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Posted 11/18/08 - 01:34 PM: Subject: Zeitgeist	#1
I don't know if this has been posted already or if this is the place to post this but I couldn't find it anywhere. Who's seen it? If you haven't, here's a link to download it: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5Z4VA8ZE What are your thoughts on it?
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Posted 11/18/08 - 01:38 PM:	#2
Seen it and it's crap.
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Posted 11/18/08 - 06:25 PM:	#3
For more penetrating analyses like the above, try this thread. Or this one. Or for a better formulated theory than that silly movie, try reading Frazer's The Golden Bough or Graves's King Jesus. Edited by unenlightened on 11/18/08 - 06:45 PM
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Posted 11/19/08 - 12:49 AM:	#4
I consider my analysis penetratingly accurate...
- How are you doing? - I'm doing good. - No, Superman is doing Good, you're doing well. You need to brush up on your grammar.

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Posted 11/19/08 - 12:24 PM:	#5
People around here seem to think it's a piece of crap, but I didn't think it was too bad. I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but they had some compelling arguments. The only thing I didn't like about it was their use of faulty or non-existant sources.
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Posted 11/19/08 - 10:19 PM:	#6
Actually I saw absolutely no compelling arguments, I have no idea what you're talking about. I even bothered to watch the second movie, it was more of the same stuff, and at the end the narrator pitches his ultimate utopian project. I mean much respect to the movie creator Peter Joseph, he's got some serious skills at raising zombie armies for the sake of creating his ideal world. However, no respect to anyone who buys his shit.
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Posted 11/19/08 - 11:10 PM:	#7
I thought terminator three was a little redundant in terms of action scenes. The problem with Sheitgeist the movie is it had a sequel. I don't recall a Bible Part 2: The Revenge.
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Posted 11/20/08 - 09:37 AM:	#8
Unless you count the new testament. Though maybe part one was the revenge, and part two was a prequel or something. Who knows?
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says "But Doctor... I am Pagliacci." Good joke, everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum... Curtains.

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