Ancient Civilizations

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MusicForFish said:
That sounds remarkably like a you problem. I'm not filling in the extra steps for you. No one else should either. Look at it later after your wife's done pegging you while you're supposed to be watching Red Dwarf reruns frendo.
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Why are you being a raging arsehole over this?

Were you upset that I implied your video was old info, or did you actually not watch it yourself?

This is the first time I've seen someone post something then get upset when someone shows interest in it.

I actually 100% belive Soddom and Gomorrah existed and were destroyed too, I'm not here to debunk it.
 
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That pretty crazy, but I thought Egypt was super strict about people getting close to the pyramids like that. I would have expected him to get shot down.
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I wouldnt be surprised if they confiscated his video - that he probably had a backup of - and he showed them that "see? I never touched it!" or something to the effect of "Im a faggot." They barely let their own archaeologists go up there now, much less some random white boy.
 
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Chris said:
Can you explain how the description answers my question about if it's about the sand earthquake or meteor explosion theories?

Are you one of the boomer PC users? I'm often on my phone watching TV with my wife and don't really want to play a YouTube video at that time.
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I'd be so much more involved in this thread if 75% of the posts weren't YouTube videos. Maybe it's just because I'm a speed reader, but watching YouTube videos as a method of learning is unbearably slow.
 
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Daidraco said:
I wouldnt be surprised if they confiscated his video - that he probably had a backup of - and he showed them that "see? I never touched it!" or something to the effect of "Im a faggot." They barely let their own archaeologists go up there now, much less some random white boy.
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he didnt actually touch any of the structures and since he flew away somewhere unknown, they probably didnt know who he was. they might now. but they have to prove that the uploader was the same person paragliding and if he just buzzed the top. its not an issue.
 
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pharmakos said:
I'd be so much more involved in this thread if 75% of the posts weren't YouTube videos. Maybe it's just because I'm a speed reader, but watching YouTube videos as a method of learning is unbearably slow.
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This. People talk shit about twitter and tiktok but youtube is one of the worst forces degrading the intelligence of modern Americans.

Every piece of information worth knowing is written down in text and there are no exceptions. Fuck youtube and fuck the youtube humpers that have turned the modern internet into a glorified tv.
 
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Aldarion said:
This. People talk shit about twitter and tiktok but youtube is one of the worst forces degrading the intelligence of modern Americans.

Every piece of information worth knowing is written down in text and there are no exceptions. Fuck youtube and fuck the youtube humpers that have turned the modern internet into a glorified tv.
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I use both my vast book library for reading and youboob/Spotify for visuals.
Nothing wrong with mixing mediums.

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No, thats inaccurate. 99% of youtube videos are some dude literally looking at the camera and talking, OR some dude talking while the screen shows a still image. Often rotating or panning over the still image while the dude talks. In both cases there was no fucking reason to make it into a video.

If it isnt porn it shouldnt be a video.
 
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I consume them while eating. Alot of the newer channels are using AI images to spice things while they talk, like whyfiles, mr mythos, etc. Kings and generals seems to use real art and it is pretty good! It is all entertainment.

UnchartedX is the exception, actually showing you things that you really have to see to grasp. I find his arguments quite convincing but I think he's underestimating the depth of time he's dealing with. Dating stone structures is a wild guess at best.

Esoterica often deals with texts that are difficult to get your hands on (stuff with diagrams and symbols). Great channel for developing your own myths / cultures / religions / philosophies. I knew almost nothing about philosophy in general before devouring his videos. Gnostic stuff is nutty.

Where I'd agree with you wholeheartedly is tutorials like stuff for programming etc. I recently set up youtube on kodi and the tard that wrote the addon covered some very esoteric steps in a youtube video. And of course, youtube deletes it (he put it on youtube). Now nobody has any idea wtf to do. Luckily some of the users stepped up in github bug comments.
 
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Aldarion said:
No, thats inaccurate. 99% of youtube videos are some dude literally looking at the camera and talking, OR some dude talking while the screen shows a still image. Often rotating or panning over the still image while the dude talks. In both cases there was no fucking reason to make it into a video.

If it isnt porn it shouldnt be a video.
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You're possibly watching the videos I post instead of the rest of the content. Have you even seen the deep congo jungle vids? They're Foler Foler and Araysar Araysar s faves and not a single photo while some dude talks.

 
Chris

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Kharzette said:
Esoterica often deals with texts that are difficult to get your hands on (stuff with diagrams and symbols). Great channel for developing your own myths / cultures / religions / philosophies. I knew almost nothing about philosophy in general before devouring his videos. Gnostic stuff is nutty.
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Did you watch the full series on Gnosticism?

The Jewish messiah arriving, being almost universally accepted in 1666, then converting to Islam, then it being covered up is insane.

Another similar channel is TIK History who reads all the obsure books for WW2. He's concluded recently that Nazism was developing into a form of Gnostic religion.
 
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Aldarion said:
This. People talk shit about twitter and tiktok but youtube is one of the worst forces degrading the intelligence of modern Americans.

Every piece of information worth knowing is written down in text and there are no exceptions. Fuck youtube and fuck the youtube humpers that have turned the modern internet into a glorified tv.
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i disagree, if you didnt know something before watching the video and after watching the video you learned something and are now interested in knowing more, then it was a helpful experience. i assume you're only talking about the Ancient Civ videos here because there is a plethura of visual media on Youtube and the Ancient Civ stuff is kind of forced to show static images because they didnt have 4K camera footage from 5000 BC. also its so difficult to get people interested in these topics and so having it presented in an easy to digest format like on TV is a great way to educate people. i dont see a downside. the alternative is shoving a bunch of books at someone and telling them to go read. they will just throw the books down and tell you to fuck off.
 
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Chris said:
Did you watch the full series on Gnosticism?

The Jewish messiah arriving, being almost universally accepted in 1666, then converting to Islam, then it being covered up is insane.

Another similar channel is TIK History who reads all the obsure books for WW2. He's concluded recently that Nazism was developing into a form of Gnostic religion.
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Sabbatai Zevi was a Kabbalistic Jew, not a follower of Gnosticism.

Kabbalah is a millennia newer than Gnosticism btw (seems many people imagine it as being part of ancient Jewish mysticism).
 
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Sabbatai Zevi was a Kabbalistic Jew, not a follower of Gnosticism.

Kabbalah is a millennia newer than Gnosticism btw (seems many people imagine it as being part of ancient Jewish mysticism).
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Oh I got that mixed up, thanks for pointing it out. I was confused about how it linked to stuff like Cathars when I posted it.

The two things are linked though. Gnostism is hard to pin down with a definition but if you are looking to be initiated into secret "true" knowledge behind a religon, complete with bonus gods, Kabbalah fits the bill.

Kabbalah seems more ancient because I belive they wrote texts from the point of view of an ancient author and attributed it to them. Then when books are produced by copying previous books, it's hard to know if they actually had a lost source or faked it.
 
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