Higher Learning

If somebody had told me that I would be in school, because I wanted to, even just two months ago I would have shrugged and said “whatever”. If you had told me that I would be shooting for twelve years of school at a minimum and wanting to be a college professor I would have laughed at you and dismissed everything else you said. Yet in a ridiculously rapid change literally in less the a month, I went from cruising through life just letting things past by, to craving knowledge more than a starving man wants food. My intelligence took command and I relentlessly began to seek truth. It is almost embarrassing but what caused this change in me was a single youtube series. Evid3nc3 is the name of the channel on youtube, he has a de-conversion story from when he was a christian to when he became an evidentialist and an atheist. I was going through a similar transition, I had given up on god, but not the idea of a supernatural force, a soul. I wasn’t sure what words to use to describe it. I, as he, was raised christian and while our stories have major differences, the points of his faith and the building blocks that his religion was based on crumbled beneath his feet just as mine did. Though I will not go into detail here, these are personal experiences that we are both willing to share, if you ask. In this story the young man was challenged by a college professor who had written a review on the content, the subject matter, of the bible. He contacted the writer of the review not knowing the man was 62 year old professor and an expert in his field as well as having a full understanding of many areas retaining to the study of how old religious texts (the bible included) came to be and how they were written. That man changed his  life for ever to the pursuit of truth above all things, to know as many true, provable things as you can. I looked at my self and even though (especially after watching his videos) I did not believe in a god, but I was fighting learning I was letting life just past by. .  . my one life.