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Wake up you American morons!


"No people can be both ignorant and free."
- - - - Thomas Jefferson

So, how‘s the quality? Wow! Really encouraging to see how many people are watching these. Are people waking up? Dont you want to shout: The Matrix has you!!!? I agree with akilles comment we need to share these videos I have been for almost a year now. Glad to hear others are sharing, too.

Oh, and akille people are already slaves, they just dont realize it yet remaining dazzeled by bright, shiney object to buy, buy, buy! By the time kids get out of college (student loans), marry a 30 year mortgage a house and finance 2 cars and use several credit cards to finance furniuture, the lastest fashions, have kids, pay to put em in private schools (Cause, hey who wants to fight and insist on GOOD public schools? Who needs all those teachers that are being laid off? We have to do the big "Buy Out" and send money over to help Georgia and keep a foot in Iraq,) So, from the cradle to the grave - what do they really own? ALL this stuff OWNS THEM! The Banks OWN them! They are slaves cant quit the jobs they hate. . . Striving sickness sets in. (Oh, except for the top 1%) Will it ever end? It could ever read Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach? A great example. Do read it, it could still work . . . for younger generations anyway . . . IF they STOP all this consumerism NOW!
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If watching Zeitgeist, Esoteric Agenda, or America: F2F changed how you view the world - You ain‘t seen nothin‘ yet!!

How did it come to this?

Please may I suggest - at least: "The Century of the Self" and "The Trap".

#1. - - BBC - Adam Curtis - The Century of the Self - 4 parts
(1) Happiness Machines
(2) The Engineering of Consent
(3) There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads - He Must Be Destroyed
(4) Eight People Sipping Wine
Download at:
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/The-Century-Of-The-Self-BBC-Doc/4324e1e34ff0ff0b912a5a7bf3adecdf01dd6cf30b19 - I think is the one I got but you can try maybe:
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/BBC4-The-Century-of-the-Self-Adam-Curtis-all-4/40322e938e4b8365f68f82f1ae0d7b3485d5f583975c - - - Or watch free online many places - like BrasscheckTV.com
Or available on Google Or search btj for Adam Curtis - anything he does is great - like The Power of Nightmares . . . or next: The Trap
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#2. - - BBC - The Trap - What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom - 3 parts
(1.) *beep* You, Buddy
(2) The Lonely Robot
(3) We‘ll Force You To Be Free
Of possible interest: A Beautiful Mind (A popular, but not very in-depth movie about John Nash - inventor to the game *beep* You, Buddy" - a paranoid schizophrenic genius - ideas about game theory ended the cold war and changed YOUR world in ways you cant imagine!
Here‘s the copy I got - good quality - Separate d.l.‘s
All three parts: http://btjunkie.org/search?q=BBC+The+Trap

Find all on btj or watch free online at many sites.

Another great documentary to watch - about loss of liberties in the UK, is "Taking Liberties" Good copy = "KLAXXON dvdrip.avi [653MB]
Here‘s the link:
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/taking-liberties-dvdrip/4032d8374df205852e8dc43459fd1e4d4820cce84dae

More? Look for anything by BBC‘s John Pilger - he reports it as it is. PBS: "Commanding Heights"; Bill Moyers; Noam Chomsky; Taxi to the Darkside (disturbing - Gitmo).

Then, friends - lighten the mood by dl‘ing: The Natural History of the
Chicken! You‘ll LOVE it! (Especially after the reality overdose!)

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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson

President Andrew Jackson stated in reference to the bankers at the state of his administration: "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out."

~JaZZy SaRaVaNa~

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So what your saying i that we should use reason and buy into all the claims this movie made even though they can be shown as false.

Right.


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Consumerisom is not really the problem you seem very passionate
unfortunatley it seems misplaced, I am not trying to take a dig at you but
you sound a little "new-agey" kinda ' it all a game man, systems bringin'
you down' please do not use zeitgeist as any sort of guide unless it is
a guide on how to make up bad history ('sunset' come on!) or on how to
make a bad movie!

The world is not perfect, but hey there's something we can aim for, there
is a mass web of media but it's not a secerate sociaty, adverising is pretty well
advertised, the better we understand one another the more we care about
making a change the better it will be for everybody, and yeah American politics
is f&@£ing stupid and needs a swift kick up the rear, it has a brilliant
constitution the politions really need to read it some time and act
on what it says, the republicans are Insane the democrates talk a good
talk but they don't deliver (well dribs and drabs-ish) and the less said about
the Tea party the better



Peace out

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- ZAROVE, How likely is it that ALL of the claims in this are FALSE ?

Bush quoting Hitler WORD FOR WORD in a speech would be pretty easy to disprove eh ? Where ? Disprove just that ONE POINT away and afterwards reflect for a while just how frightening that ONE LITTLE THING IS ?

If this is 99% lies, there is still truth to it even if the truth is that it rates 8.6 with nearly 20,000 votes, cost an estimated $7,000 to make and it merely offers the advice 'Open your eyes and watch out for that sh!t' Think about that and have the courtesy to give some respect to the guy that spent his own $7,000 trying to tell the masses to 'keep their eyes open and mind the sh!t'

The Venus Project is a work of genius regardless.Listen to some Jacque Fresco lectures.He has an incredible ability to make sense of humanity and how we can look forward without fear and as beings develop socially into better people.
He's a very intelligent bloke and he's also 95 years old and one of a dying breed!
Along with Mr Choamsky,John Pilger and anyone else old enough to remember values.


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- ZAROVE, How likely is it that ALL of the claims in this are FALSE ?


Pretty high actually. Or, I should say, all the major claims and conclusions are demonstrateably false. Like any good conspiracy Theory they do base things on some facts so that you can look hem up, and if you go about this in a superficial way as they hope, it will seem plausible, especially if you know nothing of the matters they discuss.

However, the presented material is 100% Pure, certified Garbage.



Bush quoting Hitler WORD FOR WORD in a speech would be pretty easy to disprove eh ? Where ? Disprove just that ONE POINT away and afterwards reflect for a while just how frightening that ONE LITTLE THING IS ? [quote]


How does this relate to the movie Zeitgeist and the claims it makes which can be easily debunked? Its not like I’m proving a negative in this.


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If this is 99% lies, there is still truth to it even if the truth is that it rates 8.6 with nearly 20,000 votes, cost an estimated $7,000 to make and it merely offers the advice 'Open your eyes and watch out for that sh!t' Think about that and have the courtesy to give some respect to the guy that spent his own $7,000 trying to tell the masses to 'keep their eyes open and mind the sh!t'



But, this same guy lies to us, in all of his major claims.


Christianity did not emerge from earlier Pagan Myths, and the life of Horus, along with numerous others, are nothing like Jesus, or even each other. None of its related to Astrology either.

