Scott Free Thinking

A lot of us out there on the internet have heard about these different films that are being made regarding “September 11th conspiracy theories,” but I think perhaps one of the most interesting ones to be released thus far is Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist is intended to be a challenging new look at the world we know and live in today, and particularly, the world that Americans are living in. The place this film fits most with my heart is in its desire to expand the awareness of people, to challenge their beliefs, to get them questioning the world around them, and most of all: to get a couch potato public to start thinking. Whether or not whatever this films says is true is one thing, but just the fact that it is challenging you is probably the most important part of it.

And for those of you wondering about purchasing a DVD or me promoting some sort of sale to some particular product, forget about that, you can view this feature length film, in full, for free, at: ZeitGeistMovie.com. It begins with a startlingly emotional montage of much of the common points portrayed in the world media today. We begin with the war machines mankind has invented: machine guns, helicopters, explosions, destruction. Stopping for a moment, it then shows common elements of beauty that we know from the earth itself, as well as showing earth as a whole from space. Sunsets, the ocean, trees, mountains, and more. But it does not last long, and just as we see an American flag being laid over the Holy Bible, we cut back to destruction, and this time destruction we cannot deny, destruction we have seen in our lifetime: one of the planes crashing into the twin towers.

As a whole, the film is split up into three different parts. The first part challenges the notion of common Christianity, or for that matter, virtually any religion that treats the figure of Jesus Christ as its central authority, or even a major authority. Proposed not just by this film but also by a number of other authors, historians, and religion critics, the overall idea delivered here is that Jesus Christ is not what he is made out to be, or for that matter, may not have even been real. Jesus Christ, according to Zeitgeist, is a copy cat story that has been passed down through many generations, as well as many different civilizations. But how could that be?

As a matter of fact, the film is correct to say that there are dozens of other mythological figures from history that predate Christianity’s conception that bare a plethora of similarities to the stories of Christ, the most prominent of which is Horus, the Egyptian sun god from 3000 BC, who, as the film points out, was born of a virgin birth, was dead for a number of days, only to be resurrected, began a “ministry” at 30, was a child teacher at 12, all similar to that of the story of Jesus Christ. But it doesn’t stop there, the film points to the Bible copying its own stories over time with Joseph being a “prototype” for Jesus in the Old Testament.

The second part of this movie dives into, bizarrely enough from its religious criticisms into the conspiracy theories of September 11th, 2001, an event which happens to be 6 years old as of today. There are numerous people who continue to dispute 9/11 conspiracy theories, many of which are often scoffed at or laughed at and ridiculed. But, I have to say, and oh boy am I going to get it from you folks - some of these people are presenting a VERY convincing case that the official story is simply not true, and much of it entirely fabricated from a lack of evidence. Some of the bizarre theories, like the explosions of the planes hitting the tower using “blue screen” special effects, are downright retarded to me, though. I happen to have been working in video production for a number of years now, and I’m sorry: the blue screen people from a while back had no idea what they were talking about. All that aside, look at the other stuff that is right in front of your eyes. In Zeitgeist, you will see many of the hundreds of witnesses that claimed there were “bombs in the building” going off before the towers collapsed. The building, and this is indisputably true, fell at almost exactly free-fall speed, which, even under the pancake theory of the building losing itself from continuous pressure, seems downright impossible without some sort of explosive assistance. The steel beams at the bottom of the building are cut at an angle perfectly, along with intense heat readings coming from the building’s rubble long after the building had collapsed. Jet fuel, no matter how much is in two planes, does not burn for days on end at searing temperatures, and neither does anything else in the building.

Aside from the world trade center twin towers, nobody even mentions World Trade Center 7, and it’s one of the most important events of that day. The building mysteriously collapses, and falls to the ground the exact same way the towers do, collapsing in on itself from the center, the same way a building would during controlled demolition. Larry Silverstein, the owner of the building, has been on tape saying that they decided to “pull it,” which many believe to have been an accidental slip to him admitting to demolishing the building. Others, including Silverstein himself, claim that it was referring to the fire brigade withdrawing themselves from the building. I’m sorry, but I don’t believe it: why use the phrase ‘pull it’ in that particular context? There are so many other words he could have used in describing withdrawing firefighters. And for that matter, it can also be noted in history that no steel structured building has ever completely collapsed from fire.

