I have two channels on YouTube. This is my newer channel which is a mirror of my other older channel, only this time, I have done a much better job of arranging my Favorites and my Playlists for easier access to the videos.

Instead of having so many videos on one page, like my Favorites, I have created mostly Playlists in which to favor videos.

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NOTICE:

I now have over a 160 Playlists on my channel. I urge everyone who watches these videos to please subscribe to their channels and favor them to either your Favorites or your Playlists, and give them a thumbs up to bring up their ratings and to counter the negative votes that has most likely been given by religious fundamentalists and creationists. We must stand up for intellectual and academic freedom and support science education and free inquiry into the nature of the universe.

Thank you

Gerald - AKA - Big Fat Heretic

UPDATE:

I have tried the new channel design, briefly, and have immediately returned to the original design. I don't like the new design. I prefer the old design because my Uploads, Favorites, and my Playlists are easier to find, and I like the color scheme I have chosen. I have noticed that those YouTube users who have gone to the new format, their channels now look pretty much alike. I prefer the old format because you can set your channel up in your own unique style. YES, I do like new things, like new technology, and reading about the latest scientific discoveries. But, sometimes it's good to keep some of the older stuff around.

Gerald - AKA - Big Fat Heretic

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These channels are dedicated to academic and intellectual freedom, and free inquiry into the nature of the universe, the origin of life, and evolution.

As a kid, I was raised a Christian, but even back then, I could not accept the creationist account as depicted in Genesis in the Bible. Yeah, I believed there was a God, but I also believed that Evolution and natural selection was the method God used.

Eventually, I rejected Christianity, and become more of a Deist, sort of like Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin.

But now, more recently, I've been leaning more and more toward being agnostic. If asked if I think there's a God, the only answer I can honesty give is simply, I DON'T KNOW!

I support Darwin's Theory of Evolution, so I am an Evolutionist. I believe that creationism or "Creation Science" or so-called "Intelligent Design" (ID) should NOT be taught in any science class, that science and religion should remain separate endeavors.

I'm really getting sick and tired of all these right-wing whack-jobs attempting to force their own religious beliefs into any school science curriculum.
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AUTHORITY! - A Poem

Authority intoxicates,
and makes mere sots of magistrates.
The fumes of it invade the brain,
and make men giddy, proud and vain!
By this the fool commands the wise,
the noble with the base complies.
The sot assumes the rule of wit,
and cowards make the base submit.

Butler

When Fascism Comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.

Sinclair Lewis 1835

PS
Fascism will also be wearing a football jersey and a helmet!

Big Fat Heretic

It was not curiosity that killed the cat. It was ignorance that killed the cat. Curiosity got framed! It was a bum rap!

Gerald - AKA - Big Fat Heretic

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NO! THIS IS NOT A CHRISTIAN CROSS!

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Well, I don't have an old fashion clothes line in my yard, but I place this up anyway to honor the request of another new YouTube friend, ghostworld420

Again, this is NOT a Christian cross, but only an old fashion clothes line post. OK?

I was born September 30, 1951 at about a quarter til midnight in Cloquet Minnesota. My mother had taught me how to read and write before I even started school. Although I grew up in a poor family, I actually thought we were rich because we had a house full of books. By the time I was only in the 3rd grade, I was already reading at the high school and adult level and when I was 13 years old I scored 150 points on a standard IQ test.

As a kid going to school, I was lousy at sports because at the age of 4 years old, I was in a car accident and my left knee was badly injured, so as a result, I was unable to run like the other kids and walked with a limp, so, in school I failed most of my PE classes. Also, I was often bullied around in school because I was no good at sports. I was once suspended from school because I failed to climb a stupid rope in the gymnasium. Never mind that I was passing all of my other academic subjects. Oh no! In the schools I went to, athletics was more important than academics.

In grade school, I had this teacher who was really Gung Ho when it came to PE and sports. He liked to humiliate me in the gymnasium in front of all the other students. One day, when our class went to the school library, while all the other students were allowed to check out any book they wanted, I was not. I saw this book on Astronomy that I wanted, and when I asked why I was not allowed to check it out, we got into an argument and he dragged me out into the hallway and he pushed me back against the wall bashing my head against the corner of the concrete block wall. A year later, that teacher was fired and could not get a teaching job anywhere else, but as for me, well, the damage was done.

For years afterward, I had dizzy spells and headaches. During my teenage years, the headaches and dizzy spells became less intense and when I was in my 20s I didn't have them anymore. OK . . . making a long story short . . .

Because of this, high school was a real nightmare for me. My "science" teacher was also the school's football coach who was too damn busy coaching his team of pre-frontally lobotomized baboons to teach in the classroom, so he would set up a movie projector and we watched a bunch of stupid cartoons instead. I wanted to learn science, DAMN IT!!! Not watch retarded cartoons. So, I didn't lean shit in high school and got a GED Certificate instead of a diploma. Also, in high school, I was harassed by a couple of dope dealers, and I made the stupid mistake of turning them in. After receiving all kinds of threats I had to leave high school.

As a result, I suffered an emotional and mental breakdown and spent 3 weeks in a psych ward were patients were often beaten by the ward attendants, and one night I was beaten and raped by an older man. That was back in 1969 and when I came home, I was seeking some kind of psychological help, but the shrink just prescribed tranquilizers and sent me home, because back then, nobody believed that a guy could get raped. In later years I had been diagnosed with PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I have some issues concerning mental illness, because I'm in good company. Some of our greatest historical figures suffered from mental illness, like President Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, and Nikola Tesla, etc. etc. Yeah! I'm being very open and honest here.

I believe that organized religion, and sports, are probably two of the most corrupt entities here in the USA, that both are the cause of the declining quality of education here in America. I will probably get a lot harassing posts or messages from obnoxious sports fans and perhaps from religious Funny-mentalists right-wing whackozoids , but I don't give a damn! Whatcha see is whatcha get! OK? So, screw it!