Zeitgeist Movie Analysis

There was a moment in life that I can remember that was consequential in my view of the world. I moved from just accepting the world as I was told it was to truly questioning things and arriving at my own conclusions. Before the film Zeitgeist I generally accepted what authority figures in my life had said and the way they described the world to work. But after the film I began to question what I had been told and the assumptions I had made. The film helped to make me a more critical minded person. My view of this film's conclusion about the events it lays out is that it is not a reasonable conclusion when held up against scrutiny. The film though still served an important function in my life. It questioned many things I had always

As I began to question what had been taught to me and truly approach the subject from a critical standpoint I found that I did not necessarily agree with what I had been told to accepted about religion. The film was also was the first time I had seen major ideas I hold challenged and thus made me realize the need to examine the many competing opinions out there and many ways of looking at the same subject. With this recognition I found a need to be open to new ideas and evaluate what I believe because honestly considering new information can change who you are. This recognition helped leads to more tolerance in my opinion. When you consider the different perspectives out there it helps you better understand why people think the way they do which leads to empathy and the recognition that your view on things is not inescapably correct, just a way of thinking that can be just as valid as another. This approach eventually led me to become a agnostic which I do not consider to be a minor shift in opinion and can be traced back to the idea of being skeptical about things you have accepted as truth or fact in your life and a willingness to consider competing opinions honestly and