I agree that there is a lot of truth in the zeitgeist movie, but a lot of truth is not enough truth. The truth begins
only after part one. There are many other movies available that serve well as a "truth 101" course, but this is not one of them.
Part one of the movie is simply an attempt to discredit the Bible and Christianity. The problem I have with it is that the information is horribly and blatantly inaccurate and undermines our ability to understand just why these things are happening. In fact, "facts" presented in this video are often the
exact opposite of the truth. They have facts throughout the first section so mixed up, morphed and misassociated that they are—in fact—doing exactly what they are accusing "religion" of doing:
They are creating a myth of their own that will do nothing more than further confuse and divide people and make the search for truth even more difficult than it has already been made by those who have done the same types of things before them.The opening quote of the zeitgeist movie is just one of many examples. It includes the phrase:
"The religious institutions of this world are put there by the same people who gave you your government, your corrupt education, who set up your international banking cartels."This is a half-truth. It should read:
"Most of the religious institutions of this world..."
There is a big difference.
The narrator is throwing out the baby with the bathwater—that is—he's creating a misassociation.
I recognize this person and I have watched a number of his slanderous and inaccurate anti-Christian videos on YouTube over the past couple years. It should not surprise me that this kind of character would show up in a propaganda video such as this.
Needless to say, anyone who has studied the Bible will quickly realize that he knows just enough about the Bible to be dangerous. He speaks in half-truths and misapplied associations constantly—throughout his speeches—and the above statement is no exception. It's clear that he hates Christianity while inaccurately associating it with all "religion". Now, I would agree that most "religion" is deceptive, but ironically, it is deceptive in exactly the same way this video is deceptive.
Are the producers of the zeitgeist video ignorant or are they being purposefully deceptive?To me, they are obviously being deceptive intentionally. Of course, having the background I have in politics, information, and the Bible, this discernment comes easy to me as I believe it would come easy to anyone with my background.
The Egyptian and astrological symbology used to make their contention—although artful—is horribly colored and omissive of vital information. Again, a book could be written on just this.
You see, the people who founded the United States were mostly Christian, so it should be no surprise that the concepts of freedom and personal liberty that are embedded in the foundational law of this country are taken directly from the Bible. (Yes, I know some were masons but there is more to the story—for another time.)
Contrary to what the opening narrative implies, the people who now control this country are not Christian. They are literally the same people who brought us the Soviet Union (USSR) and Communist China.
Have you ever wondered why U.S. trade agreements now favor these countries over all others (see NAFTA, GATT)?
Have you ever wondered why Clinton gave (yes, gave!) our multi-warhead ICBM missile technology to China?Answer: Because they are eventually going to give it back to us, but in a method much less benign. Yet, this is only the tip of the iceberg.
The fact is, McCarthy was right.
Do you believe Sean Hannity is a Christian?
Do you believe Tucker Carlson is a Christian?
Do you believe Bush is a Christian?
Anyone who believes any of these people are Christians are so Biblically uneducated that they are in great danger of what the Bible calls "strong delusion", yet the zeitgeist video uses Tucker Carlson as a "sample" Christian.
[color:"brown"]"And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:"[/color]
—2 Thessalonians 2:10-11
The zeitgeist video also makes broad and deceptive associations between Christianity and horrific acts of the catholic church, yet, any respectable Bible student will realize that the catholic church is not (and never has been) Christian. In fact, it is anti (or, more accurately, ante) -Christian to the core.
(I am not saying that catholic church-goers are not good people. I am saying that catholics and/or masons can be good people at the lower levels without having any idea about what kind of evil those above them are doing.)
I also recognize the voice of "comedian" George Carlin making statements about guilt and laws as they relate to the Bible. Unfortunately, George does not know even the fundamentals about the Bible, Christ, or the fundamental purpose of Christ's work.
George said:
"The invisible Man (God) has ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things He has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where He will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever till the end of time."
This is completely untrue and anti-Biblical.
Although George has been a long-time opponent of Christianity, the fact is, he barely understands the fundamentals, and fundamentally misunderstands them at that.
