The Georgia Guidestones: Tips for a Post-Apocalyptic World?

Who made them? But also, also, also... who cares?
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[@resileaf9501]

I love when Simon just loses his train of thought and starts rambling about semi-random stuff before he remembers he's doing a show. It feels so conversational and natural, it really gives this show a wonderful touch. Also I don't know if it's intentional, but one 'fucking' wasn't bleeped. As it had to do with humans fucking up nature, maybe that was on purpose for emphasis. XD

[@ashleelarsen5002]

Those are the times that I reevaluate my life and what a waste it is, and when he talks about his kid!- I think holy shit- I should pray for that kid- cuz this is so dumb 33:33

[@chasefrancis8742]

Next time you think about commenting, don't.

[@Jenna-zd9od]

The ‘go away price’- my parents are builders and call it a ‘pain in the a**’ surcharge. It can be a flat fee or percentage depending on how bad the client is.

[@nmxsanchez]

We've always called it the fk you fee

[@xBruceLee88x]

Raid Shadow Legends comes to mind

[@davebeech236]

As an online tutor, If I decide I can't be bothered, I just turn up drunk. Instant dismissal, and the student can feel better, thinking it was their decision. How nice am I?!

[@ADayintheLifeoftheTw]

I used to train at a martial arts gym that had selective pricing for their members. Beloved members paid about 50-75$ a month. Newbies generally paid 150$ a month. Asshats that couldn't take a hint were charged closer to 300$ a month. Highest I heard was a guy paying 325$ before he went to a rival gym who had a special of 120$. He then got kicked out of that gym after two weeks.

[@AF_1892]

@@ADayintheLifeoftheTw was in Houston, Gold's Gym. The trainers kept approaching me, hey do you want a trainer. Obviously not. Pretty sure surviving college track and pro rugby...I'm good. Then they started trying to recruit me as a trainer. I did not do that. A proper trainer yells extreme non-pc statements.

[@elp2tlh]

Apparently a couple of days ago (6 July 2022), the Guidestones were bombed by parties unknown. The damage was so great that the remaining stones were subsequently dismantled for safety.

[@Jay_Frank]

Yeah, it's sad.

[@anubis1179]

It is so sad that nutters do shit like this

[@vict4451]

Didn't someone running for office say they were satanic, or something, so they had to go?

[@Jay_Frank]

@@vict4451 I don't actually remember. I just hate when history is destroyed, regardless of the reason.

[@Kyzrath]

@@Jay_Frank I mean, it's a monument that was funded by a nutcase in the 1970's. It's not exactly 'history'.

[@Pupil0fGod]

Fact boy tangents are 40% of why I watch these videos. I would still watch them without the tangents, but they really add great flavor and provide a wonderful human touch to your videos (especially appreciated during Casual Crim) Don't stop it Simon! it is pure gold. P.S. We love Danny intros, please don't throw anymore away O.G.B.B.

[@bluebelle8823]

I can explain the languages. These are all base languages. And they are all stored with other similarly long lasting preservation projects. Notably the Rosetta project which specialises in the preservation of dying languages. Honestly they're pretty good choices if you want to think about not just legibility but the preseration of human language. (Sorry librarian)

[@fowleheidi482]

Love you librarian. Start with that in a comment I almost didn't read. Tell your qualifications before some tired idiot like me thinks oh great someone being mean to Simon 😂 However I finish anything I read and appreciate your info!

[@jplxlabelle1681]

I agree, with everything besides the Egyptian hieroglyphs. This is a language that is amazingly complicated, and was only deciphered by luck. Because some Pharos decided to brag in multiple languages after “Israel was shorn”. It’s purposely complicated for reasons I won’t get into here. I believe it was included as some strange “flex”. In the future, if these stone need to be re deciphered. It won’t be because of the hieroglyphs.. I mean common R.C. Christian.. if that is your real name..

[@georgecrompton8663]

They would be a bit useless if the survivors don't speak any of those languages though.

[@michaellamont2605]

אמת

[@TukikoTroy]

Now can you explain the decision to put imperial measurements on the stones?

[@butteringyourbiscuitbaby7398]

I've watched your material for a long time and every single one of them has taught me something new. Last year was horrible for me since my whole family has passed away and watching your videos have helped me get thru a lot of stressful days. Thank you and keep up your fantastic work. Be safe.

[@decodingtheunknown2373]

I'm so sorry to hear about your family. I'm glad that my videos have managed to provide even a small modicum of comfort.

[@butteringyourbiscuitbaby7398]

@@decodingtheunknown2373 Never was expecting any reply from you, but thank you.

[@lisilucyinski9455]

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[@bobbymarried2024]

Wow sorry to hear that wow but I know what you mean (in no way anywhere near your loss but I went through hell & back with family and life) this man helps me sleep , pass time, and sometimes by myself I LMFAO all his channels too I'm so so sorry for the loss you went through...SALUTE

[@TR-qs1qc]

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[@diannholland]

Regarding Overpricing. I worked for a company that was a National shipper. We set up storage for trucking companies between point A and B. One day we got a call from the US Government, wanting us to do a bid for them. I remember my boss was like "Oh, I REALLY don't want to work with them, it would be TOO much of a hassle. So he came up with a price that was several times more than the normal rate. Thinking that they would take one look at that and go with someone else. IMAGE our surprise when the Gov decided to go with us, and then told us that the reason that they did is that WE WERE THE LOWEST PRICE! Telling us, that no other trucking company wanted to work with the government either. LOL!

[@semaj_5022]

Simon, remember: your personal "carbon footprint" is negligible. It is not up to the individual to decrease their minute impact on the atmosphere. It's up to the industries and corporations and the governments that (are meant to) regulate them to reduce their emissions.

[@picklethepirate]

Bless you for pointing out this. Somehow, despite it being obvious to anyone willing to do 3-4 Google searches, it's apparently largely unknown. Edit: not being sarcastic, though I wish i lived in a world where this could be considered as such.

