This is an old (90’s) but exceptional documentary, explaining the origins of religion and what we call ‘god’. How old traditions, myths and astrology became the current monotheistic religions.
It’s about two hours long and split into 11 parts. You can either watch all the parts embedded here, or go to YouTube.
It surely deserves your time!

A few days ago I went to Berlin. I had the chance to go around the city, and one of Berlin’s attractions is the Sony center. It has restaurants and coffee shops, a cinema museum and a cinema to name but a few things you can do around there. In the middle it has a mini-garden, and around it something like a huge bench where you can sit. Naturally, it was full with people. Tourists taking a break and some photos, but also Berliners meeting with their friends and hanging around there.

That was the first day. Then, the next day and for the three of four following days, things changed. A huge red carpet arrived, they put fence all over it, covering also the big bench, and in the middle of it all they built a stage.

Now there was a big banner outside the cinema, and it advertised the Transformers movie. I thought this might have to do with the stage and carpet, but I was not sure.

As days went by, the fence was becoming annoying, because this is a pretty popular place, lots of people were coming and going, and I thought that whatever this event is about, it was not really worth it.

I left Berlin at the 14th of June, so today, two days later, I thought I might check what this was all about. And I found this video.

Although my title is from a Depeche Mode album, the content of this article is a bit different.

I was watching some videos on YouTube today, because I wanted to find some good songs for my mother to buy from i-tunes for the i-phone. One of them was Bjork’s Army of me. Now, I could see the video but I could not hear anything and I noticed this message below the video: NOTICE This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by all copyright holders. The audio has been disabled.

I have to clarify that I have quite many cds and two collectible dvds with her best video clips, because I really like her. But I rarely use them to watch videos or listen to music on my pc. So, I use YouTube, to watch a video and then do whatever it was I was doing in the first place. So what is really the purpose of this “restriction”? You might tell me okay, you have those cds and stuff, but not everyone else does.

But how am I supposed to convince my mother, who lives in another country, and therefore I cannot give her my cds, that Bjork is really worth her money? I mean sharing music makes artists become known, does it not?

A fake tree, for a fake celebration, of a fake religion, in a fake nation, of a fake country, with a fake democracy.

Sorry to all those your Christmas spirit is ruined. Sorry we ruined the happiness, warmth and love, because we demand something better for our future.

Sorry to all the people who will take their money back from their insurance companies and have a chance to remake their filthy shops.

Sorry to the beautiful shops which sell shoes for three monthly salaries of a factory worker.

Sorry to all the rich ladies who have no place to buy their make-up for these holidays and will look like shit.

Sorry there are no banks to give your donations to poor people that you always remember at Christmas.

I don’t want to express my condolences. I don’t want to express my rage. I want the fucking pigs put in prison for ever.

Greece is burning. But I don’t mean the shops and cars. I couldn’t care less about them. I speak about people, people are burning inside.

All these years we live like European-Americans. We listen to fascists give speeches on television all day. We don’t get paid well by our jobs. We are taught by society that you are smart if you deceive others. That if you make money you can be successful. That you have to be a singer to make money. If you become a factory worker you are a zero, nothing, your existence is so unimportant you can die.

People are not respected. We are all just working hands for the powerful, and they try to keep it that way.

Truth is, I can’t write. My thoughts are so mixed up, I can’t think clearly. But I am really sad I am not at Greece at the moment. The reason I left it is because I saw hypnotized people, who didn’t care for anything but their own beautiful self. Or what the fucking useless “celebrities” do.

People who were lost inside their own big black holes. People who did not want to solve their problems. People who did not want change, even if that meant that they would be better off, simply because change requires to leave the couch.

This has suddenly changed. One little boy had to die, for people to understand what they did. And now more young people suffer by moronic pigs because previous generations fucked everything up.

Zen and other religions, feminism, Feng-shui, fashion, astrology, and other similar “beliefs” are trendy nowadays. Lately all these seem to strangely fashionable. Perhaps because people don’t like the reality they live in and try to find somewhere to hide or some way of translating what happens to them.

All these trends, give us a specific kind of way of how we should act and what we should think. Feng-shui tells us where we should put our plants, zen what kind of stones we should wear, feminism if we should wear sexy skirts or not, fashion if we should wear black this season, our horoscope if we should ask for a raise today, religion if it is a sin to have sex on Monday, and so on and so forth.

But Zen, for example is a really old religion and has nothing to do with all the hocus-pocus they sell us today. It is a school of Buddhism, that has to do with meditation and a certain way of life, which has nothing to do with our “western” way of upbringing and living, so we can’t really understand it. It’s like trying to learn how to dance traditional Greek music, you may make it, but you will seem rather funny to the people who really know how to do it.

Army is discipline. Army is love for your country. You have to protect it from the enemies. And it takes a real man to do that. A man who is strong, fit, smart, a man with ideals, who can sacrifice himself for his flag and his culture. Army makes you strong and always ready to annihilate your enemies.

Army is also exciting, and pays really good, as the British Army tells us. Their logo is: Army, be the best. And we have to believe them, don’t we?

We would, if we forgot the real war is not played by weapons today. Real war is mass media. It was 9/11 and the American terrorism, it is all the movies about how bad people from Middle East are, it is war over oil and natural gas, it is war of corporations to us, about who will get the most out of our wallets.

And it would sound exciting, if it still did not involve killing people. Serial killers would surely find this exciting. But, I believe the majority of us are not serial killers. Still they have to find people who are stupid enough to finish what they started with “intelligent” war, and go over there to clean up and justify their purposes.