I'm an Egyptologist living in Vancouver, BC. Award-winning author of the "War of the Gods" series. Check out my videos on YouTube (Ancient Egypt and the Bible).
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“Some people interpret restraint as decency. Others interpret it as permission.”
This is a lovely story about the barstool fallacy.
“Hey. You’re in my seat.”
Give up the seat and what have you accomplished? Avoided violence? No. You’ve trained a violent man that threats of violence are rewarded. You’ve trained him to aim higher, demand more, with violence. You’ve trained him in the same mindset which, with enough encouragement, leads to rape and murder.
Choices have consequences. Even choices to give mercy can lead to great evil. You must be innocent as a dove, but also wise as a serpent.
Ok, fuck it, I wasn't gonna go there, but I changed my mind.
This explains a lot about what's wrong with people today. Yes, violence is a problem. We know that. There's another problem here, and it's one nobody seems particularly interested in discussing.
The kid just stood there and let someone assault him, without defending himself.
Now, I understand there are philosophical, moral, and legal considerations here. Restraint can be admirable.
Consider the incentives. The man who threw that punch knows that the consequences will be minor. Maybe an arrest.
Bail is probably in the three digits.
Maybe a fine.
Maybe a slap on the wrist.
Now, what if his intended victim had defended himself?
What if, instead of an easy target, he'd encountered someone willing and able to fight back?
He might have walked away with a bloody nose.
He might have ended up in the hospital. Suddenly, assaulting a stranger wouldn't seem quite so appealing, would it?
Now, I'm not telling anyone what to do. I'm not your priest, rabbi, reverend, pastor, or lawyer. I'm just a girl who was bullied rather severely until middle school.
One day, I'd had enough.
I picked up a piece of furniture and hit my bully with it. Hard enough to send her to the hospital. I was arrested. I spent several days in juvenile detention. The charges were eventually dropped.
You know what else happened? Nobody ever bullied me again.
Not physically.
Not verbally.
Not even the nasty little remarks behind my back.
Was what I did legally or morally justified? That's a perfectly reasonable question, and one I've had plenty of time to consider.
But here's something else worth considering: Some people interpret restraint as decency. Others interpret it as permission. Some people will continue hurting others for as long as they believe they can do so without meaningful consequences.
Violence shouldn't be our first response. It shouldn't be our preferred response. The right to defend yourself matters precisely because some people cannot be persuaded by words alone. Years ago, i'd admire that young mans' composure. Today? I'm disgusted by his cowardice.
We've taught several generations that being a good person means being a helpless victim, and allowing others to hit you without meaningful concequences.
Either society needs to catch up legally, or society needs to catch up with immediate physical repercussions.
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You don’t have to be a specialist to know that Greek minuscule script arises in the 9th century AD. So the main problem in the headline is the dating of the manuscript. Even if the Daily Mail didn’t know which of the tens of thousands of scholars to ask about this, a simple AI query could have saved them from this blunder.
So I wonder if they even care. Is it just clicks and ‘engagement’ which matter?
Written account of Jesus rising from the dead identified in 2,000-year-old manuscript, study suggests trib.al/XFIwGJj
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This research compares later Greek, Latin, Arabic and Syriac copies to reconstruct what Josephus may have written around AD 93–94; it did not identify an account in a 2,000-year-old physical manuscript. joe.co.uk/news/ancient-j… wsjfreeexpression.substack.com/p/unlocking-th…
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You know what I love about readers who support indie authors?
They don't just read the story. Sometimes they tell a friend, leave a review, or share a post because they want that author to succeed.
Those little acts of kindness can mean so much.
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One big disadvantage indies have that big 5 authors don’t is that the Big 5 traditional publishers have large catalogs of books aligned with their values and reputations. Indies individually are tiny by comparison, small fish in a big ocean where they are hardly noticed.
This is what Spotlight on Indie is here to provide- a catalog of books with shared values. Our focus gives the based indie community the branding that readers can count on in the same way the Big 5 do with their catalogs.
