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Robert! You missed a great story with the Prescott plot!! The13 year old girl was so cherished that her name Georgianna is a mixture of her parents names George and Ann. Also, they decided to have another child born after Georgiannas death but he, George Jr, also died young at 12 years plus some months. Very sad!!
Forgot to add that the parents George and Ann died young as well. Both were around 50 and they died only a couple of years after young George Jr. Really really sad!!!
My god how did you know that?!. The lives of these dead would be volumes of interesting reading. And how did these people die so young? This stuff gets me curious and wondering. Love it.
I worked in the nursing home next door to this cemetery for years. Lived in the next town over, Georgetown...even smaller. It sits overlooking the beautiful Chattahoochie river. I spent many afternoons walking through here reading these same stones...wondering about their lives. Many of my coworkers families had been there for generations. I was told by one of them that there are many older unmarked graves, to include slaves, on the hill leading down to the water. Lovely little historical town that’s very dear to my heart. Thank you 😊
12 yrs old. 13 yrs old. 40s and 50s? That is a place of countless tears shed. Let us not forget the poor parents burying their children at that sacred site.
@Mack Vela Are you referring to monuments or cemeteries. MANY Americans do care very much about our monuments and historic buildings and we spend money on them. I was a history major and grew up in an a family of academics. We traveled to war sites regularly and museums throughout the entire eastern side of the country. These places are full of other Americans visiting these monuments/sites/museum. Now if you are referring to our politicians, well they suck and only care to preserve monuments specific to their states.
How tragic! The Prescotts lost a son at 12 and a daughter at 13 years of age. I believe the strange wording of the daughters virtues referred to her tender age , beauty and purity of a young woman.
It really astounds me that there are some from the late 1700’s. And, there is something very satisfying seeing you pull a vine from the stones It wouldn’t be long before it would be consumed. Afterwards, I noticed a very pretty flower waving in front of it. Thank you Robert. This was a lovely walk today!
Elise franks mother - love your channel thanks for another very interesting video. My great grandmother was named chloe Johnson, she was adopted, was found in the woods lost at about the age of 2 or 3 years old in southwestern Georgia. Only could say her first name.
It amazes me how these people truly loved God and their faith in God back then. You would have to hang on to your beliefs back then I guess. Life couldn't have been easy. With the loss of so many children. Very different today. Makes me wonder. Do we think we don't need God anymore? Maybe. I don't know. I just know that when you find these older cemetery's these people have left quit a legacy behind just on their tome stones for the rest of us today. Something to think about for sure. Thank you. I love these older cemeteries. The only thing these people took for granted was God. Nothing else was for sure. God bless.
Drug addictions, and thought addictions are closely related on a neurological level. Some people are more beholden to the ancient part of the brain (Meso Limbic System/emotional) rather than someone that reasons using the modern part (Frontal Cortex/rational). "The second system, known as the mesolimbic system, has its cell bodies in the ventral tegmental area, which is medial to the substantia nigra. It projects to several parts of the limbic system, including the nucleus accumbens and ventral portions of the striatum, amygdala, and hippocampus, as well as prefrontal cortex. *This system has been linked to reward-related behavior (Berridge and Kringelbach, 2015). Dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens increase in response to both natural reinforcers (such as food, drink, and sex) and drugs of abuse (such as amphetamine and cocaine). Additionally, in humans, activity in this region increases in response to more abstract rewards, such as money."* Marie T. Banich/Rebecca J. Compton, Cognitive Neuroscience, Section: Subsystems, pp. 2/3 *"Dopamine, in fact, is critical in association learning and the reward system of the brain that Skinner discovered through his process of operant conditioning, whereby any behavior that is reinforced tends to be repeated. A reinforcement is, by definition, something that is rewarding to the organism; that is to say, it makes the brain direct the body to repeat the behavior in order to get another positive reward.* ...The connection between dopamine and belief was established by experiments conducted by Peter Brugger and his colleague Christine Mohr at the University of Bristol in England. *Exploring the neurochemistry of superstition, magical thinking, and belief in the paranormal, Brugger and Mohr found that people with high levels of dopamine are more likely to find significance in coincidences and pick out meaning and patterns where there are none."* Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain, Section: 6 The Believing Neuron pp. 8-10/29 *"Genetic and behavioral factors influencing religiously motivated behavior appear related to dopamine metabolism and signaling. Inclination toward religious behavior and motivation has been associated with a polymorphism on the dopamine receptor gene DRD4 (Comings, Gonzales, Saucier, Johnson, & MacMurray, 2000;Sasaki et al., 2013). Acquired disorders of dopamine physiology also show links to religious behaviors."* www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478470/ *"Religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuits in much the same way as love, sex, gambling, drugs and music,* report researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine." unews.utah.edu/this-is-your-brain-on-god/ "Dopamine, adrenaline, and noradrenaline are neurotransmitters that belong to the catecholamine family. Dopamine is produced in the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental regions of the brain, and *dopamine alterations are related to schizophrenia (1, 2). ...The “original dopamine hypothesis” states that hyperactive dopamine transmission results in schizophrenic symptoms."* www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4032934/ *"Dopamine In schizophrenia (SCZ), there is evidence that very high levels of dopamine in the limbic system play a major role in emergence of hallucinations and delusions. Antipsychotic medications, which block central dopamine activity, alleviate the hallucinations of psychosis. Drugs with strong dopaminergic effect, such as L-dopa, methylphenidate, bromocriptine, pramipexole and piribedil, may induce hallucinations. D-amphetamine, a direct dopamine agonist, may also induce psychosis and hallucinations."