9-11 was not an inside job, and the Towers did not fall because of internally planted explosives and it was not a controlled demolition.

The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the United States Constitution.

There are laws on the books that say we must pay income taxes.

The Banks aren’t really all abut power and control and social engineering, and do not simply raise inflation and lower it just to manipulate the masses.

All of these points have been discussed here a lot, in other threads, so forgive me for not going through each one at length.



The Venus Project is a work of genius regardless.



No its not. Its just a Recycling of the same general utopianism that was all the rage in the late 19th and early 20th Century, and that has shaped the perspective of many thinkers since. It is also deeply flawed.


Listen to some Jacque Fresco lectures. He has an incredible ability to make sense of humanity and how we can look forward without fear and as beings develop socially into better people.


He also ignores Human Nature, and the historical record for such utopian visions he has when they are tried. He ignores the reality of economics, and the realities of how humanity thinks.


He's a very intelligent bloke and he's also 95 years old and one of a dying breed!
Along with Mr Choamsky,John Pilger and anyone else old enough to remember values.


I remember Values. I am not that old. Chomsky is a communist, by the way. His Values aren’t really that grand.

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Wow.You really do need to feel right about EVERYTHING don't you.I don't have the time for a creditable post right now because it's fairly obvious that somebody made fun of your God and you're pretty p!ssed about it and I'm not interested.

My 5 year old used to tell me stories about his imaginary friend but they were fun.

Communism Wow that old chestnut

Gee, 'Communism still a threat - we're all doomed' That BS still actually exists.
I thought they threw that fear mongering crap out with bell-bottoms.

Chomsky is a Communist... *cricket noises...tumbleweed*

I honestly viewed you as being 'fairly' intelligent up until that point, then *BOOM*, you had to do it.

You dropped the 'C' word right on to poor Noam.

Now when I say 'fairly', I mean 'regardless of needing to have invisible friends based on an old book'

CHOMSKY IS A COMMUNIST... Wow !!, just wow. I love the way that you :

A) Disregard Chomsky as a communist because his name ends in...erm... SKY.

B) Don't understand why that is not only a mind numbingly stupid thing to say but it's so incredibly funny to see it written down and in such context.

Brilliant, do you do stand-up inbetween post-whoring 'bout the gud lorb Jeebus'?


Communism lol

'Actually in Communism you first build a Socialist State that still use smoney till the state Gradually dissapears, and at that point a True Democracy emerges and money is no longer issued. It'd be like Star Trek.'

Not a Star Trek fan either ?

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This isn't abotu someone makign fun of my God and me beign angry, its about the obvious fact that Zeitgeist lied. I started at the point about Christianity because it was part 1 of the film, I just went in Chronological order.

I listed that the rest was false too.

So, this isnt simply becsause soemone mase fun of Christianity, its becuse this film outright lied about Christianity's origins, as well as 9-11, the US Tax Laws, and the Banks.

Noam CHimsky wasn't called a COmmunist by me because his name ends in SKY, and I certainly don't think all Slavic soundign names are attatcked to Communism. I called him a COmmunist because he is one, though he describes himself as a Libertaian Socialist.

His political views are about the abolition of Authority and creation of a True Social Democracy, how one arth is he NOT a Communist?


Also, I like Star Trek, but that doens't mean I think the society as depicte din it for the United Federation of Planets is feasable.

Now maybe you can comment on what I've really said and not on what you presume I meant, such as thinkign soemoen is a COmmunist because of their last name endign in SKY and beign simply angry soemone mocked my God?

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It's also worth reminding people that "Communism" is an umbrella term. Basically every state that tried to implement the principles laid out in Marx-Engels' "Communist Manifesto" (and other writings) did it a little differently. Each major leader thus tends to be associated with a branch, school or flavor of Communism... hence you get in addition to Bolshevism and the Mensheviks, Marxism, Leninism, Marxist-Leninism, Trotskyism, Stalinism, Maoism, Castroism, etc. I'm not enough of a political scientist to be able to tell you exactly where Social Democratic Libertarianism fits in there (many Socialists exist who are not Communists, as Socialism itself existed in various forms before Marx/Engels).

Libertarians too, run the gamut from advocates of anarchy (a kind of pure individualism) to Western conservatives advocating limited government (to provide only the basic protections of public safety and defense, for example).

There is a tendency in America for left/liberals to associate right/conservatives with Nazism or Fascism and for the right/conservatives to associate the left/liberals with Communism.

I'm a fan of Star Trek as well, but you can't really draw a coherent and sane moral philosophy or realistic economic system from it... such that we could call it an improvement over our real life philosophies and economic systems. The technocratic/socialist utopia of the Picard Era (TNG) is completely unrealistic and the way the Prime Directive becomes dogma responsible for massive moral lapses in that period onward just makes it cringeworthy to think about. But the average fan probably doesn't dip that far into it, sort of like Star Wars fans who think it would be cool to live under the Empire because it has awesome ships and weapons.

http://www.historyversusthedavincicode.com/
History vs. the Da Vinci Code

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I suppose I just saw 'Red' :)

My point was more along the lines of a Doug Stanhope quote :

"Complaining that a comic is drunk is like going to a titty bar and complaining because your lapdancer is a communist"

The parallel being drawn because the man IS A GREAT MAN.He champions true democracy and open-mindedness.
Dismissing his lifelong achievements simply because 'He says he's not a communist but I think he is' is complete buffoonery.

Irony come on in...

A) What difference does his political stance make when the man arguably possesses one of the brightest minds of the 20-21st centuries and has a very balanced viewpoint regardless of political reservations.(Even though he isn't a communist as we established earlier by your quoting his own words)

B) Not understanding or relating to another's political viewpoint DOES NOT MAKE THEM A COMMUNIST.
Somebody needed to say that...Are you from the US by any chance ?

C) If it wasn't for our communist allies of China and Russia we'd all be speaking German now.
(I deeply loathe that expression but it's nice to see it used for once in the correct context)
Somebody needed to say that too.The Russians alone lost MILLIONS in defeating the Nazis and we should honour and respect them for their courage and for their country's huge sacrifice during WW2 alone.They suffered horrifically.They were so desperate that cannibalism became widespread due to famine, obviously.I've read accounts of families swapping dead infants to avoid eating ones own.
Jeez, to have to go through that as a nation and then be abused for having been born into communism seems like a double shot of Feck-You Daniels.
...Certainly 'less than Christian' behaviour.

Britain and Russia, as allies, go back a good 100 to 200 years .The Cold War was more nonsense to promote the massive arms industry and spread FEAR and thus control the masses and more importantly provide PROTECTION to a nation's fearful citizens.That 'divide and conquer' tactic doesn't change from Man's creation of Religion to present day 'Terrorism'.Certain governments, my own included, realise what a powerful tool FEAR actually is and are currently exploiting it to remove our basic human rights with OUR OWN CONSENT.