[@magafam4847]

Nah bro don't by that climate bullshit so rich get richer by creating this you know how I know it's fake it's the earth gets hot and cold all the time actually global warming has always been good thing for the earth go look up some scientist that's what they say mini ice ages global freezing is when we run into problen

[@billcipher_w]

Remember, you can't do everything the world needs-- but the world needs everything you can do.

[@frogger2011ify]

Climate change and the whole carbon thing how they sell it is a Marxist hoax

[@semaj_5022]

@@magafam4847 The rich stay rich and get richer by maintaining the status quo, not by trying to convince the entire world we need to change how we produce energy. And yes, the Earth has natural climate cycles. It gets "hotter and colder all the time." What we are causing is an *_unnatural_* change in climate, very quickly, which will make it difficult to survive for everything that lives on Earth currently. Warmth is good for plants and some animals, yes, but not too much and not too fast, and that's what is happening. A 5 minute Google search will tell you the same.

[@havenward]

Off setting is unfortunately born from businesses shunting responsibility to consumers. It's corporations that need to offset and reduce. Sort of like how soda bottles used to be glass and producers were responsible for recycling them, but switch to plastic and make it customer responsibility, and they wash their hands of the whole thing...

[@michaelholman8324]

God forbid the people consuming products are responsible for disposal of their own waste. Have you really never heard of personal accountability? Virtually no one in the developed or developing world is innocent in the climate/ waste crisis we are dealing with.

[@twilightwyrm]

@@michaelholman8324 No one is innocent, but there are certainly some more guilty than others. And where major corporations are concerned, this guilt is orders of magnitude greater.

[@paintdrinker455]

@@twilightwyrm Based

[@kalichernenkoff7653]

You obviously never worked for a recycling business/plant before

[@TollHammer]

Very true. Even employers make employees do their own punch changes, requests for days off, etc. Grocery stores now make us checkout and bag our own stuff. Its all about sherking (spelling?) things off for profits.

[@OnPlanetVenus]

Simon referring to astrology as “some wizard sh*t” is my new favorite thing

[@GimmeJimmy23]

This brought me right back to intro astronomy. Our professor asked us if anyone knew the difference between astronomy and astrology, the first words out of his mouth on the first day of class.... Everyone in class was too timid to raise their hand. In a firm voice, he replied to himself.... "Astronomy is science, astrology is BULLSHIT!"

[@manupontheprecipice6254]

@@GimmeJimmy23 Astology in the context of understanding the mythos of each constellation is fun. Taking it seriously for life choices is where it’s just dumb.

[@metamaxis]

I feel there could be a whole line of shirts with just out of context Simon.

[@natahliazaring5291]

Also, astrology in the context of an RNG system (random number generation) is important, too. Both in the past and sometimes within the modern world, acting on partial info about a situation is statistically worse than choosing "at random," so having a selector process that does not rely on information relevant to the situation (like, say, the position of stars, the roll of a dice, or the shapes you see within tea leaves) is overall an evolutionary advantage. So yeah, that shit isnt real in the sense that there's no mystical power involved. But it is real in the sense that it does provide a useful function regardless.

[@Creationweek]

One of the strange side effects of becoming a professional archaeologist is the sheer number of strange monuments constructed in rural areas that we all learn about through some form of strange osmosis. I dont think future archeologists will have too much trouble with this thing. It's just another weird monument some eccentric rich person had built. Which really colors your understanding of the past. I just cant give a shit about pyramids anymore. its just some weird thing some weird eccentric rich dude had built 10000 years ago. You know what's really interesting about the pyramids though, the beer the workers who built the pyramids were drinking. There is an archaeologist who reverse engineered the recipe, now that is the real important ancient secret.

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

I'd love a follow up to this story since the Guidestones were recently destroyed in July 2022 by someone with an explosive. The rest of the stones were quickly demolished and removed with barely any information or news. Did they take the time capsule? Why so hush-hush? Who knows? ;P

[@Hellheart]

Apparently, there was no time capsule under it

[@benayers8622]

@@Hellheart They would say that :) weird that someone took the trouble tbh no?

[@SoranMBane]

Translating these messages into ancient, dead languages is completely counterintuitive to the monument's supposed purpose. After the kind of disaster that could bring the human population down to less than 500 million, there probably wouldn't be many people left who know ancient Egyptian or whatever, so it would be better to translate into common modern languages, like Chinese and Spanish. You can tell just from the language choices that these people were thinking more about how they could look smart and special than they were about practicality.

[@archstanton6102]

Shhhhh! Don't bring logic into this.

[@Korium84]

The people that would have the money to hide, would be able to read one of them.

[@tartnouveau3652]

Plus the advice is not practical

[@SoranMBane]

@@tartnouveau3652 All these "guidelines" range from "morally dubious" to "I've gotten more profound life advice from a fortune cookie." So, yeah, at least it'll be no great loss if there's ever a future where humanity can no longer read anything written on those stones.

[@xerothedarkstar]

It could've been meant as a sort of "Rosetta Stepping Stone". A hint to help the future understand the past? Just a thought.

[@-MarcusAurelius]

Simon don’t bother with paying to offset your carbon footprint. Mostly those programs just plant trees and then say you’ve offset your footprint, but they don’t necessarily plant trees where they will grow naturally and a lot of them just end up dying. It’s a cheap way of taking your money and you aren’t really making a significant impact at all. No matter how much we do as individuals, without government action, it won’t be enough. In fact, I heard that the whole idea of an “individual carbon footprint” was heavily promoted by BP in the late 2000s as a way of pushing the burden of climate change onto individuals instead of governments and large companies.

[@thomasgross8289]

Governments have no power not given to them by the people. Comments like these worry me greatly! The government should NEVER have so much power over the people...don't you study history?! Or here is a great example....look around the world today!