* www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996210/ *"Here, we show that administration of a drug that enhances dopaminergic function (dihydroxy-L-phenylalanine; L-DOPA) increases an optimism bias. This effect is due to L-DOPA impairing the ability to update belief in response to undesirable information about the future."* www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424419/ "Tibetan mystics have long practiced a method to create sentient beings (Tulpas) from the power of concentrated thought." Note: These (Tulpas) are not sentient beings, but a manifestation of the subconscious mind through neural plasticity via neurochemical imbalancing inducing meditation. In other words it's having a dream state while awake, and interacting with a character that's made up of one's own preformed thoughts (building blocks of ideas/concepts that are below conscious awareness) which gives the illusion of sentience. In simpler words it's self induced schizophrenia due to stresses (psychological/physical/environmental) where neurochemical traffic gets rerouted causing hallucinations to any of the five senses, also including involuntary movement, and distorted speech (glossolalia). www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_ca/article/exmqzz/tulpamancy-internet-subculture-892 Imagine the euphoria experienced by the average person for believing they won a million dollars on a scratch off ticket (it could be a joke ticket yet as long as they believe). Now imagine someone having the same sensations, but being convinced it's a paranormal contact for believing John 3:16. We evolved to seek pleasure (eating/reproduction), and avoid getting killed (tiger in the grass/competing neighbor/harsh enviroment). With our increased cognitive abilities we made up other reasons for pleasure, and survival beyond basic necessity. The Dopamine Reward System over time bridges gaps in pathways in order to form habits in order to repeat behaviors, and or thoughts. The often cited testimony of getting off an addiction thanks to a God is just a placebo replacement due to the power of the mind (an AA participant I heard of chose to worship the radiator in his room instead of an higher power, and became sober). Ancient people did not know the neurosciences. Philo of Alexandria thought that joy came from Heaven by way of God's chief archangel the "Divine Word/Right Reason (Logos)". ON DREAMS, THAT THEY ARE GOD-SENT Book 2 "XXXVII ...And *who can pour over the happy soul which proffers its own reason as the most sacred cup, the holy goblets of true joy, except the cup-bearer of God, the master of the feast, the Word* ?" ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION, III "LX ... *the soul very often, when it is delighted, is yet unable to explain what it is that has delighted it; but it is taught by the hierophant and prophet Moses, who tells it, “This is the bread, the food which God has given for the Soul, (Exo. **16:15**)” explaining that God has brought it, his own Word and his own Reason; for this bread which he has given us to eat is this Word of his* ." The High Priest's headdress had a crown made of a plant known for it's hallucinogenic properties at which a golden plate covered the forehead. On said golden plate was inscribed sacred characters for the name of God. Josephus: THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BOOK 3, CHAPTER 7 (172-178), CONCERNING THE GARMENTS ...OF THE HIGH PRIEST "6. The high priest's mitre was the same that we described before, and was wrought like that of all the other priests; above which there was another, with swathes of blue embroidered, and round it was a golden crown polished, of three rows, one above another; out of which arose a cup of gold, which resembled the herb which we call Saccharus: *but those Greeks that are skilful in botany call it Hyoscyamus. ...Now the fruit is preserved by this coat of the calyx, which fruit is like the seed of the herb Sideritis: it sends out a flower that may seem to resemble that of poppy. Of this was a crown made, as far as from the hinder part of the head to each of the temples; but this Ephielis, for so this calyx may be called, did not cover the forehead, but it was covered with a golden plate, which had inscribed upon it the name of God in sacred characters. And such were the ornaments of the high priest."* *Hyoscyamus Niger* " ...was historically used..., *as well as for its psychoactive properties in "magic brews". These psychoactive properties include visual hallucinations and a sensation of flight. ...The plant, recorded as Herba Apollinaris, was used to yield oracles by the priestesses of Apollo.* " en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoscyamus_niger Scrambled neurochemistry is insight to another realm for some people. The Holy Dopamine Ghost (Thoughts are addictive) th-cam.com/play/PLQATeZAnm87BaJjBtM1vMIq_gHRmBq3ie.html Scripture is designed to keep people in the thought addiction, and shut out from the group those that question. "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction." (Prov. 1:7) "In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." "but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed." (2 Cor. 4:4, 3:16) "As for the Disbelievers, Whether thou warn them or thou warn them not it is all one for them; they believe not. Allah hath sealed their hearing and their hearts, and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be an awful doom." (Quran 2.006-.007) "Fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is no one who does good." (Psa. 14:1) "but whoever blasphemes against the *Holy Dopamine Ghost* can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" (Mark 3:29) i.imgflip.com/1ydvtk.jpg
I think values were practiced much more back then..people were married , no tvs....idk...I remember an old gentleman smoked a pipe walking down the street always dressed so nice tilting his hat for me when I walked by...😍 was wonderful.....this was in the 1990s....
Captain Bleirdo were here to enjoy the history of forgotten people, their heritage, faith, expressions of their lives shown in their grave stones. Were not interested in your diatribes. Go troll somewhere else. Were not interested.
Alana Tolstad I so agree with you, it's like a chorus sing we haven't forgotten you. Can tell me whatis a "Rat Snake" are they harmless. Cheers from Victoria Australia 🇦🇺🐨🦘💙🌏
@@lynnebunning7273 Rat snakes are harmless to humans, but they can/will bite if really necessary. I'm not aware of their existence here in my part of Coastal California, but do know they can be found in rural North Dakota, where I'm from originally.
Appreciate your respect. I too feel heartfallen when I see the the condition of cemetaries. Though they be quiet, lonely, and all but forgotten, they will be a noisy, raucous, and glorified place at the resurrection.
people who were lucky enough to get to adult hood still mostly had very short lives compared with today. You can only imagine how brutal life must have been for people in this era. Thanks as always Robert for these VLogs
Love seeing these historical cemeteries. The epitaphs are hauntingly beautiful. It was a time period of heavy grief when children died so young, I imagine. Thanks for the video.
