(Part 3) Top products from r/Documentaries

Hey guys,

I made this film. Please consider supporting it instead of searching out and sharing what are obviously illegal download links. Thanks to any of you who saw it in the theater. And for those who missed it, the North American Blu Ray / DVD / digital release happens next week (July 8). http://www.amazon.com/Jodorowskys-Dune-Blu-ray-Alejandro-Jodorowsky/dp/B00J5LXMTG/

Little films like this need real love & support. Piracy truly will prevent them from being made and all we'll be stuck with is a multiplex with the same $200m Marvel film on every screen. That would be a sad world indeed. So please support personal & independent films like this one. It really means a lot and it's very important in the long run for our culture a whole.

Thanks.


EDIT July 6, 2014:

Thanks for all the comments & discussion but I'm going to have to bow out of here.

I'm glad that anyone who has watched the film has enjoyed it so much. True support is always appreciated & preferred. All I meant to ask is that you think of the creators of the films & music that gets illegally downloaded and/or shared. It's not our fault that many of you think that an entire overhaul of the distribution model is in order. You may be right and you may be wrong. But fact is that it currently is what it is, and piracy does hurt. But you already know that. I was just here to hopefully put a face to the issue.

I'll leave it at that and again, thanks so much for the stimulating conversation. For the most part, it's been great.

Best always,
Frank

My reccomendation would be The History of Science. Everything is available on YouTube in decent quality.

As a matter of overview, I would suggest Bill Bryson's a A Short History of Nearly Everything. It's a book, which requires reading, but there's an awesome illustrated version that's a good time. The book is as accessible as they come, and it's entertainingly written.

I would also suggest Cosmos, since you seem to be focused more on space. Both the original and the remake are available on Netflix. The original is my favorite, beucase Carl Sagan, but the remake is also a solid show, and probably more what you're looking for. There's also Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, and a Stephen Hawking on the universe series which you might like. Pretty much everything is available on YouTube, just search "<show name>, long, hd".

hey I just found out about this new book, and thought back to this video I remembered you shared here. I am going to be reading it soon, looks great! Chris' sister Carine wrote it... it's called "The Wild Truth"... hope all is well with you :) :) http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Truth-Carine-McCandless/dp/0062325140/

Great documentary but I also highly recommend the book

It's phenomenally well-written and a brilliant read

If you like this then you'll really like a book by Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, highly recommended. Anything by Bryson, really.

There is a great first person memoir about this topic long the Kentucky-Ohio border, JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis It is a great read and sheds some light on the psyche of the poor white working class.

Worth mentioning that the book goes into a lot more detail, especially with the history of the church and all of Mr. Hubbard's misadventures. Hubbard was a fascinating guy, flawed and fucked up, but he definitely makes for an interesting read.

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Read Ahmed Rashid's "Taliban" and "Descent Into Chaos". He's the guy in the picture for reference. One of the few people in the world who have actually interviewed Mullah Omar (the founder of the Taliban) as well as many other ranking officers within the command structure, without a doubt he's the foremost authority on the subject. Yet he writes in such a simple and direct manner about the facts and figures as they evolved, without any of the propaganda or politics.

If I had to synthesize my undergrad in Pol Sci into a handful of books, these two would be at the top of the list. Truly an eye opener into this issue

>Gangs are for adults who never grew up

If you have any interest in actually understanding the composition and function of gangs I recommend reading Gang Leader for a Day. Here is a brief article about the book.

His autobiography "The Long Hard Road Out of Hell" is still my favourite book. It was written shortly after Antichrist Superstar, so it doesn't follow-up, but his childhood and adolescence is very, very interesting.

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Excellent (and very readable) book -

http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Aid-Working-Better-Africa/dp/0374532125

Yes I agree, and think we might need a radical change in consciousness to fix our problems.

https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transcendence/dp/1594204225

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSJyE1EC1_M

https://www.amazon.com/New-Human-Rights-Movement-Reinventing/dp/1942952651

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVDLkL8Nvjw

Ah jeez sorry to hear that. Back pain does sometimes go away but it usually requires treatment/physical therapy. Definitely check this book out https://www.amazon.com/End-Back-Pain-Forever-Groundbreaking/dp/1439167443

I am perhaps a bit late to this, but if you want some more stuff on chaos, and not just fractals, I've got a couple book suggestions.

The first is a narrative about the beginnings of Chaos. The writing is superb, and you don't need any sort of mathematical chops to understand it. It's primarily about the early scientists of chaos and their stories. It's called Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick.

The second is more of a textbook on the subject, with some chapters on chaos, as well as other fascinating non-linear phenomena. It requires a fair bit of mathematical background, but if you're up for it, it's a lot of fun to learn. It's called Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven Strogatz.

http://www.amazon.com/Jodorowskys-Dune-Blu-ray-Alejandro-Jodorowsky/dp/B00J5LXMTG/

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https://www.amazon.com/All-Corners-Fuyuki-Shimazu/dp/B07PC4L978

Also here is a good book on the topic Three Felones A Day.

