Who and what are Aonymous? What is the internet activism group?

Who What and where?

This has over 9 million views , where "the citizens of the world" brothers and sisters  it is scary stuff, but appears to be based on fact. It talks about "The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013 is a United States federal law which specifies the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense for Fiscal Year 2013. The National Defense Authorization Act greatly expands the power and scope of the federal government to fight the War on Terror, including codifying into law the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects without trial. Under the new law the US military has the power to carry out domestic anti-terrorism operations on US soil."[5] Read more here

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The National Defense Authorization Act

is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face

Who   and   What   is   ANONYMOUS ?

Find anonymous  general video's here 

Find who is anonymous  videos here here 

Imagery 

WHERE does the phase We are Legion? come from?
What do we see in this imagery ?

1. THE USAGE OF BLACK AND WHITE  

Black is the color of the night, and of "evil."  Black can also be a color of elegance or class (such as a black-tie only event, and black evening gowns.)  Black can also represent ideas such as power, sexuality, sophistication, formality, wealth, mystery, fear, evil, unhappiness, depth, style, sadness, remorse, anger, and mourning.  Black can also represent a lack of color, the primordial void, emptiness. It can also mean sorrow or mourning, in the Christian tradition of wearing black to funerals.

According to Henry Dreyfus, Black, sumi, is the color of mystery and solemnity; the color of the night. Black expresses the depths of the unknown, and encourages the imagination of a different world from that of daylight realities. Used by itself, black can represent bad luck or misfortune. (Black is the color of the night, and of "evil."  

White is a sacred and pure color.  It's the color of angles and gods, as the color reflects that which is sacred and pure.   It is also the color of doctors, nurses, and others in the health profession, as well as cleanliness. In fact, the Japanese refer to nurses as "Angels in White".

White can also represent reverence, purity, simplicity, peach, humility, youth, winter, snow, good, cold, clinical, and sterile.

YING YANG 

Perhaps there is no better representation of the usage and symbolism of black and white than in the Chinese Ying Yang. 

2. A PREPONDERANCE OF MALE IMAGERY-headless in suit and ties!

Questions is it only men? Highly doubt it, maybe at the head, if there is one. Pun intended . But it does conjure up safety that men can symbolize , at least for women. Some of the men and taking a stance , arms crossed in a confidant self assured body language manner , they are positioned in such a manner to inform the viewer that they are not going anywhere. They are united in their posture.

3. DOUBLE SCIMITAR

Noun A short sword with a curved blade that broadens toward the point.

Swords imply killing and war, hurting , cutting. Can be symbolic  of cutting away the old or a war on the establishment  which may or may not include violence as in the war on cancer. There seems to be wars declared on everything. There does not seem to be any physical violence associated with this movement, in fact they are opposed to the increasing police brutally in America.

4.HEADLESS MEN IN SUITS

Brings up images of Men in Black, government  officials, wall street business men, men of authority. In other images the headless men in black suits are walking in unity with purpose and direction...Expect us! we are coming . The use of suit and ties  sends the message , at the unconscious level and again symbolically that the men are educated, professional , not thugs, not hippies  , not unemployed, empowered  with resources...financial . A man in a business suit speaks volumes. Without heads...well  one of them could be working in the office that you are employed in, or some of them may even be in government or political office. There is no way of knowing.

5.  WE DO NOT FORGIVE WE DO NOT FORGET EXPECT US 

These words initially sound scary , unchristian , to forgive is Divine, we have learned to really forgive , it involves forgetting , this is a large part of pop psychology and then expect us! well after not forgiving or forgetting , presumably some form of a slight , they are going to retaliate!

After all the face mask is from thE

V for Vendetta

2005 Film

V for Vendetta is a 2005 political thriller film directed by James McTeigue and written by The Wachowski Brothers, based on the 1982 comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Wikipedia

Release date: December 11, 2005 (initial release)

Director: James McTeigue

MPAA rating: R

Screenplay: Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski

Awards: Saturn Award for Best Actress, More

"We do not forgive censorship 

We do not forget oppression

US Senate expect us. "

I found stated at the end of this video with over 9 million views  addressed to citizens of the world. Brothers and Sisters just what the movement does not forgive or forget.