I recently came out to this cemetery to try to clean it up, I couldn’t really do anything because there was a lot of damage done. But all of the vines are overgrowth are now gone
Excellent video so very rich in history! Take a moment and imagine the lives of those at Ft Gaines in the early 1800's. Additionally ... the one thing I see trending across all of these old graveyards is that the mortality rate for the very young to young adults was extremely high compared to today. Conditions, including disease, virus and "SOME" hostile Indians were ever present.
So many little graveyards like this dot the Georgia landscape. There was one little overgrown one in my neighbourhood in Smyrna GA growing up in the 70s. Of course all the usual haunting stories attached. Most often concocted to keep marauding teenagers out...
1.04 this marker has beautiful details ( flowers ), real craftmanship. Looks like the markers have been cleaned not so long ago, makes it easy to read the info; on the other hand they don't look ""old "" anymore. 13.03 if you look at the top you van see an O , P , A, R 16.39 1853 21.57 father of Mary Ann E.(1833-1837) Cemetery : Old Pioneer Cemetery a.k.a. Fort Gaines Cemetery. ; 39 memorials. Sad to see so many passed away at a young age.. Interesting explore of this cemetery with early settlers.Hope someday an explorer comes across my ancestors.They went to US with a complete town after it was completely destroyed by fire.Thanks for sharing Robert.
Thank you again for going out of your way to film death and life in that cemetery. well done. My attention grabbed General John Dill. I did some research and came up that the Major Important Generals in the Confederate army would appoint men under their command as Generals. And there were a few I found that were listed but not like General Gill. But each important commander had underlings appointed to serve but never got recognition.
Some damage in these cemeteries were done when trees fell on the markers. Oscar Sheppard fought and died in the Civil War. He is buried there. He was very young. Don't know why the Daughter's of the Confederacy have never acknowledged it. Enjoyed your tour.
Love the stones in the enclosed area - the second one has the most beautiful streaking I have ever seen. There are some significant repairs that have been made on some of these as well.
Wow... folks from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island in this one. I think that's the first time I've seen any New Englanders in the cemeteries you've explored so far. Makes ya wonder about their stories and how/why they ended up in Georgia. Lots of great History in that little cemetery. Thanks for the tour, Robert! Valerie.
Hi Robert, dang you got some big crickets over there, those snakes were cool though. A lovely historical place of rest but it's just such a shame these types of places after a while just lay forgotten. Thank you for sharing. xx
What on earth possesses people to go to a cemetery and destroy the graves!!! I will never understand it there just isn’t any rhyme or reason for it. I think you are wonderful for all you do Robert we know once you’ve found a graveyard that it will be cleaned up and those poor ppl remembered again
What's awful too is plowing over them! My gggrand mother's family cemetary was plowed under by some modern farmer.My cousins went and replaced the tombstones.
Thank you so much Robert for editing out the snake attacking. That scared me lol 😲😲 Youre right about beautiful gravestones and the graveyard too. Such a shame of the area vandalised. A very tastefully done video. 🌹🌿🌹
You are a wonderful person and I love all your beautiful adventures.. I’m sure you have made all the souls in these graveyards happy by remembering them. Keep up all these beautiful memories so that they will never be forgotten
Robert , thank you for your tours and all the love and respect you give. I'm sure you are helping out all those that do their genealogy a great deal. Especially those like me that can't travel. I enjoyed this one very much. If your ever in Jesup, Georgia their city cemetery has lots of old graves and they still try to keep it up best they can. If you go there the older graves are in the back side and you can still drive close up to it.
Such an interesting cemetery, imagine having to return again and again to bury such young members of the family. How anyone would go into a place like that and cause damage is beyond the beyonds as we say where I am from. Thank you for showing us!
That was a very interesting cemetery, The gravestones were really beautiful and some surprisingly preserved. You think it would be better kept by the city since their workers park right beside. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤
Thank you so much for sharing the history and details of this amazing cemetery , please be safe out there and God bless you and your family and friends
There is a cemetery a few miles from my house here in NH. There is a broken grave stone that reads "Two revolutionary soldiers". I always wondered what the story was about this grave.
Hi Robert, very interesting cemetery, the brick work around that part of the walled cemetery looks like as if has been burnt , take care and stay safe from EVE in the uk.
Very cool thanks for the tour. Such old graves! It’s cool how they would put the age, months, and days. I also love the way they worded the inscriptions and referencing biblical sayings. Very nice. New subscriber as of now.
Robert...just wanted to give you kudos for all you do. It is a good thing to take time to clean these forgotten graves. I am sure those resting appreciate your efforts....good job to you and your crew.
Thanks Robert must have been flying solo.Not really sure how people can sleep at night after damaging all those head stones. My big question is "WHY" must make them feel powerful I guess. Be safe out there.
I love the respect you bring to your adventures, even for the small creatures you come across. I do the something the same here in rural Scotland .Our graves are not so forgotten but a lot are very much older, back to 15th century sometimes so very difficult to read as our climate seems to do a lot of damage to even the 18th century stones. The Georgia stones seem on the whole to be pretty clear still.The upside is that we don't have to look out for snakes and Scorpions !
Thank You Kindly Robert! A lovely cemetery. Alway sad to see the disrespect created by those who would destroy the memories of their own ancestors. Those who do such things have no respect or regard for themselves. The Love and Care that went into the stones in memory of their children and loved ones is plain to see. The hardships their deaths as well, just as today. The snakes were great too, always love to see them. Thanks again Robert and Thank You for your Honor and Respect for those who have gone before us. Love, Light, Peace and Many More Great Adventures! DaveyJO in Pa.
