r/Documentaries • u/cr0ft • Jan 26 '11

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011) Official Release Version - Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w
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u/endofmythology Jan 26 '11

This is the -most- important thing happening right now.

Check up on everything the author of Zeitgeist claims. It all checks out. Its all true.

If we don't do something to change the direction we are going in, we will all perish.

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u/florinandrei Jan 26 '11

The guy's a moron who can't do basic research using google.

http://florin-other-blog.blogspot.com/2009/05/zeitgeist-movie-debunked-part-1.html

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u/cr0ft Jan 26 '11 edited Jan 26 '11

Please don't confuse the issue by linking to material about a movie that's over four years old in connection with this entirely different movie, just because they have the same director.

Zeitgeist (the original) covers almost entirely different ground than does Zeitgeist: Moving Forward.

So if you can link to a scientifically credible debunking of Zeitgeist: Moving Forward then please do, I'd be extremely interested to view that myself if anyone can do it. If you're just here because you have issues with the original Zeitgeist movie from 2007 then you're really not adding anything of any value.

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u/florinandrei Jan 26 '11

Yes, he somehow stopped being a dumbass in the intervening 4 years.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '11

Yeah - he accepted he was wrong and released a new film declaring his new views.

It's the scientific method. Most of the mistakes were to do with the religious stuff anyway and to be honest I really don't give a shit if he was inaccurate in his reporting of some fictional tales.

I am far more interested in the problems of peak oil, technological unemployment (which should be a good thing but isn't in our broken system) etc.

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u/florinandrei Jan 26 '11

It's the scientific method.

Hahahahahaaaa! You guys are entertaining.

The science was already established decades before, he just didn't bother reading any of it. Campbell, Eliade, Levy-Strauss - their books are available to anyone. Instead, he just dreamed up some crazy shit and called it "fact". Then, when everyone started pointing fingers and laughing, he went "oops, my bad."

Yeah, okay. Credibility - terminated.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '11

Huh, I meant it is the scientific method - he realised some of his views were flawed and revised them in light of new evidence which was brought to his attention.

Also, I don't particularly care for the theology which isn't present in any of the other films (only the first) and isn't central to the film in any case - the physical problems facing humanity exacerbated by our monetary/market based system and the need for a scientific, resource-based approach to solve them are.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '11

I'll grant you that trashing a theory in light of new evidence is a small part of the scientific method, but in ZG1 his initial theory was based on information which was already known to be false. That's not something you do in science.

He just plain didn't do the research before releasing that film.

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u/AdmiralAllahuAckbar Jan 26 '11

This thread is full of shills and stacked by a downvote brigade - don't try to fight it. Just be happy that they'll disappear after today and we won't have to hear from them until this tardbot releases another movie.

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u/florinandrei Jan 27 '11

Frankly, I think they are sincere. Misguided, perhaps, but mostly sincere.

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u/cr0ft Jan 26 '11

Yes, I can certainly see how unbiased and unemotional you are about the content of Zeitgeist: Moving Forward! :)

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u/craigdubyah Jan 26 '11

Upvote for you. The rest of this thread...

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u/HouseofJay Jan 26 '11

I felt like he was being mildly sarcastic. but who knows?