Long post, movie rec, and the truth.
I have been put into a very pensive frame of mind, and on top of everything else I have to do (including a semester project on isolation and characterization of a thermophile), I now have something I want to look into more as a matter of informing myself of the truth. Some of you may know that the reason I am going into forensic science is because of my personal search for truth, and my strong sense of justice. Not to quote a movie on purpose, science, like many other fields of study, is essentially the search for truth--the truth of the origin of life, the truth of ecological systems, etc. In the intersection between science and the justice system, I find my purpose.
This search for truth motivates me to share this movie that I was shown. It is called Zeitgeist, and talks about the intersection between religion (Christianity in particular), 9/11, and the Federal Reserve Bank. It can be streamed online at Google Video, or bought via the linked website, and is a few minutes over two hours long. It is probably the best use of your time that you will find--certainly better suited than writing fanfiction, RPing, watching porn, or whatever else it is you do with your internet time. (For the record, I raise pixel dragons and create elaborate wiki pages to track their offspring, but hey, we can't judge here.)
I found the movie to be very interesting, and certainly presenting information that I had never heard about before. Such was its purpose, I think--to inform and present a new viewpoint. In my opinion one of the most important parts of the search for truth in matters such as these is to gather as much information and as many opinions as you can, and consider all the evidence. It's part of how the justice system is ideally supposed to work, and is more or less how I've tended to think for a large part of my life, once I stopped living on another planet and started facing reality. No matter how crazy it sounds, or how wrong I think it is, any opinion is valid and the person stating it has the right to express it. I don't have to agree or support it, necessarily, but by blocking out information I block out a potential solution.
The movie is divided into parts: the first deals with Christianity and its influences and perpetuation into the business that it is today, the second deals with 9/11 and its attendant events, the third with the Federal Reserve Bank, and at the end it is all brought together. The statement the movie makes is that, through a combination of these three influences, the elite have not only pulled the wool over the world's eyes, they are orchestrating this artificially created dumbing-down of society and have been for decades, so that the plan they have come up with--a world government, a world bank, and a world army, with the populace microchipped, tracked, and subdued via fear--can be implemented.
The idea once this new world order is in place is that the microchips will contain all our information in the area of money and such, as well as track our movements, and should we raise our voices against the regime our microchips will be turned off and our lives, basically, ended. To hide this slow implementation we've been brought up to be a media-run society, quickly bored and quick to change trends, loyalties, brand names, at the slightest influence. It challenges us to open our eyes and inform ourselves.
Obviously the film is a bit dated already, but I ask you all to watch it and tell me your thoughts. Is it too sensationalist? Things of this nature tend to be, if only to get their points across. If anyone cross-checks facts and references, go ahead and post them here. I'll be doing a lot of reading myself, I think... if only to find my own truth. ;]
I'll be leaving this post un-friendslocked. Share it with people you know, email it, whatever. They can come and post their thoughts here or email if they like. Dialogue and discussion facilitate critical thinking of one's own place. I just ask you guys keep it more or less clean, hey? This journal might eventually be dredged up by the FBI if I apply to their crime lab, lol.
This search for truth motivates me to share this movie that I was shown. It is called Zeitgeist, and talks about the intersection between religion (Christianity in particular), 9/11, and the Federal Reserve Bank. It can be streamed online at Google Video, or bought via the linked website, and is a few minutes over two hours long. It is probably the best use of your time that you will find--certainly better suited than writing fanfiction, RPing, watching porn, or whatever else it is you do with your internet time. (For the record, I raise pixel dragons and create elaborate wiki pages to track their offspring, but hey, we can't judge here.)
I found the movie to be very interesting, and certainly presenting information that I had never heard about before. Such was its purpose, I think--to inform and present a new viewpoint. In my opinion one of the most important parts of the search for truth in matters such as these is to gather as much information and as many opinions as you can, and consider all the evidence. It's part of how the justice system is ideally supposed to work, and is more or less how I've tended to think for a large part of my life, once I stopped living on another planet and started facing reality. No matter how crazy it sounds, or how wrong I think it is, any opinion is valid and the person stating it has the right to express it. I don't have to agree or support it, necessarily, but by blocking out information I block out a potential solution.
The movie is divided into parts: the first deals with Christianity and its influences and perpetuation into the business that it is today, the second deals with 9/11 and its attendant events, the third with the Federal Reserve Bank, and at the end it is all brought together. The statement the movie makes is that, through a combination of these three influences, the elite have not only pulled the wool over the world's eyes, they are orchestrating this artificially created dumbing-down of society and have been for decades, so that the plan they have come up with--a world government, a world bank, and a world army, with the populace microchipped, tracked, and subdued via fear--can be implemented.
The idea once this new world order is in place is that the microchips will contain all our information in the area of money and such, as well as track our movements, and should we raise our voices against the regime our microchips will be turned off and our lives, basically, ended. To hide this slow implementation we've been brought up to be a media-run society, quickly bored and quick to change trends, loyalties, brand names, at the slightest influence. It challenges us to open our eyes and inform ourselves.
Obviously the film is a bit dated already, but I ask you all to watch it and tell me your thoughts. Is it too sensationalist? Things of this nature tend to be, if only to get their points across. If anyone cross-checks facts and references, go ahead and post them here. I'll be doing a lot of reading myself, I think... if only to find my own truth. ;]
I'll be leaving this post un-friendslocked. Share it with people you know, email it, whatever. They can come and post their thoughts here or email if they like. Dialogue and discussion facilitate critical thinking of one's own place. I just ask you guys keep it more or less clean, hey? This journal might eventually be dredged up by the FBI if I apply to their crime lab, lol.