That is a fact my friend.Regardless of opinion.One only needs eyes and a conscience to see it.
Without that FEAR people could love one another BOTH unconditionally AND freely, without the shackles of a god-fearing organised religion.
(If that's communism, where do I sign up ?)...But back to FEAR:

-The government controlled/restricted media provides a healthy dose with 24 hour war/terror reports/alerts - 365 days per year, making everyone feel 'at war/threatened CONTINUOUSLY', but not to worry because the nice government wants to protect us from a threat LESS DEADLY THAN FOOKIN PEANUTS.So now there are cameras everywhere, and the police have 'Bat-Belts' with a whole array of goodies to protect you with.Guns, Tasers, Tear Gas, Battons you name it.

Wowzers, Whatever next? ...

-Well that nice Mr Bush says that these 'Trrr-ist evil-doers' are jealous of western freedom so nice Mr Blair agreed and decided to make protest illegal.

Seriously, why ?

-Well, *whispered mumble* we don't want to have to check 4 Million cameras for brown guys with beards.It's boring.

Sorry ?

-AHEM...We don't want more than one person speaking to another...One might be a trrr-ist or worse still they may be both be trrr-ists.
...What with their cameras and their bigs hats and sunglasses.

That's tourists.

-Yeah Mr Bush hates them too.That's why he sends them abroad to speak loudly in quiet old places of little interest.

Right.So we're saved then ?

-Well not completely...yet, your right to deny entry to a 'public servant' without a warrant, we're gonna hang on to that. That's to protect 'you'.

From what now ?

-From the trrr-ist 'sub-nutters' and their rocks and sand that want to break into your sh!tty flat 'specifically' and bomb you and your 'waaay too much freedom and stuff' to hell-bits.

They have guns, 5 year olds get AK-47s, I've seen them on the news.Always wondered how they got those...being in the desert and all... and all poor and stuff

-Oh those.We had to 'give' them something y'know to make 'a-bit-of-a-fist-of-it'
A war needs 2 ARMIES FIGHTING and throwing sand looks a bit, ..erm... well... Baywatchy to be honest and we were all rather looking forward to some big bangy fireworks for all of our viewers to drink beer and wave flags to.

Erm ?... Okay what else ?

-Your right to a phonecall, legal representation, a trial in your own country etc etc etc....Erm...
We're going to hold on to them for you too.You know just in case.I mean, haven't you seen '24', 'The Sum Of All Fears' or 'the unthinkable' ? (brought to you by the same nice people that bring you the lovely news stuff.Funny that.Perhaps not)

Oh Sh!t yeah, they were scary...Okay.
Anything else ?

-Oh just a couple of cameras here and there.

Wow, you sure you need 4 MILLION of them ?

-Well sure, latest reports show that about 1 in 15 people living in our country are 'evil doer Trrr-ists' according to nice Mr Bush, don't you watch the News or read a paper, dummy ?

Sure, so we're all going to die ?

-Yes but for some of us that isn't the end you see because this big invisible floaty fella is going to see if you've been a good boy or a bad boy.
If you haven't read one of his books or if you do a bunch of bad stuff, you don't even get to die.

Sh!t...How come ?

-Well Zaro, Some people believe that the big, invisible, all-seeing, all knowing, almighty, un-opposable, floaty fella has a dead helper that can send you down to his evil nemesis 'Satan' where you burn forever.

Forever ?, but what about physics ?

-Physics, Shmysics.

Okay...?

So the Goverment use 4 million cameras, the news and media, the millitary, the police and the law to protect me from 'something less worrying than a lightly salted pub snack' ?

-Yup.

And in THE 'LOTTERY-ESQUE' ODDS of my being killed by terrorists I get to 'burn forever' if I don't please the big, invisible, all-seeing, all-knowing, almighty, un-opposable, magical floaty fella ?

-That's the long and short of it I'm afraid Zaro.


Me too, are you a Communist ? ....





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This is coming from a UK citizen.In the UK the Government are a lot more secretive and subtle about these changes than in the US.Yet it is still totally obvious to pretty much everyone that civil liberties no longer exist if they want to play the trrr-ist card.

I'm not mocking you for being religious.Each to their own as long as you use religion for the benefit of mankind, have at it.Religion, whether used for good or bad means is a tool and tools are MAN MADE. We could however probably use a few more REAL Christians to help out with famine after the vile and senseless wars that we keep fighting absorb all of the wealth of their victims and leave entire cultures, many of them ancient, in tatters.

Just trying to point out that 'opening your eyes and minding out for the sh!t' isn't such bad advice to receive from a guy that spent $7,000 of his own money providing you with TOTALLY FREE ENTERTAINMENT to freely take, however you want and pass on without FEAR of imprisonment and or a huge fine.

Sounds like quite a noble almost religious gesture IMHO.

I reckon Jesus would have done a similar thing if possible warning the masses against the tyranny of organised religion, the Roman Empire, and wealth distribution (from what I remember of R.E. back in school he struck me as being a bit of an activist)

In that context it sounds almost like deja-vu.

Hope that was a little more to the point

Peace,

V.S.



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For the record, "Zeitgeist the Movie" and "Zeitgeist Addendum" on DVD are sold on Amazon for an average price of $7 a pop + shipping (somebody is selling one for $30 in a case now though). Ebay sells them too, for about $6 plus shipping. There's even an "official seller" that sells either movie for precisely $11 (shipping included). His account's feedback indicates he's made 2,501 sales so far (and two his credit, only 8 negative feedbacks in the last year), and that's just this single Ebay account of course.

Sure he provides a streaming version of the movie "free" online, but here is straight from his own site:

ZEITGEIST: THE MOVIE (2007)
Each (Single) Factory, NTSC DVD with Case is $5.00
US & CANADA Shipping & Handling = $3.00
International Shipping & Handling = $4.50

ONE DVD W/ CASE +
SHIPPING & HANDLING
US/CANADA = $8.00 TOTAL
INTERNATIONAL = $9.50 TOTAL

FOUR DVDS W/ CASES +
SHIPPING & HANDLING
US/CANADA = $23.00 TOTAL
INTERNATIONAL = $29.00 TOTAL


TEN DVDS W/ CASES +
SHIPPING & HANDLING
US/CANADA = $45.00 TOTAL
INTERNATIONAL = $55.00 TOTAL

ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008)
Each (Single) Factory, NTSC DVD with Case is $5.00
US & CANADA Shipping & Handling = $3.00
International Shipping & Handling = $4.50

ONE DVD W/ CASE +
SHIPPING & HANDLING
US/CANADA = $8.00 TOTAL
INTERNATIONAL = $9.50 TOTAL

FOUR DVDS W/ CASES +
SHIPPING & HANDLING
US/CANADA = $23.00 TOTAL
INTERNATIONAL = $29.00 TOTAL

TEN DVDS W/ CASES +
SHIPPING & HANDLING
US/CANADA = $45.00 TOTAL
INTERNATIONAL = $55.00 TOTAL


He sells shirts too,

Shipping in USA/CANADA
$15.00 per shirt + $3.50 shipping

Shipping INTERNATIONAL
$15.00 per shirt + $6.50 shipping

Proceeds of this shirt is what supports the development and maintenance of
www.thezeitgeistmovement.com, along with on going events and actions.