@@randomvintagefilm273 doubt its even vandalism on a lot of them especially that are that old. The materials they're made with do just fall apart due to weather/water damage over the centuries & the earth/landscape taking things back over. Not to mention parents can 100% raise those drunk teens right, teens rebel & do their own thing which is no fault of any parents- its nature also. You wouldnt be able to read some headstones if they didnt end up on their face due to weather erosion & some of those that were unmarked here were proably marked at one time its just no longer visable due to weather/years causing them to fade away
Robert you love messin with those snakes all they want is to sun themselves and chill out. Just jokin you do one heck of a job in fact you have turned me into looking for old forgotten cemeteries I found one but have to wait till somebody can come and go with me. As I'm not to steady on my feet. Keep up the GOOD WORK
If you love grave yards like I do, there's another beautiful old graveyard to checkout in Siloam, GA, on Church street. I am a huge history buff and find Georgia amazingly rich in graves and antiques of the past that tell their stories when you visit.
Some very interesting head stones in this cemetery, I could watch you doing this all day, makes you wonder how the children died so young, I know things were so different back then but it makes you think. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video. So interesting to see the different designs, engravings and what it written on them.
Love this channel Hope you all are Doing good :) keep up the good work someday you should come up to new England there is lots of old cemetery up here :)
Thank you for sharing. Just found your channel through History Traveler. Amazing that the headstones are pretty easy to read after all these years. It is just so sad that some stones are broken. It must have been a beautiful sight back in the day. Greetings from Holland.
Very nice graveyard, and i like even more the information that the subscribers add in order to know the stories of those we never knew. ... this is why love your chanel, from Guatemala thank you very much
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Thanks so much for sharing your adventures. I’ve forwarded this to my brother who has researched our family history to see if General John Dill is related.
Thank You this was very interesting. I truly love what you do. I have always liked walking around the cemeteries. Especially the old graves. Once again THANKS. BE CAREFUL around places with snakes. GOD BLESS YOU🙏🏼
@@lisaaltizer465 You and me both!! I about fell out of my chair when he touched that poison ivy at that first grave. But like they said he must be one of the lucky ones that does not break out from it. I ended up getting plastered with it on one side while mowing a tree line a few years ago. A hard lesson to learn - ended up in immediate care.
I am very allergic to it but that is not poison ivy. Poison ivy has big jagged lobes on the leaf's, which come out in 3's not 5's like the vine in this video.
Brilliant video again thanks Robert. The inscription you couldn't quite read about the blue blossom said "Waves o'er head " . This could reflect blue of the Holy Mother Mary, perhaps suggesting this lady displayed such attributes.
I don't think I will ever tired of watching your videos as so fill of history. I haven't come across any of Austtralian vtdoes as interesting as yours. Cheers from Victoria Australia🇦🇺🐨💙🦘🌏🇦🇺🐨👍🏻🌞🌞🌞🌞. The sadness I feel for all these cemeteries so neglected. Have you thought of doing a data program. To go with the cemeteries you visit, I gather would Beto big a task to do so.
I love that Georgianna's parents essentially combined their names to name her...something sweet about that. At least, when it works out well, lol. Not sure my fiancé and I could pull that off.
This was a fun adventure in a different part of Georgia from where I usually film. About 80 miles south of me as a matter of fact. It’s neat to see this area’s pioneer graves, and the stones which have noted differences just in that short distance.
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So many younge people buried in here. So sad. I don't know how these parents had so much strength back them.
Robert! You missed a great story with the Prescott plot!! The13 year old girl was so cherished that her name Georgianna is a mixture of her parents names George and Ann. Also, they decided to have another child born after Georgiannas death but he, George Jr, also died young at 12 years plus some months. Very sad!!
Thank you for additional info.
Forgot to add that the parents George and Ann died young as well. Both were around 50 and they died only a couple of years after young George Jr. Really really sad!!!
Our son was named after my wife and I Earl Francis he was 21 when he passed 20 yrs ago he loved his name
My god how did you know that?!. The lives of these dead would be volumes of interesting reading. And how did these people die so young? This stuff gets me curious and wondering. Love it.
@@romancewiththepast7979 how is it additional info? I could surmise this information myself from the headstones alone.
I worked in the nursing home next door to this cemetery for years. Lived in the next town over, Georgetown...even smaller. It sits overlooking the beautiful Chattahoochie river. I spent many afternoons walking through here reading these same stones...wondering about their lives. Many of my coworkers families had been there for generations. I was told by one of them that there are many older unmarked graves, to include slaves, on the hill leading down to the water. Lovely little historical town that’s very dear to my heart. Thank you 😊
12 yrs old. 13 yrs old. 40s and 50s? That is a place of countless tears shed. Let us not forget the poor parents burying their children at that sacred site.
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I do not understand why cities do not preserve these graves so sad and shameful
Most of them are on private property
Money
Fort Gaines is a sad place.
@Mack Vela Are you referring to monuments or cemeteries.
MANY Americans do care very much about our monuments and historic buildings and we spend money on them.
I was a history major and grew up in an a family of academics. We traveled to war sites regularly and museums throughout the entire eastern side of the country. These places are full of other Americans visiting these monuments/sites/museum. Now if you are referring to our politicians, well they suck and only care to preserve monuments specific to their states.
Yeah especially if the deceased are part of Georgia history
I thought I was the only other person who loved old graveyards, and also would ask a critter to stay still so I could 'pet it'. I love this guy
How tragic! The Prescotts lost a son at 12 and a daughter at 13 years of age. I believe the strange wording of the daughters virtues referred to her tender age , beauty and purity of a young woman.
Good work sharing this brother. We must preserve our history not tear it down!✝️🇺🇸🙏🏻
Even though times are rough now, just imagine what these early people went through. This
was a very interesting find. Thanks again
Medically speaking life was tougher but on an emotional and political level, they had it much simpler.
Many family's I would guess are no longer around based on all the children's graves, very sad
It really astounds me that there are some from the late 1700’s. And, there is something very satisfying seeing you pull a vine from the stones It wouldn’t be long before it would be consumed. Afterwards, I noticed a very pretty flower waving in front of it. Thank you Robert. This was a lovely walk today!
