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What Is The Zeitgeist Movement About?
I don't Know If Anyone Has Heard Of The Zeitgeist Movies That came Out Only On Internet.It's Pretty Interesting But Can Anyone Tell me What The Movement Is For???
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First answer said it perfectly. I can't believe anyone would believe that garbage.
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(Name omitted) A question for those who didn't like this movie. Do you really think this is garbage or did someone else tell you it is?
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I and a team of individuals are designing and working on the creation of a test city based on THE VENUS PROJECT and the principles of resource management and energy abundance. Please if anyone here has a desire to contribute. Contact us at Studentsforchange@live.com or visit www.frescocity.com
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Ya well i dont think youve even watched it your obviously just another ******* robot who is to ingnorant to beleve that all this shit is fucked and are comfortable with the fact that we have no control its all set up heres some advice watch the movie and quit being so egocentric
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I cant believe that lousy "answer" got chosen as the best, my advice is, to anyone that's doubtful, or ignorant to open their minds and watch the 2 movies till the very end, i was so skeptical at first but watching them made me think about a lot of things on how we live today and about my future ...
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How on earth can that 'red on yellow' answer be the best one? Watch the Zeitgeist Movies for yourself and then use alternative internet sources to check it. It is uncomfortable, scary and enlightening but it is definitely not garbage.
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I agree it's not garbage
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The Zeitgeist Movement is the Activist Arm of the Venus Project which proposes a new direction for humanity, as a solution to much of the worlds dominant problems.
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Anyone that would answer that it's just 'garbage' clearly hasn't seen the films or visited the website. They are just uninformed.
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How can you say it's garbage, red on yellow?
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(name omitted)He does not think for himself and does not investigate.
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Yep...it's true...ignorance IS bliss...bet she's happy as can be too...
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I love how hopefully the second answer lays out this solution..beautiful that some beings have taken the perspicacity to think things through and come up with something wonderfully productive & positive
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Is this thread still alive?
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Every Human Being Needs to Watch the Zeitgeist Movies. I Try to Get People to Watch It and Most People Do Not. I Get Frustrated By This. But, the Ones That Have Watched It Have Become More Aware...Please Share This Movie With Everyone
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People who have awakened both intellectually and spiritually (not religious!) will understand what Zeitgeist is about. Others who immediately condemn and criticize are still not able to comprehend beyond their fear-based thinking and cannot yet begin conceptualize anything beyond the physical.
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Brought in conception in the documentaries Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist: Addendum. It conceptualizes a new social transformation.
You need to go to the website and READ.
It's the most logical, intelligent solution to all of our worlds problems based on a possible 'resource based economy'. Which in essence means all humans are entitled to and have heritage to the earths resources, that we are capable now of becoming technologically advanced enough to create in abundance all the items we need to live. Food, shelter, health and safety. Leaving us free from labor and work to pursue education, creativity, and develop ourselves as a race. It abolishes such things like money, government, religion, war, the military, and diversionary materialistic noise. Problems are resolved through education and understanding the roots of and fixing or transcending them. It is not a political movement. it does not recognize governments or nations. Only true symbiosis of humans and the earth. Technology, science, nature, humans, and intelligence working together to create and maintain global long term stability. It is a non profit web site.
It opens up a whole new thought for the future of the human race. It brings up a lot of questions concerning transition without losing art, or movies, or entertainment, games. But I think it also proves that we only feel the want for these things because we are conditioned to since birth.
Watch the site for more content. and get involved. It's the only way we're going to truly save our selves from ourselves.
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zeitgeist its not a load of crap. did you even researched if the data presented in the movie is true ? You didn't. Why? Because you might feel betrayed by your own system and beliefs, and instead of researching, you just closed the movie and forgot about what happened.
I did researched, because i didn't believed(some facts) myself what were they saying , and it did make sense after all.
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You may have to wait till the site comes up before you can know more information on it. Till then watch the movies, for me what it explains is so obvious. try out www.infowars.com or www.prisonplanet.com you can get alot of info from those sites. People have to wake up and realize what is happening to us before its too late. you owe it to yourself to watch this movie and do research
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The movement is aimed at expanding human awareness and fixing society, since it is obviously broken. It aims to guide humans to a new level of society, one that improves upon the mistakes we made before. It is a cultural evolution.
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you can go the website. www.zeitgeistmovie.com
there are two documentaries... zeitgeist and then zeitgeist addendum.
they are pretty lengthy.... but they may give you more information.
good luck!