Indeed... but it's for a "good cause," so it's okay, right? ;P

I don't see any notices anywhere that this is a non-profit org...

Let's see what this other page says...

We at The Zeitgeist Movement do not take donations. We don't want your money- we want your time. However, as things have grown, so have the costs. Peter Joseph funds everything done here with personal funds and will continue to do so until he no longer can. However, we have had a number of requests for Shirts as a cultural mode of community expression. Given this demand, we have decided to offer a simple, $15.00 shirt in an effort to help keep this site and developing projects going.

Please do not email us saying we are contradicting ourselves by selling something on a website that advocates the removal of the market system. Sadly, we still live in a monetary system and we have little choice.


Oh okay, so it's cool, because they "have costs." I wonder if the poor guy has recouped that $7,000 yet? He's setting up "chapters" of the "Zeitgeist Movement" to get the word out, get people signed up, etc. I don't know what it costs to get DVD's pressed these days (ebay claims the ZG movies are "pressed" as opposed to the usual method of burning on printable DVD-R/+R or slapping on a paper label), but burners, media, amray style cases and labels are super cheap these days.

Where we get to the real meat is the "Venus Project" which all this is pointing to... let's see their site's "support" pitch:


THE VENUS PROJECT

The Venus Project, led by Jacque Fresco, has provided the tools and framework to make a new, humane society possible.
Please help The Venus Project stay alive by donation or purchase of their materials. They are a US registered Non-Profit Organization dedicated to improving humanity and civilization and your donation is tax deductible in the USA.

Please note that these donations are to assist in helping The Venus Project sustain themselves and do not affect The Zeitgeist Movement.


I wonder how many people had actually heard of the "Venus Project" before Zeitgeist came out?

Okay, so the VENUS PROJECT he's shilling for is non-profit (unlike the Zeitgeist pages), and guess what they're selling?

Note, that this is below the "DONATE" button. It doesn't give a minimum suggested donation, so the sky is the limit via paypal. If you thought the future of humanity and planet earth depended upon this project, wouldn't you give them a lot of money? Thankfully they're not, but how many people out there realize that? Seems like the perfect way to prey upon the unwary.

THE COMPLETE VENUS PROJECT LIBRARY SET - NEW
This includes the book The Best That Money Can’t Buy, the 5 DVD set of The Venus Project Tour, and many others.
$295.00

THE VENUS PROJECT COMBO PACKAGE
This includes the book "The Best That Money Can’t Buy", the 5 DVD set of The Venus Project Tour, the DVD’s "Welcome to the Future", "Cities in the Sea", "Self-Erecting Structures", and "Future By Design". As a gift we are including Zeitgeist Addendum.
$170.00

THE VENUS PROJECT TOUR (5 disc DVD)
The Venus Project Tour is an informative and educational experience unlike any other. This package is a 5 disk DVD.
$65.00

Fresco’s Classic Lectures, ALL Series
This Audio CD set is classic archives of Jacque Fresco’s lectures from 1974-1980. This set contains ALL three series (15 CD set).
$125.00

Fresco’s Classic Lectures, Series 1
This 5 Audio CD set is classic archives of Jacque Fresco’s lectures from 1974-1980. This set is Series 1.
$45.00

Fresco's Classic Lectures, Series 2
This set is Series 2.
$45.00

Fresco's Classic Lectures, Series 3
This set is Series 3.
$45.00

The Best that Money Can't Buy (Book) Fresco envisions a global civilization in which science and technology are applied with human and environmental concern to secure, protect, and encourage a more humane world for all people.
$24.95

Welcome to the Future (DVD)
Presents an attainable vision of what our world could be if we intelligently apply science and technology with environmental and human concern.
$29.95

Future By Design (2 disc DVD)
A FILM ON JACQUE FRESCO, FOUNDER OF THE VENUS PROJECT BY ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED DIRECTOR WILLIAM GAZECKI
$24.95

Autographed Photos
Four Autographed Photos of Jacque Fresco's Original Designs. You can choose from 12 or indicate another photo you see on the website. The photos are 8-1/2" X 11" in size.
$100.00

Self-Erecting Structures (DVD)
Presenting the fantastic future of the intelligent and humane use of AI & cybernation as they construct our infrastructure while protecting the environment.
$15.00

Cities in the Sea (DVD)
We are only now beginning to recognize the enormous potential and diversity of the relatively untapped resources of the world's oceans.
$15.00


While you can get the two "Zeitgeist" documentaries for free online, I suspect they wouldn't be too happy about people copying and distributing these other products without paying...

I don't have a problem with people selling products, nor even with making a profit. But when the selling point is that these are FACTUAL and "the only hope for the future," then you're held to a higher standard than somebody openly selling crap purely for entertainment.

If I were this Jacque Fresco character, I wouldn't want anything to do with "Peter Joseph," unless I were dishonest, or delusional...

Just trying to point out that 'opening your eyes and minding out for the sh!t' isn't such bad advice to receive from a guy that spent $7,000 of his own money providing you with TOTALLY FREE ENTERTAINMENT to freely take, however you want and pass on without FEAR of imprisonment and or a huge fine.


Everything you said aside, it doesn't justify lying to your audience that whole time, does it? Does it justify the use of propaganda techniques to get the viewer's attention?

If we are giving awards now to people for lying, simply because it "made you think" then there are a lot more medals to be given out.

The irony of course is that from your post you seem to hate and fear liars, especially those with influence. So what does that make "Peter Joseph"?

First off, I think the notion that he never made a red cent off of "Zeitgeist" and never intended to, is naive at best. Second, the real achievement of this (and its sequel) was INFLUENCE. He created a "movement" and cribbed enough people off of the "TRUTHER" and conspiracy communities to create the infamous "Z-Days." I actually know people who have shown copies of the movie as a result of friends/relatives passing them on a copy. So he's become more than just another flash in the pan "web personality."

My cynical side would believe that the point of all this was not just to make him famous (earning the "respect" of conspiracy cultists) but to garner support for the "Venus Project." Let the buyer beware.