Elise franks mother - love your channel thanks for another very interesting video. My great grandmother was named chloe Johnson, she was adopted, was found in the woods lost at about the age of 2 or 3 years old in southwestern Georgia. Only could say her first name.
It amazes me how these people truly loved God and their faith in God back then. You would have to hang on to your beliefs back then I guess. Life couldn't have been easy. With the loss of so many children. Very different today. Makes me wonder. Do we think we don't need God anymore? Maybe. I don't know. I just know that when you find these older cemetery's these people have left quit a legacy behind just on their tome stones for the rest of us today. Something to think about for sure. Thank you. I love these older cemeteries. The only thing these people took for granted was God. Nothing else was for sure. God bless.
Drug addictions, and thought addictions are closely related on a neurological level. Some people are more beholden to the ancient part of the brain (Meso Limbic System/emotional) rather than someone that reasons using the modern part (Frontal Cortex/rational).
"The second system, known as the mesolimbic system, has its cell bodies in the ventral tegmental area, which is medial to the substantia nigra. It projects to several parts of the limbic system, including the nucleus accumbens and ventral portions of the striatum, amygdala, and hippocampus, as well as prefrontal cortex. *This system has been linked to reward-related behavior (Berridge and Kringelbach, 2015). Dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens increase in response to both natural reinforcers (such as food, drink, and sex) and drugs of abuse (such as amphetamine and cocaine). Additionally, in humans, activity in this region increases in response to more abstract rewards, such as money."*
Marie T. Banich/Rebecca J. Compton, Cognitive Neuroscience, Section: Subsystems, pp. 2/3
*"Dopamine, in fact, is critical in association learning and the reward system of the brain that Skinner discovered through his process of operant conditioning, whereby any behavior that is reinforced tends to be repeated. A reinforcement is, by definition, something that is rewarding to the organism; that is to say, it makes the brain direct the body to repeat the behavior in order to get another positive reward.* ...The connection between dopamine and belief was established by experiments conducted by Peter Brugger and his colleague Christine Mohr at the University of Bristol in England. *Exploring the neurochemistry of superstition, magical thinking, and belief in the paranormal, Brugger and Mohr found that people with high levels of dopamine are more likely to find significance in coincidences and pick out meaning and patterns where there are none."*
Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain, Section: 6 The Believing Neuron pp. 8-10/29
*"Genetic and behavioral factors influencing religiously motivated behavior appear related to dopamine metabolism and signaling. Inclination toward religious behavior and motivation has been associated with a polymorphism on the dopamine receptor gene DRD4 (Comings, Gonzales, Saucier, Johnson, & MacMurray, 2000;Sasaki et al., 2013). Acquired disorders of dopamine physiology also show links to religious behaviors."*
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478470/
*"Religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuits in much the same way as love, sex, gambling, drugs and music,* report researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine."
unews.utah.edu/this-is-your-brain-on-god/
"Dopamine, adrenaline, and noradrenaline are neurotransmitters that belong to the catecholamine family. Dopamine is produced in the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental regions of the brain, and *dopamine alterations are related to schizophrenia (1, 2). ...The “original dopamine hypothesis” states that hyperactive dopamine transmission results in schizophrenic symptoms."*
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4032934/
*"Dopamine In schizophrenia (SCZ), there is evidence that very high levels of dopamine in the limbic system play a major role in emergence of hallucinations and delusions. Antipsychotic medications, which block central dopamine activity, alleviate the hallucinations of psychosis. Drugs with strong dopaminergic effect, such as L-dopa, methylphenidate, bromocriptine, pramipexole and piribedil, may induce hallucinations. D-amphetamine, a direct dopamine agonist, may also induce psychosis and hallucinations."*
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996210/
*"Here, we show that administration of a drug that enhances dopaminergic function (dihydroxy-L-phenylalanine; L-DOPA) increases an optimism bias. This effect is due to L-DOPA impairing the ability to update belief in response to undesirable information about the future."*
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424419/
"Tibetan mystics have long practiced a method to create sentient beings (Tulpas) from the power of concentrated thought."
Note: These (Tulpas) are not sentient beings, but a manifestation of the subconscious mind through neural plasticity via neurochemical imbalancing inducing meditation. In other words it's having a dream state while awake, and interacting with a character that's made up of one's own preformed thoughts (building blocks of ideas/concepts that are below conscious awareness) which gives the illusion of sentience. In simpler words it's self induced schizophrenia due to stresses (psychological/physical/environmental) where neurochemical traffic gets rerouted causing hallucinations to any of the five senses, also including involuntary movement, and distorted speech (glossolalia).
www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_ca/article/exmqzz/tulpamancy-internet-subculture-892
Imagine the euphoria experienced by the average person for believing they won a million dollars on a scratch off ticket (it could be a joke ticket yet as long as they believe). Now imagine someone having the same sensations, but being convinced it's a paranormal contact for believing John 3:16.
We evolved to seek pleasure (eating/reproduction), and avoid getting killed (tiger in the grass/competing neighbor/harsh enviroment). With our increased cognitive abilities we made up other reasons for pleasure, and survival beyond basic necessity. The Dopamine Reward System over time bridges gaps in pathways in order to form habits in order to repeat behaviors, and or thoughts. The often cited testimony of getting off an addiction thanks to a God is just a placebo replacement due to the power of the mind (an AA participant I heard of chose to worship the radiator in his room instead of an higher power, and became sober).
Ancient people did not know the neurosciences. Philo of Alexandria thought that joy came from Heaven by way of God's chief archangel the "Divine Word/Right Reason (Logos)".
