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Alkirian 2: The Seven Scepters
#alkirian#federico rutenberg#flash#we go to egypt now!!#because of something one of the pages we got in the last game said. still no idea what's alkirian or why we're getting the scepters btw#it's still fun but very easy once you figure out the main mechanic behind the puzzles#also in a true archeological manner there's a lot of dusting off stuff lol#those games are tiny. two rooms and you can beat them in until 10 minutes. might be a flaw or not depends on what you like
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How does conversion work for a trans person? I'm scared of being naked for the mikveh immersion and also the part about circumcision, I really don't want anyone to see my body naked
I feel you on that, anon. So, it will heavily depend on which branch of judaism you plan on converting to, but there will be trans-friendly and trans-unfriendly spaces within each branch. I think the best course of action is to ask around with rabbis which take in students - definitely ask rabbis what their expectations would be as a trans student. Honestly, the only reason I didn't disclose my transness immediately to my rabbi was because I could tell he'd be trans-friendly even through email.
Now, I don't know your specific circumstances, nor will I ask, but there are options depending on what you're looking for. I'm a trans guy - I don't have the obligation to go through bris, and I'm not really able to. However, I do fulfill many of the mitzvot for men, and that compromise sort of offsets the fact that I don't have any way to really go through with bris.
For the mikvah, I've heard some places will put a sheet barrier in the water so that your body isn't fully seen. From what I know, you just need people to witness (even for a split second) that you are fully immersed and not your body. This might be dependent on the movement, however.
Otherwise, the process is very similar if not identical to cis counterparts. You can fulfill a ton of mitzvot as yourself, and in general, transness doesn't really prevent you from doing that. I would definitely talk with your rabbi for any accomodations you might want in this process - it's imperative that you're able to trust your rabbi to be receptive and willing to hear you out or compromise or anything else. If you have follow-up questions, I'd love to hear them; I can only speak to my experiences, but I know that it can sometimes be comforting to know you're not the only trans convert in the world. Transsexuals have become jewish since the dawn of time; you have no reason not to be jewish if that is something you want.
#ask#jumblr#jew by choice#jewish conversion#trans jews#queer jews#personal thoughts tag#i can't speak to the mikvah process as a trans person yet but once i do i will let you know what my options were and what i chose#i myself have become a lot less dysphoric but there was definitely a time where i was EXACTLY where you are now anon#so i get the feeling and i want you to know that there is nothing wrong with how you feel#being trans is a beautiful thing but it's also hard#with the last sentence: it's lighthearted but it's true#trans people have existed for thousands of years#trans people didn't just magically start converting when we were invented in 2014 in the bowels of tumblr#no; we were in medieval spain and bronze age egypt and talking with emperors and existing as people no matter what#to say that there's no precedent for trans people and no precedent for us comverting isn't really true#therefore there is *inevitably* going to be a space for you. judaism is vast this is true. which means there's a spot for you in it#it's true that not all spots in judaism are progressive. there are some places where being trans isn't seen as a thing#but that doesn't mean judaism is going to look that way across the board#i hope remembering that helps. it helps me
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st. mary of egypt: my gender is sinner. my pronouns are sin/er.
#i'm playing a game with former-almost-nun-now-butch-lesbian where we go through this book of women saints and say if they're lgbtq#and we got to mary of egypt#and they said: oh agender no question
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wait do you believe in hell as eternal conscious torment? (im curious bc that debate has been a crux of my own journey w faith & christianity)
I believe in hell as eternal disconnection from God or more precisely as defined by the Catechism a "state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed" (CCC 1033). How that would look like i have no idea but i do know that tearing yourself apart from the one and only source of life, love, happiness, fulfilment, goodness, and everything that is good would absolutely be the worst torment imaginable, or rather well, unimaginable. And i do know God would hate to have His beloved children be in this state. I hope with all my heart that hell is completely empty, i wouldn't wish it upon anyone and i mean anyone
Oh and since you mentioned a debate, can you tell me more about it? Cause i'm not sure what you're refering to and i'd love to learn more! God bless you anon and best wishes for your journey with faith!
