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Just wow, January 13, 2009
This review is from: Waiting For Nesara (DVD)
You watch this movie and you know it's a documentary, but when it's all done you can't believe it's all actually for real. How do people get sucked into these bizarre belief systems anyway? Jesus really cares about abolishing taxes? Bush is a space alien? It's all absolutely unbelievable, but thank goodness the people of this cult were open enough to allow themselves to be interviewed so freely on camera. This is an amazing documentary.
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Outstanding exploration of irrational belief, December 31, 2008
This review is from: Waiting For Nesara (DVD)
I love this stirring and remarkable documentary. This is an extraordinary peek inside a small group of people who are convinced that reptilian extraterrestrials are poised to do us harm. It's more complicated than that but I'll leave the details for viewers to discover.
At times I felt sad for these people, so utterly lacking in skepticism and the ability to see through hollow claims. As a lifelong Star Trek fan I also was fascinated to hear several Trek references used by the group members in casual conversation. Many of them seemed to be science fiction fans who took it all a bit too seriously. It was all a sort of perfect storm, a weird fusion of religion and sci-fi with gullible people caught in middle.
This amazing film is a feast for skeptics who will no doubt be entranced by the spectacle of what happens when people can not or will not think critically. One is also likely to see how easy it is for new religions to be born. Who knows? This handful of people may have laid the foundation for a world religion that will have a few billion followers one day. Give an intriguing collection of irrational beliefs a thousand years or so and anything can happen.
I encourage those who watch "Waiting for Nesara" not to give in to feelings of condemnation or condescension. These people, wild as their beliefs may be, are only guilty of being human. Clearly there is something about our species that leaves us vulnerable to these sorts of unfounded beliefs. At the end of the day, there is really no meaningful difference between these people and the billions of believers who believe in socially respected gods.
If you have ever doubted the importance of skepticism then just watch this fine film!
--Guy P. Harrison, author of
Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know About Our Biological Diversity
and
50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
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