Skeptic Project

When I was 15 years old I stumbled upon the first Zeitgeist film online. At the time, I was like any other freshman in high school. I didn’t really give a shit about anything and my only concern was going to concerts and where I could get a gram of some dank ass nug. I had no political or social awareness of any kind. (Although I regularly enjoyed making fun of George W. Bush. I mean, who didn’t?) I was basically your average teenage American. However, something happened.

One night I was trolling the Internet and found Zeitgeist: The Movie. I saw it was a 1.5 hour movie and I was like “What the fuck? A free movie?” Then I started the film and the intro got me saying “No really, what the fuck is this?” The beginning kind of freaked me out. Maybe that’s why I continued watching it.

I’m not going to go through and talk about what the film covered. I’m sure most of you know and if you don’t, then Google that shit. Anyway, I watched it all the way through and didn’t really know what to make of it. I had never seen anything like it before. It was late, I was tired, and I had to digest what I had just taken in.

As I laid in bed, I started thinking. I started asking questions. Questions I’ve never asked myself or heard anyone else ask. Questions no one around me dared to ask.

The next day I watched the film again and paid close attention to what was being said. I was hooked. Not to the film, but to questioning. I became addicted to questioning everything I’ve been brought up to value; everything I’ve been brought up to believe; everything everyone around me who would never dare to question. It was a rush. I could feel chills crawl up my spine and the hairs on the back of my neck rise as I watched WTC 7 fall like a house of cards and as I heard myself mutter the words “There is something wrong with this picture.”

My favorite quote from Zeitgeist: The Movie was when Jordan Maxwell said “When you seek the whole truth, wherever it may go; wherever it may lead to, you begin to see lies everywhere.”

The world shattered all around me like the glass broken by the people trapped on the 78th floor of WTC 2 just before they plummeted to their deaths. Banks were no longer banks, they were institutions of social control. The police were no longer the protectors of society, they were the corporate guardians of the status quo. Money was no longer a symbol of success and wealth, it is a reminder of how very controlled we are by a system that continues to murder human and non-humans at home and abroad.

My journey began at that moment. The moment I began to question everything.

I started a very small chapter of the 9/11 Truth movement in my school and would talk about it whenever we would hang out. This led me to various other documentaries and organizations and I developed many relationships with people who also had a love of questioning the very foundations of civilization. A web of connections and relationships were forged, and that web grows ever more complex to this day.

Shortly after I turned 16, I was arrested for shoplifting and possession. Being homebound and cut off from the outside world, I anticipated the next Zeitgeist film, Addendum. I didn’t know what to expect and how much more my life could change as a result of watching it. Before watching Addendum, my mind was like a camera lens out of focus. Ideas, concepts, possibilities, and even more question filled my mind; colliding and conflicting with each other. Headaches were a daily occurrence as a result.

After watching the sequel, the lens in my mind was shifted into focus. Ideas were aligned. Possibilities were practical and realistic. Concepts made sense. A movement emerged. I was one of the first on board. Being the fanboy I was at the time, I was on the forums whenever I had the time. It was exciting talking with people who were coming to the same realizations as I. (Remember how the first Zeitgeist Movement website was black? It was badass.)

There were maybe 25 to 50 regulars on the forums. I soon lost interest. I fell into the daily routine of going to school, playing Xbox, and watching TV. I reverted to my zombie-like consumer mind-set. I spent a year as another lost and self-serving soul. The divine spark of humanity within me burnt out, or so I thought.

After a year passed as being another cog in the fucked up clock we call civilization, I felt useless. I felt lost. I felt like there was something horribly wrong with my life and where I was going. Destined to be another blank faced businessman. The future seemed black and white. It looked boring and bleak. I knew something was wrong with the world. I didn’t know what to do with myself.

One night I was sitting in my room bored out of my mind. It was the end of another day of mindless and un-stimulating 6 hours of school wasted away. On the threshold of dieing of boredom, I decided to watch Zeitgeist: Addendum again. Something was different this time. It was like the first time I watched Zeitgeist: The Movie. I learned how to question again. I felt the rush of challenging the masses and the values of Western society. The fire in my eyes ignited once again; a flame that has yet to diminish.