#i worry sometimes that i don't do enough to help save my siblings in Christ from hell#sometimes i have this secret tiny hope that at the end of times when God comes to judge the living and the dead#that They will find a way to save souls in hell too#if there are any souls in hell by then that is#i know this could go against free will if the souls have consciously chosen to be damned forever#but maybe there's a way? an impossible illogical way accessible only to God?...#the truth is we have no idea what the eternal life is like and probably all this pondering is non-applicable anyway#yknow i always interpreted God's Judgment on Egypt and its gods in Exodus and killing the firstborns as Him coming to them and just#showing His real divine face like He *almost* did with Moses and saying “I love you. Which God do you want to worship now?”#and i can't imagine them do anything else in this moment than give up their previous “gods” and praise Yahweh#they would ofc die because God's face but they would die most blessed death and see Him and be happy with Him forever#and it gives me hope that maybe He judges other people the same way when they die idk#i'm rambling again#christianity#catholic#ccc#hell
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Don't forget the reason the U.S. is supporting Israel's genocide of Palestine - hell, 90% of the reason they ever get involved into something in the Middle East is for ulterior purposes regarding oil.
That and the Ben Gurion Canal project, which you can learn more about:
Also this short video explaining the canal's significance and full history in summary:
Simply put,
#free palestine#israel is a genocidal state#israel is a terrorist state#fuck america#fuck israel#comic pic is from persepolis btw#which is an autobiography of the author growing up in iran during the iranian revolution#not to mention how the US destabilized iran bc their democratically elected leader was gonna nationalize its oil for iran#and they put someone who would play ball for them in charge#its always about the oil#EVEN IN THE MIDST OF EVERYONE GOING “THE FUTURE ISNT VIABLE W FOSSIL FUELS”#WE SHOULD BE LOOKING FORWARD FOR USING AND TRANSITIONING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES#BUT THE CAPITALISTIC FUCKS WANT MONEY NOW#AT THE EXPENSE OF HUMAN LIVES#THE LIVES OF ARABS AND BROWN PPL INDIGENOUS TO PALESTINE NOTE THAT#aaaaaaand of course the canal#much easier than dealing w egypt#for both israel and america#israel will be onboard w them and they'll have a way of strengthening their grip on the middle east and world economy#this is honestly disgusting and terrifying#egypt#suez canal
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today im thinking about malaria in ancient rome.
about the fact that P. falciparum (the most dangerous kind of malaria) was likely endemic at least from the 2nd century BC onward that Galen said semitertian fevers (P. falciparum infections) were more common in Rome than anywhere else in the Roman Empire that the most severe manifestations of P. falciparum (quotidian fevers + cerebral malaria) were most common in babies and young children, an epidemiological observation that indicates the transmission rate of P. falciparum was extremely high in Rome that Quintus Serenus said there was no Latin word for semitertian fevers (they used a transliteration of the Greek, 'hemitritaeos') because "no one, i think, could have named it in our language and mothers would not have wanted to"
#working on my thesis gonna bring down the mood of the whole department#but i feel like i have to honor them#and the thing about malaria that fucks me up is P. falciparum has been around for tens of thousands of years#its not a disease of agriculture like smallpox or of sanitary issues that come with civilization like typhoid#it predates agriculture its been found in the bodies of mummies from ancient egypt and skeletons from ancient greece and rome#there are species-specific plasmodium parasites for gorrillas chimpanzees and humans#which to me indicates there was a plasmodium parasite for every now lost hominid#malaria is the strongest recent evolutionary pressure on the human genome#upwards of 30% of people in some parts of the world are heterozygous for sickle cell anemia#or heterozygous for SE asian ovalocytosis#thus it was more evolutionarily advantageous for 2-3% of all children to die#so about 30% of people could be protected from severe malaria#these mutations take a long time to evolve. parasites take a long time to evolve#there are people who mourned their infants tens of thousands of years ago in languages we will never know with rituals we will never see#and i cant do anything about any of that but i can keep going to the lab every day and trying my best to figure it out#because so many generations of humans stretching back to before we were human could not
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Everyone on the program: omg cool mummies!!!
