Zeitgeist Documentary

[Marcel_D]

Very interesting documentary that I would like to hear your thoughts on. There are three parts focusing religion, economy and war, and government mainly in the US.

http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

It is a movie but I do believe it belongs in the political forum.

[Kaos]

Very interesting documentary that I would like to hear your thoughts on. There are three parts focusing religion, economy and war, and government mainly in the US.

http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

It is a movie but I do believe it belongs in the political forum.

Looks good, I'll check it out next week when I get some download bandwidth.

[scottdog]

I watched it, pritty cool, makes you want to destroy the establishment you know. The 9/11 thing seemed a little far fetched, but the other parts were good.

yeah 4 stars.

[Oddvin]

It sure was interesting. I think the income-tax fact was weird!

[2ltben]

I don't buy into conspiracy theories about 'The Man' (disclaimer: only going by people's posts here, I don't have enough bandwidth to watch movies on the internet, my school pays for bottom of the barrel 512kb/s DSL). There are other countries far worse off than we are. Facism in the US is the minority in domestic policy, but its by far the chief foreign policy of the State Department.

[Lemontree]

I only watched the first part about religion, but that was allready enough for me. I just can't stand untolerant shit like that.

And no, I'm not a naive, white redneck who lives also in the US and is also a member of the KKK.

[Martin Walther]

omg.. love the religion bashing at the beginning...

[Marcel_D]

I only watched the first part about religion, but that was allready enough for me. I just can't stand untolerant shit like that.

And no, I'm not a naive, white redneck who lives also in the US and is also a member of the KKK.

Yeah I don't agree with the religious part either but the rest I found interesting. Do I believe it's all true? No, but since I don't know what really goes on behind the scenes I don't think it can all be written off as a conspiracy.

[NightStalker]

Well, the religion 'bashing' is interesting as well. It should probably researched further independently, but it is interesting none the less. Just because they bring evidence forward to disprove something means they are intolerant? No I don't think so. Protesting a church service, or even worse, not letting people practice religion at all would be intolerant.

[2ltben]

Well, the religion 'bashing' is interesting as well. It should probably researched further independently, but it is interesting none the less. Just because they bring evidence forward to disprove something means they are intolerant? No I don't think so. Protesting a church service, or even worse, not letting people practice religion at all would be intolerant.
That may be the ends, but you don't have to be Richard Dawkins about it. That's why scientists have a problem with Richard Dawkins, he's not trying to educate anymore, he's just trying to make the Creationists seem like backwoods yokels.

I like to think that I respect people's personal religious beliefs no matter what they are. One thing that I've noticed is that it takes you out of your personal viewpoint and lets so see just how similar comparative religion is, and how pointless discrimination is. Whether or not I live up to that virtue remains to be seen.

I'm less than five years from becoming a scientist, a decade or so from an educator. I believe that, taking modern physics and cosmology into consideration, belief in a god or gods is very possible. We don't even begin to understand what lies in the un-space between universes. I refuse to subscribe to a particular religion just as I refuse to subscribe to a particular philosophy, it implies surrendering my will to a particular covenant and dogma. I do not put stock in organizations or ideology, I put it in people and the virtues they hold dear.