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The Spirit of Zero

December 15, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 5 Comments

Originally posted on April 15, 2021 @ 8:40 AM

The Spirit of Zero

vision zeroIt is always a fascination to watch engineering and safety science immerse itself deeply into the life of sacred practice and salvation theology. Of course neither discipline has knowledge of religious studies or theology and doesn’t know just how religious it has become. Only a transdisciplinary approach to risk and safety would help create such awareness.

The latest video from the zero cult ‘Zero Vision Spirit’  now moves safety into the realm of mysticism, Hermetics and metaphysics.

Watch as the music leads you into the fear of harm and dread, as people are introduced as zero objects. The music and visuals are designed to draw one into the tragedies of fallibilities of life anchoring the viewer catastrophe.

Then up pops the phrase ‘in the blink of an eye’, that Pauline apocalyptic phrase (1 Corinthians 15:52). So in less than 30 seconds this religious video draws on the theology of apocalyptic to set up an understanding of the god Zero.

Then the pace of the music changes to an anxiety theme complete with thunderous drums (another apocalyptic semiotic) and introductions to injured/harmed people. The music builds and an explosion leads to a man holding his hands up in Pentecostal prayer like act showing one hand is mechanical. Then the phrase ‘Everything can change – Yet nothing is written’, an articulation of conversion and spiritual being.

The music changes at this point of the video again re-introducing 7 characters (7 of course is God’s number) and each person walks forward to the camera lens. As each moves forward their harm is healed spiritually as a force washes over them. The imperfect is then made perfect by a spiritual experience.

As these healed people stand before you up pops the phrase ‘share the vision’ and ‘join the mission’, wonderful evangelical language all linked to the title of the video about ‘spirit’.

Finally, the Trinity of Zero the holy logo for the zero vision cult, appears at the end to consummate the miracle of zero that brings fallible people into perfection.

Watch the video and tell me that zero has not become a cult.

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  1. Rob Long says

    April 15, 2021 at 12:27 PM

    Peter, I was calling out this stuff in Love of Zero years ago but people can’t see it because the cult itself blinds critical thinking and rewards the ministry of dumb. The more safety pursues the ideology, the more it will get like this. There is no way out now and noone knows what to do or how to get out of it. When safety has been made sacred and one is washed by the spirit of zero, safety simply becomes an unprofessional cult.

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  2. Rob Long says

    April 15, 2021 at 12:24 PM

    One thing is for sure. All of the symbolism chosen by ISSA for all their work on zero is not accidental. The selection of symbols, language and discourse is so infused with religion it is sickening. Everything from triarchic zeros, biblical phrases, apocalyptic discourse and music is all just the natural outworking of the zero cult.
    Of course, when all you know is the mono-discipline of safety you wouldn’t realise that everything you do under the ideology of zero MUST become religious. This is the nature of salvation tied to a number and the definition of safety by numerics.
    I can just see the AIHS lovers of zero waving their trinity flags, washed in the spirit and holding hands aloft in prayer to zero in Spain. Ah, that global by-line that has no significance in safety. The level of delusion is breath taking.

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  3. Peter Collins says

    April 15, 2021 at 11:29 AM

    I have to say “oh my god” is this for real or is it a trailer for the next Marvel Movie. It is so much like a cult it is actually frightening.

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  4. Rob long says

    April 15, 2021 at 10:08 AM

    There is so much more I could have written about this. So much religious symbolism, it’s completely over the top. Thanks zero cult, this will keep all those in the Poetics and semiotics modules busy for hours.

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  5. Bernard Corden says

    April 15, 2021 at 10:02 AM

    It leaves me wondering whether there is any link between the ISSA and the Club of Rome:

    https://ww1.issa.int/about/history

    https://www.clubofrome.org/

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