Me, literally holding back tears: they are so far from home. Are their souls scared? Has anyone even offered them bread in the afterlife?
#important to note: some ancient Egyptian tombs contain prayers to give the deceased food in the afterlife meant to be read aloud#we read aloud a prayer (NOT SPELL. I AM AGAINST CALLING IT A SPELL) in my class two years ago#we're going to have a 'discussion' on the ethics of displaying mummies and I had to start taking the anti anxiety meds again so I Do Not Cry#while this happens#god. i can't go into Egyptology#day one on the program and I Know Now. I cannot do it for Various Reasons#I'm still doing classics (Ptolemaic period counts as Classics not egyptology) but I Cannot and Will Not interact with modern Egyptian#bureaucracy#tw death#???#i have no fucking clue what to tag this#it's apparently a controversial opinion to say that Egypt is in Africa#a dutch museum got an exhibit SHUT DOWN for PROMOTING AFROCENTRISM. EGYPT IS IN AFRICA#like this is super cool and very important to my feild of study of museum work in general#but yeahhhh i am Too Passionate and full of Righteous Indignation for egyptology#screaming crying throwing uppppppp#and idet and ruiu aren't even THERE
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I saw a dumbfuck post about how the only realistic options are that Palestinians or Israelis commit total genocide (what's going on now stupid?), they keep fighting until another country takes over and treats them both badly, or ~both sides forgive each other~ and how the last one is the only good option, and I wanna break that down but like. Lemme just say realistically immediately after the creation of a Palestinian state what will probably happen is 1) many Israelis will leave because they won't want to live in a state where Palestinians have nominally equal rights, and many of them have been indoctrinated to believe Palestinians are rabid 2) many of the Israelis who do stay will still hold economic privileges over many Palestinians and will as such hold sway in the government alongside Palestinians that have managed to build wealth and the popular resistance leaders that survive to see a Palestinian state
#cipher talk#This is based on what's happened in Algeria and South Africa#Rwanda is also an example to keep in mind regarding 'oh everyone just forgives each other'. Rwanda is currently bombing DRC#Many Israeli politicians have made it clear they have expansionist desires and view Egypt and Lebanon and etc as targets#They have been bombing Lebanon. For decades#I don't think this state of affairs will stay- for things i wouldn't be surprised if a reparations program was instituted in#A free Palestine- there'd certainly be judicial cases about stolen property and homes which would cut into settler equity#Though many Palestine homes simply. Sit unoccupied because the point was depopulation in some cases#It's such a whack take too because many militants have talked about just wanting normal lives#The idea of continuing fighting just to commit genocide against Israelis is not only a distraction from the actual genocide#For many of them it's NONSENSE. Why would they want that when they could just be people again?#During the Al Asqa flood op which regained some territory... not many Israelis died in light of this idea. Because that's not the point#Currently Israel claims 1139 deaths from that operation#And has been revising it down and down. Before now they claimed 1200. Before that they claimed 1400.#As of now they claim 1400 total since October and the Palestinian death count is around 30000 that we know of#Again. There's an actual genocide going on and it's not against Israelis
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i don't think im gonna survive the next 1 hour and 30 minutes of my life while I wait on this episode. fuck me dude. ohhh my god.
#i make yet anothet post just for me 👍#jrwi#GUYS PLEASE#GUYS#HELP#THE DASH IS GOING THROUGH DENIAL RIGHT NOW#WE ARE ALL HOLDING HANDS IN THAT ONE RIVER IN EGYPT
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hey why do parents say/do the most hypocritical and illogical shit???
#personal#delete later#asking for a friend#it's me i am the friend#parent: you don't visit us#me: work is hard right now can you come visit me?#parent: no we don't have time#parent: also we are going to Egypt#Parent: also we are travelling to see your brother#parent: also we are going to XYZ#Parent: why don't you want to see us?#Me: ?????????????