United by one divided by zero

Vendetta 

Noun A blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murderer or the murderer's family. A prolonged bitter quarrel with or campaign against someone.

Synonyms feud - vengeance

 HOW ARE THEY DEFINED VIA THE WEB (WIKIPEDIA)

Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known, It strongly opposes Internet censorship and surveillance, and has hacked various government websites. It has also targeted major security corporations. It also opposes Scientology, 

Project Chanology (also called Operation Chanology is a protest movement against the practices of the Church of Scientology by members of Anonymous, a leaderless Internet-based group that defines itself as ubiquitous.), government corruption and homophobia. Its members can be distinguished in public by the wearing of stylised Guy Fawkes masks. (Notably, in the film, the masses also wore it as they rose up to help overthrow the ruling dictatorship.) [1]

It is impossible to 'join' Anonymous, as there is no leadership, no ranking, and no single means of communication. Anonymous is spread over many mediums and languages, with membership being achieved simply by wishing to join.

WHAT DO THEY STAND FOR ?

• Non violent  protest

• Defender of wikiLeaks Julian Assange. came under fire from the U.S. government after the site obtained video footage from a U.S. helicopter strike in Iraq that killed two Reuters employees, as well as two children.

• Oppose Scientology The occasion was an internal Scientology video starring Tom Cruise, which had been leaked to YouTube. The church, saying that the video was copyrighted, requested that YouTube remove it. Members of Anonymous, however, took issue with that request, and as part of what it dubbed "Project Chanology," reportedly began launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Scientology websites, [1]

Some have questioned if this is in violation of Americas right to freedom of religion...valid. 

• Aim to expose what they call government and establishment hypocrisy

• Online activism in the form of a PR campaign.

• Operation Law Enforcement Vendetta

  ... new effort was ostensibly devoted to taking down established information security vendors, on account of their scaremongering techniques.
  But practically speaking, many of the group's exploits have involved hacking into law enforcement agencies' websites and databases, defacing those websites, and releasing personal information on law enforcement personnel. Targets have included organizations as diverse as the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Zimbabwean government. [1]

• Anonymous Assists Occupy Wall Street

 Anonymous threw its weight behind Occupy Wall Street, a movement that coalesced in New York--to protest financial sector iniquities and excesses--and then quickly spread to other cities and countries. [1]

• Retaliation For The Megaupload Raids 

When the FBI knocked file-sharing site Megaupload offline for allegedly infringing copyright laws and building a criminal enterprise that helped its eccentric founder, Kim Dotcom, book profits of $175 million, it didn't take Anonymous long to register its disproval. A statement from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lauding the takedown probably just fanned the flames, as Anonymous members joined together, allegedly knocking the websites of the Department of Justice, FBI, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the RIAA, and Universal Music Group offline. [1]

• Free Speech

• Vengeance this should be clear due to the nature of the choice made in the mask and the slogans we do not forgive, forget , expect us and the onslaught of retaliation , vengeance on injustice perceive by the legion 

• Against child porn  "Operation Darknet" was launched as an attempt to cease the activities of child porn sites accessed through hidden services in the  deep web [4]

• Against homophobia 

On August 2012 Anonymous hacked into Ugandan government websites in protest of the pending Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill. A message stated "Anonymous will continue to target Ugandan government sites and communications until the government of Uganda treats all people including LGBT people equally." Parmy cited one research project that found that as many as thirty per cent of posters on 4chan fell into the LGBT category, posters often pretending to be the opposite sex.Anonymous declared they were going to destroy the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church in reaction to the church claiming they would picket the funerals of the victims of the Connecticut school shootings. The group hacked into the church's website, releasing the personal information of all church members. On December 21, 2012, the group successfully launched a DDoS attack on the church's website and hacked into the Twitter account of Shirley Phelps-Roper. [4]

•  Pro Palestinian In November 2012, Anonymous launched a series of attacks on Israeli government websites. Anonymous protested what they called the "barbaric, brutal and despicable treatment of the Palestinian people. [4]

A concise definition :What are they ?

