Matt wrote:
Take L. Ron Hubbard for example, founder of Scientology. He is famously quoted for saying, "The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion." There is no political motivation in this sentiment what-so ever. Religious leaders are the people who take the reigns and they are the ones who twist and mislead their followers.
Even in Thiaoouba Prophecy, Thao specifically states that it was the Roman Catholic Church who made the edits, not any political body:
"The only times this distortion was purposely done, and for very specific
reasons, as I have said, was by the Roman Church during the councils of Nicein
AD 325, Constantinople in AD 381, Ephese in AD 431 and Chalcedoine in AD
451."
Zeitgeist the Movie is the exact kind of misinformation that TP tries to dispel, and you people blindly following it without doing your own research and thoroughly and logically contemplating the subject matter is the problem with society today!
Please, use your noggins. If you still disagree with me after that, then at least you can be sure of your conclusions rather than blindly accepting them from a movie you watched.
I understand what you are saying.
It's what I was trying to say but not as critically.
Did you actually carefully read my post?
So have you, yourself, researched anything in the movie before trying to disprove the whole thing as false & misinforming?
Somehow I think you mis-interpreted the quote. It sounds like you took it too literal.
I believe the way the word is used in that quote is actually intended in a different way than that of the usual use. I think they were Comparing the minds of the religious creaters to one of a political person? I took out the other definitions in this because I think it might be how they were using it. po·lit·i·cal (pə-lĭt'ĭ-kəl) Pronunciation Key
adj.
2. Relating to, involving, or characteristic of politics or politicians: "Calling a meeting is a political act in itself" (Daniel Goleman).
5. Having or influenced by partisan interests: The court should never become a political institution.
6. Based on or motivated by partisan or self-serving objectives: a purely political decision.
Although I don't actually believe any of it to be true. I think some of it is still valuable in a way that in can inspire people to open their eyes. Some of it does make sense if you pay attention to how they are saying it. Have you watched the whole movie with careful attention? Not that I actually have...The part about money being loaned to our governments by banks makes seems pretty possible. Although I can't think of any resource out there that proves it. Wasn't it even mentioned in Thiaoouba Prophecy? I would research if such information would actually be revealed, had it not been filtered out of most available resources. So I doubt it would be easy to prove any of what is being said. You would have to carefully research... because if such a subject with detailed research were to actually get leaked to the mass with substantial proof it could really cripple the authority system and the people that benefits so much from the fact that it's kept a secret. I'm sure they would pay a lot of money to have such information hidden. But anyways Please read my post carefully because it appears you haven't used your noggin to see what I was stating just as I haven't used mine to research much of what is said in the video....if you go to the website for the movie you will find a statement which says that they DON'T claim anything in the video as a truth, but that they want us viewers to find out for ourselves....by researching . Maybe this whole video is just misinformation. But, It definately presents an opportunity in getting people to criticize the generally un-criticized system that controls the mass with great influence...religiously, politically, and materialistically.
Anyways here's the statement from their [url =
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/statement.htm] web-site[/url]
Zeitgeist was created as a non-profit filmiac expression to inspire people to start looking at the world
from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the
population at large think they are. The information in Zeitgeist was established over a year long period
of research and the current Source page on this site lists the basic sources used / referenced.
Soon, an Interactive Transcript will be online with detailed footnotes and links so exact sources
and further research can be relayed.
Now, it's important to point out that there is a tendency to simply disbelieve things that are
counter to our understanding, without the necessary research performed.
For example, some information contained in Part 1 and Part 3, specifically, is not obtained
by simple keyword searches on the Internet. You have to dig deeper. For instance,
very often people who look up "Horus" or "The Federal Reserve" on the Internet
draw their conclusions from very general or biased sources. Online encyclopedias or text book
Encyclopedias often do not contain the information contained in Zeitgeist. However, if one takes
the time to read the sources provided, they will find that what is being presented is
based on documented evidence. Any corrections, clarifications & further points regarding the film
are found on the Clarifications page.
That being said, It is my hope that people will not take what is said
in the film as the truth, but find out for themselves, for truth is not told, it is realized.
Thank You
It doesn't matter how many books you have read, how many lectures you have heard - What matters is what you actually UNDERSTAND from them today about the universe and your particular role in it" -Thomas J. Chalko
, caught me a bit of gard, someone should edit it though....abuseing each other is not going to get us anywere....