[@-MarcusAurelius]

@@thomasgross8289 I’m assuming you don’t believe in climate change then…

[@thomasgross8289]

@@-MarcusAurelius im not a fool lol, but the earths climate is always changing. The scientific data stretches hundreds of thousands years into earth's past. Earth's climate has gone through some pretty intense changes, at one point in our history even causing slightly more than 95% of the world's life to go extinct, perty quickly, well in realation to the age of earth lol, about 10k years, give or take. My point being, the earth's environment is changing and will CONTINUE to change, like the sun rises, tides come and go, and the sun sets, the Earths climate is going to change. The cycle and pattern we are seeing today is NOT outside of historical norms. And to be frank, we probably won't have much of a influence on how the environment reacts anyway. Carbon footprints...think about it. EVERYTHING on Earth is made up of carbon. Everything. Its foolish to think that the Earth is billions of years old and hasn't developed a system to deal with any normalized effects that will happen on Earth. Ok, but the greenhouse gasses tom, the gases.... The earth has a nifty filtration system to deal with those pesky greenhouse effects. Whats one of the highest quantity of gases in the atmosphere? That's right CARBONdioxide. And you might be surprised to find out, thats a perty recent phenomenon...in relation to the age of Turtle Island, Earth if you will. The biggest root of our issues I hate to say is 1)money and 2)and by FAR the Government. Money I mean, the money the professors, and Colleges want. Guess where that money is going to come from? Yep the good ole folks down there we've hired to run the government, yepp the politicians. Actually thats a lie, no money comes from the government, it comes from us, the citizens by way of taxes. Anyway all those taxes, and we're talking about BILLIONS of dollars folks, not just a few thousand. The ole boys, and ladies i know lol, that we hired, dole's out those dollars by way of grants and scholarships and federal loans, but mostly scholarships and, well hell call it what it is....gifts😉😉 to our "Schools of Higher Learning, to fund the building of buildings, having books designed, written, printed and and built, and delivered to the before mentioned institutions. And lots, probably in reality all, of the tenured staff members will have a pet project that they work on. Now the "talent" answers to the "brawn" talent being professer, and his/her staff. And the brawn, the im not going to say they purposely made it that way and dropped it. Anyway the school gets some money but the PROFESSOR gets the biggest slice of pie, to aid him in "studies" like I said almost all higher levels of learning the professor is working on a master's, and doctorate, even maybe a case study... Bottom line, the government pays college's and professors to "research " climate change and what might the chronic and acute impacts will be...and they if not outright lie, follow down the paths they chose. Someone is telling you the results of something that might do something to us? Ok I'll listen. Now and in the ohhhhh the doom and ohhhhhh the gloom, isn't that scary?! No that didn't have many people asking questions. In a lot of ways us being vertical is a threat.oh and we only have 2 years to come up with something...2? No no meant 5, yeah 5 years.. .so the government wanted to keep "kids" in school longer instead of graduating and working with your realitives on mostly the family ranch or farm. Normally 12 boys wasn't coming less and less and planting time....I was gone. So our government convinced the schools, by bribing them, to "discover" the term adolescent. Bridging childhood to adolescence instead of what since or beginning as humans.as adults. Adult's

[@M-_-O]

Glad someone commented this.

[@clovermark39]

It just means that offsetting your foot print is a scam.

[@mrb3405]

You post a video five months ago, then these things are destroyed today. What will you destroy next with the power of your engaging, entertaining videos?!?

[@benayers8622]

Crazy!

[@amberkat8147]

That sounds like an awesome book. It often worries me how helpless we are. Not even 1 person out of a thousand probably know how to make soap, raise livestock, harvest wool or cotton or linen, etc., turn it into thread or yard, dye it, make it into textiles, and turn that into clothing. Most of us couldn't make a decent basic long-term shelter, or a pair of shoes, or furniture, a mattress, etc. Or things like medication, vitamins, growing and preserving a balanced diet, communication equipment, etc. If we suffered an event like the Bronze Age Collapse today most of us would die within months to a couple of years. Or even something smaller like the fall of the Mayan civilization. Why am I worried? Well, mainly because in America nearly our entire power grid, or at least the core of it, is decades past it's expected lifespan. Thousands of bridges are similarly aging and in need or repair or replacement. I don't want to place bets on the dams either. We only have a few major shipping ports, all also a bit old, and if sea levels do rise they will need a lot of work to still be useful. And it seems like "infrastructure week" will never happen because infrastructure just isn't sexy- though it IS vital- and both political parties would rather use it as a carrot to motivate voters while avoiding letting the other party seize that victory, so they'll keep trying to block each other from tending to it. There's no guarantee things will catastrophically fail, but I'm not optimistic about it.

[@vulcanfeline]

there's many awesome books on how to make all this "primitive" stuff and learn things like plant id and use, first aid, etc

[@epilz1978]

I listen to you on Spotify so no reviews there that's why I came over to KZbin to tell you... Simon you legend! I've never discovered a podcast better in my entire life up until this point and this show is what I now live for. Seriously I love your channels and your podcasts on the Casual Criminalist, Biographics and Decoding the unknown. Thank you so much for your excellent work! ❤

[@Wyrd80]

Post apocalypse people: "What skills do you have?" Me: " I can make booze that doesn't make you blind" I like my chances.

[@georgecrompton8663]

I understand ancient cunieform, probably wont make the list of useful survival skills though.

[@JaguarBST]

if it comes to apocalypse, we're all gonna need your drink!

[@ateamfan42]

"Knowing how to home-brew" is totally my plan for contributing to post-apocalyptic society. (Assuming the zombies don't eat me first.)

[@Wyrd80]

@@ateamfan42 lets stick together :D

[@johnleatherman6409]

@@georgecrompton8663 Just remember in a zombie apocalypse you don't have to run faster that the zombies just faster than your friends. :P

[@JScottDMC]

When i was doing my flight training in Monroe, GA my instructor and i decided to do a trip to go see the guidestones as we were both interested in seeing them and it was a good trip to build hours. We flew over and took the courtesy car to the guidestones. I wasnt impressed. The biggest suprise for me was an inscription on the stones that i dont ever see anyone talk about. It read: Elbert County Chamber of Commerce. Hahaha. Ok, you got me! It was obviously put up as a tourist attraction to draw people in to spend money in the city of Elberton and to go see the Elberton museum of granite. Anyone who believes the story about the mysterious financier is being fooled. As another poster pointed out, RC Christian (a pseudonyn) is an anagram for Untarnished Conspiracy. Psuedonym is intentionally misspelled. The land was supposedly leased from Wayne Mullinex, who owns a construction company and, although I havent done the research, is probably a member of the Elbert County Chamber of Commerce.