If "Peter Joseph" was really this humanitarian intellectual freedom-fighter, he could have done his research first. Now all he's done is drag a few more people into the "we-don't-have-to-listen-to-you-because-you're-obviously-kookoo-for-cocoa-puffs" category of dissenter. He could have spent that $7000 on a billboard campaign with the simple message: Governments and other institutions are often corrupt, watch out for them and don't take what they say for granted." There, done.

I am sick and tired, frankly, of people defending kooks like him simply because they drew a positive "moral" from their products, and yet are often the first ones to shy away from admitting the factual errors, logical inconsistencies and hypocrisy displayed in these "documentaries."

Surely there are more constructive ways to use our time and money than to support this guy...

The sad thing is that now that I've posted those details, there may be people out there that will see this and go "wow, I want to buy these things!" Listen, even though I haven't watched those products he's selling, given the level of BS in the Zeitgeist movies, I wouldn't trust this guy or his "movement" or the Venus Project with one red cent. Their "dreams" will never become a reality, but frankly I don't believe they will even try.

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I suppose I just saw 'Red' J




Its a fun but dumb movie, I liked it.


My point was more along the lines of a Doug Stanhope quote :

"Complaining that a comic is drunk is like going to a titty bar and complaining because your lapdancer is a communist"

The parallel being drawn because the man IS A GREAT MAN.He champions true democracy and open-mindedness.


Does he? And that also begs the question, why Is True Democracy a worthy goal? Keep in mind that not all of us here even agree on that.



Dismissing his lifelong achievements simply because 'He says he's not a communist but I think he is' is complete buffoonery.


I didn’t dismiss his life’s work, I noted his own Biases. That said, we aren’t discussing the complete works of Noam Chomsky, and I am still offended that you think I believed he was a Communist because his last name ends in SKY ( even though I know numerous Russians or those of Russian decent whom I don’t make that claim to, and listen to Tykovsky a good deal, and like reading Russian Philosophers from time to time. I even dated a Russian Girl once.) By the way Chomsky doesn’t really disclaim being a Communist, however, his Social Democracy is not the same as Stalinism, or that of the whole Soviet project. That places him in roughly the same political camp as Bertrand Russell. (No I do not think Chomsky shares all the same views as Lord Russell.)

This is more about the fact that he believes in wealth redistribution and a “Peoples” control of the means of manufacture, as well as his general rejection of the idea of property rights.



Irony come on in…


I think you presume too much.

A) What difference does his political stance make when the man arguably possesses one of the brightest minds of the 20-21st centuries and has a very balanced viewpoint regardless of political reservations.(Even though he isn't a communist as we established earlier by your quoting his own words)


Being a Libertarian Socialist doesn’t mean your not a Communist, and being bright doesn’t mean you are right.

Again, we have to examine everyone perspective.


B) Not understanding or relating to another's political viewpoint DOES NOT MAKE THEM A COMMUNIST.
Somebody needed to say that...Are you from the US by any chance ?



I never said it did, and I am English.

Why do you assume I am calling him a Communist simply because I do not relate to his political viewpoints? I am calling him a Communist because he believes in Wealth redistribution and Social Democracy which is the Heart of Communism.





C) If it wasn't for our communist allies of China and Russia we'd all be speaking German now.
(I deeply loathe that expression but it's nice to see it used for once in the correct context)



China? I know you’r referign to WW2 but, China did not really enter the war in massive effort other than to preserve itself from Japanese Invasion. China did not help on the Western Front at all.

As for Russia, why do Americans always seem oblivious to the fact that it was the Soviet Union, not “Russia”? Its as bloody annoying as when Americans say they broke from “England” or refer to the Queen of England, even though England ceased to be an independent Nation-State in 1701, and now it’s the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Soviet Union included Ukraine, Georgia, Latvia, Moldova, and several other States, all of whom also contributed to WW2.

Further, the Soviets didn’t exactly help in WW2 because Communism teaches them dictatorship is bad, they helped because we all had a Mutual enemy, so the argument here is rather moot.




Somebody needed to say that too.The Russians alone lost MILLIONS in defeating the Nazis and we should honour and respect them for their courage and for their country's huge sacrifice during WW2 alone.


Which doesn’t really relate to this discussion nor does it really render the political philosophy they held to better.





They suffered horrifically.They were so desperate that cannibalism became widespread due to famine, obviously.I've read accounts of families swapping dead infants to avoid eating ones own.


Yeah and they did this also when Lenin and Stalin engineered famines… By the way, did you know that the White Guard who attempted to turn back the Revolution also suffered? The last of them, lead by General Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg had to hole up in Mongolia, but did manage to restore the Boghda Khan temporarily until the Reds took them over.

For that matter, the Tzarists suffered incredibly under the Soviet Russia (No I am not contradicting myself, the Union did not exist till 1926) ansd fought valiantly for their Tzar.


Jeez, to have to go through that as a nation and then be abused for having been born into communism seems like a double shot of Feck-You Daniels.
...Certainly 'less than Christian' behaviour.


I never condemned anyone for being born into Communism though, I condemned Communism as a Political Theory and said it was unworkable. Its disingenuous to turn this into me condemning all Russians who ever lived, or those who lived after 1917 anyway.



Britain and Russia, as allies, go back a good 100 to 200 years .The Cold War was more nonsense to promote the massive arms industry and spread FEAR and thus control the masses and more importantly provide PROTECTION to a nation's fearful citizens.


You do now that people died in the Cold War right? And that, especially before Khrushev, the Soviet Union promoted worldwide Revolution, and sought to actively subvert Governments, right?

Hell, even Khrushev wanted to actively promote Global Communist Order. He was just less brutal than was Stalin.

The Soviet Union wouldn’t really start to become less militant until the ascendancy of Michael Gorbechav, who took over initially as party coordinator hen as Party Chairman and finally as rh4e First (and Last) president of the Soviet Union.

Britain was not an ally to the Soviet Union (which was not identical to just Russia) after the fall of the Tzars. Part of the reason for the alliance was the Personal connection between the Royal Houses, with Tzar Nicolas’s Wife being directly related to Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Do you not know the History of the region?



That 'divide and conquer' tactic doesn't change from Man's creation of Religion to present day 'Terrorism'.


Why is ir you buy into the nonsense that Religion was created as a mean to control the Masses? What evidence do you have of this?

The Truth is, Religion wasn’t created as a mean to control us, it easn’t even created. Religion really is just a set of beliefs about the fundamental nature of our existence, its what we believe about ourselves as a whole. The Truth is, everyone has a Religion and Religion is an unavoidable aspect of our life, its something we can’t live without.