1. Global decentralized affinity group of a  virtual   voluntary community of Internet activism/vigilantism  which focuses on anti-cyber-surveillance, censorship  

I personally have not formulated an opinion as of yet of this group , as I have just stumbled upon them while researching the Zeitgeist movement  a few observations however, once again they appear to be fighting for the common good in a passive manner threw Internet activism. fighting against police brutality and fascism, which I agree with whole heartily. I need more information at this time to really state an opinion. It is fascinating however and they do have a video that address the Zeitgeist movement which I provide for you here . They have a good point in reference to the lack of using names and labels. 

ANONYMOUS MESSAGE TO THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT

sources 

1. http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/who-is-anonymous-10-key-facts/232600322

2.http://www.three-musketeers.net/mike/colors

3. .htmlhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120203202757AAO0vDP

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)

5. http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/02/president-obama-signed-the-national-defense-authorization-act-now-what/

Intro getting to know the Guru-Murdock

Introduction of Acharya S The Christ Conspiracy-Zeitgeist source 

Fraudulent scholar

On Murdocks site http://stellarhousepublishing.com/videos she says in an  on line video interview how in her book Greatest Story, she starts out “gently” and admits things get a bit rougher as it goes. This is concerning to me as I found the introduction loaded with opinion presented in a condescending manner. Granted her dry sarcasm  is witty, however I expect more from one who pro-ports herself , exalts her credentials    and considers herself a member of true scholarly academia . Self confidence she is not lacking .What I want my readers to understand, she uses academia, credentials, scholarly research largely to imitated those who do not have much or any background in ancient history. Which sadly is the vast majority of people, at least in the US. Our public School, government controlled educational system does not harbor comparative religion study irregardless to the great impact it has had on history and continues to exert influence to this day. Granted it is a minority who are engaged in continual self education , "trying to figure it out" however they are there. Do not take what she says, with so much conviction, as truth ! Beware! As does Peter Joesph , founder of The Zeitgeist movement and responsible for the  spread of the insidious lie that Christ, and all religions are creations of myth for the propose of mass control, is charismatic as is his female cohort Acharya S or D. M. Murdock .

View this video to get a feel for who Murdock is, here she relates her disdain for Christ and makes bold claims that there is no , none proof for even Peter the founder of the church. She talks of contradictions in the bible, which is true, yet... her contradictions abound. How funny she is making extraordinary claims, no wonder she feels so strongly that she does not have to prove her contentions. She laughs that people ask for her evidence and says she has provided "mountains and mountains" . She says that there is no evidence in History  for Jesus ,as you read further you will    learn how she justifies  making  these untrue  statements such as "it does not make it into the historical record in any shape or form" that is a lie , simply stated...beware of this women. she claims all history relative to this subject matter "fraud" and therefore it does not exist.

Murdock writes in her introduction, in her book Christ Conspiracy,  a statement that is true and can not be refuted "...horrors  have been caused in the name of God and religion than can be chronicled"  Who can disagree that far too much blood shed has occurred in the name of God? However, we are experiencing blood shed in the name of Oil, Power, globalization etc... war , sadly  seems to be a human condition  used to imitate, threw the loss of life and peace, to inflict an agenda on defenseless peoples. Murdock then makes her first citation from none other than Albert Pike to substantiate the horrors of war from a war monger no less!  Pike makes the broad and untrue statement that it is those who know the least, that are the most fanatical, implying Christians and other follows of faith, in addition to  those who believe  in a higher authority , intelligent designer  etc...don't research the authenticity of their own beliefs  . This is being proved untrue by Christians, such as myself .  Murdock has a video where she laughs and claims that she has no free mason ties (I will find and post the video ) yet her first citation in the text of  her book is from the father of Free masonry . Humm.

Pike says: 

“We believe what we are taught;that those are most fanatical who know least of the evidences on which their creed is based” and “Few believe in any religion because they have examined the evidence s of its authenticity and made up a formal judgment , upon wiggling the testimony.” (4) 

 In another video, in   the vain of  debunking debunkers  interview here    as in many of her interviews she self promotes and throws around numbers and extreme exaggerations ...600 page book,1000's of texts!  Taught herself on the spot,while writing the book, ancient hieroglyphs ! ...

