Alternative 10 Commandments

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Georgia Guidestones

In June 1979, an unknown person or persons under the pseudonym R.C. Christian hired Elberton Granite Finishing Company to build the structure. One popular hypothesis is that the patron's pseudonym may be a tribute to the legendary 17th-century founder of Rosicrucianism, Christian Rosenkreuz.
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A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
Unite humanity with a living new language.
Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Balance personal rights with social duties.
Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandment_Alternatives#Examples (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandment_Alternatives#Examples)

Your thoughts comrades? (on the Guidestones and / or other 10 commandment lists in the link)

Source: Wikipedia

[Franz Fanonipants]

crazy bullshit

[NGNM85]

Anyone with half a brain could come up with a list of moral guidelines superior to the 10 Commandments. For Christs' sake (No pun intended.) the first two are wasted prohibiting the worship of any other religions. Then we have more rubbish; keep the sabbath, and don't take the Lord's name in vain. Honoring your parents is probably a good idea, but does this really belong in the top ten? Only six, eight, and nine, are worth a damn. How about rape, child abuse, slavery, or war? Those would be on the top of my list.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Sounds a little primitivist.

[Bronco]

Well I've read number 1 and seeing as it would necessitate wiping out the vast majority of the Earth's population I don't have high hopes for the other 9

[Judicator]

Why does nature have any value outside of its use to humans?

[Revolution starts with U]

Humans are not the center of the universe... perhaps?

(Also, you know, biodiversity is good for all creatures, including humans. Variety is the key to survival through great changes.)

[DarkPast]

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

People usually have fewer kids the better their quality of life. Improve the quality of life for all people and the population growth will slow down, or even reverse. This is far better than some crazy ideas involving mass sterilization or murder.


Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.

Eugenics. Not cool.


Unite humanity with a living new language.

Nice idea, but impractical, utopian even.


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

:thumbup1:


Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

People - yes. Nations... depends - do they mean people of a certain ethnicity or nation states?


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

No. Internationalism FTW.


Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

Balance personal rights with social duties.

Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.

Sounds good to me.


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

Sure, but we are part of "nature", too.

[Franz Fanonipants]

Anyone with half a brain could come up with a list of moral guidelines superior to the 10 Commandments. For Christs' sake (No pun intended.) the first two are wasted prohibiting the worship of any other religions. Then we have more rubbish; keep the sabbath, and don't take the Lord's name in vain. Honoring your parents is probably a good idea, but does this really belong in the top ten? Only six, eight, and nine, are worth a damn. How about rape, child abuse, slavery, or war? Those would be on the top of my list.

dude why don't you stop posting please you are a boring white internet atheist milquetoast in a sea of boring white internet atheist milquetoast.
a terrible poster.

[Revolution starts with U]

:rolleyes: Racism is funny, amirite Franz?

[ColonelCossack]

Da fok?

Someone just invented national primitivism...

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

p-RGN21TSGk

[Lord Testicles]

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

No. "Nature" can adapt or it can find a ditch and die in it.

[OHumanista]

Lots of shit.
Enviromentalism? Yes. Primitivism ? Hell no *shoots the guy proposing primitivism*
Plus much of it is just hippy nonsense with zero pratical meaning

[Franz Fanonipants]

:rolleyes: Racism is funny, amirite Franz?

pure rage

[RGacky3]

The whole point of the 10 commandments is that they are supposed to be commandments from God, thats what gives then weight, if you don't believe that then its just some dude that wrote them down and are meaningless.

This is exactly that, its just some dude, anyone can write their own 10 commandments.