 American Stonehenge, Paging Fox Mulder... |
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 May 4 2009, 10:57 AM
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Running Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,142 Joined: 5-December 07 From: Lower UCAS, along the border Member No.: 14,507  |
Saw this this weekend and thought of you guys and more importantly, Shadowrun.
The American Stonehenge This is my favorite theory... QUOTE He argues that Christian and his associates were Rosicrucians, followers of the Order of the Rosy Cross, a secret society of mystics that originated in late medieval Germany and claim understanding of esoteric truths about nature, the universe, and the spiritual realm that have been concealed from ordinary people. Weidner considers the name R. C. Christian an homage to the legendary 14th-century founder of the Rosicrucians, a man first identified as Frater C.R.C. and later as Christian Rosenkreuz. Secrecy, Weidner notes, has been a hallmark of the Rosicrucians, a group that announced itself to the world in the early 17th century with a pair of anonymous manifestos that created a huge stir across Europe, despite the fact that no one was ever able to identify a single member. While the guides on the Georgia stones fly in the face of orthodox Christian eschatology, they conform quite well to the tenets of Rosicrucianism, which stress reason and endorse a harmonic relationship with nature. Weidner also has a theory about the purpose of the Guidestones. An authority on the hermetic and alchemical traditions that spawned the Rosicrucians, he believes that for generations the group has been passing down knowledge of a solar cycle that climaxes every 13,000 years. During this culmination, outsize coronal mass ejections are supposed to devastate Earth. Meanwhile, the shadowy organization behind the Guidestones is now orchestrating a "planetary chaos," Weidner believes, that began with the recent collapse of the US financial system and will result eventually in major disruptions of oil and food supplies, mass riots, and ethnic wars worldwide, all leading up to the Big Event on December 21, 2012. "They want to get the population down," Weidner says, "and this is what they think will do it. The Guidestones are there to instruct the survivors." Bring me your favorite conspiracy theories! -------------------- "Don't do what we would do. Don't do what he would do. Don't do what Peter would do. Do what Miles Morales would do."
Ereth'cerri. Shadowrun, Story Games, GM Advice, Rambles. |
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May 4 2009, 12:17 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,735 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
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May 4 2009, 12:25 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 990 Joined: 22-April 06 From: Canada Member No.: 8,494 |
How does someone build a monument and it doesn't get noticed? That sort of work would require heavy equipment to create, and that means there is a paper trail somewhere. Man some Americans are really weird.
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May 4 2009, 01:33 PM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 12,614 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
If you pay enough, paperwork tends to get lost.
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THE nsrcg.zip! isn't it a pity that common sense ain't RAW? |
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May 4 2009, 02:38 PM
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Old Man Jones Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,973 Joined: 26-February 02 From: New York Member No.: 1,699 |
QUOTE (TBRMInsanity @ May 4 2009, 12:25 PM)  How does someone build a monument and it doesn't get noticed? That sort of work would require heavy equipment to create, and that means there is a paper trail somewhere. Man some Americans are really weird. It wasn't built un-noticed, but the organization behind the monument, that commissioned it and funded it, was kept anonymous. The local banker knows what names are on the checks but refuses to name the client as he swore never to do so. QUOTE Eventually, the two negotiated an agreement: Christian would reveal his real name on the condition that Martin promise to serve as his sole intermediary, sign a confidentiality agreement pledging never to disclose the information to another living soul, and agree to destroy all documents and records related to the project when it was finished. "He said he was going to send the money from different banks across the country," Martin says, "because he wanted to make sure it couldn't be traced. He made it clear that he was very serious about secrecy." -karma -------------------- I see myself as witty, urbane, highly talented, hugely successful with a keen sense of style. Plus of course my own special brand of modesty.
I play a geriatric black ops ninja wizard with laser eyes, and a pink mohawked pixie driving a human suit. I optimize ...differently. |
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May 4 2009, 02:39 PM
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ghostrider Group: Former Moderators Posts: 4,167 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
QUOTE (TBRMInsanity @ May 4 2009, 07:25 AM) How does someone build a monument and it doesn't get noticed? That sort of work would require heavy equipment to create, and that means there is a paper trail somewhere. Man some Americans are really weird. It's not that it wasn't noticed, it's that nobody quite knows why the group had it done in the first place. What their aims/goals were, what the point really is, etc. I'm thinking about riding down to see it this summer. Depends on the cash situation, though. -------------------- QUOTE (Screaming Eagle) But when you took up this job did you plan to live forever or live awesome? |
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May 4 2009, 03:10 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,179 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
People in that age didn't have the technology to so perfectly carve and move such massive stones. It must have been aliens!
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May 4 2009, 03:15 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 8,936 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
Interesting find.
Obviously Martin thinks that the (presented) theories are all false, but we are coming up fast on that "needed in the next 30 years" deadline. -------------------- QUOTE (bowdown2q @ April 2 2011, 11:29 pm) Just about. |
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May 4 2009, 04:00 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 141 Joined: 24-February 09 From: In the Shadows USA Member No.: 16,909 |
That is awesome. I would definitely think about visiting the site. Thanks for the awesome post it never ceases to amaze me the post we all have here on DS.
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May 4 2009, 04:08 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,142 Joined: 5-December 07 From: Lower UCAS, along the border Member No.: 14,507 |
It was the 2012 due date that caught my eye and made me think of you guys, honestly (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
-------------------- "Don't do what we would do. Don't do what he would do. Don't do what Peter would do. Do what Miles Morales would do."
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May 11 2009, 08:57 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 702 Joined: 20-November 06 From: The seemingly unknown area of land between Seattle and Idaho. Member No.: 9,910 |
When I saw the topic I thought it was about the full size reproduction of the original at Salisbury Plain that was created here in eastern Washington. We have more than just a giant lava lamp. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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"What?" -Me Do you think that a philosopher doing pro-bono work would be considered a free thinker? "WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD WILLINGLY ENTER CLOSE COMBAT WITH A GHOUL?" -Stahlseele "My name is Inigo Montoya, you fragged my fixer, prepare to be splatted." -SleepIncarnate |
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May 12 2009, 04:56 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,373 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Shadowland Member No.: 8,297 |
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Ones who understand binary and others who don't... ----- No matter how much you dislike RAW, it can always be worse. |
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