Here’s the sound cloud link for this podcast: soundcloud.com/genuine-optimist/episode-22-a-rebuttal-to-the-georgia-guidestones-mixdown

I have been bothered with the Georgia Guide Stones for years. They are located in Elbert, County Georgia and they tell the story of a controlling mind. The philosophy behind them is authoritarian, centralized, and satanic. I first decided to give a rebuttal to each statement. Here’s my rebuttal for each. What I came up later is a complete replacement. Read the rebuttal first.

• #1 Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
  
  Maintain communities in balance with perfect common consent and conservation. Avoid metropolitan cities that increase the use of massive energy and dissolve the individual. This is where common consent cannot be achieved. God scattered people in order to accomplish this.
  

• #2 Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.

Do not control reproduction. Improving fitness can only be achieved on a community level because they work for their food. Diversity is a natural outgrowth and not an inherent reality.

• #3 Unite humanity with a living new language.

If you unite with one language, you destroy diversity. Embrace divergent languages.

• #4 Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.

To rule passion dumbs people down. Faith should be free. People will be attracted to that which works. If you rule tradition, you destroy reason, which comes from all and no a few.

• #5 Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

The United States has the best system, a greater cross section of input with the greatest diversity of votes. It is just missing a decentralization of voice. Every community can improve only by common consent in modular form.

• #6 Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

A world court comes from the Devil. If people cannot rule themselves by common consent then justice dies.

• #7 Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

Each community decides by common consent.

• #8 Balance personal rights with social duties.

You cannot force one to do good. Duty is not a state imposed behavior. It is a matter of making a personal covenant with God and your community. If we do not allow God to rule by non-compulsory covenant, we get our behavior and actions numbered and policed.

• #9 Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.

This works only if the infinite is defined by God himself and not by man.

• #10 Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

Let not the idolatry for authority and central control be the cancer on the earth. Bind the chains of Satan and globalism with the vision that all the people are prophets.  

After my written rebuttal in italics, I then re-wrote the guidestones with my own guidestones. Here’s what I came up with.

Heaven’s Guidestones.

1.     Let humanity fill the earth; it is full with enough to spare.

2.     Wrong no man, corrupt no women, defraud no child.

3.     Conserve the voice, vote and value of every person.

4.     Inspire faith in right action to guide reason.

5.     Sovereignty is the conservation of local responsibility first.

6.     Replace judges with our peers; replace precedence with law.

7.     Decentralize control of everything and everywhere.

8.     A rising tide lifts all boats, and it starts in communities.

9.     Relinquish all idolatry for authority.

10.   Every tongue will confess and every knee will bow to Christ.

I then simplified into three core statements or three pillars. You can launch a renaissance with these three core principles.

1.     Let humanity fill the earth; it is full with enough to spare.

2.     Wrong no man, corrupt no women, defraud no child.

3.     Conserve the voice, vote and value of every person.

To listen to the audio version of this post, it is here… https://soundcloud.com/genuine-optimist/episode-20-sharks-and-the-easy

The world in which we live teaches us to live as sharks. Sharks smell blood in the water. Blood means protein is available. Blood means an easy take.

Vultures live off road kill. Maggots feed on dead flesh. To the rat or hyena mind, this means an easy take.

Are you an easy take?

I have a close friend who is a general contractor. He is currently in a legal battle with a shark who hired him to do a lot of work on his housing project. Payments came until a few months later and then payments stopped. Within a thirty day period work was done on several homes with no payment. My friend had to shut down his work and this is where things went ugly. A court battle surfaced. So far, the shark has won on the smallest technicality (a misspelled name) and the judge removed all lien rights from my friend’s business, which included costs in both labor and materials for concrete, framing, stucco and landscaping. In total, he has lost nearly $350,000 in unpaid work in just thirty days. With legal fees it will be close to half a million before the end of this year.

Sharks swarm the waters and the system protects them because they feed those at the top of the food chain, but at the costs of those who labor at the bottom. The legal system is at the top of the food chain, and it is especially true for construction.

I spoke with my uncle recently who is in the trades and he said something interesting. “The construction industry is designed for someone to take a loss.” At some point during the construction of a home or project, someone will take a hit because there is always someone out there for an easy take, and the legal system protects those out for the take. I have seen dozens of friends and family get taken because another uses the legal system for legal theft.

Now I am going to say something that may frustrate many. Sorry, I cannot help myself, so here I go. If there is one thing we can do to make the world a better place, we should abolish judges entirely and create a simple eight-person jury for all civilian issues in excess of $5,000. We could have greater voice and involvement, a genuine judgement of our peers, and corruption would be almost fruitless. Right now sharks use the legal system which is driven by precedence, statutes, and protection racketeering to keep the sharks alive. All you have to do is learn how to move the court to act and the judge is forced to decide accordingly, even it is ethically and logically wrong.

A judge is moved to act according to what is on the books according to statutes, precedence and court procedure. Little technicalities have greater weight than the common sense of right and wrong.

I am sick to my stomach of the bloody waters that empower those who abuse it to take advantage of those who do not.

