Skeptic Project

Over the course of three major arguments with Zeitgeisters this week alone in various fora, here's what I learned:

1. I am just a monkey who throws poo. (Well, we knew that).
2. Super duper economic collapse is imminent. Like, January 2011 imminent.
3. One billion people die of starvation on Earth every day.
4. If you don't accept the Zeitgeist ideology, you and everyone else on Earth will die.
5. The idea of money was created by "god kings" who wanted to control people.
6. I must learn to be more objective. Every time I criticize the Zeitgeist Movement, I should also make an equal criticism of the money system.
7. Professor James Scott is a Stalinist who wants billions of people to die, despite the fact that he wrote a book criticizing Stalinism.
8. Criticisms of Zeitgeisters' arguments framed in terms of binary choices are incorrect. Because we really DO have only two choices, which is to accept Zeitgeist, or die. Did I already mention that?
9. Peter Joseph is a CIA agent.
10. My disagreement with the Zeitgeist Movement has nothing to do with conspiracy theories. I oppose it for some other deeper, darker reason, which I must engage in some serious soul-seeking in order to determine.

Thanks, Zeitgeisters, for setting me straight.

TZM will cling to their rotting ideology until a better one comes along.

You can usually convince members to replace specific beliefs with different ones, but why waste time doing it. I can't think of many uses for a 10-30k member movement that is scattered all over the world and consists of early 20somethings.