ON DREAMS, THAT THEY ARE GOD-SENT Book 2
"XXXVII ...And *who can pour over the happy soul which proffers its own reason as the most sacred cup, the holy goblets of true joy, except the cup-bearer of God, the master of the feast, the Word* ?"
ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION, III
"LX ... *the soul very often, when it is delighted, is yet unable to explain what it is that has delighted it; but it is taught by the hierophant and prophet Moses, who tells it, “This is the bread, the food which God has given for the Soul, (Exo. **16:15**)” explaining that God has brought it, his own Word and his own Reason; for this bread which he has given us to eat is this Word of his* ."
The High Priest's headdress had a crown made of a plant known for it's hallucinogenic properties at which a golden plate covered the forehead. On said golden plate was inscribed sacred characters for the name of God.
Josephus: THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BOOK 3, CHAPTER 7 (172-178), CONCERNING THE GARMENTS ...OF THE HIGH PRIEST
"6. The high priest's mitre was the same that we described before, and was wrought like that of all the other priests; above which there was another, with swathes of blue embroidered, and round it was a golden crown polished, of three rows, one above another; out of which arose a cup of gold, which resembled the herb which we call Saccharus: *but those Greeks that are skilful in botany call it Hyoscyamus. ...Now the fruit is preserved by this coat of the calyx, which fruit is like the seed of the herb Sideritis: it sends out a flower that may seem to resemble that of poppy. Of this was a crown made, as far as from the hinder part of the head to each of the temples; but this Ephielis, for so this calyx may be called, did not cover the forehead, but it was covered with a golden plate, which had inscribed upon it the name of God in sacred characters. And such were the ornaments of the high priest."*
*Hyoscyamus Niger*
" ...was historically used..., *as well as for its psychoactive properties in "magic brews". These psychoactive properties include visual hallucinations and a sensation of flight. ...The plant, recorded as Herba Apollinaris, was used to yield oracles by the priestesses of Apollo.* "
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoscyamus_niger
Scrambled neurochemistry is insight to another realm for some people.
The Holy Dopamine Ghost (Thoughts are addictive)
th-cam.com/play/PLQATeZAnm87BaJjBtM1vMIq_gHRmBq3ie.html
Scripture is designed to keep people in the thought addiction, and shut out from the group those that question.
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction." (Prov. 1:7)
"In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." "but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed." (2 Cor. 4:4, 3:16)
"As for the Disbelievers, Whether thou warn them or thou warn them not it is all one for them; they believe not. Allah hath sealed their hearing and their hearts, and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be an awful doom." (Quran 2.006-.007)
"Fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is no one who does good." (Psa. 14:1)
"but whoever blasphemes against the *Holy Dopamine Ghost* can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" (Mark 3:29)
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I think values were practiced much more back then..people were married , no tvs....idk...I remember an old gentleman smoked a pipe walking down the street always dressed so nice tilting his hat for me when I walked by...😍 was wonderful.....this was in the 1990s....
Maybe God doesn't need us anymore.
Captain Bleirdo were here to enjoy the history of forgotten people, their heritage, faith, expressions of their lives shown in their grave stones.
Were not interested in your diatribes. Go troll somewhere else. Were not interested.
@@MC-ez9lv who's trolling?
Listening to the birdsong, to keep those lonely places company, all of a sudden doesn't seem so sad...
Alana Tolstad I so agree with you, it's like a chorus sing we haven't forgotten you. Can tell me whatis a "Rat Snake" are they harmless. Cheers from Victoria Australia 🇦🇺🐨🦘💙🌏
@@lynnebunning7273 Rat snakes are harmless to humans, but they can/will bite if really necessary. I'm not aware of their existence here in my part of Coastal California, but do know they can be found in rural North Dakota, where I'm from originally.
Appreciate your respect. I too feel heartfallen when I see the the condition of cemetaries. Though they be quiet, lonely, and all but forgotten, they will be a noisy, raucous, and glorified place at the resurrection.
Levi, these people believed it too.
The birds in the background make this a beautiful sounding resting place.
Still standing brick & stone walls are impressive. Beautiful headstones. Suclh care was given to beauty & craftsmanship in those days.
people who were lucky enough to get to adult hood still mostly had very short lives compared with today. You can only imagine how brutal life must have been for people in this era. Thanks as always Robert for these VLogs
Love seeing these historical cemeteries. The epitaphs are hauntingly beautiful. It was a time period of heavy grief when children died so young, I imagine. Thanks for the video.
I read a post of some distant cousins's genealogy where one young couple lost five babies in a row. They were very strong people of faith.
I find old cemeteries very interesting, thanks for sharing. Looks like the first stone had been broken and repaired.
Fascinating little cemetery. I love the old markers with the inscriptions. Especially about the women and virtues.
So glad I got to go along on this adventure. This was one of your best clips in my opinion. Love the history. Such a great job. Keep up the good work.
Great job Robert. It's amazing how you find these resting places. I do love how you read these stones you have a very comforting voice 😄
I recently came out to this cemetery to try to clean it up, I couldn’t really do anything because there was a lot of damage done. But all of the vines are overgrowth are now gone
Thank you again for your respect and caring for these folks who may never hear their name said out loud again.
Excellent video so very rich in history! Take a moment and imagine the lives of those at Ft Gaines in the early 1800's. Additionally ... the one thing I see trending across all of these old graveyards is that the mortality rate for the very young to young adults was extremely high compared to today. Conditions, including disease, virus and "SOME" hostile Indians were ever present.
I'm not sure why "SOME" Indians would become hostile just for being kicked off the land they had lived on for countless generations. ;-)
So many little graveyards like this dot the Georgia landscape. There was one little overgrown one in my neighbourhood in Smyrna GA growing up in the 70s. Of course all the usual haunting stories attached. Most often concocted to keep marauding teenagers out...