The rest is history. I started Zeitgeist Oklahoma, which is the Oklahoma chapter of The Zeitgeist Movement and began developing friendships and relationships with activists, dreamers, and revolutionaries from around the world. The chapter has grown to distant regions of Oklahoma. We premiered Zeitgeist: Moving Forward and had a turn out of over 75 people. Sub-chapters began popping up everywhere in Oklahoma and began working autonomously; raising awareness about how very fucked up the dominant culture they were apart of. I grew as a human being. I became an Atheist. I became an Anarchist. I became an artist; a dreamer; freethinker; revolutionary. In some ways I became a primitivism. I developed a deep relationship with my land-base and the natural world. I learned what it meant to be truly human. I learned what freedom really was and that we are not free. (yet)

As an activist, I’ve become accustomed to the daily weight of despair. It is the driving force behind why I fight and why I continue to question.

Recently, The Venus Project has separated itself from The Zeitgeist Movement for various reasons that I will not go into detail here. A lot of people are mad, sad, shocked, puzzled, and uneasy. A lot of people don”t know what this means for the movement.

Look, the point was never about The Zeitgeist Movement or The Venus Project. If the TZM and TVP websites disappeared tomorrow, it would not make a fucking difference. Nothing would change. Just as if the NYSE was bombed right now, destroying everything inside of it, the world would still be beautiful. Nature would still be here (it would probably be better off). You would still have your beautiful mind (also would be better off). You would still be able to question, which is the driving force behind everything we do as resistors of the dominant culture.

Do not depend on The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project to question for you. Only you can do that. They communicate ideas that aid you in your questioning and in the search for the answers to those questions. I don’t blame Peter for wanting to take a break or even leave indefinitely a spokesperson. In fact I think that would be a good thing. For his sake and the movements.

I think this split will really show the character and integrity of the movement, especially if Peter decides to step down. What will you do? Breakdown and give up because things didn’t go as planned? Give up because of some political tension between the two organizations that you’re a part of? Resign as an activist because you were all of a sudden thrown out of your comfort zone? Will you let the divine flame within you burn out because you thought everything on the organizational level of the movement was all fine and dandy?

If so, you were never cut out to be apart of this movement in the first place. Anyone who has been paying attention to anything that the films have been talking about and have actually gone and done their own independent studies and research know that shit is no where close to hitting the fan yet. Do you really think that the TZM or TVP website is going to be able to stay online when Peak Oil hits at full force? Fuck no. You’ll be on your own with no one to back you up except the community of freedom fighters you managed to get together with.

Don’t have fear. Never have fear. As long as you have your mind and your ability to question along with your initiative to search for the answers and the truth, you will never have anything to fear. You will be prepared for the coming holocaust and have the tools you need to begin to rebuild.

If we live to see it, if the human species survives the not so distant breakdown of civilization, you will witness a new world emerge like a phoenix rising from the ashes.

Institutions and organizations rise and fall, but ideas are eternal; and ideas can never die so long as you continue to question. That is the very foundation for what we do and how we grow as human beings. The Zeitgeist Movement taught me that. The films planted the seed within me that grew into something I could never have imagined. That was the whole point. It doesn’t matter if The Venus Project disbands itself from the movement or not. It doesn’t matter if the movement disappears tomorrow. The seeds are planted, and they are beginning to break through the bullshit we’ve been programmed to believe our entire lives.

This is bigger than The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project and whatever political bullshit is irrelevant.

Never stop questioning. Never stop searching for the answers. Never stop seeking for the truth. It is a matter of life and death, and you all will realize that in the years to come after The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project is long gone.

http://armthehomeless.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/fuck-the-drama-and-introspect/

This is a prime example of how Zeitgeist has baited gullible kids into believing in conspiracy theories and following their destructive cult.

This makes me very sad.