Why is this important that she references Pike? Once you know who and what Pike stands for, you will understand.

Who is Albert Pike?

"Albert Pike also of Newbury Port moved to Arkansas where he became a prominent member of the secessionist movement. He was chosen by Mazzini to head the Illuminati operations in America and moved to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1852. During the war he was made a brigadier general and placed in charge of raising an army of Indians. Pike's reign of terror was so despicable that foreign governments intervened to put an end to his savagery. Mazzini was not only the head of the Illuminati, he was the leading revolutionist in Europe. He was determined to establish a New World Order on the rubble of the old order and created a plan to accomplish his goal. He detailed his plan for world domination in a letter to Pike on January 22, 1870: "We must allow all the federations to continue just as they are, with their systems, their central authorities and their diverse modes of correspondence between high grades of the same rite, organized as they are at the present, but we must create a super rite, which will remain unknown, to which we will call those Masons of high degree whom we shall select. With regard to our brothers in Masonry, these men must be pledges to the strictest secrecy. Through this supreme rite, we will govern all Freemasonry which will become the one international center, the more powerful because its direction will be unknown. Lady Queensborough, Occult Theocracy, pp. 208-209." (7)

Murdock cites Pikes book The Morals and Dogma of Scottish Rite Freemasonry.

 Its not a far stretch for the debunkers and defenders of the faith and other truth movement seekers of Murdock  to suspect  she has Freemason ties or agendas  that link  her to the global unification which includes a one world religion,  and its not Christianity.  Using Pike right out of the gate,she sets the stage for the readers of Murdock, for those who understand the significance of Pike,  the role he plays in as much as he is  regarded as the father of Free masonry to read his words to substantiate the horrors of wars is ludicrous at best.

 In Pikes own words

“The First war must be brought  about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic communism. The divergences caused by the “agnetur(agents) of the Illuminati between the British  and Germanic empress will be used to forwent this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and order to weaken the religions  .

The second World war must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and political Zionists. Tis war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine, During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm."

The third World war must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the ‘agentur” of the “illuminati” between the political Zionists and the lades of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such sway that Islam (the Muslim Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more dived on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of compete physical, m oral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and atheists , and we shall provide a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and other the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere , the citizens, obliged to defend themselves ageist the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal but without knowing where to render its adoration , will receive the true light though  the universal manifestation  of the the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary  movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.  “

Is this the source to be cited for anti war sentiments? It is absurd.  It is understandable how debunkers , apologists, and passionate informed Christians are making the parallel that Murdock is part of the new world order agenda which Pike outlines. Christianity must be abolished. This is why Zeitgeist and its implications are so vital, I recently heard from versebyvereBT that the first movie has had over 100 million views ! Dismissing Christ as nothing more than sun worship in a rather convincing manner because the average Christian or citizen is not educated on ancient history,thankfully to the government intuition of public schooling is highly relevant .

Only recently has the history curriculum added cuneiform and the Sumerian  culture and in fact, they are continuing to teach that the pyramids  were built  by the Egyptians as burial  tomes .

Point in hand the general public, irregardless of Murdocks and to some extent Peter Joseph's beliefs, are attempting to educate and explore unconventional theories to the origins of our planet, mankind and religion in general. In other words they have explored the "evidence s of its authenticity and made up a formal judgment" .

When Christianity is attacked in such a “scientific” and authoritative manner , one is hard pressed not to question, might this be true.? I know that I did. This is what has lead me down this path. And I read ancient history/world religions as a hobby and have for nearly 30 years.