There’s also a hefty amount of evidence that does not fit with a lot of the other official stories. The Pentagon attack, flight 93, NORAD standing down because of confusion over war exercises as opposed to the real life situation, and much much more. Some people who have opposed what has become known as the 9/11 truth movement or simply “the conspiracy theorists” claim that their work not accepted as credible, or acceptable, and that much of what they’ve pointed out or cited as evidence simply is not true. This claim, I have seen it myself, is wrong. One of the ONLY pieces in the media that has ever even COVERED these ideas have been short blurbs on the major news stations, never actually giving the full information of the theories, and often misrepresenting them or skewing their stance to make them appear like nuts. The only place that I have ever even seen anyone “disprove” these theories was an issue of Popular Mechanics magazine, which, by the way, left a lot out and disproved absolutely nothing of the so-called crazy conspiracy theorists. If these people truly had their questions answered, they would not still be fighting and pushing for the facts so much, and questions would stop being asked. But countless questions have not been addressed. Zeitgeist gives these theories a chance, and on a side note: Zeitgeists views on Google video have been continuously reset after receiving thousands upon thousands of views, a total equaling well over 2 million, because of an odd glitch. Interesting glitch that it appears on virtually nothing else in all of Google video. Could it be censorship from Google?

Part 3 of Zeitgeist deals with the matter of the greatly flawed United States currency system and the Federal Reserve. Once again, they are correct with numerous facts. The Federal Reserve system is in fact a money system that continuously creates more and more debt for the federal government. Inflation, in essence, is in the hands of the Federal Reserve. And what is the Federal Reserve? The Federal Reserve is actually an international bank that is a privately held corporation. The federal government does not actually own the Federal Reserve. Its creation as well as its integration into American currency was made possible by a president who pushed a bill and agreed to it through Congress on the terms that he gets more votes and wins the election. That president was Woodrow Wilson, who allowed Congress to create a central bank that would prevent the ‘crisis’ of 1907 and the market crash. It is important to note here, that whether you are talking about Zeitgeist or not, there has never been a successful paper money system in history, and also that a central bank does nothing but loan money to governments at interest that creates continuous debt. The film goes onto say that Woodrow Wilson wrote shortly afterward:

[Our] great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all of our activities are in the hands of a few men…who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world - no government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

-Woodrow Wilson

Ultimately, this means that bankers like the ones cited in the film, the Morgan, Rothchild, Rockefeller, and other families have, to this day, been some of the most influential people in the financial world, and quite literally the world. Ever heard of a little company called JP Morgan? Remember the stories in history about the success of oil with JD Rockefeller? Ask an elderly Londoner who the Rothchilds are, and many many of them will know.

All in all, this is not a film I am going to sit here and just flat out openly say: “Yeah, it’s all true,” without doing any research of my own. But if you go and actually dig up this stuff, a fat majority of it is out there and somewhat easy to find. There is no disputing Egyptian mythology that has been around for thousands of years - Horus was in fact born of the virgin, Isis, along with the other facts. Many of the names changed over time, but it seems the stories remained true. The 9/11 conspiracy theories are not so much “conspiracy theories” as they are people asking questions with legitimate and genuine concern - a fact that should make them credible by the simply notion that they care about what is happening to their country, the place in which they and their family live, to the point they would leave no stone unturned. The Federal Reserve banking system has, as the film also points out, been called an “economic stabilizer,” but this is hardly the truth, as depressions and inflation continue to occur throughout its, in comparison to proven banking methods, somewhat young history. The United States sought to decrease or eliminate its debt when it declared independence from the English, but in turn only turned around less than three centuries later to adopt a similar central banking model. I’ve got to hand it to people - it seems like those up top could easily be walking all over you right now.

Many feel like fools, and sometimes I do myself. The important thing, and I agree with the film here, is to think. Think, and think, and think. And while some people like my older brother say it is unhealthy to think too much, and that you may just be “staring at your navel,” I say think all you want. Think until it hurts, and if you can get to that point, you’re probably just dehydrated or ill in some other form. Thinking does not really cause pain, but not thinking may be downright dangerous, even fatal. So it is left to you - do your own research, ask your own questions. “The ball is in your court.”