It wasn’t until the 18th century that we even tried to distinguish between “Religion” and everything else as if its separate, and while the Enlightenments false ideas still make the rounds, the Truth about it is that all it managed to do is to create a competing Religion. So long as we have beliefs about how the world works and a Narrative that explains it all, we will have Religion, and even your idea that Religion was created to control people is a Religious belief, as Ironic as that is.



Also, the Terrorists aren’t really fabricated, they are really there and do want to cause the Evil Empire America to crumble.

The reasons go back to WW1 and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.



Certain governments, my own included, realise what a powerful tool FEAR actually is and are currently exploiting it to remove our basic human rights with OUR OWN CONSENT.


Which is why I dislike modern political beliefs and modernism.

Welcoem to the abyss, Humanism at its finest.



That is a fact my friend.Regardless of opinion.One only needs eyes and a conscience to see it.
Without that FEAR people could love one another BOTH unconditionally AND freely, without the shackles of a god-fearing organised religion.


No, they couldn’t. Saying this only shows you know nothing of Human Nature. If you assume that the only reason we don’t love each other is because the Government and Religion work to keep us in fear, then you have never studied tribal cultures how routinely go to war and kill each other. Humans tend to have selfishness, greed, and envy, jealously, sloth and Tribalism as inherent problems, not problems created by Religion telling us to hate outsiders or Government creating enemies.

If anything all these things can do is exploit ( or in terms or religion be exploited itself) to achieve those ends that already exist.


People wont just love one another feely and unconditionally though without some overarching reason to, and that reason will ultimately be a Religion because even though you think Religion was creates by people to control other people and once upon a time didn’t exist, its not a creation. That’s sort of another flaw to outthinking.




(If that's communism, where do I sign up ?)...But back to FEAR:



It has the same flaw as Communism, that it has no actual understanding of Human Nature and just Follows Rousseau in assuming “Man is born good, but society makes him bad”. Rousseau was horribly mistaken, but at least he lived in he 18th Century, before the carnage of the French Revolution, the Oktober Revolution, the Brutal suppressions of the Soviet Union, and before the terrors of WW1 and WW2. He lived before the Stanford Prison experiments, or the numerous behavioural experiments which show Human Tendency to establish a society around Hierarchy, and which shows how people will in groups tend to follow the masses as opposed to think independently. Before we knew the Utopian promises could not be for Humanity itself is not as perfect and liberal in design as was once thought. He lived before we knew this, or really after if you look at Region, the great perpetrator of lies, for it turns out the lies that Rousseau and other Enlightenment Era thinkers countered that Religion taught were True after all.


-The government controlled/restricted media provides a healthy dose with 24 hour war/terror reports/alerts - 365 days per year, making everyone feel 'at war/threatened CONTINUOUSLY', but not to worry because the nice government wants to protect us from a threat LESS DEADLY THAN FOOKIN PEANUTS.So now there are cameras everywhere, and the police have 'Bat-Belts' with a whole array of goodies to protect you with.Guns, Tasers, Tear Gas, Battons you name it.


As much as I dislike ho the UK has become a Police State, its not entirely True that the threats to security are fully fabricated. Didn’t some School teacher from Pakistan try to kill an MP recently?


I’m sorry but your oversimplified statement here doesn’t fit reality any moreso than those who prefer massive Government intrusion.



Wowzers, Whatever next? ...

-Well that nice Mr Bush says that these 'Trrr-ist evil-doers' are jealous of western freedom so nice Mr Blair agreed and decided to make protest illegal.

Seriously, why ?



Mr. Blair is also called Tony the phoney… but neither of them ar ei office now so…

By the way I do not support Labour.


-Well, *whispered mumble* we don't want to have to check 4 Million cameras for brown guys with beards.It's boring.

Sorry ?



Not all Muslims have beards… its also politically incorrect to be racists and racial profiling is now seen as Racism, so we have o protect you form white Christians not brown Muslims even though they aren’t killing anyone, if you really want to get into how messed up British Society has gotten. All in the name of Tolerance and Equality of course.

Mind you we didn’t have these problems when we had an Empire, only when we went liberal… but hey, Liberalism is the key to success and peace… right? Right?



-AHEM...We don't want more than one person speaking to another...One might be a trrr-ist or worse still they may be both be trrr-ists.
...What with their cameras and their bigs hats and sunglasses.

That's tourists.

-Yeah Mr Bush hates them too.That's why he sends them abroad to speak loudly in quiet old places of little interest.

Right.So we're saved then ?

-Well not completely...yet, your right to deny entry to a 'public servant' without a warrant, we're gonna hang on to that. That's to protect 'you'.

From what now ?

-From the trrr-ist 'sub-nutters' and their rocks and sand that want to break into your sh!tty flat 'specifically' and bomb you and your 'waaay too much freedom and stuff' to hell-bits.

They have guns, 5 year olds get AK-47s, I've seen them on the news.Always wondered how they got those...being in the desert and all... and all poor and stuff

-Oh those.We had to 'give' them something y'know to make 'a-bit-of-a-fist-of-it'
A war needs 2 ARMIES FIGHTING and throwing sand looks a bit, ..erm... well... Baywatchy to be honest and we were all rather looking forward to some big bangy fireworks for all of our viewers to drink beer and wave flags to.

Erm ?... Okay what else ?



Your comments are both outdated (Obama and Cameron now hold power, not Bush and Blair) and oversimplistic drek. The War on Terror was ought to protect Western Democracy from the attics by a ragtag loosely organised network of angry Arabs who feel like the Arabian World is being dominated and eroded Culturally by the West, specifically the Great Satan America.

The Threat is Real, though I myself didn’t think the War on Terror was that good an idea. Just get Bin Laden, and then get out. And , end all the cultural pressure on the Middle East. Simple.

Still, most of this goes back to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and rise of sectarian interests in the middle east and how the Western powers carved it up for their own advantage, and has a rather complicated History behind it.

Its not that the West create a war to control us, its that Western ignorance about 90 years ago caused this, and modern western ignorance combined with arrogance will continue it…



-Your right to a phonecall, legal representation, a trial in your own country etc etc etc....Erm…


Excuse me but…Trial in your own country? No one has that Right. If I go to France and commit a Crime, I don’t have a right to a Trial in the UK. If I go to China and commit a Crime they won’t send me to America to Stand Trial. You Stand Trial where the Crime was committed. No one has ever had a Right to a Trial in their own Country.



We're going to hold on to them for you too.You know just in case.I mean, haven't you seen '24', 'The Sum Of All Fears' or 'the unthinkable' ? (brought to you by the same nice people that bring you the lovely news stuff.Funny that.Perhaps not)

Oh Sh!t yeah, they were scary...Okay.
Anything else ?



The reason Bush kept them I Guntanamo without Trial and Legal representation is because he treated them as enemy combatants as opposed to run of the mill criminals. You do to give prisoners of war Trials, you hold them till the War Ends.