I think it safe to say that most of society, are not surprised to learn that our Christian holidays are on the solstices and have been blanketed on top of pagan festivals. The Easter bunny and eggs clearly are fertility symbols representing rebirth. What of it? Many of us , generations ago, have our genetic heritage linked to pagan activities. I like to say that we love our festivals . In fact the Catholic church knew how the peoples clung to their family, village anticipated seasonal festivities, or parties, which involved eating, drinking, signing, decorating once home …it was an excuse for a day/days off from the grid of work and drudgery. What better time that with the change of the seasons and the marking of y, given the History channels popularity , that most know of the controversy surrounding  the varied who,why and when’s that shadow these mysterious magnificent structures.  In addition, it is true that the information on cable is expanding into free mason and secret society conspiracy topics, they tend to be sanitized and incomplete. However just enough to wet the appetite of truth seekers to get a feel that something is off, something does not feel right…something is missing. A sense of a pervasive lie prepared on society does not any longer  seem paranoid but more likely possible.

the solstices? The Christian church choose its days wisely in my estimation. They formed a hybrid. Knowing full and well that the birthday and the resurrection dates of Christ  could not be known they picked symbolic days to revere these events and what better days than the already established days of the pagan festivals.  This is no means invalidates the existence of Christ, to argue so in my estimation is absurd .

 I find it ironic that the introduction sections that I found amusing and/or substantive were those that referenced were the atrocities  that the Christians brought on others , when in the same breath she states that basically the Christians really did not suffer prosecutions that it was rather a portrayal of propagandists! This type of contradiction  occurs abundantly in her work, yet she cites with glee the contradictions of the four Gospels, most Christians are familiar with these and understand that the accounts are written from the perspective of the author and therefore are prone to subjective interruption  .

 

The Walker- Murdock connection:

I can not go into every outrageous statement , there are so many but I can highlight a few in the introduction  such as:

 

"like so much else about Christianity, the claims of its rapid spread are largely mythical"

 

"The pagans Savoyards called Cjrostoanms "idiots", hence Cretin, "idiot"

descended from Chretian, "christain "

here she references a much used source Barbara Walker

Walker is clearly a pagan or Wiccan and feminist  by the pentacle necklace she proudly wears

"Prominent feminist author Barbara Walker has revamped, retold, and infused with life some of your favorite classic fairy tales. No longer are women submissive, helpless creatures in need of redemption through the princely male! Instead they are vibrantly alive, strong women who take fate into their own hands." (From Amazon book description)

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Murdocks, primary source , cited 7 out of 25 times in just the intro  is a wiccan pagan . Murdock states about her relationship to Walker

"I've known Barbara G. Walker for over a decade, after I contacted her about using quotes from her books for my work The Christ Conspiracy. She graciously agreed, we became friendly, and she has continued to inspire me. Indeed, Barbara has been a muse for me all these years, a living aspect of the Triple Goddess, a reflection of the "Crone" in her purest sense. She has been not only a mentor and muse but also a spiritual sister, whose wise ways should be emulated while her sagacity is shared...." (Excerpt from the "Foreword" of Barbara G. Walker's

Man Made God )

 

These two "sisters" support one another, Murdock writes the forward for Walker while on the back cover page of Murdocks book The Christ conspiracy, Walker wrties  "...a book of true enlightenment".  Here is the review that Walker wrote on Murdocks book The Gospel According to Acharya S!

"There is a broad, idealistically beautiful vision embodied in this 'Gospel': a vision of a world truly at peace, people truly in harmony with nature"

"The Gospel According to Acharya S makes a clear distinction between true spirituality and what is usually called religion. The jealous, egotistical, ever-praise-hungry Judeo-Christian God is shown to be an extension of human (male) ego, fostering arrogance in his believers who claim that their own religion is the only true one, all others being false and evil. Acharya castigates patriarchal belief systems as the ultimate source of sexism, citing centuries of abuse of women on religious grounds.

"She also demonstrates the highly derivative nature of religious concepts generally assumed to be unique; amusingly debunks the game of bible-based prophecy; discusses the primordial cannibalism underlying communion rites; and demonstrates the cultic nature of so-called mainstream religions. Her book plainly makes the point that religious sects demanding 'tolerance' and 'respect' from the rest of the world are frequently unworthy of either.

"This book endorses the creative variety of spiritual practices around the world, stating that 'Those who narrow down their consciousness to reject the wisdom and perception of all other cultures in favor of their own egotistical and ethnocentric "religious" beliefs are often mean-spirited and poorly educated yet very conceited.' Actually, 'Humankind needs to drop all such ego identifications as nationalism, racism and religionism, when they become divisive.'

