A Movie that All Hypnothoughts.com members should watch

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Permalink Reply by Scott Sandland on January 19, 2009 at 5:14pm

A good recommendation Will.

I've seen the movie before, and it's important to remember in watching it that it is biased and not attempting to be balanced. It raises some great questions and thoughts, although it uses some serious manipulation principals to push its points onto the viewer.

I'm interested to hear what people think about this movie, as it's definitely controversial and provocative.

Scott

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Permalink Reply by XxXGyverXxX on January 19, 2009 at 5:22pm

Dear Scott,

I totaly hear you. However after reviewing lots of information that they show in that video.. ESPECIALY in that about religion.. is true and undesputed.

-Will
DJ Gyver

PS Great Site... lol its my new rubiks cube... i run my own large website so i know somthin that works well when i see it!

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Permalink Reply by James Haines on January 20, 2009 at 5:20am

To link my comments to hypnosis, 2 hours of sitting through Zeitgeist certainly seemed infinitely longer than taking notes on a 2 hour HMI video. But since it was a day off work, I stopped for lunch, then watched the addendum film for another 2 hours as well. That was more open in its anti-monetarism stance and interesting for its vision of a utopian, resource-driven future (though how exactly distribution of resources will work in such a world order remained unclear to me, at least).

My guess is that people who read/watch outside the mainstream already know much of what is reported in the films, at least on a gut level if not fact for fact. The recycling of savior myth material (topic of part 1 of Zeitgeist) has been common knowledge for years among those who study mythology and religion--as has the unfortunate fact that people tend to mistake the mythological for the historical-factual. And who hasn't sensed at some level that the wealthy 'own' the politicians and perpetuate a system that keeps themselves in power or, to turn to part 2 of the addendum, that Latin American and Middle Eastern leaders didn't just fall from power/life without a little help from money or "covert operations" that came from outside their countries' borders? (I won't comment on part 2 of Zeitgeist, which suggests US government involvement in 9/11, other than to say that I find it interesting that trust in the US government has sunk so low that the explanation offered in the film apparently seems to many to be possible even if not, perhaps, entirely plausible.)

One of the unexpected pleasures of the films for me was hearing for the first time the voices of three dead 'heroes' of mine: Chogyam Trungpa, Charles Lindberg (Zeitgeist), and Krishnamurti (addendum). From what little I know of their work, my guess is that they would probably have been happy to appear in the films.

James

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