What the Bleep Do We Know?

[Misfit]

Has anyone seen this? I'm kind of intrigued by the premise, and it's been playing at the art house theater here for a while, but laziness keeps winning out on my part. Anybody, thoughts? Anyone?

[devincf]

It's a film from a cult. Be wary.

[Misfit]

Huh. Maybe I'll wait for DVD. I know the Kool-Aid's safe at home.

[devincf]

http://ramtha.com/html/aboutus/about-ramtha.stm

[mastronikolas]

Ramtha has a major speech impediment.

[Dan Whitehead]

Any cult that links to Elfin Magical Capes (http://www.elfinmagicalcapes.com/) can't be all bad, surely?

[billylove]

http://ramtha.com/html/aboutus/about-ramtha.stm

That is funny.

My peoples are a mixture, as it were indeed, of Lemurians, of that which is termed Ionians — later to be that which is termed Macedonia — and that which is termed the tribespeople, that which is termed, as it were indeed,

[marci]

My peoples are a mixture, as it were indeed, of Lemurians,

????


http://www.thewildones.org/Gifs/Lezle/lemur.gif



Wacky! I'd join a cult of lemurs. They're cute!

[Misfit]

Good lord. New plan. There's a bar next door to the theater. I'm getting hammered and going to see this movie.

[Jared Melton]

...wow this Ramtha thing reminds me so much of the "Church of All Worlds" that Valentine Michael Smith created in Heinlein's masterpiece, Stranger in a Strange Land ...which, by the way, was a kick ass novel and the Church of All Worlds would be insanely cool to be a part of...if I was an anarchist, nudist that had the ability to speak Martian...

oh well...

[Soilent Green]

This movie is terrible--Just seeing the title again was enough to make me start dry-heaving.

[Matt Goldberg]

It's a film from a cult. Be wary.

No it's not.

Of course, now it's hard to highly recommend the film because I'll either be called a cultist or a fool, but it is, at the very least, an INTERESTING film, despite the shitty title.

[Grace]

I agree, Matt. If you have any interest in quantum physics, it's worth watching. It's almost like one of those movies you watched in science class in high school, but with 10 times the budget. The story and the acting really aren't anything special, and the animation and music is embarrassingly wrong, but the ideas and concepts they introduce in it are definitely interesting, and the drama part of the film does help to visualize some of the more abstract things. Really, though, I think the interviews are the most entertaining aspect of the film.

[Bailey]

my mom is big on this movie-- she was even part of a kind of grass roots marketing campaign to get people to see it. It's very new agey-- but according to her even if you don't buy all that the physics stuff is interesting.
By the way, if I remember correctly lemurians are an alien race that populated earth a long time ago... or something. From what I understand of (at least her involvement in) the new age culture, it's not cultish in the sense that they expect everyone to join or believe or anything. They're just people with some wacky beliefs. But whatever works, in my view. The people I know who believe this stuff are certainly more open minded than any established religious groups, so it's not all bad. Just wacky.

[devincf]

No it's not.

Of course, now it's hard to highly recommend the film because I'll either be called a cultist or a fool, but it is, at the very least, an INTERESTING film, despite the shitty title.

Yes, it is. Ramtha funded and made the film.

[Hieronymus]

Caviet: I haven't seen the bleeping film.

I love it when new agers get a hold of quantum mechanics. I hate it when people take them seriously. I would watch this movie if I was allowed to throw things at the screen.

[billylove]

my mom is big on this movie-- she was even part of a kind of grass roots marketing campaign to get people to see it. It's very new agey-- but according to her even if you don't buy all that the physics stuff is interesting.
By the way, if I remember correctly lemurians are an alien race that populated earth a long time ago... or something. From what I understand of (at least her involvement in) the new age culture, it's not cultish in the sense that they expect everyone to join or believe or anything. They're just people with some wacky beliefs. But whatever works, in my view. The people I know who believe this stuff are certainly more open minded than any established religious groups, so it's not all bad. Just wacky.

Do some more reading. These Ramtha's are a cult group. They get into channeling, hypnosis and other whacky shit. At least the punch is sweet!

[Matt Goldberg]

Yes, it is. Ramtha funded and made the film.

For a person who funded and made the film, she's in it for maybe ten minutes, tops. Also, the film doesn't say there is one correct way to do something, a series of beliefs to adhere to, or any group to join...ya know, things usually associated with cults.

[Bailey]

Do some more reading. These Ramtha's are a cult group. They get into channeling, hypnosis and other whacky shit. At least the punch is sweet!


haha. jim jones. comedy.

look, I personally couldn't care less what you feel a cult is, or verifying that these people meet your definition through further study of their behavior. to me every religion is a cult. as long as their beliefs don't infringe on mine, go to it. that's all I was saying. In my limited experience, new agers are far less annoying and invasive than your average christian wacko. more liberal too. I'll take a liberal who believes that he can talk to his dead aunt toddy through the wonders of astral projection over a conservative who thinks jesus told him gays shouldn't marry every time. I only chimed in to answer the question about what the supposed "lemurians" were, and say I heard the physics stuff in the film was interesting. by all means, don't let me keep you from your regularly scheduled ridicule of easy targets. I know that's what the internet's for, after all.

[Seabass Inna Bun]

My girlfriend dragged me to this.

I really don't buy into any ideas about expanding quantum mechanics into the macroscopic world; quantum mechanics just don't apply at this scale. Invoking quantum mechanics just serves to make feelgood nonsense sound like something other than feelgood nonsense. I didn't know it was produced by a cult, but I'm not surprised to learn that it did.

At least Marlee Matlin's fairly easy on the eyes. The film's only redeeming quality.

Oh, and they sneak in a reference to 'Dune'. That's the film's only other redeeming quality.

[Adam Warren]

Isn't this the same cult that the Matrix brothers are into?