What George does not understand (in all likelihood, does not want to understand) is that the law (don't murder, love your neighbor, etc.) was intended to be the mirror that showed us ourselves. Grace, through Christ was the release from guilt for
all of our imperfections freeing us from the penalty of the law.
As usual, George has it completely backwards but continues to spread his 180-degree out-of-phase misinformation even after all these years (He's been at it for decades).
Again, it does not surprise me to find this kind of blatantly misleading information in the zeitgeist video. Those who have done their homework will quickly recognize it. I feel for those who do not know enough to see through these lies and as a result are being robbed of a life fulfilled by a relationship with God because of the misinformation in the zeitgeist video.
A book could (and should) be written to counter the brilliant and well-executed lies in the zeitgeist video (they are well executed), but I hope this small sample above is enough to demonstrate how deceptive it is, right out the box. Each person will have to do their own research however, and I certainly hope they do.
When you research things for years—even decades—as I have, you are able to see the modalities that people use to deceive other people. The techniques used are strict and unimaginative; they don't change much over time.
With the background that we have, Laura and I both easily recognized that the zeitgeist movie is using a technique some call credibility-by-osmosis. This is where you position stories in such a way that propaganda appears just before and/or after very emotional and credible-to-your-audience stories. This both lends credibility to
your story (in the context of your audience) and it puts people in an internal emotional state that makes the story more memorable (raised emotions do that) and believable.
Ironically, the conspiracy whistle-blowers have been primarily Christian (mostly ex-military with very real inside knowledge) until more recent years. For this reason, the strategy of the powers-that-be (ptb) is two-fold:
(1) Divide and conquer, and
(2) Promote anything that is anti-Christianity (This is the root cause for the myriad of other "religions").
The reason for this is that the ptb know that the heart of this (information) war that is occurring is predicted, outlined, and remedied in the Bible, but the ptb don't want you to know that. In fact, they so want you to abhor the Bible that they incessantly slander it so you will not even read it, lest you discover what astounding information it contains. Yes, the Bible actually contains more information about the time we live in right now than it contains about the time Christ walked the Earth.
For those who have the intellectual strength to read it regardless of the propaganda against it, the ptb go so far as to create a massive number of horrible and deliberately watered-down translations of the Bible, again, to obscure the message and cause confusion.
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"This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace."[/color]
—James 3:15-18
So, when you understand the big picture (which would take me hours of typing to properly explain—and one day perhaps I will) you understand that the strategy of "debunking" the Bible and then following it with "conspiracy" information (which is mostly true) is nothing more than an attempt to neuter the particular group of Christians (or would-be Christians) who do understand the depth and impact of the information in the Bible and who are involved in doing what Christians should be doing, namely, exposing lies and corruption in order to protect the masses from these evil people and their schemes (that they only get away with because of confusion).
The irony of this is that the very source of information that provides the remedy for the current information war is contained in the very book they slander. Of course, this is no irony at all. It is by design.
(Most who read the Bible will recognize that current world events were predicted centuries ago.
The Bar Code and the Mark of the BeastHaving discovered this, these would likely become Christians themselves.) The producers of the zeitgeist video would certainly not like this very much.
They say their purpose is to:
"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. "
Sounds good, right? But then why are they are spreading blatant lies and why are they omitting massive amounts of valuable information. Could there be something deeper going on here?
So, when you understand the big picture and see someone putting together this kind of film, with our background, it makes perfect sense and is simply par for the course.
In regard to religions being used to divide people: Yes surely this is true, but you have to understand that the Bible is not a religion, although people do create religions from it (people create religions from all sorts of things, including comets).
A religion is one's own belief system.
The differences in people's belief systems (religions) is what causes contention.
There are differences in people's belief systems simply because
people tend to adamantly believe things (have "faith" in things) without first doing research (they are "emotionally-based"). They then passionately defend these beliefs. The onlookers then blame the ensuing violence on "religion" and attempt to group Christianity into that catch-all phrase and therefore attempt to discredit it by association.
This is real bad logic and has nothing to do with critical thinking.
As an example, in the natural health industry (my industry), I see contention between doctors and herbalists because doctors have a belief system (religion) which they adopt from school. Herbalists also have a belief system they adopt from their education. The two are in opposition (in part) so there is resulting conflict.
