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Just a quick introduction about who you are and so on.
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Well, I am am Outi Pikaro and I am with the Finnish chapter of the Zeitgeist Movement.
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I have been with the movement for about a half an year and
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I heard about the movement for the first time in the spring after viewing
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the Finnish version of the Zeitgeist movie, called "Ajan henki".
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And ever since I have started to get involved with the movement more and more.
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Damn I wathced over there! Cut this part off.
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Tell us a little about how you got involved with the movement and...
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I just told you a minute ago.
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Well I can tell you the longer version, so..
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I first heard about the Zeitgeist Movement when I read a headline in Iltalehti called "Eggman's weird cult".
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This 'eggman' is a guy named Riku Nieminen who featured in a Finnish sketch show called "Putous".
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He had this character called 'eggman' and it was really popular in Finland and the whole nation seem to love it.
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Then, after a while he told to the public that he supports the Zeitgeist Movement.
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After that the media just came up with all kinds of headlines about
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how the 'eggman' is involved with some weird cult and all that stuff, so I got curious, like:
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"what is it all about?! I have to get more information about it!"
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Then I just went through all the articles and such.
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Then I saw them mention the Finnish Zeitgeist Movie and I watched it.
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I watched it with the attitude of like: "When will they show the aliens and where is the cult part?".
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Mostly just... looking for a scandal and all that stuff.
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Then I really started watching it, asking: "What do they mean by a cult?
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This really makes sense. This actually makes more sense than anything I've seen before."
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...or what I have ever faced.
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The movie discusses the root causes of the problems and not just...
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...in the way of saying: "If there is a problem, let's solve it by adding regulations, rules and let's forbid things."
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It doesn't try to solve these problems by using politics and I had never thought things that way!
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No I can see many things in a whole new way.
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Then I thought like: "Hey, this is just awesome!" And after that I watched the original films by Peter Joseph:
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first "Addendum" and then "Moving Forward". After them I watched a whole lot of other documentaries
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and a whole new world opened to me.
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That was really good. Just go on!
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I don't know what you were nervous about!
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What is it about the movement and the RBE that really attracts you?
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What makes all this worthwhile?
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What attracts me the most about this movement is probably the feeling of justice.
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Ever since I was little, I felt bad seeing all the inequality around me.
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Somehow during the years I just have become numb to all that and I've had to swallow the fact that
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things are bad in the third world countries and even in Finland things seem to be worse somehow.
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I just learned to accept that greed is sort of OK - or actually the fact that it is around us.
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This movement has in a way given me the permission to say: "Hey, this isn't OK!"
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Now I have people with whom I can discuss the subject and... in a way...
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sometimes I have even felt that I am wrong when I think that inequality and other problems are not OK.
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So, maybe that is one of the biggest reasons for me...
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Cut! What was the question again?
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What attracts you in this movement? Your answer was actually good.
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Also a very important thing about this movement is the people and the fact that
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I don't have to be alone with these opinions and the subjects that I have started to get interested in.
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These things have always been important and now I have people who I can talk,
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learn and spread the information with. These people are a sort of safety net what I have never had.
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A lot of goodhearted and kind people who really want to
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treat others as they want others to treat themselves.
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That has given me a lot.
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Tell us about the movement from your own perspective.
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I have been with the movement for a half and year and it started when I went to the
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national meeting.
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There I met people, got new contacts and got involved with the local group in Helsinki.
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I live in Espoo, but the Helsinki group includes the whole area near the capital.
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So, it also includes Espoo, Vantaa and maybe some others farther away.
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I also have gotten to know the people and we have held meetings in parks in the summer,
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also in libraries.
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I have met some of them in other events as well.
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The summer has been a little quiet, but we are arranging a national event to be held in the autumn.
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In that way I have gotten new friends and the whole... 'social circle' has grown.
