022's problems were present, they couldn't have known how the course of events would develop.
To take Gates as an example, 1980 was the year IBM approached him about maybe including his MS-DOS software on its computers. He was nobody back then. They wouldn't have even known his name.
Perhaps I was not clear.
The destruction of that monument was perhaps motivated by the Gaia-worship texts thereon, and the vandal/destroyer perhaps saw today's troubles and decided that the monument needed destroying because of its texts.
Has nothing whatsoever to do with the 1970's origin. Has everything to do with today.
Further information suggests that the bomb was planted on the Swahili/Hindi tablet, rather than the one with English an American could be expected to read. I don't know if that means anything particular -- most Americans couldn't identify Swahili or Hindi, let alone would have reason to have particular animosity for it. Maybe they picked at random. And maybe it wasn't ideological, even; it could have just been a thing they wanted to blow up because it was weird and stick-outish.
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