In reply to غرباء Ghuraba (@Ghuraba013):
💪🏾A historic speech brimming with the power of eloquent Qari Sahib Fasiheldin (Firot):
💪🏾سخنرانی تاریخیِ سرشار از قدرتِ قاری صاحب فصیحالدین (فطرت):
#strangers
#Strangers; [ @Ghuraba013]
For those who seek the truth,
And do not remain silent against falsehood.
#غُرباء؛ [ @Ghuraba013]
د هغو لپاره چې د حق په لټه کې دي،
او د باطل په وړاندې چوپ نه پاتې کېږي.
Source: أحمد خلیل/𝐀𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐥 (@A_hmad_khalil)
[ https://x.com/A_hmad_khalil/status/2013677886020993285 ]
Toronto Man Tries to Make Public Transportation Less Lonely: ‘Little Gestures Can Shift the Whole Mood’
My mother used to say that there are no #strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
--- Dame Edna Everage
Australian Comedian (character of Barry Humphries) (1934 - )
open.spotify.com/track/1rJalH...
People Are Strange
My mother used to say that there are no #strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
--- Dame Edna Everage
Australian Comedian (character of Barry Humphries) (1934 - )
open.spotify.com/track/1rJalH...
People Are Strange
'I Just Want To Share My #Happiness': #Lottery Winner Spends $20,000 On #Groceries For #Strangers
Just Like After 9-11, Town of Gander Shows Up to Help Stranded Airline Passengers During Ice Storm
Coughing Fit, Amber Alert, Strangers
Spiral Scratch Records, Thursday, July 7 at 07:00 PM EDT
https://buffalo.askapunk.net/event/coughing-fit-amber-alert-strangers
The Kinship of Strangers: When DNA Reveals What Identity Cannot Accept
Some truths arrive uninvited. They come in the mail, in the form of a cardboard box containing a plastic tube, a prepaid envelope, and instructions for depositing saliva. Six weeks later, they return as a percentage breakdown, a haplogroup designation, a list of genetic relatives you never knew existed. The Kinship of Strangers, the third novel in the Fractional Fiction series, asks what happens when those percentages contradict everything you were raised to believe about who you are and who belongs to your people.
The premise emerged from a scientific fact that should be unsurprising but somehow remains explosive: populations that have lived as neighbors for millennia share genetic ancestry that transcends the boundaries they have drawn between themselves. The Cohen Modal Haplotype, a Y-chromosome signature associated with Jewish priestly lineage, appears in Palestinian populations at rates that complicate every simple narrative about who belongs where. Bronze Age bones excavated from Levantine soil carry DNA that belongs to everyone and no one, ancestors claimed by peoples who cannot acknowledge their kinship without destabilizing the stories that hold their communities together.
Population genetics does not care about politics. It does not respect the borders drawn by empires or the categories enforced by tradition. It simply reports what the molecules reveal: that human beings have been mixing, migrating, and making families across every boundary we have ever erected. The question is not whether the science is accurate. The question is what we do when accuracy threatens identity.
Ten characters confront this question across ten interconnected stories. A rabbi in Philadelphia receives test results that connect his Y-chromosome more closely to Palestinians than to most of his congregation. A Palestinian archaeologist excavates remains at Megiddo that complicate every modern claim to the land she is digging. A cognitive scientist lectures on identity-protective cognition while failing to apply her own research to her own avoidances. A genetic counselor who helps others interpret their ancestry results throws away her own kit unopened. An Israeli geneticist and a Palestinian researcher collaborate across borders their families cannot cross, their shared data too dangerous to publish in either of their home countries.
The stories move from Philadelphia synagogues to Jerusalem checkpoints, from Chicago conference rooms to Amman hotel lobbies. Characters glimpsed in one story reappear in another. Connections emerge that none of them fully understand. The architecture borrows from two public domain sources: James Joyce’s Dubliners, with its linked stories building toward earned epiphany, and the nested narratives of One Thousand and One Nights, where Scheherazade survives by leaving stories unfinished. Like Scheherazade, these characters have learned that the story that does not end is the story that keeps you alive. Resolution is not available. Continuation is the only victory.
This is Fractional Fiction: the methodology that drives this series. Each novel takes a public domain literary source, identifies its structural architecture and thematic engine, and synthesizes it with contemporary scientific research to produce something that belongs fully to neither tradition but could not exist without both. The Dying Grove married Joyce’s Dubliners structure to mycorrhizal network research. The Inheritance fused Ibsen’s Ghosts with transgenerational epigenetics. The Kinship of Strangers brings Joyce and Scheherazade together with population genetics and cognitive science, asking how we process evidence that contradicts our sense of self.