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to say the mood in my family is grim would be an understatement
#nothing works as we want to#today we tried to make a holidays reservation and there were some problems with tge payment and couldn't#and then my dad and i tried to place and build this cabinet thingy for my shoes and couldn't#also since yesterday and especially when talking about holidays my mum is feeling sad cause (and i learned about this yesterday)#she wanted to surprise me with a trip to egypt to make up for the cruise fiasco last year that she also planned#(we were going to go to pompeii and greece and ephesus)#and she found a really good price but my dad told her that it would be too hot if we went now and that she would suffer the most#cause due to pre-menopausia symptoms she's hot all the time (she's 57 and still has her period. these symptoms have been happening for years#so she's kinda angry at him but mostly sad and down and my dad is sad that my mum is sad and i'm just. here#not knowing what to do#my sister's fine but she's not here
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"Boil water to turn fan" as if multistage steam turbine generators are not one of the sexiest kinds of machines every made
nuclear power is impressive until you get up to why. "we use the most precisely engineered machinery ever created to split atoms to release energy" oh yeah how come? "boil water to turn a fan" get the fuck out
#its genuinely crazy the math and engineering that go into making these absolutely massive steam turbines#its an incredible balancing act to optimize between the interconnected variables of pressure velocity and temperature in order#to extract as much energy as possible from the steam as it moves through the system#especially like. those generators need to maintain a very precise rotational speed in order to prevent the coupled generator#from going out of phase with the power grid#(3000 RPM for 50 Hz grids and 3600 RPM for 60 Hz grids)#like the reactor part sounds like a lot of engineering work (and it is!) but like. the turbine is fucking incredibly impressive too#each one of those turbine stages needs to have very specifically shaped blades in order to control steam pressure drop and steam velocity#and the blades need to be able to physically handle being in a wet (at least for nuclear plants where the steam is pretty wet) high temp#environment and constantly being spun at high rotational speeds for decades at a time.#we had to develop specialized nickel titanium superalloys with tightly controlled crystalline structures in order to build turbines this big#stare into the depths of “wow we really just use steam to spin a big fan that sounds simple” and you encounter#the lifes work of thousands of mathematicians computer engineers material scientists and mechanical engineers#the first device we could call a steam turbine was made as a toy in tthe first century ancient greece and egypt#the first steam turbine with a practical use was described in 1551 in Ottoman Egypt. it was used to turn a spit of meat over a fire.#the first modern multistage impluse steam turbine was made in 1884 and revolutionized electricity generation and marine propulsion#in the 141 years since there have been more improvements than one could even list#from major design changes credited to great men to miniscule efficiencies and optimizations gained from tweaking the composition of an alloy#idk. i think its beautiful to think about the web of human knowledge woven collectively by thousands of hands across history#could you imagine what the ancient greek engineers who first put together the prototype for an aeolipile would think to see what we have#made now. could they even recognize our designs as belonging to the same category of object as their little toy#anyway#appreciate the humble steam turbine with the same eye you give to the reactor core#mine#just my thoughts
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Well, that's less than ideal. Let's see... Horus, are you available?
#waffle reads#percy jackson#blood of olympus#i figure we want some non-greco-roman god into the mix#it should be someone fairly close to greece#i figure if the abrahamic one were going to intervene he would have by now#egypt is the only other mediterranean place where i can think of any names#(nor am i coming up with anyone else from the middle east or europe south of the north sea)
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Help Jamal Shamia family
Jamal Shamia, Iam a criminal lawyer, lam suffering of many diseases hypertension and diabetic mellitus and Muscle spasms and always got shocked and coma .
Unfortunately, I was injured in the war and suffered a very serious injury, which was a blood clot in the hip joint area, which caused him many infections and the infection spread in the area. is currently in Gaza, and my home was destroyed at the beginning of the war. We have lost security and peace. We have witnessed how a single rocket can destroy your entire life, both your past and your future. Our dreams have been shattered. Now the future is unknown and dark. There is no home, no basic life essentials, no job. We are now seeking to leave this country for a life abroad and to obtain security. We estimate our loss to be at least $50,000 to rebuild a home and start our lives anew.
