Zeitgeist Movie
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- _niko0
just caught this on netflix, so late to the party. I really wanted to like it and was hooked for the first half hour until you do a little fact checking and see the whole first part is complete made up bullshit. So disappointed.
And on Christmas, sorry Jesus lol.
- ESPtype0
On a side note... this movie is dead on in regards to religion
- ESPtype0
I think that people look to deeply into the messages this movie tries to portray. If you step back and take the information for what its worth, you'll see that its not much different then the way many people get their news and information. News broadcasting systems are run by the few and large.
So your an idiot if you believe everything in these kinds of movies. But they are still important because of the questions they are asking. These movies act as a conversation for our culture, what we do with them is up to us to question
- rupedixon0
zeitgeist is a load of shit
- i_monk0
Baraka is awe-inspiring; I've seen it a dozen times.
I've only seen the first of the Katsi movies and the music put me off. As well as the boring footage.
- BattleAxe0
"This is just a ride" <-- so true
Yea I have seen it twice , and yes it makes for good conversation.not sold that 911 was an inside job , but more of a catapult for the war thirsty elite , cause like Mc Cain said "there will be more wars"
- Studiospooky0
Probably been seen, discussed and discarded many time here/on NT already, but a good message film without the religious or political angle is Baraka, and also Kayaniskatsi & Powwaskatsi or however the damn hell you spell that.
- I think these films are favorites of a lot of people.Mimio
- Studiospooky0
Wait, is this the trailer? or the whole movie...
- thedriver0
Just finished watching Part 1.
Amazing, makes me think all these religious people are even crazier than I first though. Worshiping their false gods and the sun.
- You can see why people worshipped the sun though, given the knowledge of their era.Mimio
- Oh totally, it makes total sense to me. I just can't believe that has been spun into modern/past religion as a sole means...thedriver
- means of controlling people. It's disgusting. I just don't understand how people can't see through the bullshit.thedriver
- flashbender0
That's a grey area - The Church - such as it was then - moved the date to combat the spread of Mithras - the biggest competitor to Christianity at that time... it could very well be that Mithras' birthday was the 25th because of the whole winter solstice deal.
Pretty regular handshake - instead of what we do today though, they would grasp each other's wrists or forearms - like they did in the hercules TV show with Kevin Sorbo
- mitsurugi0
"www.gotquestions.org/z...
Here... the source seems biased but I found something for you. It is interesting, I do not know the first thing about Horus, so whatev."
hehe, just a little biased. :)
- gramme0
I'm Christian, and I don't really care when the events are celebrated, all I care about is that they are celebrated at all.
- ukit0
May be old news, but I'm not sure a lot of Christians would be so thrilled with the idea that they are celebrating the birth of God on a day picked to appease Pagans by the Roman empire.
- gramme0
was it Mithras? I thought it was some winter solstice thingy.
was it a *special* handshake?
- gramme0
What about the fact that Christmas just happens to be on the exact same day as a number of much older, Pagan holidays? Seems like kinda a strange coincidence, no?
ukit
(Oct 17 07, 14:04)That's old news. Nobody is sure on the exact dates of Christmas and Easter. In western Europe, the traditional dates for these Christian holidays came about because the early Roman Catholic church decided to try and push out pagan holidays by using the same dates for Christian holidays: the winter solstice celebration becomes Christmas (with it's old multiple days of celebration), Beltain (Celtic springtime holiday, I believe) becomes Easter, not to mention Halloween which was a very poorly masked Samhain (Celtic harvest).
- flashbender0
THe church moved the date of christmas to share a festival day with the Cult Of Mithras - a Persian god who was very popular with the soldiers of the roman empire.
Interesting side note: followers of Mithras also invented the "handshake".
- mrdobolina0
http://www.gotquestions.org/zeit…
Here... the source seems biased but I found something for you. It is interesting, I do not know the first thing about Horus, so whatev.
- gramme0
I plan to. However from what I already know of all the major religions, there are basic similarities such as:
1. People pray
2. People believe in a higher power(s)
3. People believe in an afterlife
4. All religions have scripture of some sort
5. They all have a creation storyI have yet to find deeper similarities, but I am certainly curious. The reason I can't take this movie at its word is because it's a movie.
- So movies are all false, kinda like Passion of the Christ?thedriver