Doctors sometimes take time to read our companies' (Herb Allure, Inc.) publications and they become open to the idea that herbs can be a viable modality after seeing all of the scientific research available supporting it. In short, their mind changes when they are provided with sound information.
As far as pharmacology (pharmaceuticals) is concerned, it is in their (the pharmaceutical companies') best interest to hide information from the public that herbalists know because it is in the pharmaceutical companies' best financial interest to keep people sick so they will continue taking drugs for long periods of time. A sick person is a profitable customer (for them).
For this reason, they spread disinformation—lies—to the detriment of the patient but to the benefit of the companies' financial statements. So, the pharmaceutical companies go to great lengths to control what people believe —their religion—by gaining control of medical education so they can control the disseminated information, for example, and form the religion (the belief system) of the doctor.
The same is true of other man-made religions.
Religion is profitable for the following reasons:
(1) Religion is a person's personal belief system.
(2) A person's belief system is what controls a person's behavior.
(3) A person's behavior determines how they spend their money. (This is what commercials and advertising is for.)
(4) How a person spends their money determines who receives the money they spend.
(5) Whoever receives the money people spend gets richer.
So, the bottom line is this...
If you are able to control a person's belief system (en masse), you can get rich.This is exactly why the first industry that gets "taken over" when a country is being conquered is the media (TV, print, etc.) This is what happened in Iraq.
The ptb first neutralized the military so they could next seize the media. Once they control the media, they control elections, then law, then the flow of money. They will eventually create legislation that will funnel the flow of public money to private corporations; a concept that is abhorrent to freedom and is—by definition—fascism.
The remedy for fascism is the truth.
In other words, if people knew (believed) what is really going on (the truth), they would overpower the ptb and make things right (basically). But there is a problem.
People will not be able to grasp what is going on until they understand the big picture, that is, the picture which is laid out in the Bible. Well, there are Bibles everywhere, so destroying all Bibles is not feasible for the ptb at this time, so they have resorted to several other time-tested schemes that all work together to accomplish their agenda. They slander the Bible and create emotional associations with the Book that are so negative that no one will even want to admit that they have one, much less read it.
The truth is, however, that this disinformation about the Bible is nothing more than that: A lie.
The Bible contains vast in-depth information about freedom, personal property ownership, the tremendous value of life, information about the methods used by evil to spread disinformation, and much more. All of this kind of information is detrimental to the horrendous plans of the ptb and therefore, they must do whatever they can to keep you from reading the Bible.
Well, they can't stop everyone from reading it so they have to do something to counteract those with personal stamina and conviction who will read it despite their slanderous efforts. For this, they produce things like the zeitgeist film.
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Don't you find it interesting that this film about conspiracy is prefaced with a massive disinformation piece about the Bible?[/color]
Interesting indeed, but it's no mistake at all. It's all about neutering the fast-growing conspiracy movement, because without the truth, empowerment, and information provided by the Bible, the conspiracy (truth) movement does not stand a chance.
I know a lot about a few things:
(1) The Bible
(2) Global Conspiracy
(3) People's Behavior
and what an empowering combination this long-term study has been and how it makes the world make complete sense.
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In this mode of true critical thinking, logic demonstrates that the zeitgeist video is nothing more than an attempt to derail the conspiracy (truth) movement.[/color]
Yes, if people do their homework, they will discover that many of the things in life and government they accept as being good and beneficial are actually the cancerous tools used to degrade the power of the people and to centralize power into the hands of a greedy few. When people do their homework, they eventually realize that most of the world "leaders" of today are Owl-God worshiping Satanists (literally) who hate God (search Bohemian Grove), hate personal freedoms (when it is not their own) and will kill, steal, and destroy to get whatever they wilt.
"Do as thou wilt is the whole of the law."—The Book of the Law (Crowley)
Without the knowledge, prophecy, and values the Bible contains, we don't have a chance against the current worshipers of the gnostic gods (gods of knowledge).
In their world, knowledge ("gnostic"—technology) is power.
In the soon-coming kingdom of Christ, righteousness (purity) is power.
You will see astounding things in your lifetime....for those who have an ear. 
