A Change in Two Movements

My apologies for being a little scarce over the past week or two... Last weekend I finished the Silverman Half Iron Distance Triathlon in Henderson, Nevada. It was my second half iron finish for the year, but on a far more brutal course. I took over an hour longer to get done and spend a good deal more time recovering.

I may blog more on my experiences at another time, since races that long give you a lot of time for reflection and self analysis. I was both humbled and improved by the experience, but I'd like to focus today on something else.

I've been wanting to blog about this for a while now, but I haven't been able to think of a good way of doing it. They're ideas that form the basis for an entire lifestyle change and a unique way of thinking. I'm thinking perhaps the best approach may be to just spit them out, and then elaborate on them as the weeks and years go by.

First is the most recent find, courtesy of my friend Travel Vixen...

I'll start with a quote by Alan Keightley...

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”

The movement is based on a website called The Art of Non-Conformity - Unconventional Strategies for Life, Work and Travel. I'd highly recommend checking out the site, and reading the report - A Brief Guide to World Domination, which you can find out more about and download here. The author, Mr. Chris Guillebeau proposes the two most important questions in the Universe, and I think he may have nailed them. I was going to post them here, but you really need them in context for them to make sense. So, when you get done reading this, hop on over there, download the report and hopefully you'll be as blown away by it as I was and still am.

Second, is something I've been looking into for one, possibly two years. I'll warn you first. The person who referred it to me made a comment that only a Christian who was a true Masochist could enjoy the video. I think my antics with endurance racing prove once and for all that I am indeed a Masochist!! It's called the Zeitgeist Movement and appears to have been initiated with a movie called 'Zeitgeist'. There is a followup movie which I still need to complete watching, and I just discovered in the last day or two, an entire community of people who are working to advance the mission of the movement.

That mission is:

The Zeitgeist Movement is a grass roots campaign to unify the world through a common ideology based on the fundamentals of life and nature. This movement ignores politics, religion and the like, and instead attempts to communicate how all humans are the same at the fundamental level and how it is time we start to work together on a global scale to end the seemingly perpetual conflict and suffering in our current world society.

Like I said, if you are religiously affiliated and/or especially of the Christian persuasion, there is a pretty high probability that this movie - at least the first segment will offend you. I would recommend skipping over the segment two of three, but the first kind of leads into the second, and I would think you would lose a lot of impact if you were to do that. If you do decide to watch it, just bear that in mind.

One of my favorite parts, starts about 9 minutes in. It's a quote I've been trying to find online, but as of yet, have not been successful. It's by Jordan Maxwell. In essence he says this. When you look at how governments and every other organization in the world has been used and manipulated by people throughout time to gain power and control, what makes you think religion is immune from that.

I've noticed that it seems it's always easy to spot the corruption when you're not involved, yet somehow when we are, we find it easier to ignore, to justify and to accept.

Here is Zeitgeist...



You can also watch it if you go to the website - http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com

And you can see more about the movement here - http://thezeitgeistmovement.com