[@jeltoninc.8542]

The rapper TI from Atlanta had it built.

[@PraiseTheFSMonster]

An anagram for "untarnished conspiracy"? 🤣🤣 That's a stretch, even for conspiracy theorists

[@Werevampiwolf]

It would be interesting to see a Fallout game with a faction following the Guidestones

[@furiousgeorge024]

It would turn into the Salem Witch Trials within hours.

[@rogervillatoro6225]

In a thousand years after some apocalytpic event, someone will look at these stones. They will wonder about them for all of about 30 seconds, and then they will just make some tools out of them

[@leeneufeld4140]

I was looking at the picture, and couldn't stop thinking "That's nothing a thousand pounds of dynamite can't fix". THEN they would be useful :)

[@BBulletin]

Or, someone will claim to understand what they mean and leverage that into taking control of the tribe. (Actually, they could do that with just about anything, and I seem to recall a story where people were worshiping Mount Rushmore.)

[@thomasgross8289]

@@BBulletin humans first occupation was prostitutes, the second was a priest

[@bobloerakker7010]

@@thomasgross8289 i thought it was thief...oh wait🤔

[@ADayintheLifeoftheTw]

@@leeneufeld4140 hahaha 😅 this aged perfectly.

[@alshirley3444]

I love how Simon is sometimes incredibly naive and also incredibly cynical, in the best possible way.

[@awkwardllama0509]

He is a terrific character study, I don't see too many people like him

[@thestepfordlife2015]

Incredibly

[@DimBeam1]

You talking about the carbon off set bit?

[@TheEagle73794]

​@@awkwardllama0509 😂6

[@conglomeratehq]

Very Naive and sheltered...

[@christopherclarke5254]

July 7th, 2022. Someone just blew up the "guidestones!" I was literally just setting up this video to watch it when the news hit my feed. Coincidence, or... LOL!!

[@LondonJahzara2011]

Georgia = Farmer _or "earth-worker", guidestones= calendar, compass, etc. The Georgia Guidestones can be interpreted as the "Farmer almanac", meaning "an almanac provides data on the rising and setting times of the Sun and Moon, the phases of the Moon, the positions of the planets, schedules of high and low tides, and a register of ecclesiastical festivals and saints' days. The Old Farmer's Almanac is a reference book containing weather forecasts, planting charts, astronomical data, recipes, and articles. Topics include gardening, sports, astronomy, folklore, and predictions on trends in fashion, food, home, technology, and living for the coming year.

[@tekkaoz]

I mean it's a cool idea, but I remember reading about micro-etched 'coins' being developed at Los Alamos that would contain a huge amount of data that would sort of work like an onion, starting with stuff you can see the naked eye and as you zoom in there is more and more stuff, basically languages, basic science, etc. They would be made out of some alloy that would last for a long time and strong enough to survive a nuclear war. They idea was to make tons of them and scatter them all over the world so that if that something really bad was to happen eventually someone would find one and start looking deeper.

[@Blue_Caribou]

That's a brilliant idea - as long as you contain in each layer instructions for building the thing needed to read the next layer!

[@tekkaoz]

@@Blue_Caribou IIRC That's how it works.

[@AlIguana]

post apocalyptic person: picks up the coin, bites on it, goes "meh that's not gold" and tosses it away

[@tekkaoz]

@ConfusedOilPainter Getting lost is the point mate. They are designed to be very tough, lasting thousands of years, and as for being hard to read, the idea is that someone will stumble on one far in the future and get curious. This is not 'rebuild in 50 years', this is 'people in 5,000 years will learn about us'

[@ComedorDelrico]

That's an interesting idea. And they would be much harder to blow up than the Georgia Guidestones were.

[@manaash4316]

Post apocalyptic group: Simon, what do you bring to the table Simon: I know how to make a pencil.

[@jmerrill96]

I inadvertently found myself teaching Survival School in my early 20’S. Talk about an eye opener.

[@holmanjag]

Ive bin watching multiple of you're channels for awhile now but i feel this one is easily the best alongside megaprojects. just listening to you having a giggle and going off on a tangeant definitley makes the listening alot more down to earth and easy going and its great fun! thanks Simon & Crew

[@AL-dz1hc]

Literally everyone else in a global pandemic: “In these unprecedented times…” Simon: “I mean… we haven’t lived through anything crazy”

[@makinka0cp]

Depends on point of view. If you compare covid and black death...

[@killman369547]

@@makinka0cp The two aren't even comparable. It's like comparing an ant hill to Mt Everest.

[@JacquelineUnderwood]

@@killman369547 eh the reason they aren't comparable isn't the effectiveness of the diseases so much as the effectiveness of modern medicine. Like yes, COVID is probably nowhere near as bad as Black Death but we also have modern sanitation, medical technology that can even breathe for you when you can't for yourself, masks that can filter out tiny virus particles to an amazing degree, etc etc...like COVID would be so so so much worse if we didn't have modern medicine and sanitation and invention.

[@Chris-hx3om]

@@killman369547 And the effects of a warmer planet are going to make even the black death look like an ant hill... I give it 150-200 years, and there ain't gunna be no 'who-mins' left...

[@KevinM491]

the pandemic is literally nothing compared to WW2

[@danhollifield]

I live about an hour away from the guidestones. They're tall, but not huge and imposing. They're on the edge of a cattle field, so you can be in the middle of contemplating the cosmic mystery of who these genocidal eugenicists were, suddenly hear a loud "moo" followed by a wet, plopping noise right behind you, and know with an equal cosmic certainty that you're going to be very careful when walking back to your car... It took a great deal of money to have the guidestones carved and erected, a great deal of ego to believe that your money was best spent providing "guidance" to a putative future rag-tag batch of survivors of a nuclear war, and a metric butt-lod of cognative dissonance to believe that your money wouldn't have been better spent politicking for high school budgets and better pay for teachers instead of advocating that the entire population of the world should be restricted to somewhat less than the population of Atlanta.