"The Gospel is a vision that gives hope for freedom from the emotional shackles of religions, and the dawning of a more rational future."

"There is a broad, idealistically beautiful vision embodied in this 'Gospel': a vision of a world truly at peace, people truly in harmony with nature, and an end to the religious strife and violence that have stained the last two thousand years with horrifying amounts of innocent blood. It is a vision that gives hope for freedom from the emotional shackles of religions, and the dawning of a more rational future."

Barbara G. Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

 

Shameless conflict of interest and unscholarly conduct.

Acharya S. D. M. Murodck review of The Christ Conspiracy , The Greatest Story ever Sold

Sources  for Zeitgeist Ambiguous 

"Scholar" for part one Questionable 

Acharya  S. (meaning guru or teacher ) , begs the question right off the bat why she needs such a new age genderless and somewhat pretentious pseudonym  or  D.M. Murdock is the author of  the Christ Conspiracy  The Greatest Story ever Sold. Her book and theories largely are responsible  for the  claims made in the first section of the Zeitgeist Movie. References or historical facts to support the claims made in part one on comparative religions  in Zeitgeist, are missing in the narrative.  Interestingly, how is  the book written by Murdock, The Greatest Story Ever Sold has a sarcastic twist on told to sold, implying its nothing more than a marketing ploy. Christ is presented as a myth, best case   , and a downright  lie, in the worst case,  created from a conglomerate of ancient religions for a nefarious end: control.

The movie presents that Christ is a fallacy, in a  fast passed account, without citing  credible references ,   presented  as indisputable   fact, not theory   that Christ , boiled down to its simplest form,  really represents  the sun. Yes , you read that right the sun and his disciples  are the stars. In fact, the first paragraph from its online Companion Source Guide, created no doubt as a response  from the Truth seeking community for references to back her claims,  shows  an image of a setting  sun,  with the caption The Greatest Story Ever Told. Murdock writes,

1. "This is the sun. As far back as 10,000 B.C., history is abundant with carvings and writings reflecting people’s respect and adoration for this object." (1)

reinforcing instantly , if you thought that you were getting it right  after viewing the Zeitgeist movies  implication that  Jesus Christ was really the sun, not Thee Son,  you were right.

Peter Joseph (withholds his last name and these two names may not be real either) creator of the zeitgeist film series and the Movement. This is a Charismatic man, be not deceived !

The Zeitgeist director , Peter Joseph informs  his readers in the companion guide that  part one of his  movie,   on the controversial subject of Christianity is,  based on "historical data". He informs his readers :

“The Greatest Story Ever Told” presents historical data relating to the astronomi- cal/astrological origins of the Judeo-Christian theology (which can be extended to Islam as well), along with the understanding that these respective stories, beliefs & traditions are really an adaptation-extension of prior Pagan beliefs. (1)

After viewing the film I went searching on line for the references to those historical facts  or "data"so bluntly missing from the film, when I found the site truthbeknown.com/zeitgeistsource. This is the best I have found. Murdock's own site and article …… link for sources was broken at the time of this writing, in the same paragraph where she refutes the allegations  of sloppy work in  Skeptics Mangles Zietgeist (and Religious History)  by Acharya S aka D. M. Murdock . Murdock writes

"It is a curious fact that writers who toss around the words "sloppy," "garbled" and "nonsense" are often guilty of these very things themselves. "(4)

A broken link on ones own website , is sloppy at best. Check it out for yourself click on sources and this is what you will see :

404 (Page Not Found) Error - Ever feel like you're in the wrong place?

The thruthbeknowen  (  Murdocks site )  is not a scholarly bibliography at all , nor any source site that one can reference,  certainly  not  the serious scholar. It reads:

"Contrary to popular misconception, the information in the religion part of the hit Internet movie, the first "Zeitgeist" film comes from numerous primary sources, including the following, as well as the works of highly credentialed authorities in the best academic publications, also listed here. It should be noted that this list does not include the multitude of other artifacts and writings from antiquity that may be found in the other works of D.M. Murdock/Acharya S. (3) (italics  added)

and then the list begins

Primary Sources, Publications and Scholars Cited in The ZEITGEIST Sourcebook

Ancient artifacts and archaeological sites
Lascaux, Altamira and Trois Freres cave paintings

Tassili N'Aijer figures

Mohenjo-daro, 
Indus Valley site
Goseck, 
Germany
Thirteen Towers, 
Chankillo, 
Peru

Nabta Playa, 
Egypt

Karanovo Tablet

Dendera zodiac and other Egyptian artifacts

Brindisi disk
Greek pottery, 
paintings, mosaics, temples
Roman mosaics, paintings and statuary
Early Christian artifacts, etc.

