At the 21:15 mark, "Ancient people fell in love!" - I love it when old professors give a flash of insight - *WARNING*! [View all]

***Seriously, anybody with orthodox religious bents, NOT to proceed ***

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So, one of my top topics in The University of YouTube over the past 2-3 years has been the origin of X-tianity. There's an entire treasury of YouTubes on the subject. As I've said gratuitiously, I'm a basic Lapsed Catholic. But since drifting away starting in my late adolescence, I did zero study into all that stuff, knowing only the most superficial of world-village knowledge of Catholic theology - the basics, the Xmas Easter tales. I never fell prey to the 1970s fads of scientology, Jesus-freakism, the Buddhists on street corners, the secular chemical alternatives. O.K., maybe the flirting with What's-your-sign. And even though a Major in English Lit meant that serious study in the field was grounded in knowledge of the "Bible" (King James version), I did not succumb. What a useless Major! - Shameful confession, many more hours spent on Gilligan's Island.

And, I've had lifetime recurring encounters with potential love interests that mostly shipwrecked on rocks, the Deal Breaker rock of "christianity" (on their part).

*** So in the expiring leisure of the lifetime, the YouTubes of the origin of X-tianity have been eye opening: Ideas that it was invented by those wiley Romans as a means to controlling Judaism, the rewriting of Greco-Roman myths, - I'll stop here. Just am stumbling around to get to the point of this topic (old professors insight).

(Still a ways to go to get there.)

So one of the top scholars in these YouTubes is this down to earth scruffy fellow named James TABOR. In this video, he utters the gem, "Ancient people FELL IN LOVE!" - as in, guess what, these were humans we didn't invent everything!

HERE WE GO: So this reminded me of one of my actual profs, a very elderly gent who was processing us young weirdos in the early 1970s. It was in the few moments when class stragglers were arriving before the starting bell. The prof was at his podium, bemused, observing the arrivals. It was the early '70s. So one of the peeps entered, barefoot and with a hat. And this struck the prof. This was a Philosophy class, subject NIETZSCHE. And he exhaled a small chuckle, saying, "He's got a hat on but no shoes!" Haha! --------- It's I/now saying ha-ha.

So finally here we are: In this video, Professor TABOR utters the wonderful nugget, "Ancient people FELL IN LOVE (too)!" - The context is whether Mary age 13-14 conceived Jesus from a neighbor or related teen without there being any of OUR (or the community's) negative judgment, that there was not assault or whatever, just that a couple of kids fell in love. Hence, "Ancient people fell in love (TOO)!"

"Wearing a hat but NO SHOES!"