[@ericg7044]

I agree with your second paragraph but just wanted to point out that Simon said the stones say 500 million people, so way more than the population of Atlanta. But yeah, the whole thing is pretty pretentious and clearly commissioned by some weirdos.

[@allieh3444]

My thoughts exactly

[@luddity]

@@ericg7044 I heard it was Rosicrucians, which sort of fits the profile of a dying cult desperate to leave some kind of legacy that justifies their existence.

[@tarajh]

Kind of like the church group who just launched a $100 MILLION dollar billboard campaign to "bring people to Jesus." Billboards. Pretty sure Jesus would prefer they spent that money feeding/clothing/housing/healing people. But what do I know 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@nzr3756]

My thoughts exactly 💯👍. Who are the arrogant fks & why all of the secrecy?

[@jrr7031]

I want Simon to do an entire show with the "sovereign citizen " accent. I need this for my life. NOW!

[@Scufflegrit]

As a native Georgian, I feel like that eugenics guideline was really just a poorly-worded reminder to keep the cousin-fuckin’ to a minimum. 😂

[@theConquerersMama]

Right? 😂

[@nicole6323]

rite 🤣 🤣 perfect comment!!!

[@spacedandy7555]

It’s all good till someone hears a banjo.

[@benayers8622]

🤣🤣

[@joeyr7294]

Simon and co. Are eventually going to just own youtube

[@01oo011]

Probably best for everyone.

[@Ntwolf1220]

@@01oo011 definitely best for us

[@wreckingopossum]

Simon: Courts are generally fair ME: Laughs nervously in American

[@sethkey8157]

Opposed to Europe where you can be jailed for words. Or China where you can be jailed for not using social media and that being suspicious. That's MUCH better right?

[@shanemerrill8925]

Better then being killed by a police officer that is supposed to protect you, yeah sounds better to me.

[@abaddonfrazier4772]

I need next weeks lotto numbers cause you knew something the rest of the world did not at the time

[@Kamamura2]

@@sethkey8157 America is still the biggest hellhole, with most prisoners per capita, jailed in really atrocious condition. Only in America such abomination as private prisons exist (essentially criminalizing poverty and employing slave labor).

[@jondwyer3037]

BRILLIENT WELL PUT. Simon I like what I hear. Keep up the good content.

[@stevehastings4010]

Much love from Oregon. And once again perfect editing!

[@ignitionfrn2223]

3:05 - Chapter 1 - The mystery 14:00 - Chapter 2 - Reading the stones 17:55 - Rule 1 - 500 000 human grand max 👶 20:10 - Rule 2 - Eugenics for improving fitness & diversity 💪 23:05 - Rule 3 - Universal new language 🌎 25:10 - Rule 4 - Reason > passion, faith, tradition and everything else 📚 26:00 - Rule 5 - Fair laws & just courts 👨‍⚖ 28:15 - Rule 6 - Internal rule for nation yet a world court 🧾 29:35 - Rule 7 - Small government 👮‍♂ 31:35 - Rule 8 - Personals rights ⚖social duties 34:00 - Rule 9 - Harmony with the infinite (Truth/Beauty/Love) ♾ 35:15 - Rule 10 - Leave room for nature 🏞 41:10 - Chapter 3 - The sponsors 48:10 - Chapter 4 - Other theories

[@Metallica4Life92]

thank you, the emojis accompanying the timestamps gave me a chuckle :)

[@TheNuclearGeek]

Always with the Eugenics

[@badiba79]

Simon, you legend… I’ve never discovered a podcast better in my entire life (up until this point), and this show is what I now live for. 🤣😉 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@jeremybrown2186]

Quite literally every channel this legendary man hosts are absolutely at the very top of the top 3 best KZbin hosts FactBoy blazes on the competition 👌

[@mikekeating]

If you like this try "the casual criminalist"

[@somenygaard]

I like Simons channels as well but I hope you were being hyperbolic when you said you live for this show.

[@SkunkApe407]

I would say you sound thirsty, but the beard has that effect on people. What do you think brought the rest of us here?🤣

[@slcpunk2740]

Have you seen his other channels? He has like eleventy seven channels or some such ridiculous number.

[@LOTR22090able]

"This is going to confuse future archeologists!" Someone "Not anymore!"

[@aneesanusret7242]

Simon, you legend, I've never discovered a podcast better in my entire life up until this point and this show is what I now live for.

[@lyleslaton3086]

A professor of mine, when I was getting smarter in my youth, said that if you took the class (30) students. Divided them in to two groups, and put them in remote areas. In one hundred years, the two languages would be unrecognizable to each other. So much for one language.

[@itsapittie]

I suspect that timeline is a bit too short. The language most closely related to English is Friesian and I've read that linguists believe the two languages were mutually intelligible until around the mid-900s. Assuming that the Germanic invasions of Britain started around the mid-400s, that means it took about 500 years for them to completely diverge. However, there was considerable travel and trade and if we assume your professor's two groups are not in contact, it might happen sooner but 100 years seems pretty soon to me. There's no way to know, of course.

[@hokutoulrik7345]

@@itsapittie not really. Korean has shifted between the North and South since the armistice. Not to the point where they can't communicate, but it is on the way there.

[@tohfawalker159]

I, a native English speaker, have spoken to another native English speaker and not understood a word they said in English. I can totally believe that you could get a language separation in a few generations if you were slightly selective on who goes in what group.

[@benayers8622]

@@tohfawalker159 yep and it segregates the generations stops the youth learning too much about the past and working out how free they arent, im sure ther accelerating this by making new words on purpose these days too and spreading them with media

[@vulcanfeline]

any naysayers ever have to read The Canterberry Tales in school?

[@austinwagner3231]

I feel like including the Ancient Languages was a nod towards the Rosetta Stone. In fact if a historian had the Rosetta Stone and the Georgia Guidestones in the same place, it would be several times easier to translate everything

[@archstanton6102]

But not the modern languages used across the globe currently?

