Comments on: Guidestones into the Age of Reason https://www.damninteresting.com/guidestones-into-the-age-of-reason/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:26:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: jarvisloop https://www.damninteresting.com/guidestones-into-the-age-of-reason/#comment-74475 Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:26:05 +0000 #comment-74475 1. In this case, I agree with Elon Musk. He is concerned that we will face the end of civilization as we know it if the world’s population drops by only one percent. If the population were to drop to under five hundred million (even if accomplished gradually), whatever form of civilization results is not one that I want to see.

2. Pretty fast with the updates, especially the second one. Impressive.

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By: logic-us https://www.damninteresting.com/guidestones-into-the-age-of-reason/#comment-26549 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:04:30 +0000 #comment-26549 We are like the cancer on this planet. Every ten years our population doubles. Not enought money, food or jobs. Gas will continue to rise because we as a nation consume so much of it on just an everyday basis. The more people, the less of everything ( food, gas, clean water, jobs …..ect,…ect,…ect)
The more people that there are the more waste (trash, human waste) we have to figure where to put it. More people, more pollution. More consumption of products. More wellfare, more taxes, more drugs and abortions and drunks and more killings.
Long lines at airports, gas stations, food stores, restaurants, beaches, malls, schools, movie theaters, parks, and on the highways.

We are already 10 times over the population we should be at to keep a balance with nature and our Ecomony.
What do you think it will be like in 10 years when 436,000,000 people in the U.S turns into 800,000,000??? Then what?
It will just continue to get worse, unless we act soon.
I think the GuidStones make a great point. People are just so stuck on what they think to listen to any real “Reason”. They make excuses for what ever suits their situation.

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By: dragondm6 https://www.damninteresting.com/guidestones-into-the-age-of-reason/#comment-25177 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:50:52 +0000 #comment-25177 Erecting monuments like this are important for future civilizations to find. For instance, it was a GREAT idea to put multiple languages on there. If future civilizations do find it, they can use it much like we used the Rosetta Stone. The fact that you can look through the hole and see the north star points out that we have some knowledge of engineering (although they will probably understand that when they find our cities). However, if people don’t like what it says, you don’t have to knock it down, just sand off the words, and etch new ones on there that make more sense.

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By: ceecee8888 https://www.damninteresting.com/guidestones-into-the-age-of-reason/#comment-25163 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:20:05 +0000 #comment-25163 Sorry jasonb but having four kids means you are contributing to overpopulation and the environmental degradation and poverty that results from it. If everyone had four kids like you, the pollution and poverty in the world would be worse than it already is. It isn’t so much that we should kill your kids – rather we should make birth control appealing to people like you so you won’t have 4 in the first place. Scientists agree that a sustainable number for the world’s population is one third what it is now. At most, everyone should only be having 2 kids. Compare the quality of life in Bangladesh to the quality of life in Canada. It’s worse in Bangladesh, to a large degree because of the scourge of overpopulation, which is contributed to by overly defensive people like you.

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By: jcmoscon https://www.damninteresting.com/guidestones-into-the-age-of-reason/#comment-23541 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:22:12 +0000 #comment-23541 And somebody just went there and completely VANDALIZED it!!!
yeahhh!!!
see some pictures here:
http://exatanews.blogspot.com/2008/12/georgia-guide-stones-vandalized.html

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By: modeerf2 https://www.damninteresting.com/guidestones-into-the-age-of-reason/#comment-23046 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:00:53 +0000 #comment-23046 The “TOTAL SUM” of these “TEN COMMANDMENTS = SLAVERY.
It looks like most “Blogging” are advocating Hell on Earth, not paradise…all of you have opinions and are expressing them freely…think of what it is going to be like; when you are forced into SILENCE…if you think the population should be cut, then volunteer…
Those of you paying homage to these stones, will indeed get to see, first hand, what it feels like to surrender your life to some diabolical leader. To be tortured, if you step out of line. But then again, you all will probably enjoy it, even more accurately, you will DESERVE it! Enjoy the “New World Order”, because we’re already pretty far down in the “rabbit hole”. If you don’t know what the New World Order is…then start researching. Read “Agenda 21, Sustainable Goals.” The “Project for a New American Century,” and other documents our Elite have been advocating…then tell me if that’s the kind of world you really want for yourself, or your children…Don’t be sheep, don’t be decieved! Wake up!

