Zeitgeist

A few days before we left on our Epic trip, we watched a movie called Zeitgeist.  It was interesting enough that I am actually writing about it and I recommend everyone to see it.  It is documentary style.  The first section is about religion.  It goes into a lot of detail about how Christianity is the best story ever told, but thats all it is.  there are so many aspects about it that come directly from astronomy and are exactly the same as some other older religions.

Then it has a whole section on 911.  They certainly have some pretty convincing evidence for how it actually was an inside job.  Not only do they give evidence, but also reasons as to why our government would do that to the public. Mainly to support our "war on terror" and begin to take away our freedoms.  How else would the public not be outraged when we just start bombing middle eastern countries and control them and their oil?

Then the third part is about things that I was even more clueless about and that is some of the ways that our government and other institutions work, and our economy.  Apparently the federal reserve bank is a private corporation and actually is not controlled by the government.  So they lend money to the federal government, at interest.  This puts our govt in debt, and so they need to borrow more money from the federal reserve.  A terrible endless cycle, especially since money is no longer backed by gold, the reserve can pick and choose when and how much money to release.  Our federal income tax that takes so much out of everyone's salary is actually just to repay that debt that the govt owes the reserve.  According to the film, this tax is actually unconstitutional and we dont actually have to pay it.  This is something that I feel like I should look more into, especially before I get another job (though that might not be for a while)

So there are way more interesting points to this movie and it is really eye opening.  There are definitely some things where I wonder how much the makers of this movie have exaggerated or made up facts.  I feel that it is truly difficult to find the whole story from one source, and I would be curious to learn more about all this.  And that is was it is good for as the message is really stop letting our institutions deeducate us, and that we should do more thinking for ourselves.

One quote from the movie (or quoted in the movie) that was quite interesting to me went something like this: "when people can feel the power of love rather than the love of power, we can truly be at peace."
For those interested, you can watch it online for free:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197#