Murdock does research in a variety of languages, both modern and ancient, such as: Ancient and modern Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Vedic, Persian, Egyptian, Coptic, French, Italian, Spanish, German and a smattering of other languages as the need arises.

Ancient Writings
Egyptian hymns, 
hieroglyphs, papyri and carvings

Pyramid Texts
Coffin Texts
Book of the Dead

Herodotus

Berossus

Diodorus

Porphyry

Eusebius

Pausanias

Bible

Pythagoras

Plato

Aristotle

Diodorus 
Siculus

Epiphanius

Hippolytus

Plutarch

Tertullian

Justin Martyr

Minucius Felix

Clement Alexandrinus

Tatian

Augustine

Arnobius

Julius Firmicus Maternus

Lactantius

Macrobius

Julian

Vedas

Mahabharata
Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavata
 Purana

Mahāvastu
Lalita Vistara

Vishnu Purana

Hesiod

Homer

Euripides

Proclus

Origen

Celsus

Philo

Josephus

Avesta

Pseudo-Eratosthenes

Venerable Bede

Cyprian

Ambrose

Hipparchus

Archelaus
Epic of Gilgamesh
Assyrian, Babylonia, Akkadian tablets

Dead Sea Scrolls

 A Dead sea scroll housed in the Museum in Jerusalem 


Tacitus

To be topped off with the  vague statement :

"The information also comes from the best and most thorough, scholarly and modern sources wherever possible, with the result that many authorities cited possess credentials from respected institutes of higher learning, and their publishers are some of the most scholarly in English (and other languages), such as the following."

 This is laughable to anyone who does research and relies on sources to check the claims, theories  and allegations of a writer. This list  does not allow anyone ( I contend it is humanly impossible ) to to reference or pursue the source of Murdocks claims and therefore Zeitgeist in its entirety .     We see the author listed, never the book from the volumes of material produced by these admittedly great minds and scholars produced from history and certainly not the page reference. The Dead Sea Scrolls are referenced in their entirety  when about 15,000 fragments and more than 500 manuscripts were found. The complete bible is listed. She goes to the extreme to  even list the Vedas, which one? your guess.

Manuscripts from one of the four  Vedas

This is an extreme amount of material nearly surpassing the Dead sea scrolls in material and volume. "The Rig-Vedic ‘samhita’ or collection of mantras consists of 1,017 hymns or ‘suktas’, covering about 10,600 stanzas, divided into eight ‘astakas’ each having eight ‘adhayayas’ or chapters, which are sub-divided into various groups"

 What exactly was referenced? How can one go back and read for oneself the material to validate these extreme findings? Never matter that it is impossible to know when the Vedas, Bible or Dead Sea Scrolls   are sited in the film series on comparative religion.  (On a side note, Murdock does not cite these references in her book,  she relies heavily on Walker, Massey, Wayless) Is Murdock suggesting that she has read all of these works?  Could anyone read the entire collection of all the authors listed above? Visit the archaeological  sites and countries that Murdock cited? She lists Peru and Egypt, tombs? the Nile? What cities?  Giza or  Subra al-Haymah or   maccu picho ( Is it possible with limited time and funds ?) It is questionable if it is even humanly possible , ( I contend it is not)  it is too much, however to expect of a serious  layman wishing to pursue the validity of Murdock's claims , hence Zeitgeists premise that all religion is nothing short of a fraud .

Further more,  how is one to source the "best and most thorough scholarly and modern sources" or "respected institutions  of higher learning and their publishers"? One can not. The vagueness of these statements are shameful! What professor would accept those statements as citations for your research? My 13 year old in middle school is being taught to CITE YOUR SOURCES ,  if she cited that she used "modern sources" and publishers of higher learning and that she visited Peru and Egypt, the middle school teacher would be correcting her ridiculous attempt to get around the work of creating a reference for her paper.