[@austinwagner3231]

@@archstanton6102 They added a few modern and a few ancient. They couldnt add every language, and I think Pig Latin was a little too far

[@karenjarrett8904]

Hey Simon, well done I had a blast listening and watching you read your script. Yes the vocabulary was top tier.

[@beckybequette8212]

15:55 - And this was what I chose to watch before hitting bed. What was I thinking?!? 😆 I love it when Simon goes off script - you match my brain ping-ponging around these ideas.

[@bigafroman4277]

Simon on Deism: "That's not a terrible idea, I actually quite like that." Simon, 10 seconds later: "Nevermind, I don't believe in any of that."

[@BBulletin]

I think it sounds like a rephrasing of "Well, the universe must have come from somewhere-- let's call it "God." No one had come up with the Big Bang yet. I suppose it gave them an out when it came to prosecution from other Christians at the time.

[@yoursotruly]

Well, if I lived in the area I'd have me the makin's of a mighty nice house, you could break them up for bricks and build a house farther down the hill where it's more sheltered. I gotta thank them guys for leaving a useful pile of high-quality building material with decorative carvings, that's thoughtful.

[@p0elaha566]

That or start a cult

[@philpankhurst5961]

I've watch so many of your videos on various channels but this has got to be the funniest Brilliant👏

[@sophiechappell6216]

“Actually no scratch that I don’t believe in this at all” - Factboy at his finest 😂

[@kirke420]

When I first heard of Eugenics, I thought it was a good thing because my mind thinks of things like eliminating genetic birth defects. I now know of the more sinister uses and plans it evoked in others, but eliminating "inferior" races and "undesirables" isn't a conclusion my mind naturally goes to.

[@Dr.Fluffles]

Ya, technically it's not a bad thing on its own, it's just that most applications of it end up dystopian. The only way I've thought of that doesn't look dystopian to me means essentially perfecting society beforehand, anyway, with a general societal pressure to pursue kindness, intelligence, and health, and value them in potential partners, lol.

[@tohfawalker159]

I also like the idea of eugenics but can’t see any situation where a good outcome happens. Even if every every person who knows they could have a baby with a genetic disorder had the choice to not have any babies without societal pressure then you loose the disorders that bring some benefit too like sickle cell anaemia which brings some protection from malaria. It’s all about where you draw the lines.

[@That0Homeless0Guy]

It always starts with eliminating the "genetically inferior" and then that definition gets stretched to its limits.

[@black_hand78]

It is not a bad thing at all. Call me a Nazi if you want, but do we allow cattle or other animals with genetic problems or disabilities survive? No we don’t, and that’s because if we did it would make the entire species weak and eventually cause them to go extinct because there would be so many offspring with problems that they wouldn’t be able to reproduce anymore. Wild animals even know this, thus why they will purposefully kill off their offspring that they know won’t survive on their own. Humans have just gotten soft af.

[@furiousgeorge024]

Ya, we had a world war about it.

[@kerrydevlin]

Don't let anyone tell you to stop your rants or all your side discuccions,it makes the programme!,along with all the writer's and Jen.👍

[@jesperheberg6153]

Simon you legend! I have never discovers a podcast better in my entire life, up until this point. And this show is what I now live for.

[@beenaturalinc]

That was a great post! I have taken a 'pilgrimage' to the Georgia Guidestones (to make sure they were real. They are!). I live in Northeast Georgia, so it wasn't as long as going to church on Sunday morning used to be when I was forced to do as a kid. And, as your bit was, much more entertaining - As a final note in my comment, I actually new Ted Turner. My uncle & Mr. Turner both had their sailboats in the same marina. Ted was very kind, inviting me to several of his parties on his sailboat. (That would have been 1979-1981). He seems to be the kind if guy-and rich enough even back then- to sponsor the Georgia Guidestones - And I honestly couldn't say for which reason he would do it. But he was funny as hell and I'd bet if he did sponsor it, it would have been to wait patiently for your bread recipe.

[@DavidMacDowellBlue]

Simon, if you live in a modern city, and there is a zombie apocalypse, you are actually safer. Because it has lots and lots of buildings designed to keep out thinking people, people with working motor skills and an ability to use tools. Zombies, no matter how many they are, have none of those three characteristics. YOu don't need guns. YOu need a secure building with heavy doors and bars on the windows, then supplies. Then let nature take its course and wait for the zombies to decompose, be devoured by insects and/or wild dogs. Or, if you live somewhere with a strong winter, wait for them to freeze.

[@jrobdickson8498]

Don’t forget, zombies have human teeth… just put on a leather jacket and get on with your day-

[@awkwardllama0509]

@@jrobdickson8498 unironically, this is my new favorite comment

[@stephaniegoadsby3085]

Also, large urban centres have massive quantities of easily attainable and life saving supplies without the need to have wilderness survival skills on top of zombie survival skills, be it supplements, antibiotics, antivirals, food and fresh water. Not to mention the possibility of electricity through various fossil fuel resources available.

[@ethanmccormack9561]

To be honest the most concerning thing should be nuclear power stations, think if a zombie outbreak happened fast and overwhelmed governments then nuclear power stations wouldnt be shut down and the cores would go into meltdown creating multiple Chernobyl's all over the globe. If you are lucky enough to live in a country that doesnt have nuclear power or any neighbours with nuclear power then you need to pray the wind doesnt bring radiation clouds over and radiates the rest of the globe otherwise you will die a horrific way either way.

[@digitalmouse3314]

@@jrobdickson8498 people just walking around dressed like a person in a German red light district

[@jonathanwentworth3761]

I am so glad you're doing this video! I haven't watched it yet, but this has been one of the weirdest things in my entire life. I grew up an hour from these and it was a constant place of intrigue and question that has baffled so many people.

[@adammarktaylor]

You should do a video on the Denver International Airport and the weird Illuminati-esque stuff there. I feel like, if Conspiracy Theories aren't true, the airport must have been designed deliberately to troll Conspiracy Theorists. Some of the stuff there is just creepy and weird.

[@banhammer3904]

Been there many times. I can confirm that it's quite weird.

