Happy 20th to YouTube - whither from here, better not go bad!
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The intro teaser of the CBS Sunday Morning was that their piece would spill on what changes would be coming in its next stage. Hmmm. So in the past couple or three years it has become my main resource for all kinds of things - how-to, history, biographic gossip, origins of religions. It has left next to nobody historically left standing in the Heroic category, everybody full of flaws and more often than not in the very worst way. And as for the origins of christianity, I have been in the Lapsed/sort of agnostic categories, when forced to pick something say "secular humanist." I started reading about Existentialism in adolescence then picked up some slogans from NIETZCHE, but mostly just grew away from practicing rituals of all kinds, meaning no card-carrying. I stopped bothering about "beliefs," but this late in the day what YouTube taught me from the masses of videos on early christianity was not that I disconnected from religion because of unbelief but rather that the teachings of the religions just didn't make sense - virgin births, resurrections, miracles - and the cultural/political realities of the incubator times was steeped in the cultural soup of stories dating back to the Sumerians and Egyptians and who knows who else that ripped the veils of the later religions from my mental blocks.
The nutshell is that YouTube has taught me more than all my institutional academics ever did. And I started calling it The University of YouTube a couple of years ago. Certainly not to flatter little old Nobody me, but I noticed that ROGAN started calling his outlet "JRE University," and in no way do I imagine he saw it here.
I just hope that whatever changes come to YouTube nothing changes haha.