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As the question asks, what are your thoughts on the 3 part movie Zeitgeist and it's questioning of the origins of Christianity, 911 and the Federal Reserve Bank of America?

Has no one watched it? http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197&hl=en

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Has any one listened to the Skeptoid podcast about Zeitgeist? Can someone paraphrase that for completeness, please. skeptoid.com/episodes/4196 – rjstelling Mar 12 at 11:39

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Zeitgeist is simply conspiracy theory propaganda. The 9/11 section alone is enough to relegate it to the woo bin. I know many people who have bought into the first section on the Jesus myth. Although I am not a believer in a single individual by the name of Jesus having existed, the myth section really adds nothing to the legitimate historical debate on the existence of Christ. I found a very good review of the movie which addressed all the claims made and refuted almost all of them, providing evidence to support the debunk and presenting links to verifiable sources. I can think of no better explaination of the "movie":

http://conspiracyscience.com/articles/zeitgeist/

Alex Pryce Edinburgh Skeptics

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Hello,

"Episode 63 Zeitgeist Debunked with guest Tim Callahan" of the Reasonable Doubts podcast is a debunking of the religious claims in Zeitgeist. The guy made just stuff up.

With Skepticality,

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The third part only focuses on the monetary system. Christian origins & 9/11 are parts 1 and 2.

I agree with a great deal on the origin of religion, but I'm skeptical about 9/11 being a conspiracy.

Part 3, along with the subsequent film "Zeitgeist: Addendum" (http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/) have spawned a global movement for change. Any monetary system has profound flaws which lead to poverty, crime and hinder human progress.

This Zeitgeist Movement is the activist arm of The Venus Project, which promotes a resource-based economy. The project site (http://www.thevenusproject.com/) outlines how future cities would be designed and how Earth's resources would be shared globally--without the use of a monetary system.

You can learn more about the Zeitgeist Movement here: http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com.

The Venus Project is here: http://www.thevenusproject.com/.

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The venus project does not say anything about how the resources would be shared, only that there would be no more money, barter, credit or debt. It reads more like SOCIALISM IN SPACE! than any rationally worked out way to improve on today's society. Now, socialism is a great idea, but it requires better humans than are around to today because otherwise it just slips down to communism and tyranny. – Mark Z. Mar 5 at 6:30
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Money is simply a way of representing resources without actually having to hand over two pigs to get one cow. If it were properly regulated then it would act as such, but society has allowed too many levels of abstraction and too much speculative use of money without regard to economic consequence or transparency. I agree with Mark that the Venus Project is a nice but unrealistic Sci-Fi utopia. You'll notice on the resource-based economy page a complete lack of a real, practical plan for how to change current, dominant human behaviour or implement such a system. – Skrivener Mar 6 at 20:00
Also all the lame new-age SF renderings of buildings ought to raise some big red-flags ;) – Skrivener Mar 6 at 20:02

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