1.04 this marker has beautiful details ( flowers ), real craftmanship. Looks like the markers have been cleaned not so long ago, makes it easy to read the info; on the other hand they don't look ""old "" anymore. 13.03 if you look at the top you van see an O , P , A, R 16.39 1853 21.57 father of Mary Ann E.(1833-1837) Cemetery : Old Pioneer Cemetery a.k.a. Fort Gaines Cemetery. ; 39 memorials. Sad to see so many passed away at a young age.. Interesting explore of this cemetery with early settlers.Hope someday an explorer comes across my ancestors.They went to US with a complete town after it was completely destroyed by fire.Thanks for sharing Robert.
It's so sad that these graves are not looked after properly for future generations because once they have gone then history had gone with them
Thank you again for going out of your way to film death and life in that cemetery. well done. My attention grabbed General John Dill. I did some research and came up that the Major Important Generals in the Confederate army would appoint men under their command as Generals. And there were a few I found that were listed but not like General Gill. But each important commander had underlings appointed to serve but never got recognition.
Thank you for show about the forgotten face of past
Very serine old cemetery. Lot of history in there.
Some damage in these cemeteries were done when trees fell on the markers. Oscar Sheppard fought and died in the Civil War. He is buried there. He was very young. Don't know why the Daughter's of the Confederacy have never acknowledged it. Enjoyed your tour.
Love the stones in the enclosed area - the second one has the most beautiful streaking I have ever seen. There are some significant repairs that have been made on some of these as well.
Wow... folks from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island in this one. I think that's the first time I've seen any New Englanders in the cemeteries you've explored so far. Makes ya wonder about their stories and how/why they ended up in Georgia. Lots of great History in that little cemetery. Thanks for the tour, Robert!
Valerie.
Hi Robert, dang you got some big crickets over there, those snakes were cool though. A lovely historical place of rest but it's just such a shame these types of places after a while just lay forgotten. Thank you for sharing. xx
What on earth possesses people to go to a cemetery and destroy the graves!!! I will never understand it there just isn’t any rhyme or reason for it. I think you are wonderful for all you do Robert we know once you’ve found a graveyard that it will be cleaned up and those poor ppl remembered again
What's awful too is plowing over them! My gggrand mother's family cemetary was plowed under by some modern farmer.My cousins went and replaced the tombstones.
Beautiful cemetery, Beautiful video!!! Thank you, Robert. It's always a pleasure to watch your video's.
Love your vid’s Robert, keep up the great work and I love the history you tell us about all the different locations.
Amazing Our Ancestry
and For Many a Very Brief Stay , Rest In Peace long departed Souls.
Thank you so much Robert for editing out the snake attacking. That scared me lol 😲😲 Youre right about beautiful gravestones and the graveyard too. Such a shame of the area vandalised. A very tastefully done video. 🌹🌿🌹
You are a wonderful person and I love all your beautiful adventures.. I’m sure you have made all the souls in these graveyards happy by remembering them. Keep up all these beautiful memories so that they will never be forgotten
Robert , thank you for your tours and all the love and respect you give. I'm sure you are helping out all those that do their genealogy a great deal. Especially those like me that can't travel. I enjoyed this one very much. If your ever in Jesup, Georgia their city cemetery has lots of old graves and they still try to keep it up best they can. If you go there the older graves are in the back side and you can still drive close up to it.
Such an interesting cemetery, imagine having to return again and again to bury such young members of the family. How anyone would go into a place like that and cause damage is beyond the beyonds as we say where I am from. Thank you for showing us!
That was a very interesting cemetery, The gravestones were really beautiful and some surprisingly preserved. You think it would be better kept by the city since their workers park right beside. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤
Thank you so much for sharing the history and details of this amazing cemetery , please be safe out there and God bless you and your family and friends
There is a cemetery a few miles from my house here in NH. There is a broken grave stone that reads "Two revolutionary soldiers". I always wondered what the story was about this grave.
It's just unbelievable how young so many of these people died. So young, it just
about makes you cry. So sad. And so many children.
Thank you so much for reading the headstones. That is the most interesting part.i just love these old headstones.
Robert, your videos bring peace to my soul. Thank you.
I thought it was Jan 50th as well lol. Thanks for the video man. May they continue to rest in peace.
Thank you!
Hi Robert, very interesting cemetery, the brick work around that part of the walled cemetery looks like as if has been burnt , take care and stay safe from EVE in the uk.
Hi, Eve. From Missouri, USA.
Such wonderful posting I enjoy all . Thank You.
Well done Robert. Thanks for this interesting cemetery and history.
The John Dill house was built in Fort Gaines, Clay County, GA in 1830.
I am amazed they are still in such great condition for being 190 year old.
After a long day at work, it is a treat to watch your videos. Brings a nice calm to my day. Thank you!
Very cool thanks for the tour. Such old graves! It’s cool how they would put the age, months, and days. I also love the way they worded the inscriptions and referencing biblical sayings. Very nice. New subscriber as of now.
Dill was a pioneer in the area. He served at Ft Gaines.
Robert...just wanted to give you kudos for all you do. It is a good thing to take time to clean these forgotten graves. I am sure those resting appreciate your efforts....good job to you and your crew.
I really love your channel. So sad the mortality rate was terrible. No one lived to be anywhere near 2, 5, 12, 13, 51, 22, 19, 68. So sad.R.I.P 😢🌹
WOOT! Nice video, I love it!
Thanks Robert must have been flying solo.Not really sure how people can sleep at night after damaging all those head stones. My big question is "WHY" must make them feel powerful I guess. Be safe out there.
I'm thinking the same thing.
I love the respect you bring to your adventures, even for the small creatures you come across. I do the something the same here in rural Scotland .Our graves are not so forgotten but a lot are very much older, back to 15th century sometimes so very difficult to read as our climate seems to do a lot of damage to even the 18th century stones. The Georgia stones seem on the whole to be pretty clear still.The upside is that we don't have to look out for snakes and Scorpions !
