Comments on: Campaign to Contact University Professors

By: Diego Rodrigues

Diego Rodrigues — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:06:33 +0000

Thanks for your inquiry. Whether it is Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or most of the world religion, they all come from common backgrounds and have similar Sun worshiping traditions. I believe I speak for the movement when I say that the movement we are aware of the good that has come out of religion (example: Mother Theresa, M.Luther King Jr. among countless others). However, religion is a primary tool for artificial separation that has led to countless unnecessary death. We recognize that religion is not the answer, for it is based on a established world view and rarely recognizes things that are outside of their world view. I am sorry to say the construction of more churches/mosques/monasteries throughout the world wont solve the socioeconomic problems we see through out the world today. I recently traveled to my home town in Brazil and the amount of churches just in my town alone more than doubled, and yet crime rate was just as high, you couldn’t safely walk down the streets at night, I was afraid to pull out my video camera because everyone kept telling me to be careful with the attention it draws. As you may have guessed, the town I lived in is very poor in many areas and hopefully we know the behavioral affects of a deprived society:

“The ‘Merva-Fowles’ study, done at the University of Utah in the 1990s, found powerful connections between unemployment and crime. They based their research on 30 major metropolitan areas with a total population of over 80 million.

Their findings found that a 1% rise in unemployment resulted in:

a 6.7% increase in homicides;
a 3.4 % increase in violent crimes;
a 2.4 % increase in property crime.

During the period from 1990 to 1992, this translated into:

1459 additional homicides
62,607 additional violent crimes
223,500 additional property crimes”

Thanks again for your inquiry. I hope this clarification helps you.

By: Mohammed Gargash

Mohammed Gargash — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:51:01 +0000

In the two Zeitgeist movies i have seen, it denies all religions in general. i would not like to argue but it seems that the movie has just describe Christianity and a bit of Judaism and denied the rest without proper research or analysis of the other religious scriptures. Again i am not trying to start an argument. i would just like to say that i see it more fair and understandable if the movie tried to deny each religion individually. I understand that that would take time, research and money. But atleast do if for the secound largest religion out there. Islam. i am a muslim and i know for a fact the good that this religion has done towards science, decrease in crime, and many other humanitarain things through out history. Now please do not judge what you see in todays Islamic countries because in reality they are no where close to a Islamic Country.

I am just a student and i am not expecting for an email replay, I just wanted to state this issue.

Thank you and Brillaint movies i am looking very forward to the third one. and i will be telling more people about this movement back home.

By: giggidy

giggidy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:05:41 +0000

Diego, I requested permission to edit the contacts spreadsheet & add the professors that I will contact… my email is jamesszm@ymail.com so you know it is me.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what to use as a subject line without appearing like spam?

By: Diego Rodrigues

Diego Rodrigues — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:13:56 +0000

Let’s keep the ball rolling!

By: daevski

daevski — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:53:19 +0000

Just made my first mailing, Here is a copy:

Dear Christine,

My name is David McKee. I understand that you are a mathematics professor at MCC, here in Rochester…

I’m emailing you today because I’m seeking your advice. I’ve always felt deeply about helping society and I recently acquired awareness of an organisation that is dedicated to socio-economic change. I have considered their concepts and … quite honestly they seem to be logically correct. I honestly feel that by applying some of the concepts presented to me, that it is quite possible to develop long term sustainable solutions to some of the worlds most perplexing and difficult issues.

I have attached a guide that contains an overview of their ideas, but it might be less time consuming to read a few sections on their website: http://www.ztgm.org. Either way, I would really appreciate if you were to take a look at some of their ideas and provide feedback as to how you view the material.

Believe it or not, I do often contact professors, like yourself, with questions

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

David McKee

I’m going to blog about it in a few minutes

By: Diego Rodrigues

Diego Rodrigues — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:12:15 +0000

i was not really defend myself; it was more like an explanation. I really don’t care much about being wrong, like you said, thats how we learn

By: daevski

daevski — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:24:10 +0000

You don’t need to defend mistakes being wrong is good… it’s how we learn! And being ignorant isn’t bad either. We are all ignorant.

By: Diego Rodrigues

Diego Rodrigues — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:37:17 +0000

Thank you for the edit and comment. It was really late last night and I was quite tired while making this posts.

By: daevski

daevski — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:36:21 +0000

Couple correction suggestions (might apply to both letters):

- Zeitgeist is not an Organization, it’s a collection of ideas, a movement for awareness and a proposal for change. See if we can word that differently.

- Socioeconomic is a term, you don’t need the “/” in the word.

- The last line says “advice” and I think you mean advise.