My wife, Mufida, is 62 years old. She traveled before the war to have surgery on her eye alone, and now she is stuck on the Egyptian side. She has no breadwinner and needs many medications and medical supplies.
After that, she suffered a broken hand due to the lack of necessary care for her. I want to collect money to go to her and support her.
Rasha Jamal Shamia and her husband, Khalil Abu Samaan, have two children, Mira and Omar. They have been forced to flee their home in Gaza City and are now living in a tent in Rafah, far from everything they once knew. Their home, their children’s education, and their future—everything is gone. Their days are filled with fear, and their nights bring no rest. The constant sound of bombs haunts them, and they have no way to provide their children with the life they deserve
Ahmad Jamal Shamia resides in Gaza and is a third-year student in dental school. He lost his education due to the devastating war in Gaza. He was studying at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, and his home was destroyed in the war. He is currently suffering from moving from one temporary shelter to another. Ahmad was a diligent, ambitious, and creative student who ranked first in his class. He didn't limit himself to what he learned in university. He attended courses and workshops online with Egyptian doctors to learn more and excel in his field. He always sought excellence and worked hard for it, and he loved helping all students.He now needs money to continue his education, which will cost him a lot of money since he will complete his studies in Egypt.
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Help Ahmed & Hadeel
My wife @hadeel-ahmed7
Hello everyone, Thank you for reading my story. I'm Ahmed Sadeq, I'm 30 years old, a Palestinian from Gaza.
Before the war, our life was full of happiness, where l worked for on online news newspaper.
I was preparing for my wedding to partner Hadeel which was going to take place in December 2023, I was also preparing our house for us to live in
Afrer the start of the war on Gaza, I lost my job due to constant internet outage.
Unfortunately, I lost the house in which I intended to live with my wife, Hadeel.
I had ro get married without a wedding and lived in modest tent.
We were able to leave Gaza to Egypt, with my wife and elderly parents who suffer from" chronic diseases ", by paying the evacuation cost of $5,000 per person.
Now we all live in one house in a modest neighborhood called Arbaeen in Cairo
How Funds Will Be Used:
Basic Necessities:
your generous donation will go toward help us to pay the house rent and meet our basic needs of food, drink, and clothing, in addition to medicine for my elderly parents in Egypt.
None of us have permanent residency in Egypt and therefore we can't work.
Evacuation fees:
The rest of my family members are in tents in the Al_Mawasi area inside Gaza, and you help them meet their basic needs of food, clothing, and drink.
They live in difficult conditions and are surrounded by insects and snakes.
Reconstruction:
My demolished home and my family's home in Gaza.
Your donation, no matter how small, can make a big difference in helping us, our family, and rebuilding our future. Every contribution will go directly to providing us with the support and resources we need
To get through this difficult time
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venting in tags - I gotta scream into the void, please ignore
#is it so much to ask that I get to go somewhere?#I want to travel and do something and live my life#why why why does something have to happen every. single. time. there are plans in place to go somewhere#general car & time & financial problems. riots in egypt made it unsafe years ago. then a worldwide pandemic.#then the friend we were going somewhere with got hospitalized for.... something they couldn't figure out. he's still trying to leave#jordan and egypt are of course labeled too dangerous to travel to right now#and of course we can't find somewhere else to go & it's so last minute I'll feel dumb saying I can come in to work after all#our plans never fucking work why did I think this would be any different#can't travel can't get a new car can't MOVE SOMEWHERE and get out of this crappy place called a home#I want to get out of here so so much but#nothing works out and I hate my life and I can't change my life because nothing works out and I just#I am so so tired of just.... existing here.#not that i want to move to the city I hate hearing cars and people and just#I need nature. I need to get out and go somewhere I can relax in nature for a while and exist a way I want to#I think I've been under and over stimulated at once for so long it's reaching a breaking point and I can't do anything but cry about it
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