The research domain matters because the science is real. Identity-protective cognition is a documented phenomenon: the tendency of intelligent people to recruit their cognitive resources in defense of beliefs that anchor their social identity, even when evidence contradicts those beliefs. The smarter you are, the better you are at defending what you already believe. The Cohen Modal Haplotype is real. The genetic overlap between populations who define themselves as fundamentally distinct is real. The characters are invented, but the science that disrupts their certainties is not.
What makes this novel different from the previous Fractional Fiction books is its refusal of resolution at every level. The Dying Grove offered transformation through dissolution. The Inheritance delivered revelation through excavation. The Kinship of Strangers offers neither. Its characters do not arrive at peace. They arrive at recognition: the acknowledgment that they share more than they can accept, that the stories they tell about themselves are simultaneously necessary and false, that kinship does not require acknowledgment to exist.
The final story brings multiple characters together at a genetics conference in Amman, Jordan. They have been circling the same questions throughout the book without knowing it. When they finally meet, what they discover is not resolution but company: other people who have been carrying the same impossible knowledge, other strangers who are kin whether they can say so or not.
The Kinship of Strangers is available now through Amazon in Kindle edition and paperback. A free PDF is available for download at BolesBooks.com. If you have ever wondered what your DNA might reveal that your family never told you, if you have ever suspected that the boundaries between peoples are more porous than the stories suggest, if you have ever felt kinship with strangers you were taught to see as other, this book was written for you.
The test results are in. The question is whether you are ready to read them.
#bolesBooks #bookSeries #community #culture #davidBoles #dna #fractionalFiction #history #kinship #literaryFiction #method #research #strangers
This was the sign I carried at our weekly protest today. I'm *not* Catholic, but I really appreciate Pope Leo XIV and what he has to say about tyrants, immigrants, war, the poor and the vulnerable.
This was part of his message at the closing of the Jubilee of Hope a few days ago.
#Resist #Pope #PopeLeo #Tyrants #Immigrants #Resistance #Protest #Hope #Peace #Pax #Democracy #Demonstration #NoKings #Indivisible #MoveOn #Strangers #Foreigners #Activism #Solidarity
Check out the lyrics for the song “Strangers” by Halsey
#Halsey #Strangers
https://daletra.com/halsey/lyrics/strangers.html
Hospital Technician Lends His X-Ray Machine to Help Woman Find Lost Heirloom Rings
Kindness of strangers: I was ill and about to miss my flight when a well-dressed man helped me to the airport
I was running an hour late and couldn’t think clearly. I was in despair that I might miss my plane home
Read more in the #kindness of #strangers series
#WeddingPhotographer follows wrong groom into hotel room, takes photos of total strangers: https://zorz.it/apMHM
#MattGrowcoot #Weddingphotography #WeddingParty #WeddingDay #Reddit #UnfortunateEpisode #HotelRoom #photos #strangers
I would like to ask strangers for the food they don’t eat
Dear Eric: Often when I’m eating at a restaurant or cafe, I’ll notice other tables leaving half-finished food to be thrown out. In these situations, I’m tempted to either ask if …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #AskingEric #Awkward #bereavement #ericthomas #family #leftovers #mourning #request #restaurant #rude #SISTER-IN-LAW #strangers
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2452833/i-would-like-to-ask-strangers-for-the-food-they-dont-eat/
“It is finally about the quality of the conversations and silences we share, isn't it? We become strangers when we have nothing to say to each other. We die to each other, when the conversations in us die. Sometimes, a little every day, until one day we go completely silent and we are simply left looking at a stranger whose habits we know.”
― Srividya Srinivasan
#Bot #Quote #Conversations #DeathOfALovedOne #Silence #Strangers
Rachel Botsman: We’ve stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers – TED Talk
We’ve stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers
2,312,884 plays, Rachel Botsman, TEDSummit, June 2016
Something profound is changing our concept of trust, says Rachel Botsman. While we used to place our trust in institutions like governments and banks, today we increasingly rely on others, often strangers, on platforms like Airbnb and Uber and through technologies like the blockchain. This new era of trust could bring with it a more transparent, inclusive and accountable society — if we get it right. Who do you trust?
About the speaker
Rachel Botsman, Trust researcher, See speaker profile
Rachel Botsman is a recognized expert on how collaboration and trust enabled by digital technologies will change the way we live, work, bank and consume.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Rachel Botsman: We’ve stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers | TED Talk
#Airbnb #Banks #Blockchain #Government #Institutions #Platforms #RachelBotsman #society #Strangers #TED #TEDTalk #Trust #Trustworthy #Uber #WhoDoYouTrust
Veja a letra da música “Strangers” de Halsey
#Halsey #Strangers
https://daletra.com.br/halsey/letra/strangers.html
Tiny Disabled Puppy Found in Dumpster Gets New Home in Time for Christmas
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