I know of a popular conservative media website in Austin Texas that was recently forced to be shut down by a judge in California. The judge has a history of making unilateral calls based on what others demand from court filings. If I mention her name, I could get in trouble, and if I mentioned the conservative media site I could be censored. Again, the judicial system as it now operates is at the top of the food chain.

Most of us could site at least one experience in our lives or one story where a single judge made a truly bad call. If the nine-member United States Supreme court can easily split on decisions with five against a decision and four in favor, then what makes us think that a single judge can make legal, ethical, and rational decisions at least 75% of the time? The truth is they can’t.

This means the judicial system is poorly flawed by a greater percentage than we dare admit. There is no real justice by our piers and prior court decisions dictate most action and not statues and standards.

Can we imagine something better? I propose the following:

• Fire all judges within a 24-month period, nationwide. For now, let’s just fire all judges who rule between citizens not judges who rule between the state and citizens.

• Replace these judges (those judging over civil disputes) with nine-member justice/juries selected locally at random.

• Require all justice/juries to make their decisions by unanimous consent for most rulings (all nine) and by a super majority (at least 7) for other rulings.

• Citizens serve on justice/juries in the same way they serve regular jury duty today.

• We can appoint a simple court foreman or manager to handle the mundane management of the court and to assist the justice/jury with proper procedure and to prompt them of decisions to be made. You can even uses judges for this and call them court managers, but do not let them decide for the court.

• Appeals can work the same way.

• A 1-3 day training would precede justice/jury duty.

The goal is to create more voice, more transparency, more local involvement, and a greater chance of real justice. We could also create a greater civil awareness and greater social discourse (AKA more informed citizens).

It is too easy to manipulate a judge. The secret combinations of back room dealings, glad-handing, and private collusion are all too prevalent. If we could look at the under belly of our judges and the benefits they have received from their position of power, it would make many sick.

I can almost see a change happening inside private communities, inside our truly great power to peacefully assemble and organize in better ways. As long as one person is put in so much power, this person can be manipulated, intimidated, and controlled. So why risk it?

Why feed the sharks? Why assume all judges operate with the highest level of integrity when we know they do not?

A renaissance is coming, and it will start by increasing more voice for all. Maybe we can start with changing the judicial system.

Don’t be an easy take, demand a better world. Demand more voice, more involvement, and let’s decentralize the world together.

If just one community, somewhere in the world, mastered the equality of voice and then decentralized power to incorporate widespread consent, it would open the doors to innovation and vision the likes of which this world has never seen.

Unfortunately, most communities are faced with power struggles, just like we see in nations, corporations, and just about all organizations. These power struggles get in the way of true vision and the potential within the people to thrive.

Let me be clear. A power struggle occurs when we organize into vertically integrated authority. When we centralize control, we make it harder for others to get involved. Even worse, consent is limited, which means innovation is stifled. New ideas, or dissenting voices, cannot penetrate the power structure and so decisions are made to protect power and not lift people.

When we organize power from the top down, over time we forget to see all that we still have in common and together. We first lose voice and then all power is lost. We follow rather than forge, we subject ourselves rather than support each other. Eventually we forget our cardinal rule, where-we-go-one-we-go-all.

If I am not making myself clear, it is because I am speaking in the context of raw ideas. Most of us connect not with ideas but with human narrative.

While trying to communicate why cultures collapse to a class of students, I had small groups in the class recreate Dante’s Inferno, the actual steps people make to fall into hell. I asked them to recreate Dante’s steps to fit the incremental decay of culture in our time. Here’s is what they came up with, with the first step down to the last.

• Laziness leads to…

• Lack of accountability, which leads to

• Disrespect, which creates more

• Exclusion, which justifies

• Manipulative tendencies, which causes one to

• Lose a sense of self, and this is

• Negative, and all negative mindsets produce

• Agressive anger and rage, and finally we are left with

• Destruction

If you are aware of what is happening in our world, you can see how society is sliding down this path toward self-destruction. It is like an accident in slow-motion, you see everything happening in super up-close high definition but you cannot do anything to stop it. Or can you?

I have come to one conclusion in my life, and I guess you can call it a revised hope. There is still a way to change the world for the better, and the answer is not what many are looking for, but it is the truth. And here it is. It takes three people to change the world. It also takes a constant division of people in order to preserve voice, which I have talked about in other posts and more to come. But as far as needing three people, each of those three has a particular quality.

• The first person has a vision

• The second person encourages the vision

• The third person runs with the vision.

You can label these three people anyway you want, but for certain three is the magic number. Think of any three good people in your community and imagine what would happen if they came together under the right vision? What kind of impact could they make? What local renaissance could they ignite? What long term sustainable solution could they create?

Three people, that’s all it takes. Are you one of these three people? I know I am, and it is not fun carrying vision alone. It’s like finding a fishing hole with huge, beautiful fish in it and nobody around to tell.

For now I fish alone, at night. There are many of us out there, fishing alone in our treasured watering holes, and the world is not ready to receive the bounty we have found. At least not yet.

Hold on to each other, let intelligence cleave to intelligence, a renaissance is coming.

Find a vision, join and become a party of two or give that party legs to run. Be the catalyst and not the cyclist.

See you next time, from the Genuine Optimist.