Zeitgeist Refuted

The video below was left in the comments for my post about Zeitgeist the Movie, looks well made and from what I can gather only deals with the religious aspect of Zeitgeist.

I've been trying like crazy to get it to stream well, but for me google video is sucking, probably give it another go later.

I was expecting a video response to Zeitgeist like this one, well made with a similar style but of the opposite view.

Let me know if it's worth the watch if you get to watch it.

Zeitgeist Refuted

Virgin Mary Pebble currently at $27,800

Some may have seen this about, it's a pebble showing what looks somewhat like the Virgin Mary that was found on a beach, the pebble is up for auction on a New Zealand auction site called Trademe and currently has a bid of $27,800, the auction closes in 16 or so hours.

Great for the person selling it and good on them to, if you can make some cash out of it, why not?

Also along with the success of that auction has come a few copycats, some are actually pretty funny as well like this one showing the grassy knoll shooters view and this Pebble That Doesn't look like Virgin Mary.

Anyway I guess it's time I grabbed my bucket and headed off to the beach, never know I may just find a pebble that looks like Bigfoot.

Christ Caught on Mobile Phone

The description for this one on youtube says it was shot on a mobile phone on September 15 in Gyumri, Armenia, also here's a direct link to post on the site mentioned.

Seen quite a few similar videos recently like this one supposedly an angel caught on tape which is most probably not, but the video below is a lot more believable and to me quite unexplainable, my first reaction was to put it down to a reflection on the window, but then I noticed it didn't move how I'd expect it to and it actually does look like it is outside.

I don't know, though it's probably the most interesting video I've seen in days.

Image of Jesus Christ Crucified

Creation Stories

Just been doing a little reading on creation stories from various cultures and one thing really sticks out, most of them are all very similar and a lot are older than most of the mainstream beliefs of this day and age, which I find to be less shrouded in "golden turtle" metaphors.

The first major similarities start out with the earth being void of light and/or covered in water and in chaos, the earth and sky need to be separated and usually the gods/people of the sky come fourth and bring light upon the world , create the land and all things. The other story usually involves a golden egg that is split to form the sky, earth and all things, which I feel is kind of the same as the first story.

The second major similarity is that a lot of the human creation stories involve the gods forming people from mud and giving knowledge to them, it just seems to be a major motif throughout and the story is widely used throughout the world.

The third similarity is that of great floods, a lot of the time to wipe out the gods mistakes and to restart building human kind. Probably a great disaster that cycles back to the first similarity.

One last thing, there are plenty of giants throughout many of these creation stories.

I don't know what all this means all I can think of is that something happened many many years ago that has been lost in translation throughout the ages that has stayed with many cultures no matter where they travel.

I've known of these parallels for ages but this is the first time that I have actually done some proper research into confirming that these stories are very similar. My conclusion is that I'm never going to know for sure what our past truly holds, so why worry, but it sure makes for interesting reading.

Here's a wiki that has a lot of brief examples of many creation stories from many cultures.

EDIT: Just after posting this I found a very similar post from Beyond The Blog, they can certainly write better than I.

ZEITGEIST the Movie, Religion, Conspiracy, Money and Power

I just finished a watching a movie called ZEITGEIST on Google video, I just couldn't stop watching, if you've seen it you'll know what I mean.

The movie has three parts, The Greatest Story Ever Told, All The World's A Stage and Don't mind the men behind the curtain.

The Greatest Story Ever Told is about the foundations of Christianity and many other religions, which in Zeitgeist explains that they are more or less based on the Zodiac and that it has been a motif used long before Christ. One version of this is the story of the Egyptian god Horus, from the movie the story seems the same as Christs.

All The World's A Stage deals with 9/11 conspiracy theories, much of this I see on a daily basis and it's mainly a collection of news footage, not commentary like in the first part. For me it didn't have the spark that first and third parts had, but I think as a lead up to the third part it works well.

Don't mind the men behind the curtain goes into how a few people (bankers) are manipulating the people of the world through controlling money. Seems simple, inflate, create debt and call it in after enough time. It also goes into how war is used to make them even more money and gain even more control. One thing that I found interesting is that apparently in America there is NO law that says you have to pay your income tax, it's just assumed that there is.

I found it a very compelling watch, as for the honesty about it, I can't comment, that would probably take a life time of research.

You can watch it in its entirety below, its just over two hours long and this is a pre-release to the final version that is coming soon.

ZEITGEIST, The Movie - Full Production, Official Release.


If you don't want to watch the whole thing in one go, below are links to each part, each about 30 minutes long.

ZEITGEIST, The Movie - Part 1 : "The Greatest Story Ever Told"
ZEITGEIST, The Movie - Part 2 : "All The World's A Stage"
ZEITGEIST, The Movie - Part 3 : "Don't mind the men behind the curtain"

There are also even smaller chunks on youtube, each about ten minutes long if you don't want to tackle any of the above.

UPDATE 30 June 07: Just replaced all links to the new versions of Zeitgeist, the old versions are about to be deleted.

You can also find a list of Zeitgeist versions in about a dozen different languages on the main Zeitgeist website.