Driftreality stated: Even the omniscient Wikipedia doesn’t provide any coverage of Zeitgeist.

Actually it does buddy… So far not impressed by the ?facts? here.

I myself am a skeptic. I wouldn’t be here if I wasnt.

I can see “why this kind of movie” would put some truths in and leave the rest false, it is a possible successful marketing sceme. However there is no broad and plausible evidence to state that these people involved in this movie are really only out for the money. It is one big curiousity for me. for the meanwhile confusions and questionings will prevail!

One definate truth in this movie is the 9/11 incident being an inside job.
As for the rest, the evidence is hard to prove.

If we do think critically, then we can begin to question some of the things that are being forced on us (without feeling blasphemous or unpatriotic). We can question the official report on 9/11, why Bush and Cheney were so secretive with the 9/11 commission, the overzealousness to go into Iraq (eventually finding no WMDs), the push behind the patriot act, the forming of the North American Union, etc.. These are all things which rational thought would question.

From here we can look at our history to see how we got to where we are, who has had power and influence, and how they’ve used it previously, to better understand our current situation. And in that light perhaps we can start to look deeper at entities in our country that benefit from war, and would also benefit from a loosening on of our civil liberty protections. We can then look at current events in a different light, as “means to an end”.

Maybe it’s all crazy talk, I for one hope so, but if nothing else the film is a pinch reminding us to THINK, beyond what the government/media tells us, which is healthy.

At the same time, my perspective was they were clearly trying to draw connections between Christianity, the Federal Reserve, the government being behind 9-11…

If you are going to make claims like this in a public space then my opinion is you have to be prepared to substantiate those claims and I simply don’t think they do that.

Life events shared by Horus and Jesus
Stories from the life of Horus had been circulating for centuries before Jesus birth (circa 4 to 7 BCE). If any copying occurred by the writers of the Egyptian or Christian religions, it was the followers of Jesus who incorporated into his biography the myths and legends of Horus, not vice-versa.

Author and theologian Tom Harpur studied the works of three authors who have written about ancient Egyptian religion: Godfrey Higgins (1771-1834), Gerald Massey (1828-1907) and Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880-1963). Harpur incorporated some of their findings into his book “Pagan Christ.”

He argued that all of the essential ideas of both Judaism and Christianity came primarily from Egyptian religion. “[Author Gerald] Massey discovered nearly two hundred instances of immediate correspondence between the mythical Egyptian material and the allegedly historical Christian writings about Jesus. Horus indeed was the archetypal Pagan Christ.”

It’s a strange film. It’s not a professionally produced film. It’s not suppose to connect the dots–it presents varying ideas/concepts and, like many films, expects the viewer to draw their own interpretations/conclusions. It’s not meant to be a phd thesis. It is meant to tantalize the base concepts that 1) religion is manmade and is used to control the masses, 2) the US government and especially the oligarchy known as Bush/Cheney fully knew and may have been directly involved in planning the 9/11 attack and finally 3) the world is hugely influenced by the international banking industry which has no allegiance to country–be it US or otherwise.

The film isn’t even properly named. Zeitgeist means “The Spirit OF The Age”, and the film didn’t tlak about the prevailing mood of any time period.

The section about the Mythic Jesus was just recycled from soruces on the fringe that have long ago been discredited, from Acharya S to Gerald Massey ( who is himself a source of Acharya S, along with joseph Wheeles and Alexander Hyslop and Kersey Graves, all f which are also listed as soruces, and yet no mentin is amde of how much is copied straight form them in Acharya S.)

The Dyng and Rising god-myts they present, complete with Virign Birth, 12 Disiples, and Cruxafiction, did not happen in mythology, and if you pick up any standard work on ancient mythology, and read the myths of Horus, or Dyonisus, or Appolo, or whoever, you will note the abscence of all of tose features.

Horus was not Born of a Virign, for instance, nor was he Crucified.

The astrotheology segments are also bizzarre, and out of palce. COncepts such as “The Age Of Picese” woudln’t have existed in the firts century, and are part of Modern Astrology, not the Astorlogy that woudl have been familiar to the Roman Emire.

And when you look at the rest of the clams that are about the Supposed Mythic nature of Jesus, noen fo them add up.

For instance, Constantine never msde Christianity the state relgiion, and long before COnstantine was born, we have the Early Churhc Fathers writting of Jesus int he same way, as a deity.

No historian in the world would beelive this, and there is enough evidence ( as Ancint Hisotry is measured) for them to accept Universlaly that Jesus was a real man.

When you look at Sections two and three, they are just as bad.

A Missle hi t the Pentagon? Even other cnspriacy theoriests don’t buy that ne.

9-11 was clealry commite dby Al Queda, who even took credit for it, and the unwarrented allogatiosn otherwise mad ein this film lack any suppoirt.

The same can be said of the bankign interest.

And , he origional poster is right, nothgn connects these three things, excet soem vauge notion of power.