So I just watched Zeitgeist

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stof said:
Shams. It's been a little while since I've seen it, but if I recall correctly it's basically three parts.

Part one - all religions ever made are all exactly the same and in reference to astrology. A lot of the facts in this section are made up. They also never attempt to say who it is managed to design every single world religion around these specific tenants of astrology.

Part two - Typical September Eleventh conspiracy. There isn't a single thing here that hasn't been exposed as the poppyest of cock from half a dozen other internet documentaries. This is by far the least interesting/most offensive section of the film.

Part three - fairly common world government conspiracy stuff. Nafta Highway, international agreements. Mostly just taking a lot of things out of context. Implies we're all about 2 years away from living in a single totalitarian regime.

So all in all. Fairly normal internet stuff.

Ehh, ok.

I guess my first reaction and main comment is: how/why do they manage to sow these three things together? At least (1) with (2) & (3)?

With all the issues the governments of the world have agreeing with each other on BASIC things - there is ZERO chance of any sort of global, multinational conspiracy going on. More likely to come from a corporation point of view, and then it would have to be fairly recent - and restricted to only a few companies.

And re: (1) - it makes sense to most/all religions had some(?) elements derive from astronomy, or generally anything in the sky. I can imagine that eclipses, close comets, shooting stars (etc) must have scared the living bejeezus out of people 2000-10000 years (or more) ago.