What’s your favorite conspiracy theory?
Those who would answer “the Georgia Guidestones as a Satanic stomping grounds” have seen a renewal of attention paid to their foremost Internet deep-dives this past week, as the granite monuments are officially no more. The six slabs totaling up to 237,746 pounds were destroyed in a bombing on Wednesday, July 6.
4 a.m. surveillance footage picked up a vehicle of interest fleeing the scene shortly after the still-unsolved explosion. The detonator, or detonators, left the landmark’s Swahili and Hindi language slabs in complete ruins, and mostly the rest of the capstone in unsalvageable shambles. These included: English, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, and Russian language engravings.
In assisting the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation promptly dismantled the lasting remains, citing precautionary reasons. Additional inscriptions lost in the wreckage: the famed “Ten Commandment”-inspired messaging dictated by the March 22, 1980-unveiled site’s architect, the alias-wielding Robert C. Christian. They were as follows:
- 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.
“Christian” claimed to represent a “small group of loyal Americans” keen on seeing the development of the “compass, calendar and clock”-capable stones to fruition. They were designed to serve as a “guide” for humanity – hence its namesake. Interpretations from Christian, and even musician Yoko Ono, reckon the Guidestones, with their celestial and sunbeam tallies, also somehow render it harmless in the face of dire threats to a civilization–whether it be rational thought rejection, or nuclear devastation.
With the “Helter Skelter”-hellbent long out of commission and Nostradamus taking an extended sabbatical after the Mayan 2012 “Doomsday” proposition came and went like tears in rain, modern-day movers and shakers of the alternative persuasion found ample footing at the base of the stones. Religion-concerned right-wing activists, especially, including YouTuber Mark Dice, have called for them to be “smashed into a million pieces,” fearing them part of a “deep Satanic origin” with “Luciferian secret society” and “New World Order” ties.
In need of a shadow history refresher? The “New World Order” – like the “Eye of Providence,” aka the ‘Illuminati eye’ – has featured on our nation’s currency for quite some time. The Latin phrase, “novus ordo seclorum” (translation: ‘New Order of the Ages’) has run on the back of the U.S. one-dollar bill since 1935. The theory of the New World Order supposes the rising emergence of a globally unified totalitarian government; one society to reel them in (The Illuminati), then another to rule them all (The New World Order)–two sides of the same not-so-secret coin.
While conservatives celebrated the Guidestones’ loud ousting, residents of the Elberton area were less than pleased with the early morning show in the sky. Curiously, it did take place days after July 4, for which the masses had conditioned their sleeping selves to tune out firework eruptions all-weekend long. Furthermore, one must also wonder if the Lunar Moon-aligned timing for the blow-it-up takedown of an argued “astrologically alive” entity was as kismet as believers would consider its November 2008 vandalism.
Polyurethane-painted slogans such as “Death to the New World Order,” “No one-world government” and “Jesus will beat u satanist” appeared just in time for Barack Obama’s historically significant election into the highest U.S. office. Urban legend buyers putting on their urban legend salesmen hats would school line-towers on how these are spiritually interconnected events; not ones they necessarily root for, but that they contend were swept into motion by the broom of the system.
Then, in September 2014, the FBI intervened when Unamerican graffiti – “I Am Isis, goddess of love” – entered the fold. It was this occurrence that led to the installation of security cameras onsite.
Despite the stones’ hauntingly open-ended 6-feet deep time capsule indication (On [no date listed]; To be opened on [no date listed]), The Elberton Star reports police digs of the property in the fiery aftermath of the Guidestones’ and Guidelines’ demise have yet to turn up evidence one ever existed.
“There was no hole. There was no nothing. It was a slab of concrete on top of dirt,” police Lt. Shane Allen told The Epoch Times.
And yet, the conspiracy chatter continues in large.
Who was R.C. Christian? Was he Herbert Hinzie Kersten, physicist friend to controversial eugenicist William Shockley? Was he D.B. Cooper? Or was he who he said he was – and we, the conditioned-to-be close-minded until meeting ideological liberation, just haven’t cracked the riddle yet?
If history’s propensity to repeat itself has taught anything to a society free to ask questions, it’s that time will tell—just as the time capsule would have, had it not gone conveniently “missing” moments after it was found, per the will of the fun-spoiling containers at be, wherever they may be. Perhaps, even like horror movie master John Carpenter’s capitalism accosting They Live (1988), they could be, they could live, with sunshades as masquerades all around us…
But this is no endorsement, one way or the other, though; merely a message. Don’t kill The Messenger. Or the heir to the stones.
