01-26-2011, 10:34 PM
Although the zeitgeist movies seem to make a great deal of sense and speak of things that are undeniably correct, in my opinion, I think it's something that should be looked at very carefully before buying into it.
As an example. In the spirituality section of the website you may find it to be basically trying to remove any ideas one may have of a higher sense of self.
I copied this small part just to show what concerned me.
"Similarly, the idea of 'praying' to a god for a particular request, has also statistically proven to have little effect on an outcome, not to mention the evidence to support a personified creator doesn't exist in any scientific way...rather it is often derived from ancient historical literary speculation and tradition."
" Many "spiritual practices" which have existed in the past, no longer exist due the understandings that have come about in regard to natural phenomenon. As a base example, early religions often 'sacrificed' animals for certain purposes... this rarely happens today, as the relevance of such an act has proven pointless in its desired effect. Likewise, rarely do people perform 'raindances' in order to influence the weather... today we understand how weather patterns are created, and ritual practices have no provable effect."
That may not be enough to convey the concern I felt when reading it, so maybe you could go and read the whole page in your own time.
Of course I could be misunderstanding the intention, but when the practice of 'raindance' is described the way it is, I can't help but feel that the idea of focused collective intention being portrayed as ridiculous superstitious belief, which quantum physics is on the edge of proving without doubt is most certainly real, that they are either very behind on science or trying to take away peoples power.
I'd like to know what others think of that.
As an example. In the spirituality section of the website you may find it to be basically trying to remove any ideas one may have of a higher sense of self.
I copied this small part just to show what concerned me.
"Similarly, the idea of 'praying' to a god for a particular request, has also statistically proven to have little effect on an outcome, not to mention the evidence to support a personified creator doesn't exist in any scientific way...rather it is often derived from ancient historical literary speculation and tradition."
" Many "spiritual practices" which have existed in the past, no longer exist due the understandings that have come about in regard to natural phenomenon. As a base example, early religions often 'sacrificed' animals for certain purposes... this rarely happens today, as the relevance of such an act has proven pointless in its desired effect. Likewise, rarely do people perform 'raindances' in order to influence the weather... today we understand how weather patterns are created, and ritual practices have no provable effect."
That may not be enough to convey the concern I felt when reading it, so maybe you could go and read the whole page in your own time.
Of course I could be misunderstanding the intention, but when the practice of 'raindance' is described the way it is, I can't help but feel that the idea of focused collective intention being portrayed as ridiculous superstitious belief, which quantum physics is on the edge of proving without doubt is most certainly real, that they are either very behind on science or trying to take away peoples power.
I'd like to know what others think of that.