Our goal is to provide a single place where readers can find these books and with features to keep them returning.
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I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and barf up a better poem than this
A poem by Anne Carson, who was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read it in full: newyorker.com/magazine/2001/…
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UN spokesperson: “An internal investigation has concluded that UNRWA humanitarian workers in Gaza participated in the massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7”
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🚨BREAKING: Coptic Christian apologist Dr. Augustinos Samaan reportedly faces severe abuse and a five-year sentence of hard labor in an Egyptian prison!
Dr. Augustinos Samaan, a prominent Egyptian Coptic Christian preacher and religious scholar known for his YouTube ministry comparing faiths, was taken into custody without warning at 1:30 a.m.
According to reports from human rights advocates, Dr. Samaan was subjected to brutal prison conditions, including torture, cigarette burns, severe neglect, and starvation behind closed doors while authorities pressured him to renounce his faith.
For his Christian outreach and public ministry, Egyptian courts sentenced Dr. Samaan to five years of hard labor, leading to international outcry from human rights organizations monitoring Coptic Christian persecution in the region.
Tragically, just three months into his imprisonment, his beloved mother passed away from grief and medical complications—with authorities denying Dr. Samaan the chance to attend her funeral or lay her to rest.
With Egyptian courts recently rejecting his first legal appeal, Christians and human rights advocates around the world are raising their voices to demand accountability, justice, and his immediate release!
Please keep him and his family in your prayers🙏🏽❤️
Here another reason not to trust Wikipedia as a source...
My latest article is about how a rogue Wikipedia editor confabulated and misattributed thousands of inventions and concepts to Muslims
This trolling made its way into blogs, articles, books, and TV programs. You might even believe some of his lies!
Link: cremieux.xyz/p/the-invention…
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Supporting indie authors doesn't have to mean buying every book.
Sometimes it's simply making sure their work doesn't disappear into the timeline.
Like it.
Comment.
Repost.
Save it for later.
Tell someone who might love it.
Small actions add up.
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Been over this. All art is downstream of storytelling. If your culture is not a storytelling culture, it won’t be able to make any other kind of art—nor survive at all for more than another generation or so. Turns out the long-form verbal story is the thing that develops most of our critical cognitive abilities, in a way STEM education and debate club are simply incapable of doing. People who don’t read or at least listen to long written or spoken narratives with character, plot, and setting end up intellectually stunted.
But you can’t have a storytelling culture if you don’t have a story-consuming culture. Conservatives gave up reading novels and spend all their time reading facts-and-arguments non-fiction (and a smattering of the classics), which was a message to their children not to write novels and not to read them. So now you’re three generations in to the mental retardation that comes from not telling stories to your children and not encouraging them to tell stories, and this is the result.
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It won't turn out to be an ancient boat!
If this turns out to be the remains of an ancient boat—300 cubits long, just like the Bible says, located in the mountains of Ararat, where the Bible reports the ark rested—it would create a worldwide sensation!
@noahsarkscans @LaurenWitzkeDE
Thank you so much for this fantastic review!!!
Review of "The Ark of the Covenant in Its Egyptian Context: An Illustrated Journey" by David A. Falk, PhD
outstandingcreator.com/3/pos…
A fascinating, meticulously researched journey into the history, symbolism, and mystery of the Ark of the Covenant!
2× OCA Super Champion Dr. David A. Falk brings ancient Egypt and the biblical world together in a massive, evidence-driven archaeological deep dive!
Part of our 2026 Clash of Champions contest
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White Women Argue Black Men Should Only Have Three-Fifths Of A Jury Vote buff.ly/K4eO04r
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11 years ago, 21 Egyptian Copt Christians were beheaded by ISIS in Libya for refusing to convert to Islam.
Their last words were: “Jesus, I love you.”
Remember, no one marched for them.
No one protested for them!
Thank you for the shout out!!!
