Skeptic Project

The Venus Project is preserving it’s dignity by dumping the Zeitgeist group and staying true to its vision. It has risked losing hundreds/thousands of supporters (and their money) for the sake of preserving the integrity of their vision. Is that money grubbing? Or simply being real?

Here’s the deal: many members claim that Fresco is very inspiring. For this they love him, as he gives them something to hope for and his ideology fulfills the role of religion in their lives because it soothes their heartache at the conditions of the world. He gives them something very hard to come by in the secular belief system: alleviation from hopelessness, depression, and fear. His ideology boosts their esteem and relieves their anxiety resulting from their powerlessness in this world. Again, they literally Love him for giving them this (whether they realize this or not). He does not ask for the love; it simply comes to him. He has no obligation to people simply because they happen to love him and want to give him money or promote. What is he supposed to do? -serve the people who are loving him and act in accordance with their expectations because he somehow owes them now?
They promoted his direction and his name out of their own love for him, and greatly benefited emotionally from this because it gave them a sense of purpose and meaning in their lives. I want to make one thing VERY CLEAR: Their Love for him is their OWN MISTAKE.
If they want to continue loving him, he will let them, but only if they don’t threaten his plan. If they threaten his plan, they become an obstacle. Fresco never went to anyone asking. Everyone who has ever worked with him did so because they liked what they saw and came to him.
The members should have recognized that they were entering into a relationship in which they will give and not see anything in return, because it is not Fresco who loves them, it is they who love Fresco. It has always been that way throughout Fresco’s entire life, and people leave the relationship mad at Fresco because they so foolishly loved him. Is it Fresco’s fault that he is so lovable?

If I meet someone on the street and find him very charismatic and inspiring, and then proceed to love him because he gives meaning to my life, I should not expect that he owes me anything because I ended up funding the project he believes in and elevated his reputation around town. He owes me nothing, and to expect that he does is an idiotic and very naive reaction. I was merely loving like a fool. My own stupidity got me duped.

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They replace the role of religion. Just like a church, they need the money to do their hope giving. Is that wrong? -I don’t know.

http://anticultist.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/report-the-venus-project-to-the-irs-via-zeitgeist-movement-exposed/#comment-2591

Yeah i know it is like some demented fan boy uploading his inner thoughts about Fresco to a complete stranger who wants nothing to do with his cult.

In a way it is very much like when mormon/jehovas witness knocks on your door telling you the good news and trying to let you in on the secrets, and you can not get rid of them for the love of reason.

This guy is like that, he has been pushing his words on my blog for a few days now, a lot of them I have not bothered allowing, but he is insistant I should not censor his adoring words for TVP/TZM haha, which of course I happily censor as zeitards command no respect from me.

Your blog is one of those things that I wish I would have stumbled across sooner. For the most part I paid little attention to the CT freaks and the Zeitards as long as they stayed out of my face. Then I started picking up on the cult speak. Even though I can laugh at some of the idiotic things that Zietards come out with I have a real problem with cults.

CJ> Your question makes me think of the old "Fool me once shame on you" thing.