What he id was standard and part for the course in War, and only became an issue when his opponents decided they aren’t war criminals to use it as leverage against him.

The issue is a lot more complex than your depicting.



-Oh just a couple of cameras here and there.

Wow, you sure you need 4 MILLION of them ?



That’s the UK, not he US. But hey, I don’t’ like them either, blame Labour. They are a Socialist party by the way,…


-Well sure, latest reports show that about 1 in 15 people living in our country are 'evil doer Trrr-ists' according to nice Mr Bush, don't you watch the News or read a paper, dummy ?


1: Bush is not President now.

2: Can you source his information?



Sure, so we're all going to die ?


Bush never said that, he actually encourages us to live our lives as normally we would.

So what your saying is Fantasy not Reality, and outdated Fantasy at that. Didn’t you hear about the Election in 2008?



-Yes but for some of us that isn't the end you see because this big invisible floaty fella is going to see if you've been a good boy or a bad boy.
If you haven't read one of his books or if you do a bunch of bad stuff, you don't even get to die.



You know the whole “Invisible Floaty fella” comment makes this rather impossible to take seriously. People who believe in God do not believe in an invisible floaty fella, and this sort of stupidity really is nothing but childish insult. I mean, your trying to make belief in God sound bad by creating an oversimplified Caricature. But then you do the same for the War on Terror too, or the History of Religion. You haven’t studied the real history of these things, or what they actually do or believe, you’re just repeating a slipshod shallow claim abut them in order to justify a distrust and hatred of them.


Sh!t...How come ?


Given that its not really as you describe the how come can’t be answered. You misrepresented Theism.


-Well Zaro, Some people believe that the big, invisible, all-seeing, all knowing, almighty, un-opposable, floaty fella has a dead helper that can send you down to his evil nemesis 'Satan' where you burn forever.

Forever ?, but what about physics ?

-Physics, Shmysics.

Okay...?



So what you’re saying is that you have no actual Concept of Christian Theology, nor do you understand what Hell is actually understood as.

The “Burn Forever” aspect is actually a description of Pain, not of a material object that is burning. C.S. Lewis thought it was your emotional State, and this idea is hardly unique to him. Augustine explained Hell as where you are in endless Suffering because you must live with the constancy of your own evils.

Hell is also not described solely as Fire burning you, but also as “Outer Darkness”. The idea is that you are cast away or the Light of God.

The common Trait of Hell is that you do not Love God, or truly anything else, and now can’t stand to enter the Light of Love that is God. Your own Sins cause you to burn in shame and reproach, and because you refuse to accept this, or that you have nay faults at all, because you remain defiant and refuse to Truthfully examine yourself, you slink into the Darkness, hiding from the Truth, hiding even from yourself, and have nothing left but that anger, that resentment, that selfish and all consuming pride, which causes you to become far removed from peace and Joy. You wallow instead in anger, fear, ignominy, and Hatred, Ultimately also in Fear, feeling forever terrorised by the burden of your own sins and surrounded by others like you, who will amplify this.



Hell is thus a place of Separation from God and his Love, a place we go because we cannot face or accept our own Sins. The description your using was meant Poetically.

Do you understand Poetry?

Are you that bereft of actual awareness of these Doctrines you Criticise?

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Continued From The Above...



So the Goverment use 4 million cameras, the news and media, the millitary, the police and the law to protect me from 'something less worrying than a lightly salted pub snack' ?

-Yup.




You think Terrorists who have already taken down several Civilian Targets, Including the World Trade Centre, the Tubes in London, and have targeted other locales, anyhow now continue to plan insurgencies in the Middle East, are not Threatening?

Then again I doubt you understand the wars in the Middle East so…



And in THE 'LOTTERY-ESQUE' ODDS of my being killed by terrorists I get to 'burn forever' if I don't please the big, invisible, all-seeing, all-knowing, almighty, un-opposable, magical floaty fella ?

-That's the long and short of it I'm afraid Zaro.



No it dnot. You neither presented an accurate or honest assessment of the War on Terror, or modern Govenrment, nor on Christian beliefs.

Your’ entire presentation is a rather juvenile recapitulation of half digested insults used as if they are fact.




Me too, are you a Communist ? .…


No.





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Continued From Above...


This is coming from a UK citizen.


I gathered.

In the UK the Government are a lot more secretive and subtle about these changes than in the US.Yet it is still totally obvious to pretty much everyone that civil liberties no longer exist if they want to play the trrr-ist card.



I post on Lords Of The Blog, I know full well the Modern UK Government is corrupt and doesn’t car about our Rights. However, I blame the Trend on the Utopian Fantasies of those wanting to promote Equality and Tolerance…

…We need to go back to our old Order, not this idiotic “Democracy” we’ve been trying to run.



I'm not mocking you for being religious.


Good, because your Religious too. Being Religious doesn’t mean you believe in God by the way.

That said, you are mocking my Religion, with your juvenile claims that “Insisble fella in the Sky” rubbish.

Maybe you should actually address what Christians actually believe?



Each to their own as long as you use religion for the benefit of mankind, have at it.Religion, whether used for good or bad means is a tool and tools are MAN MADE.


Religion wasn’t man made though. Religion is an innate quality. Religion is just a term we invented to describe our Foundational beliefs. Even if we “Got rid of all Religion” we’d still have Religion.

Religion wasn’t something that once didn’t exist till it was created by some bloke a long time ago, its always existed and always will. Even the Narrative you use about a material world in which God doesn’t exist is a Religion, because it addresses the same basic things Religion addresses.


We could however probably use a few more REAL Christians to help out with famine after the vile and senseless wars that we keep fighting absorb all of the wealth of their victims and leave entire cultures, many of them ancient, in tatters.



You do know that Labour and the Lib Dems are boasting that they are lead by Atheists now right? And that Labour is a Socialist Party? And that Blair is only Catholic in Name, not in Reality as he basically wants to dictate to the Pope what to believe and what not to?



Just trying to point out that 'opening your eyes and minding out for the sh!t' isn't such bad advice to receive from a guy that spent $7,000 of his own money providing you with TOTALLY FREE ENTERTAINMENT to freely take, however you want and pass on without FEAR of imprisonment and or a huge fine.



You know, this excuse is repeated so often I’m beginning to think Pete Joseph put it on his website somewhere, so people like you will buy it as a way to avoid the obvious criticism of this film.

It doesn’t matter than he paid $ 7000 of his own money to supply us with this movie, It doesn’t change the fact that the Movie still lies to us. Part 1 is not True, part 2 is not true, and part 3 is not True.

The “Facts” in the film are easily shown to not be True. That means we can’t trust its conclusion, for its conclusion is base don those facts.


