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Chrysanthemum State
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Georgia Guidestones Destroyed

Postby Chrysanthemum State » Sat Jul 09, 2022 5:32 pm

The Georgia Guidestones was a granite monument with inscriptions meant to guide mankind written in several languages from across the world. The anonymity of the commissioner of the monument, as well as the messages inscribed, have been the subject of conspiracy theories. On 6 July 2022, one of the four large upright slabs was destroyed by an explosion. The monument was deemed unsafe and was dismantled the same day. Before it's destruction, there were other acts of vandalism to the monument.

I personally found the Guidestones interesting before their destruction. What does NS General think about this event?

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  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.
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Postby Washington Resistance Army » Sat Jul 09, 2022 5:37 pm

I'm not gonna lose any sleep over the weird eugenicist statue that was probably put up by a Nazi personally.
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Araznan
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Postby Araznan » Sat Jul 09, 2022 5:40 pm

this is Really outrageous, they should have Protected the Guidestones More to have it being Bombed and Having it have vandalism.
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Postby Saiwania » Sat Jul 09, 2022 5:43 pm

We don't know too much about why or who constructed it, but there is sort of little point in having it if people have collectively disobeyed all of its messages.
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Postby Rusozak » Sat Jul 09, 2022 5:44 pm

Can someone explain the connection to eugenics I've heard about this? The commissioner is anonymous so we can't know what they supported, and if we're going by the line,

"Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity,"

I'm not convinced that's a clear argument for eugenics. "Diversity" generally isn't a goal of eugenicists. Rather the opposite, conformity to a vision of what the ideal human should be.
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Postby Heloin » Sat Jul 09, 2022 6:19 pm

It spent it’s whole existence pissing off the kind of people who think pokemon cards and trans people are satanic so the weird eugenic rocks have nothing but my fullest critical respect and laughing that someone wasted their time to blow them up.
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Postby Fractalnavel » Sat Jul 09, 2022 7:18 pm

Is this right - vandals partially destroyed the thing, so the government response was to finish the job? Well, that sends a nice message.

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Postby Soveiniesberg » Sat Jul 09, 2022 7:21 pm

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Postby Free Algerstonia » Sat Jul 09, 2022 7:28 pm

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Postby Sordhau » Sat Jul 09, 2022 7:49 pm

Oh no!

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Postby Catholic America » Sat Jul 09, 2022 7:53 pm

I think I will press f on the worlds smallest keyboard.
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Postby The Holy Therns » Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:44 am

OR: "Rocks disassembled."
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Postby Kerwa » Sun Jul 10, 2022 4:18 am

I actually bet local businesses are upset about this.

It’s funny though seeing people seethe about them - either way.

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Postby The Cocon Reservation » Sun Jul 10, 2022 4:20 am

Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day about this, even though one of them probably blew it up in the first place.
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Postby Azania- » Sun Jul 10, 2022 4:37 am

From the Georgia Guidestones Wikipedia page:

Right-wing activist Mark Dice demanded that the guidestones "be smashed into a million pieces, and then the rubble used for a construction project",[45] claiming that the guidestones are of "a deep Satanic origin", and that R. C. Christian belongs to "a Luciferian secret society" related to the New World Order.[1]


Lmao, why do all conspiracy theories end up leading to the New World Order?
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Postby The Cocon Reservation » Sun Jul 10, 2022 4:40 am

Azania- wrote:From the Georgia Guidestones Wikipedia page:

Right-wing activist Mark Dice demanded that the guidestones "be smashed into a million pieces, and then the rubble used for a construction project",[45] claiming that the guidestones are of "a deep Satanic origin", and that R. C. Christian belongs to "a Luciferian secret society" related to the New World Order.[1]


Lmao, why do all conspiracy theories end up leading to the New World Order?

It’s all about control. Conspiracy leaders want their followers to fear that unless they do what they say and faithfully follow them their modern comforts and human rights will be taken away by Soros/Biden/a secret cabal.
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Postby Ifreann » Sun Jul 10, 2022 4:41 am

Rusozak wrote:Can someone explain the connection to eugenics I've heard about this? The commissioner is anonymous so we can't know what they supported, and if we're going by the line,

"Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity,"

I'm not convinced that's a clear argument for eugenics. "Diversity" generally isn't a goal of eugenicists. Rather the opposite, conformity to a vision of what the ideal human should be.

Controlling who can and who cannot reproduce so as to improve the species is exactly what eugenics is.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Jul 10, 2022 5:44 am

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Postby Nimzonia » Sun Jul 10, 2022 7:57 am

I'll be honest, I am entirely unmoved by the destruction of a random monument of no particular historical significance that I'd never heard of until 2 minutes ago.

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Postby Page » Sun Jul 10, 2022 8:01 am

Not that I give a shit about these things but I'll just say I'm disappointed because there are so many better things to bomb. Of course, right-wing nuts who make bombs have a completely different "should be bombed" list from me.
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Postby Emotional Support Crocodile » Sun Jul 10, 2022 8:03 am

I bet it was Bigfoot.
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Postby Vikanias » Sun Jul 10, 2022 9:10 pm

Kinda sad that this was destroyed, I don’t know much about it but this NSG, the scum of the earth are here so why would they care.
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Postby Salus Maior » Sun Jul 10, 2022 9:18 pm

Oh well, it was kind of lame anyway.

Most of those "monuments for post-apocalyptic civilizations" are.
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Postby Hajar » Sun Jul 10, 2022 9:27 pm

Idk why they would vandalize its just sad seeing that they could ruin that, it just seems interesting

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Postby Great Heathen Air Force » Mon Jul 11, 2022 12:39 am

So this was a weird, and possibly eugenicist, monument that had few aesthetic virtues and offered dubious advice. So I wouldn't have been too upset if some committee somewhere decided to tear it down. Although that probably would never have happened, because (for some reason) the thing seemed to attract tourism.

But having crazy conspiracy theorists blow it up because they think it's part of a crazy conspiracy theory puts me in an odd mood. It bothers me that people who should rightly realize that they're idiots, are instead probably feeling very smug right now.
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