[@LongNickOfDaLaw]

They have removed all the artwork and stuff like that.. the only thing that’s still there is the Branco with the glowing red eyes… fun fact the statue crushed the original architect and his son finished it

[@phoenixsixxrising]

Simon, you legend, I've never discovered a podcast better in my entire life up until this point, and this show is now what I live for! Did I do it right?

[@tedanderson2096]

90+% of all pollution comes from, like, 90 companies. This is not an individualist thing or people having "too many babies." That's straight up eugenics, m8~~~~

[@bellasmom2597]

Wrong

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

15:59 Turbo Genocide is actually a pretty sick name for a metal band

[@willgoodwin2560]

Metal bands sounds like a sick way to keep track of people during Turbo Genocide.

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

@@willgoodwin2560 It all comes full circle

[@sirsmartypants7086]

Sees its a 52 min episode, me thinking oooh it's going to be a good one. Simon looses his mind and has a gazillion tangents. Yep, this was a good one. And yet I still learnt something new. Thank you.

[@Joy-TheLazyCatLady]

Ok. Now, you are my favorite. I loved your...thoughts on vaccines was brilliant. I had no idea you could do accents. BTW, I am immune compromised so I appreciate you doing your part.

[@futurepig]

My theory: The granite company had these slabs laying around from some project that was canceled and they made up the whole "mysterious group of rich people" story as an advertising gimmick to draw attention to their business.

[@elizabethmcglothlin5406]

If there's a misspelled word in the English, I wonder how many mistakes there are in the ones in other languages and scripts?

[@utubedave47]

Simon, my favorite tangent is the one from 33:12 to about 34:00, where you discuss your chances of surviving the apocalypse

[@zachv3101]

Man...you work. A LOT on these videos. Appreciate it!

[@bwktlcn]

Back in the 80’s, I went to Oglethorpe, the university in Atlanta with the time capsule (1984 alumni). It’s supposed to be opened in the 8,000’s some time. The official name was the Crypt of Civilization. They had recordings of famous people at the time the Crypt was sealed, toys (Lincoln Logs may be the last memento of our civilization), miniatures of famous statues, buildings, etc. My personal favorite...of all of the things behind that big silver door, they included a recording of professional pig caller. Yeah... that’ll be meaningful. When I was there, a snack bar backed up to it, with a bank of vending machines on the shared wall. Those Cheetos were so old even back then they’ll survive the next 6,000 years without even being in the Crypt. Supposedly they weren’t worried about fire (nothing in that snack bar got that hot anyway), and it was tucked under the big stairwell, structurally the safest place. I used to laugh and say if the sirens ever went off, I was going to go down and hug on that door.

[@snorlax6691]

I’ve been to the guidestones, I used to live an hour or so away from them, and yeah, they’re not terribly impressive. Fairly substantial in size, and an interesting curiosity, but they’re really in the middle of nowhere. They’re worth visiting at least once, if you happen to be in the area, for novelty’s sake if nothing else, and they’re freely accessible. Just don’t go at night if you don’t want to get harassed by overzealous small town cops or local good ol’ boys… it’s still the South, after all.

[@rocko100able]

Well isn't that crazy, on Wednesday July 6th 2022, the Georgia guidestones at 4 o'clock in the morning were blown up.

[@seeithearitknowit]

simon you legend. ive never discovered a podcast better in my entire life up until this point and this show is what i now live for

[@someperson2287]

It really is amazing isn't it? I love the relaxed feel of it as well.

[@Absol152]

Every channel after BB is just the Blaze with different genres

[@Drdangles11]

Guide reproduction wisely improving fitness and diversity “sounds like eugenics” Simon you should do a video on eugenics because while it encouraged fitness it discouraged diversity and was basically the foundation of white supremacy. The history of eugenics would hit nazis and corrupt American politics and be a pretty interesting video despite the nasty topic.

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Any video dealing with eugenics should at least be honest about it and mention the likes of Margaret Sanger and other American eugenicists, otherwise it is just going to be a reductive take on the issue, making me think that will not happen. This is particularly true, given the links of such gross history to today's Democrats. Even a global take on the issue will have to at least mention it, else it be a biased wasted effort.

[@fortressgothika]

Go Away.

[@cophezzeslangin2794]

Being from the USA it has felt like we have been at non-stop war for my entire life. Thinking of the world my grandkids will grow up in is sometimes very scary.

[@nannettefreeman7331]

"At all/atoll" 😂😂😂

[@amb163]

The single new language one might be a little darker than it appears. Many fictional works (including 1984) discuss how language can alter the way a person thinks. If you don't have a word for something, it's more difficult to think about... that's a very simplistic way to explain it, but the theory is that if language can be controlled, people and their thoughts can be controlled.

[@thomasgross8289]

This is a new concept?

[@eventuallyeverafter7277]

It's almost like it's already in some early processes... Everything is offensive, redefined, reimagined, reinvented, manufactured, misrepresented and destigmatized... Everyone is allowed to have their own truth until nobody knows the real truth. The delusional are held as the new normal and the old normal is now delusional. 🤷

[@knuckle12356]

@@thomasgross8289 not new, but outside of the 1984 framing device, I've not heard it widely discussed. And it's a fascinating concept, breed out dissention by removing the concept of rebellion. Hence the sometimes silly sounding newspeak words like plusgood and ungood. Things aren't bad, bad isn't a concept we are familiar with. Newspeak promotes a narrowing of thought and, therefore, awareness. Reducing the richness of language could reduce the richness of thought. Has the theory ever been seriously researched in the real world? Investigating languages of countries under totalitarian regimes; whether their vocabularies grew or shrank in these circumstances.. looks like this guy is going to be doing some googling.

[@tohfawalker159]

There has been research (at least 10 years ago) that compared descriptions of items from french and German speakers where the object was masculine in one language and feminine in the other and the descriptions were more likely to match the gender stereotype for the gender in the language that the subject spoke. Eg a key could be described as dainty in the language it’s feminine in and strong in the one that it’s masculine in

[@johnc.2876]

I love your collection of channels. This has been a comment offering for the algorithm god that nourishes my ADHD.!!!! Now where did I leave my car keys.