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The movement is to garner an international unity of humans to break down the current monetary and government systems currently in use
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Ignorance isn't so much blissful as it is dangerous
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LOL a load of crap. ur a load of crap for sayin that. don't listen to them simply watch the movie with an unbiased opinion and then do some research. The internet is full of information USE IT. watch both they tie in together and the second is more in depth but they are kind of long.
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By ALAN FEUER
Published: March 16, 2009
Two hours into Z-Day, the educational forum associated with the online movie “Zeitgeist,” Peter Joseph, the film’s director and the evening’s M.C., stepped out from behind his lectern and walked forward earnestly on the stage.
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Before the forum started, Jacque Fresco, 93, the futurist, talked with young admirers in the audience about his Venus Project.
In his goatee and mustache and tieless in a brown suit, Mr. Joseph had been lecturing for nearly 90 minutes on the unsustainable nature of the money-based economy — on cyclical consumption, planned obsolescence, corporate malfeasance and piles of poisonous waste. “It’s time that we wake up,” he intoned, speaking solemnly through a wireless clip-on mike. “The doomsday scenario, the big contraction, might be happening right now. The system of monetary exchange is — in the face of advancing technology — completely obsolete.”
This drew wild applause from the sold-out crowd, a patchwork of perhaps 900 people who paid $10 a head on Sunday night to sit in a packed auditorium at the Borough of Manhattan Community College on Chambers Street near the West Side Highway. Z-Day events were taking place from New England to New Zealand, but this was the big one: the marquee happening with the marquee names.
There, in the crowd, was Jacque Fresco, an industrial designer and the engineering guru of what people unironically called “the movement.” Mr. Fresco, an elfin 93-year-old, sat beside his partner, Roxanne Meadows, smiling self-effacingly.
Mr. Joseph, back on stage, waited patiently as some of the crowd, still cheering, refused to leave their feet.
If the election of Barack Obama was supposed to denote the gradual demise of churlish, corporate governance and usher in a new, sustainable era of visionary change, there was little sign of it at the second annual meeting of the Worldwide Zeitgeist Movement, which, its organizers said, held 450 sister events in 70 countries around the globe.
“The mission of the movement is the application of the scientific method for social change,” Mr. Joseph announced by way of introduction. The evening, which began at 7 with a two-hour critique of monetary economics, became by midnight a utopian presentation of a money-free and computer-driven vision of the future, a wholesale reimagination of civilization, as if Karl Marx and Carl Sagan had hired John Lennon from his “Imagine” days to do no less than redesign the underlying structures of planetary life.
In other words, a not entirely inappropriate response to the zeitgeist itself, which one young man, a philosophy student in a roomy purple blazer, described before the show began as “the world as we know it coming to an end.” As the evening labored on with a Power Point presentation, a panel talk with Mr. Fresco and a spirited question and answer session, some basic themes emerged: modern economics is a fraud; global debt will crush the planet; society itself is dying from the profit motive; and people ought to wise up to the fact that more than legislation — or presidential administrations — needs to change.
Though they were never actually shown — as most in attendance had seen them several times — Mr. Joseph’s two films, “Zeitgeist, the Movie” (released in 2007) and “Zeitgeist: Addendum” (released last fall), were the subtext of the evening: online documentaries that have been watched, he says, by 50 million people around the world.
The former may be most famous for alleging that the attacks of Sept. 11 were an “inside job” perpetrated by a power-hungry government on its witless population, a point of view that Mr. Joseph said he has recently “moved away from.” Indeed, the second film, the focus of the event, was all but empty of such conspiratorial notions, directing its rhetoric and high production values toward posing a replacement for the evils of the banking system and a perilous economy of scarcity and debt.
That’s where Mr. Fresco came in, an author, lecturer and former aircraft engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio who has spent the last six decades working on the Venus Project, a futuristic society where (adjust your seatbelts, now) machines would control government and industry and safeguard the planet’s fragile resources by means of an artificially intelligent “earthwide autonomic sensor system” — a super-brain of sorts connected to, yes, all human knowledge.
If this sounds vaguely like a disaster scenario out of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Mr. Fresco did not seem worried in the least. Machines are unemotional and unaggressive, unlike human beings, he told the crowd during the question-and-answer phase. “If you took your laptop and smashed it in front of 50 other laptops, trust me, none of them would care.”
The audience — white, black, young, old, baseball caps and business suits alike — received such words like a tonic, and the questions kept coming: What would family life be like in the future? What would happen if the automated system decided that a person had to die? Mr. Fresco and Ms. Meadows are planning the production of a major feature film to bring the Venus Project to a wider, global audience. Before the night began, Mr. Fresco, a small man with a V-neck sweater and a hearing aid, sat signing books and answering questions from a dozen or so college students gathered like acolytes at his feet.
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