Sounds like quite a noble almost religious gesture IMHO.


Except the films information is still wrong…

And provably so…


I reckon Jesus would have done a similar thing if possible warning the masses against the tyranny of organised religion, the Roman Empire, and wealth distribution (from what I remember of R.E. back in school he struck me as being a bit of an activist)






Jesus wouldn’t have condemned Organised Religion. The concept of Organised Religion as an evil force in the world began in the 18th Century. Hell, the idea that Religion was something that someone could lack, and the idea that a Religious belief is not the same thing as our day to day reality, is itself an 18th century idea. Jesus would have made no distinction bet3een a Religious Belief, such as the existence of God, and a secular one, such as belief in allowing Taxation.

To him, and for most of Human History, all beliefs were treated as the same, and all concerned the real world we lived in.

You are projecting a modern bias onto the past, where it doesn’t belong.



In that context it sounds almost like deja-vu.

Hope that was a little more to the point

Peace,

V.S.



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I didn't mean to come across all preachy and serious.My response wasn't supposed to be dissected and disproved.It was merely a bit of fun which you apparently missed mate.Lighten up fella.The figures are taken from incredibly unreliable sources and rounded up massively for comedic effect.I don't even need to justify my post.It was just a bit of fun posted in the 'Comments section' not the 'essay section' if such a thing exists.

The vague assumption of your being from the US was the knee-jerk 'point and shout communist' reaction.

I'm not up for spending the evening 'kicking water uphill' as arguing opinion on the net is retarded.

Arguing with any opinion is retarded, full-stop.

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'Your’ entire presentation is a rather juvenile recapitulation of half digested insults used as if they are fact'.

Or a jovial, light-hearted 'response' where role reversal was used loosely to highlight ironies not a scientific paper on 'reasons why I present a better argument on all matters'
Which I CONCEDE.You present a more valid argument simply because you're the only one arguing.I'm an *beep* you win.Move along.

Now what's your excuse/agenda ?

And if I choose to believe in every word of this documentary surely as a religious person you should respect my beliefs, right ? , not that I do believe every word, merely the dangers of not thinking for yourself.


I'm not religious AT ALL either, don't presume to think on my behalf.

You also confuse 'person with conscience' with 'Religious'





It's just taken me about 15 seconds to scroll through your response.

Mate, I don't even give that much of a sh!t what 'I THINK' FFS :)

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I agree with VS...

ZAROVE clearly takes this to an emotional level and feels the need to argue to defend what he thinks, Which is understandable, he is giving us away all his personality on an internet board by telling us how he thinks and the passion he puts to defend what others attack.

By disprove him we are attempting against him as an individual.

The point here is that there always gonna be people who will debunk these movies and people who will defend them. And that's ok, people are different, raised different, their belief system may differ too, and some of them are conditioning to believe and support religion, politics, law, the monetary system and so forth. While others never take anything for granted and like to think by themselves analyzing pretty much everything and questioning everything.

They key is, that whatever conclusion you have come up with: approving what this movie reveals or disapproving what this movie presents, has to come after you have analyzed by yourself all the information given, not mimic and let others put words in your mouth.

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I agree with VS...



Of course you do, and form the below you improt the usual polemic that I've seen loads of times before. Religiosu peopela re irrational. Religiosu peopela re emotional. Logic and reason is what the Nonreligiosu have... its a rather boring repetition for the supposedly Free thinking.




ZAROVE clearly takes this to an emotional level and feels the need to argue to defend what he thinks, Which is understandable, he is giving us away all his personality on an internet board by telling us how he thinks and the passion he puts to defend what others attack.



Actually I'm nto that Emotionally invested in these debates and often intentionally insrt a comedic error to see if anyoen catches on.

Not onth Zeitgeist Board, btu ZI did ont he Religulous baord for kicks.

I'm simply makign comments on an Internet Message Boar to counter the stupidity, not as a Knee Jerk reaction to an attack on my beleifs.

Hell, I've defended Islam from Christians, and was even Banned from Free Republic for it. I've eeven defended Atheists who were meared.

I do this simply because I find these sorts of routine errors far too common, not out of emotional need.




By disprove him we are attempting against him as an individual.



But, no one has actully disproven anythign I've said, and at this poitn all yoru dpign is attacign me personally wiht no predication, and no real frame of reference.

There is no Logical reason to do so.


The point here is that there always gonna be people who will debunk these movies and people who will defend them. And that's ok, people are different, raised different, their belief system may differ too, and some of them are conditioning to believe and support religion, politics, law, the monetary system and so forth. While others never take anything for granted and like to think by themselves analyzing pretty much everything and questioning everything.


This is what I mean by a Fal Dichotomy. Basiclaly, anyoen who defends Religion, the Political System, the Monetary Ssyem, or anythign else Peter Joseph has taken aim at is merley conditioned to do so, takes it from Granted,and refuses to see things for themselves. They are all just brainwashed. Meanwhile, some peopel are Fre Thinekrs who wuestion everythgin above.

Never mind that oen o the Central complaints agaisnrt Zeitgeist is that it asks you to beleive the claims it makes without really qyestionign them, and how it relies on the fact that few will bother to look up the informaion to verify said claims, somehow those who buy into Zeitgeist and its message are Thinkign for themselves whikst those who point out tis flaws are simply conditioend to accept the world as is.

Do you not see the Irony here?


Zeitgeost fans aren't Free Thinekrs, they just buy into the claims made by Zeitfgeist withotu questjonign these thigns. Meanwhile, th Debunkers arent just midnless sheep trign to preserve he Status Que, either, they simply don't like beign lid to by Propaganda.

You dont' think for yoruself by acceptign a documentary like this as True.



They key is, that whatever conclusion you have come up with: approving what this movie reveals or disapproving what this movie presents, has to come after you have analyzed by yourself all the information given, not mimic and let others put words in your mouth.



But I did that already. I even wrte an essay on the Astrotheology argument which I personally did research. The claims in th4e film do not hold up to scrutiny, and Im nto sayin that as a Knee Jerk reaction, Im sayign that because I have fact checked it.

Why do Zeitgeist Fans not get that?

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ZAROVE,

I agreed on VC about how pointless is to debate on internet boards. Don't try to label me since I'm not interested in debating what I think or believe with people on the internet. I will comment my point of view with those that I know in real life and consider appropriate to have a mature conversation (oh by the way and just in case... don't get offended, I haven't call you immature). Don't dissect my comments as they are not meant to be taken serious in any way (as VC pointed: this is not an essay). So you don't need to show me my error since I was not resolving an equation I was (and I still am) just giving an opinion about a generic topic: debating on internet boards is pointless, get it?

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What about the morons who are not American? Can they just sleep in?

My body's a cage, it's been used and abused...and I...LIKE IT!!

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