I remember watching it as a teenager and I was blown away. I don’t know if I’ll get the same feeling if I watch it again as an adult though.

Ps: my first time on lemmy, good stuff on here folks.

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    Definitely a “I am 14 and this is deep” film basically Walt Disney’s full epcot design combined with socialism by another name.

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      I was 16 and thought so at first. Then I saw older people tearing it to shreds proper in forum posts firstly on the Screw Attack forums of all places which swiftly corrected me haha.

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        Were you there when it happened to me?

        I swear, that one Donald Sutherland scene in JFK had me going for such a long time on the conspiracy bent. I thought it was real.

        Who knew, it was Kevin Bacon we needed to pay attention to all along.

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    Alex Jones, American radio host, conspiracy theorist and executive producer of Loose Change, stated that film segments of Zeitgeist are taken directly from his documentary Terrorstorm, and that he supports “90 percent” of the film.

    It’s nonsense garbage.

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    it’s a kind of “WHOA DUDE” stoner film at best with no actual merit.

    It feels like it was written by Alex Jones.

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    It’s the archetype for a lot of what I hate about YouTube. I was actually kind of mad at the friend who recommended it to me

    Bro, [obvious truism]. Brooo, [obvious truism]. Brooooo, [conspiracy theory].

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    I was fascinated by it when I was young. Now I think it was one of the points where internet conspiracy theories started. How the “documentation” was told is very much manipulating.

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    watched it again recently. loved it. i get the hate though fo sho.

    its out there for sure. but then again this was made before we knew that a pedophile shadow elite was manipulating online spaces into far right extremist shitholes so they can further an agenda of global control and systematically dismantling democracy whenever they could.

    also apparantly aliens suddenly exist now right before the US invades iran

    fuckin moon bears, man. crazy shit.

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      It was coproduced by the “school” of the scammer “medium” JZ Knight aka “Ramtha”, who appears in the film without any mention to this “curious” fact.

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    Can someone link to context? I have no idea what op is talking about and I’m too busy to duck duck go it.

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    I agree with it’s interpretation of the bible/Christianity, relating to many other religions before it, not just Egyptian:

    Jesus was never real and was not recorded by dozens of scribes that were in the place at the same time (one famous example was debunked hundreds of years ago). He’s a sun-god astrological myth, like Horus and others before and they all share similar attributes.His purpose was to signal the start of the age of Pisces (two fish), and the winter solstice will see the sun rise (after 3 days of apparent stagnation) in the Aquarius constellation in 2150 or so. His resurrection is celebrated at Spring equinox, or Easter, when the sun finally overpowers the darkness.His purpose regarding factualization was a political move by the Romans and the Catholic church, setting the calendar year 1 to the start of the age of Pisces.