The basis of the book is that everyone commits at least three felonies every day. Most of us don't know every single law but we are expected to know and abide by every single law.

Not trying to be a jerk, not a documentary but seriously, this movie gets right a lot about what I experienced in the restaurant industry.
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or read this

"Dead Aid" by Dambisa Moyo is a fantastic book on this subject and specifically its impacts in Africa. https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Aid-Working-Better-Africa/dp/0374532125

No, a Korean company has bought the formula and is now marketing the chalk. Possibly virally.

EDIT: https://www.amazon.com/Hagoromo-Fulltouch-Chalk-72pcs-White/dp/B01HDNUXBW/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Hagoromo&qid=1556841896&s=gateway&sr=8-1

For a more thorough exploration of this topic, check out The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly. Title says it all really, this guy is one of the leading economic thinkers in the aid field, but very readable

do you have any earthly idea how many crimes you "do" on a daily basis?
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229

shut the fuck up and read it

If you watched the 3rd Zeitgeist, you would know that Peter denounces the lunatic, conspiracy, hidden-cabal beliefs like Mr. Icke that tend divide instead of unite. The topics discussed in the latest movie should not even be considered on the same level as David Icke. Everything in the 3rd movie is scientifically sourced. His new book is better if you just want the sustenance without the artistic hype.

There is a great book about German Police Battalion 101 called Ordinary Men... it demonstrates how pre-war these citizen police officers were simple, ordinary people (just like you and me); but during the war, 85% of these citizens became monsters. After the war, most had no problem resuming civilian lifestyles.

There are many detailed comparisons / conclusions made with the Milgram Prison Experiments, as well as an updated chapter at the end in response to some of the criticisms towards his original text.

They seem to all have have identical stories about just how fucked up it is.

If things were truly "neutral" or "okay" they wouldn't be so negative about it. Not only that, but others here have commented on how nonchalant they are about death, etc. You wouldn't be like that unless you were exposed to all the terrible things NK defectors are constantly talking about.

I don't know why people think there's some massive anti-NK conspiracy. I'm sure there is plenty of inaccuracies in NK defector accounts (that's just how humans are in general) but there is no way that this isn't a similar situation to the Holocaust going on right now in NK.

I really get angry when I watch a lot of these "tourist" videos and they're like, "Things aren't so bad here!". It's because the NK government is only letting you see the 5% of the country that isn't falling apart.

https://www.amazon.com/Order-Live-Korean-Journey-Freedom/dp/014310974X

Just read that book and others like it if you need more "proof".

Here are some sources to disprove Zeitgeist.

9/11 Popular Mechanics Conspiracies debunked

[Noam Chomsky's rebuttal of 9/11 attacks]
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_fFkLcRrBE)

I don't tend to lend weight to most of Noam Chomsky's beliefs, but since he is one to read deeply into a lot of American historical events, he uses general logic to dismiss most conspiratorial claims. One quote that I think highlights this case is:

>Most of the evidence is circumstantial. Odd coincidences, why didn't this happen, and so on and so forth. The problem with that is, that's the kind of evidence that you can accumulate about any complex event. By that kind of evidence, you can probably prove the white house was bombed yesterday. In fact, that's why scientists do experiments instead of taking video tapes of the world. Video tapes of the world are too complicated and too many things happening, you can't learn much from them.


And as for Jesus:

My educational background is in biblical history, so if more sources are needed I can provide them. Zeitgeist tries to disprove the existence of Jesus by linking him to other religious deities (Egyptian, Sumarian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, etc). These arguments are linked to late 19th Century scholars. Most of these scholars have been disproven for being incredibly off in their studies of antiquities. Many weren't actually trying to disprove the existence of Jesus, but were actually universalists, who desperately wanted to draw parallels between religions and find a common origin. However due to their poor understanding/translation of religious texts, they made some very outlandish claims.

Current academic debates over the existence of Jesus exist around historical sources. Most people that don't believe in the existence of Jesus claim the sources are fraudulent, way past Jesus' lifetime, too biased, or too few in number. Furthermore, most sources are biblical (gospels) in nature and tend not to carry much weight for skeptics.

Two books do a great job of highlighting the historical persona of Jesus through an academic lens (sorry since they aren't ebooks):

Excavating Jesus

The Historical Jesus

Now, my aim isn't too prove that Jesus existed, that's not my intention. My aim is to prove that Zeitgeist is full of shit in ramping up old dead arguments from the 19th century and trying to pass them off as fact. I believe there was a historical jesus given the sources on the matter, but I don't want to make this post too long.


As for the Fed, I don't know enough about it to disprove what Zeitgeist said, but generally the rhetoric from the movie seemed a bit too twisted for me to buy all three arguments given that 2 of them were pretty much pulled out of some guy's ass.