Thank You Kindly Robert! A lovely cemetery. Alway sad to see the disrespect created by those who would destroy the memories of their own ancestors. Those who do such things have no respect or regard for themselves. The Love and Care that went into the stones in memory of their children and loved ones is plain to see. The hardships their deaths as well, just as today. The snakes were great too, always love to see them. Thanks again Robert and Thank You for your Honor and Respect for those who have gone before us. Love, Light, Peace and Many More Great Adventures! DaveyJO in Pa.
Someone vandalized this cemetery! That is just shameful. Cemeteries should be like museums!!!!
We all pay so much taxes and GOVERNMENT DONT TACK OF HISTORY INSTED THE OG TO WAR AND SPIND A LOT OF HAUR TAX MONNY
It is usually drunk teenagers tha were not raised right
@@randomvintagefilm273 doubt its even vandalism on a lot of them especially that are that old. The materials they're made with do just fall apart due to weather/water damage over the centuries & the earth/landscape taking things back over. Not to mention parents can 100% raise those drunk teens right, teens rebel & do their own thing which is no fault of any parents- its nature also. You wouldnt be able to read some headstones if they didnt end up on their face due to weather erosion & some of those that were unmarked here were proably marked at one time its just no longer visable due to weather/years causing them to fade away
I stop in Fort Gaines all the time and visit the pioneer area. Thanks for sharing. I will try to find this cemetery next time I go through there.
Robert you love messin with those snakes all they want is to sun themselves and chill out.
Just jokin you do one heck of a job in fact you have turned me into looking for old forgotten cemeteries I found one but have to wait till somebody can come and go with me.
As I'm not to steady on my feet.
Keep up the GOOD WORK
Always enjoy visiting cemeteries with you! Thank you for sharing your adventures.
If you love grave yards like I do, there's another beautiful old graveyard to checkout in Siloam, GA, on Church street.
I am a huge history buff and find Georgia amazingly rich in graves and antiques of the past that tell their stories when you visit.
Some very interesting head stones in this cemetery, I could watch you doing this all day, makes you wonder how the children died so young, I know things were so different back then but it makes you think. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video. So interesting to see the different designs, engravings and what it written on them.
Omg I have goosebumps from the words from the first grave what a insane cemetery
Love this channel Hope you all are Doing good :) keep up the good work someday you should come up to new England there is lots of old cemetery up here :)
Ooh I so look forward to your videos. Keep up the good work ☺️
Thanks!
Another great document 👍👊
I really enjoy this video!!! 😃
Beautiful headstones in that enclosed area. Interesting epitaphs. Robert! You and your snakes!!!!! EeeK!
I enjoy and admire the absolute respect you show for these peoples graves I wish more people would
AMAZING...THANK YOU
I love the history with this cemetery Thank you Robert
Love your videos!!
Thank you for sharing. Just found your channel through History Traveler. Amazing that the headstones are pretty easy to read after all these years. It is just so sad that some stones are broken. It must have been a beautiful sight back in the day. Greetings from Holland.
I enjoy the history lessons you provide with your videos.
Very nice graveyard, and i like even more the information that the subscribers add in order to know the stories of those we never knew. ... this is why love your chanel, from Guatemala thank you very much
Hola Robert muy buenos días......que gusto verle y oírte saludos de mexicali baja California......es un verdadero placer ver sus vídeos un abrazo cuídense.......bello lugar enigmático¡!!! ❤💕🌹❤❣💜❣💜🌹💜🌹
Love hearing you read their headstones. They had the neatest sayings back then. I have been visiting graveyards since I can remember ;)
Very awesome. Beware of them snakes. I live in Augusta, I enjoy learning the history of Georgia
Thanks so much for sharing your adventures. I’ve forwarded this to my brother who has researched our family history to see if General John Dill is related.
Thank You this was very interesting. I truly love what you do. I have always liked walking around the cemeteries. Especially the old graves. Once again THANKS. BE CAREFUL around places with snakes. GOD BLESS YOU🙏🏼
Robert be careful of those vines. Some of that looks like poison Ivy.
He doesn't break out from it, wish I was the same!
Exactly what I was just thinking ...I get it very eazy...2 trips to the clinic...
I was cringing as I watched...
@@lisaaltizer465 You and me both!! I about fell out of my chair when he touched that poison ivy at that first grave. But like they said he must be one of the lucky ones that does not break out from it. I ended up getting plastered with it on one side while mowing a tree line a few years ago. A hard lesson to learn - ended up in immediate care.
I am very allergic to it but that is not poison ivy. Poison ivy has big jagged lobes on the leaf's, which come out in 3's not 5's like the vine in this video.
Brilliant video again thanks Robert. The inscription you couldn't quite read about the blue blossom said "Waves o'er head " . This could reflect blue of the Holy Mother Mary, perhaps suggesting this lady displayed such attributes.
Very neat find and enjoyed the snakes great history Thankyou for sharing
I don't think I will ever tired of watching your videos as so fill of history. I haven't come across any of Austtralian vtdoes as interesting as yours. Cheers from Victoria Australia🇦🇺🐨💙🦘🌏🇦🇺🐨👍🏻🌞🌞🌞🌞. The sadness I feel for all these cemeteries so neglected. Have you thought of doing a data program. To go with the cemeteries you visit, I gather would Beto big a task to do so.
Very interesting headstones and inscriptions. Thank you Robert.
Bugs big enough to saddle and ride, wow! Amazing monuments.
I love that Georgianna's parents essentially combined their names to name her...something sweet about that. At least, when it works out well, lol. Not sure my fiancé and I could pull that off.
So many young😓 So sad to see the distruction and neglect.
Good adventure Robert, thank you.
Thank you for sharing your great video so much history
I love seeing your adventures , history is so interesting .