Murdock cites more, check it out for yourself , but you get the point. truthbeknown.com/zeitgeistsource. Yet it was this lack of references that lead me to the conclusion that Murdock’s book was at the core of the claims found in the Zietgeist movie.  As Murdock herself says in one of her numerous videos… the film has gone viral! And yes, Murdock alludes that she has in fact read all the materials above, has digested it and figured it out. In her source book companion guide she gives a message to the readers:

"In this day and age, it is obvious that many people are not inclined or available timewise to read large tomes of scholarly writings in order to “fig- ure it all out.” This fact of time-constraint as well as difficulty in subject matter is the major reason “ZEITGEIST” was so successful in the first place, as it provided a short and easily digestible summary of the issue at hand: To wit, the origins of some of our most cherished religious ideas." (1)

Well Guru, I'm inclined and have the time but I contend that it is impossible. If on the other-hand you actually sourced the material in a scholarly manner, that is, make a statement and then footnote it with the author, page number , publisher etc...(now in Murdocks book , this is done, but again  Plato, Dead Sea Scrolls, Vedas, Homer in fact NONE of the sources listed above are found in her book The Christ Conspiracy,  the primary source for part One of the Zeitgeist movie! We do however  find free mason Albert Pike and occultist Helena Blavatsky

Wanting to learn more about the primary source materials used in the Zeitgeist film,   I promptly went to Amazon and three days later my package arrived  The Greatest Story ever Sold (great play on words admittedly) .This is my journey into her claims. It is vital that they be understood. Why? This is the aeon   of a Truth movement in an age of awakening at the same time it is under global control of a powerful self serving  elite. This control has been in place for hundreds, if not thousand of years and it is only now, as far as we know, that man , collectively is  becoming aware of his prisoner status.

This is truly a remarkable time to be living. Within seconds information is translated across the globe and shared. Gone are the days of literacy being held in the care of the few. Books that took years to  scribe,  the illiterate   poor are a thing of the past , books in European nations once  only available in Greek or Latin, such as the Bible,   these days are gone . Information is everywhere. Within minutes I can click and pay for a hard to find book on Amazon, download E-books, watch educational videos, here collage lectures... education is no longer not available  to the masses , as it once was.The truth is being revealed.

Murdock and the Zeitgeist movies,(three) particularly those about the claims of Christ (911 and banking issues seems to be well researched and are based largely on facts that anyone can research to come to a similar conclusion.) as those who hold the power and control would and have disseminated disinformation for its own ends. However, it is blatantly clear that there is an agenda to do away with Christ , as the second film address the same subject matter. Now that the zeitgeist has been converted into a movement, it does not take much to see that one of the  steps, after joining...signing up for e-mails initially, is to rid oneself of the phony belief system of Christianity. It is alluded that  this has been indirectly  a leading cause of war, hunger and human suppressed development both spiritually and especially when it come to technology.

At first I wanted to give Peter Joseph a way out... I really have to admit that I liked him...allot. Watching the videos of him, I found him concise, intelligent... he just made sense and I found that he appeared to be a man albeit handsome an  artist/musician living in New York, who could be well....trusted.  See the mini doc below "who is Peter Joseph?"




 I have never had this feeling for Murdock. Her self serving book selling arrogance makes it hard for me to read her words or listen to her via video or radio. ( I do it because I am called to do so ) I thought maybe Peter made simply a bad call when he solicited Murdock , supposedly at the last minute as a consultant for part one of his movie. I thought maybe he was lead astray even in faulty academia , he certainly has lost follows as a result of her lack of professionalism and shoddy work. However,  he has persisted to endorse the thesis  that Christ is a myth, that he really is the son, his disciples nothing more than zodiac representations  and to hold on 'blindly' to these belief systems holds us back from unity, from feeding the   hungry in the world and global peace. Who doesn't want social change of this magnitude ? But why does it have to include sheding ones beleif in Jesus Christ?