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By: shillen https://www.damninteresting.com/guidestones-into-the-age-of-reason/#comment-22339 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:47:55 +0000 #comment-22339 It is not that
Higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere cause an average higher temperatures
but:
An average higher temperatures causes higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere!
That is a small but important difference!
The part of CO2 in the atmosphere is 0,03%. Further its known that the human made part of it is 0,5 (the rest comes from volcanos, oceanc, etc.)
If we reduce our CO2-exhaust by 20% it is the effect of 0,00003% in the Atmosphere. Wow, we can change the world! You have to be silly to follow Al Gores Explanations. It’s only to treat the sheep for money!
The politicians are not capable to satisfy hunger or to guarantee fpr peace on earth BUT THEY CHANGE THE COMPOSTITION OF OUR ATMOSPHERE! har har har……
What Lightheads are they?
And what stupid sheep are the people to vote them?

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By: Mirage_GSM https://www.damninteresting.com/guidestones-into-the-age-of-reason/#comment-22100 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:21:29 +0000 #comment-22100 [quote]sulkykid said: “A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-O-N I hate spelling mistakes. My own, that is. How agravating.”[/quote]
Not to mention A-G-G-R-A-V-A-T-I-N-G…

Anyway… @RayNAustin:
It is true that the earth has been considerably warmer in the past than it is today. Core drills in the polar ice (which go back as far as 600.000 years by the way) are not the best evidence for that, because more than 600.000 years ago (and for a quite long time before that) the poles were free of ice, so evidence for the warmer periods cannot be found in ice. There is however other evidence – geological and fosil – to prove that the temperatures we have today are about as cold as the earth gets. The “small” ice age we had about 10.000 years back was just a negative extreme on a larger amplitude.
However there is a proven connection between the concentration of CO2 and other so-called greenhouse gases and the average global temperatures: Periods of warm climate were always associated with high CO2 levels in the atmosphere. For details see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology#Phanerozoic_Climate
Since humans started burning fossil fuels there has been a measurable increase in the atmospheric CO2 levels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_the_Earth%27s_atmosphere
So I think two facts are undisputed today:
1. Higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere cause on average higher temperatures
2. Humans have caused higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
I don’t want to dismiss the possibility that the sun’s activity may account for part of it, but the correleation between CO2-levels and temperature is quite good, so the influence is probably a minor one.
So just how much anthropogenic warming are we talking here? Probably nothing the earth hasn’t seen before. Certainly not the temperatures “we” had in the Precambrian. So why the excitement? It’s been that warm before and the earth didn’t mind much.
Well, the earth probably won’t mind much today either. Sure a few species might go extinct, but that was always the way it was.
The problem is – will we mind? I do not believe in Al Gore’s horror szenarios of great floods etc, but even a small rise in the sea levels can make life in coastal regions very inconvenient. Not so much in cities like New York but in countries like Myanmar.
People in North America and Europe will probably not feel the changes as much as people in africa who have enough trouble growing the food for their family to begin with.
That said, I also think many of the CO2 offsets are modernday indulgences. There are other way to do something and most of them – like having a fuel efficient car and conserving energy – have tangible financial benefits as well.
No, CO2 is not poisonous. It is a necessary ingredient of our atmosphere.
We just have to realize that unlike oxygen it has some side-effects that we have to know about.

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By: shillen https://www.damninteresting.com/guidestones-into-the-age-of-reason/#comment-20027 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:49:40 +0000 #comment-20027 The thing is that a small group of people (a kind of higher race) places itself a memorial for the future. A future where 1.000 people (the master race) can live on the fat of the land and another 499.000 people (slave race) have to live under total control. The climate hoax and the fairy tale about 9-11 are just the means to the end. Who cares about 3000 dead people whenkilling them eases the way of reaching the target carved in guide stones?
If I had the possibility, I’d blow the guidestones up.
When will mankind wake up?

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By: Inkdipt https://www.damninteresting.com/guidestones-into-the-age-of-reason/#comment-19930 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:08:09 +0000 #comment-19930 Seriously? Is this what we as a society want to leave for someone 4,000 years from now to read? It is inevitable for any society to look back and question the intelligence of the past generation, but why would we want to say something like this to them. So why fall into the rut of trying to offer a word of advice to the future and instead give them a hell of a recipe for say, the best damn chocolate chip cookies they would ever have. At least then we would be giving them something good and useful at any stage of human existence.

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