[@Somethingsomething5110]

Every tangent you go on I scream “FACT BOY BRING ME A DREAM” and take a shot

[@dayzfallingdownx190]

Your tangents are the best! Please keep at it. They are the main reason I choose DtU, TCC and your other channels over other true crime etc outlets. :)

[@Irondrone4]

Well, Simon, if we don't have the guidestones then we'll all become leather-wearing, drug-fuelled cannibles that fight each other with cars. Seriously, though, the people decrying the stones as satanic makes some sense to me. It was the mid-to-late twentith century in America; the Satanic Panic was in full swing. Everything from He-Man to Dungeons and Dragons was considered by very vocal minority to be attempts to steer our precious, innocent youth away from God. Because as we all know, rock & roll music and women wearing pants means society is collapsing into Hell. As someone who collects miniature models, reads science fiction, and plays video games, I can confirm that I have drank the blood of at least three virgins, sacrificed two goats, and said naughty words many times.

[@RHCole]

They had "Leave Room for Nature" carved twice but still misspelled "pseudonym" 🤣

[@chrissirvid5845]

Interesting, informative and entertaining as always 👍 team.

[@inhumanfilth681]

Lmao i live in georgia and the begining of this video cracked me up. Thank you simon

[@jackmason5278]

We've got over seven billion people today. Kinda late to stop at 500,000,000.

[@williamrosenbloom215]

The idea is that the catastrophe takes us below 500 million and we keep it there.

[@seanc6128]

The confetti explosion with the word "eugenics" gave me a good chuckle and the "guiding reproduction" hand holding a sperm with a uterus is a great visual joke. Simon the suffering is coming much faster than you are apparently aware of, sorry.

[@danielwilliams705]

Made my day. Taught me something once again I didn't know. Thanks

[@marcpettersen9335]

Your a ledge mate from Marc pettersen Australian keep the great work going. Big fan mate

[@01oo011]

“That’s really depressing because I like my kids”

[@jimmiedmc1]

Don't ever tell a potential client no, even if you don't want the job, make it so they say no thankyou.

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

There are Granite stones very much like these in Arlington, Texas, USA on the south side of the city. They've been there slightly longer than these in Georgia. They are near Interstate Highway 20 on private property but the owner allowed anyone to visit the stones in Arlington freely the last time I was there. I used to live in Arlington, Texas back in the 1990's.

[@treygant7004]

I do like when you add your own thoughts. Throwing in my vote for it to continue 👍

[@coleasbill4576]

I'm literally a state away from these things. Why have I never heard of these??

[@nicholaslewis8594]

Because it’s pretty stupid and basically the only people who care about them are people who think they prove satanic lizard people run the world.

[@shadymcnasty5920]

Becuz ur sheltered

[@Noctsurreality]

Thank you for doing this video and all your others. I have depression and anxiety and watching/listening to your videos helps me through the worst of both with the added bonus of helping me learn things in a way i retain. So thank you very much for your videos.

[@tinahale9252]

I too struggle each day with these things as well.. I enjoy Simon to.

[@thomasgross8289]

Why are you depressed, have anxiety?

[@Noctsurreality]

@@thomasgross8289 a combination of bipolar, ptsd and borderline personality disorder. Such a lovely mix

[@thomasgross8289]

@@Noctsurreality I imagine. This may sound stupid but try to get outside 30 minutes to a hour a day, barefoot in the grass and soil. Hope things get better for you

[@Noctsurreality]

@@thomasgross8289 im a child of the earth so im happiest outside, weather permitting. Even when the weather doesn't permit me to be outside I will connect with the earth. It does help.

[@j3rs3yjak3FIU]

I live in Montana and I can personally attest that you can go hours without seeing people on roads still.

[@NoToAllOfThat]

This video is absolutely hilarious, thank you for your takes on these things. I love it.

[@Makowh]

Future wasteland survivor: *STONES OF THE ANCIENTS, IMPART ME WITH YOUR KNOWLEDGE* Stones: Be a general good person with reasom and think of nature of nature Future wasteland survivor: *WHAT*

[@aucado1971]

I live a couple hours from these, so I checked them out a few years ago. Pretty underwhelming. They sound huge, but they don't really impress when you're standing next to them. They're just some weird monument in the middle of farmland. LOL

[@FullNGagement]

I love how the sensor Simon saying "shit," but not when drops the fuck bomb 😂

[@scottbubb2946]

Simon, as an American, I must say, your impersonation of Americans... Spot on! You absolutely nailed it!

[@hehoosmeltitdeltit]

Hey! Where did the audio clips and vintage memes come from? Uh, I don't know, Simon failed to mention it. 🤔 An oversight, Fact Boi? Not enough sleep? Not to worry, for the benefit of all, I discovered in the credits that the audio clips, memes, captions, and glor-rious pictures were crafted by everyone's favorite editor -- JENN! 👏👏👏 Thanks Jenn! 👍👍 [insert "great job" meme]

[@sailinbob11]

Use charcoal,or chalk. Reasons not to live I'm Montana ( or to,depending on your point of view.) 1. Unless you're a cow,or some other bovine, there's literally nothing there,or it's a mountain. The hunting,and fishing are awesome. 2. To many Republicans ,just my opinion. There are no people. I'm not particularly fond of crowds, but you could be 100 years old,and have your choice of 10 women to marry. Probably fine people, but who knows? If you're thinking, but there are cities in Montana ! If you want to live in a city,why pick Montana? 3. Cold.... I'm sure the skiing is nice, but do ya ski ? 4. Super Volcano. Not really anything positive to say about that,unless you're a gambler, and figure not in your lifetime. I'm sure all 99% of all the species extinct, which is 99% of all species that has ever existed, probably had a similar thought. 🤔 Montana? No...

[@colinhand3868]

Simon needs to do a Top Tenz on Hold my Beer moments parsing in his ‘Sovereign Citizen’ accent. That was on point.

[@abaddonfrazier4772]

Had to come back to this video and rewatch now that someone decided to blow this thing up for some reason