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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:10 pm
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This is a movement that I am a part of. Has anyone heard of it, seen the movies, listen to the Pod Casts?
I think this is an important movement to try and get people aware of. I can't explain it as well as I would like so I've gone ahead and copy-pasted this from the website (my apologies to people who think that makes me uninformed on this topic):
Synopsis
Fluid social change can only materialize if two circumstances are met. One, the human value system, which consists of our understandings and beliefs, must be updated and changed through education and thoughtful introspection. Two, the environment surrounding that value system must change to support the new world view. The interaction between a person's value system and their environment is what influences human behavior.
For example, in our culture, "ethics" is really a matter of degree, for our social system promotes and rewards competition and self-interest. This perspective doesn't just "lead" to aberrant behavior... it creates it directly. Corruption is the norm in our society and most people do not see this, for since the society supports this behavior, it is considered right and normal... or as a matter of degree.
Given this understanding, there is a fallacy that has emerged where certain groups are deemed "corrupt" and everyone else is "good". This is the age old "us and them" world view which has no basis empirically, for it is, again, all a matter of degree.
For example, there is a large movement of people who constantly talk about "The New World Order" and this notion that there is an elite group of people who have been trying to take over the world for a long time and have manipulated society in various ways to further their goals.
This, of course, is true to a certain extent.
BUT, the failure of awareness is that this "group" is not a group at all. It is a tendency.
If you took out all the people at the top who are engaged in global hegemonic rule, it would simply be a matter of time before another group stepped in to seek the same ambition. Therefore, it isn't the individual people or groups that are the problem. It is actually the conditions upon which those people have been accustomed and indoctrinated by. Of course, many argue against this view with the escapist notion that it is "human nature" that causes this competition and need for dominance. This is unsupported by the facts. In reality, we are nearly clean slates when we are born and it is our environment that shapes who we are and how we behave.
Therefore, in order for TRUE change to occur, we must spend less time battling the products of this sick social structure and more time trying to change the root causes. As difficult and daunting as it may be to think this way, it is the only way our world will change for the better.
We can continue to stomp on the ants coming out from under the refrigerator, but until we remove the spoiled food behind it, they are just going to keep coming.
www.thezeitgeistmovement.com www.thevenusproject.com
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:06 am
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:57 pm
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Honestly, what is corruption, chaos? It is a mixture, a beauty, and a fact of life. I personally like the theology, however, I don't really agree with it. I'm libertarian (not just politics), I like diversity, different cultures and religions, small governments here and there, different laws, and different ethics. As horrible as war is, it is much much better than everyone agreeing on what may be a false truth: the majority a majority of the time can be very, very wrong... it is harmful, if anything, for people to lose the ability of rebellion, because it is a continueing process of improvement: create by destroying. God uses every bad thing for a better good, I do firmly believe this. Be it the holocause, soviet union, the cross, or anything else... surely in this life, both nothing and everything all in one are for nothing. -shurgs- That's just what I personally think. If we all were to agree on something such as what that movement is aiming for, I am dead sure we would all be wrong.
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:07 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:11 pm
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:42 pm
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:44 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:34 am
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Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:32 am
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 12:05 pm
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