Posted: Feb 27, 2011 5:12 pm
Eh, I like History Channel. I do agree it has turned itself into the Conspiracy Theory channel, but I'm always up for taking a look at the worst of what could be in terms of interesting events. At least they "investigate them", yet I always find that the most pressing questions are rarely asked, the team does not seem truly interested enough (they feign interest I feel, because they don't ask the right questions or dig deeper) and due to a "reality tv" trend some time is wasted with melodramatic arguing or bickering.
Still, the Guidestones make some good points to me. How do you feel about what is actually said on the guidestones?
Maybe I'm a Rosicrucian or something, but I love this. There are some interesting things that can be gleaned from these points, and some of them are things that I came upon in my personal "soul searching" throughout my childhood and into my late teenage life. Numbers 2 and 3 are the only ones that confuse me, and leave a little room for someone to step up and say or do something radical and unwise. Guiding reproduction is essentially Eugenics. I don't believe in that, though it's a conundrum for me because I don't know whether or not people who are badly formed or who have unhealthy DNA should be able to reproduce. It's almost like an abortion to me, you are nearly ensuring that your child will die or live a scarred, difficult life. I don't know where I stand on abortion either. The other one, the living language, I'm on the fence about that. We could use a worldwide language but it should be optional, I wouldn't want to get rid of cultural languages that have persisted over thousands of years.
Still, the Guidestones make some good points to me. How do you feel about what is actually said on the guidestones?
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.[4]
Maybe I'm a Rosicrucian or something, but I love this. There are some interesting things that can be gleaned from these points, and some of them are things that I came upon in my personal "soul searching" throughout my childhood and into my late teenage life. Numbers 2 and 3 are the only ones that confuse me, and leave a little room for someone to step up and say or do something radical and unwise. Guiding reproduction is essentially Eugenics. I don't believe in that, though it's a conundrum for me because I don't know whether or not people who are badly formed or who have unhealthy DNA should be able to reproduce. It's almost like an abortion to me, you are nearly ensuring that your child will die or live a scarred, difficult life. I don't know where I stand on abortion either. The other one, the living language, I'm on the fence about that. We could use a worldwide language but it should be optional, I wouldn't want to get rid of cultural languages that have persisted over thousands of years.