09-13-2007, 04:38 PM
Quote:Religion is only part 1 of 3, and no more than 10% of the point. Zeitgeist by definition, after all, refers to our current time, and religion has been in the world as long as man.
It's also disappointing to see no one has put any thought as to the relevance of the quotes from my original post (none of which come from the movie itself).
Bun-bun has more or less covered it, but let me sign my agreement here.
This is crackpottery. Rapidfire 'factoids' given without critical context, obvious sources, strung together ominiously with music. It is no more an intellectual argument than a Leni Riefenstahl film. Total non-sequiturs abound, and credibility is not addressed in any way.
Almost all of the 'facts' about 9/11 that sounds so damning when given in the context of the movie have been carefully and thoroughly refuted dozens of times. A quick search of the wikipedia 9/11 conspiracy theory page is enough to find many of them, but it far from exhausts the list.
The quote from Matthew is trivial. Were you really hoping people discussed that one?
The quote from V for Vendetta is something to be careful about. One can ask "what if" until one is blue in the face, but it always has to be bundled together with "what if not," along with "why should I believe this?" If the US government (or, in my case, the Canadian) was responsible for horrible crimes, I'd want to know about them, and *judge them on the facts*. This is not just hypothetical, it has happened many times in my own lifetime. But that doesn't mean you can just accuse people of things, wave your hands in the air, and expect it to stick.
It might bear noticing that crankish conspiracy theory is also in the 'zeitgeist.'
-Jester