Well, quite a bit has happened lately. Plans for Z-day are underway and it looks like it’s shaping up to be quite the event for March 13th. As of late a new project called “Why I’m for Zeitgeist” has been put forth. You can make a podcast audio file or a video explaining why you are for this movement. So, that’s exactly what myself and my mom are planning to do. Pod cast will be up soon as soon as we can get it done.
http://mwmurdock.podbean.com/2010/12/15/accurate-information/
I’ve been apart of this movement for about 3 years. I’ve since then I’ve gone to 2 Z-Day’s which are basically celebrations for those in the movement and for anyone curious or interested to come and find out what we’re about. I’ve become a core member of the Washington chapter and have made some great new friends and met some truly great people. I’ve become more and more involved, from going out and posting flyers for the new movie, to helping organize the showing we had at the Metro and taking tickets. This movement is also forcing me to come out of my shell. I’ve always seen the world a bit differently then most, but I’ve also been too shy to ever really say so or speak out. Certain people in particular in my life, both that I’ve known before the movement and after I became apart of it are helping and guiding me in an abstract way on a journey of finding not only a better way, but also who I am and what I want in and from life.
The following posts will be about both the journey of Zeitgeist itself and of a personal one and how it’s influenced me, both through the knowledge I have and am acquiring and also the people and circumstances I encounter. I hope those reading both enjoy reading and are interested in a mutual way. Really, because there isn’t anything worse in the way of the internet then spending time reading an extremely long post of some sort and coming back from delving in none the wiser. I’ll update as much as possible and when inspiration strikes. I would love to hear comments and thoughts, criticisms are welcome to, but not if they’re unfounded and have no basis for argument or debate. Troll comments will be deleted as will spam.
My first blog. Well, to start off this will suck at first, just like the beginning of mastering things, you generally are horrible at it, or in rare cases, have a small knack to show you’ll eventually get better. According to the book I’m using to get this blog going, I will die a little inside when I come back and look at this post (Although it’s too late, because part of my soul is already pushing up daisies *shudder*) but, that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right? So, let’s get started. This blog will be half personal, half extroverted, meaning, it will contain a general view both myself and others see about the topic I’m writing about, which is The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project.
I first came in contact with the knowledge of the existence of each from seeing Zeitgeist: Addendum. My mom came home from her college class and told me all the students watched this movie called “Zeitgeist: Addendum” however, they were unable to watch all of it since in a educational, beaurcratic view it was too “controversial” which me, being me, I just thought “Ooh, put it in! Must watch!” as the status quo never interested me, except for when it can be bent or broken. During the first part of the movie, the part that covers the monetary system, how it was created and how it works, I was giggling. Not because I found it ridiculous, but because it figured to me. After all the dealings I’ve had with money and the system as it stands, the pain it’s caused, the lies it perpetuates, it just seems like irony, or rather an oxy-moron to find out it was created the way it is, which is to say, it’s fake and it’s a game of monopoly. Wait, I can hear you right now, I got ahead of myself didn’t I? I promise I’ll eventually get over that, but then again, this is a personal blog and it is written from my point of view for the most part. Either way, I’m sure you’re confused, correct?
Let’s start over.
Lemme first start with explaining just what The Zeitgeist Movement (or how I’ll often refer to it as TZM) is. The Zeitgeist Movement is a grass roots organization that is the activist arm of The Venus Project. (TVP) Both organizations strive to explain the problems of the world at it’s route causes, advocate a shift in the social paradigm by offering the solution of an RBE (Resource Based Economy) in which the earth is declared the inheritance of all of it’s inhabitants and where we as the human race learn how to effectively use and allocate the resources given to us in the most logically and humanly strategic way possible so that every being is taken care of, meaning fed, housed and free in the most humanly possible way, with out having to submit to employment to a machine, nor another human. For a clearer understanding then I can simply offer in words, watch the movie Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, which covers both the problems we face in society, in depth and well researched reasons as to why we face them, and solutions we can do to help alleviate the issues at their root causes. Link here at the bottom of this post. The movie is free to watch and is 2 hours and 41 minutes on YouTube.
Now, hoping that was at least somewhat of a sufficent explaintion, let’s continue with the blog.
As I said earlier about my first contact with the movement, I was intrigued, but also skeptical. In seeing both Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Addendum and being Christian, hearing the facts of religions was a bit of a put off, and still often is for most people. Later I learned that Zeitgeist was a movie created before the movement started, basically it was Peter Joseph’s (creator of the movies) personal and researched view on some of the issues that come along with institutions and the status quo, how people are blinded to what’s really going on, which is true, but you still catch more flies with honey then with vinegar (which is a horrible metaphor because one it isn’t true, and two, why would someone want to catch flies??) Anyway, Addendum covers things much better, but it still has issues and doesn’t go into enough depth on The Venus Project. Moving Forward however covers everything very well and engages the audience with both hard hitting facts and humor which we need in this morbidity we’re surrounded by, especially with the issues talked about, such as human nature vs nurture. What actually makes someone a killer or with out empathy? This and lots of other things are discussed with experts on the subject with a particular focus in the beginning on epigenetics.
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