Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 23, 2020

The judges may have invented dark glasses, but they weren’t sunglasses if they were only worn inside.

1. First, do not let anyone named “Kardashian” on the television …

1. Premièrement, ne laissez personne nommé “Kardashian” à la télévision …

1. Primero, no dejes que nadie llamado “Kardashian” en la televisión …

1. Lassen Sie zuerst niemanden mit dem Namen “Kardashian” im Fernsehen …

1. irstfay , oday otnay etlay anyoneyay amednay “kardashian” onyay ethay elevisiontay …

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that Solomon islander shark doesn’t seem to get poached (as in cooked, not illegally hunted)

Would anyone be able to read and if so would the stones even survive?

Ah, but did those judges wear their sunglasses at night?

Judges have emotions ??

10 languages, but they’re “thought” to describe…are none of the languages readable?

The first sunglasses were invented sometime in 12th century China. They were a crude slab of smoked quartz that was made to block out the light from the sun. The primitive frames were roughly shaped frame to hold them against the user’s face. These darkened lenses, made only for the very rich, were not vision-corrected, nor they protect against harmful UV rays, but they provided some relief from having the bright sun constantly shining into user’s eyes and were also used to hide emotions from others when speaking with them. This was particularly handy for Chinese judges of that time who had routinely worn smoke-colored quartz lenses allowing them to see emotionally detached from the topic being discussed and to conceal their feelings while questioning the accused. http://www.glasseshistory.com/glasses-inventor/who-invented-sunglasses/

The paradox of the GA stones is to rebuild civilization so it can crumble again.

Look up Nero’s sunglasses. I believe he predates 12th century China by about a 1000 years.

Yes, but they didn’t call them “sunglasses.” They called them, “#$%&#%$&!!!! glasses.”

Do those guidelines all start with “Thou shalt not”?

✨Today’s missing 4th panel✨

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/cartoon-02-23-2020/

Do I really want advice on civilization from a civilization that self destructed?

I’ve never done this before, but I’m going to challenge BION accuracy on the sunglasses. That doesn’t sound plausable at all. I guess put me down for “NOT”.

After living in the polar regions for a while, I’D wanna live around a volcano too…

Let’s be clear: the Georgia Guidestones are a secular humanist manifesto. It is propaganda, pure and simple.

To add a little clarity – if this were intended as propaganda, why is there only one? After all, the central principle of propaganda is to “Repeat The Lie, until it becomes so prevalent in the public mind that it is accepted as true.” I f that were the intention, installations like this would have begun appearing in locations all over the country. But, in the nearly 40 years of its existence, it is still the solitary example. Granted, there is the American Humanist Association, but it has been around for nearly 90 years, and has published a Manifesto, with two main revisions, by contributors from many disciplines, including the religious. And – it has never claimed to have any involvement with the Guidestones. There was a publication titled “The Secular Humanist”, but it has ceased publication many years ago, no, as best I know.

Is that Georgia the state or Georgia the country invaded by Put On?

The Georgia Stones were defaced in 2008 and 2014. 2008’s vandalism featured “you will not succeed”, “Jesus will beat you Satanists”, “No one world government,” etc.. 2014 had “ISIS, goddess of love” sprayed on the stones. Ironically, it appears religious propaganda, especially evangelical /fundamentalist Christianity, has clearly and simply influenced far more to acts of intolerance and senseless destruction than the creators of the monument ever imagined.