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The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction

The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity

We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either

Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender

The gods didn’t actually have animal heads

Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)

The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous

While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago 

Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose

Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards

Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”

It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that

Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:

Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids

Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt

Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt

Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt

Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization

Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt

Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)

McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt:  Laundry Lists and Love Songs

And why am I making that “dumb comment”? Because I’m an Egyptologist. I have studied this, reviewed the evidence, read all the theories. And as I stated, we do have proof. We do have evidence that metal tools and harder stones can, in fact, cut stone. The same tools can, in fact, create a level surface on a quarried block because the Egyptians, like many contemporary civilisations, knew how to use things like measures and plumb lines.

There is, again, nothing lost or too-advanced about it. It’s technology that is actually still in use today in various fields and quarries together with more modern techniques. If you look through the recent reblogs you’ll find one that attaches many different videos showing exactly what I’m talking about.

The oldest knitted artifacts are from Egypt in the 11th century AD, the bulk of Roman dodecahedron production has been carbon dated to the 2nd to 4th century AD.  The earlier equivalent of knitting, nålebinding, was done with four sticks and it would have been more difficult and less convenient to attempt it with a dodecahedron.  Further, the stitch on early knitted artifacts was extremely fine, which similarly would’ve made making gloves via this dodecahedron method more difficult and time-consuming,

We have a lot of Roman textiles too.  The Mediterranean has amazing retention of fiber artifacts because the climate is very dry without a lot of drastic changes in temperature that would speed up decomposition.

Also, experts haven’t made any definitive conclusion on what the dodecahedra are for, because in archaeology, it’s considered extremely irresponsible to make definitive, certain statements specifically for this reason.  The wikipedia article on the dodecahedra even states this by outright saying that a lot of the uses are speculative.

sivi met his granddaughter tonight

he did not like it

So I spoke to the manager, assured her that I wasn’t angry, just kind of frustrated - part of why the pizza was cold was that door dash drivers don’t have the heat retaining delivery bags the actual delivery employees of the pizza place get, and because he wasn’t an employee of the pizza place the driver wouldn’t be going back to the pizza place and couldn’t get my soda.

And the manager said she’d get her first driver going in my direction to bring by the soda, and offered to give me a credit for the pizza being cold, and we pleasantly ended the conversation.

I can't help but think about:

A) How much training it probably takes to even be able to operate a garbage truck, much less all the safety stuff in case someone decided to dispose of their used needles or broken glass or whatnot in a standard garbage bin. I get stressed out driving my silly little sedan. I don't want to think about how much of a hazard I'd be to myself and everyone around me on my 'garbage collector day.'

B) The number of specialists it takes to even make a place for the garbage to go. Like. You need so much stuff, so many specialists, just to make sure water runoff from the landfill isn't contaminating the groundwater. It's not a one and done thing, and that's a tiny almost tangential part of dealing with garbage.

C) That some people actually do want to work in sanitation, and that part of the point of a society is that you can trade around jobs to make things easier for everyone.

Which is a super weird sounding - usually people talk about the antidote to scrupulosity as being abandonment to God, trust in His Mercy, fostering intimacy with Jesus - and that is 100% true. That is the path to healing. But I'm talking about what I can do in the moment I am dealing with scrupulous thoughts or compulsions to flip a switch in my brain to help me see the reality of my situation.

See, no matter how many times I tell myself that Jesus loves me and cares for me, that God is Mercy, etc. I don't necessarily get myself to believe it in the depths of my heart in those heightened moments of scruples - my anxiety is too loud, my thoughts and fears are running the show. But if I remind myself "this is exactly what Satan wants right now - He wants you obsessed over this minor thing to distract you from how powerful your prayers, your service, and your witness could be in Christ. You know what would really slap Satan in the face? What if you did that thing anyway, even if it wasn't perfect, and tell him "look what imperfect gifts God can sanctify." What if you said "I'm going to rest this sin or fear of sin at Jesus' feet, turn around, and walk away" to spit in Satan's face.

And with this profile, he baited a creepy old dude

And so they agree to meet at a nearby park during the night.

And the old dude goes there, expecting to find some naive girl to be preyed upon

only to find the 15 years old boy

dressed as SPIDER-MAN

AND DRESSED AS SPIDER-MAN

THE BOY KICKED THE DUDE’S ASS. LIKE. LEGIT KICK HIS ASS

HE HAD BRASS KNUCKLES

Of course, the creep wasn’t happy with it, and called the police on the spiderman kid. And when the police found the kid, you know what he did?

He said “that guys a pedo lol” and gave them a drive with all the evidence he collected thru the profile

YOU GO FELLOW BRAZILIAN SPIDERMAN

“Teenager dressed as spiderman beats up a suspect of pedophilia in Joaçaba”