[...]al stands a stack of ="nms">iranian pro="trms">verbs about stone t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggering often ideas of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigidity ='lgc'>~= stupidity='lgc'>:
aghlesh par-sang barmidare عقلش پاره سنگ برمیداره (crazy, ="trms">imagination, thinking, ="trms">excess,)
divane sangi be chah miandazad... دیوانه سنگی به چاه می اندازد... (stupidity, tool, irreversibility, ="trms">questions of ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility,)
naravad mikhe ahanin dar sang نرود میخ آهنین در سنگ (stupidity, penetration,)
shamshir bar sang azmudan شمشیر بر سنگ آزمودن (uselessness, stupidty, destruction, test, inattention,) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~= shekar zire ab penhan sakhtan (شکار زیر آب پنهان ساختن ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">story of the apes, Buzinegano Kerme Shabtab بوزینگان و کرم شبتاب) ='lgc'>~= mosht dar tariki zadan مشت در تاریکی زدن='lgc'>]
sang az pase divar andakhtan سنگ از پس دیوار انداختن (uselessness, wrongness, chance,)
pay dar sang amadan پای در سنگ آمدن (random trouble, ="trms">naturaly unforseen hardship, cripeled,)
sang dar kise kardan سنگ در کیسه کردن
del dar sang shekastan دل در سنگ شکستن (to keep quite, benefit of silence, resist speaking the ="trms">rumorical utterence,)
dele sang دل سنگ (cold-hearted,)
آتش از دل سنگ بیرون آوردن atash az (ضمیر چوب zamire chub va) dele ='lgc'>[darune='lgc'>] sang birun avardan (possiblity through work, ="trms">interrogatory turture,)
sang سنگ ='lgc'>=/= la'l لعل ='lgc'>--how='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sang (in Pahlavi) ='lgc'>~= value
sang سنگ ='lgc'>=/= abgine آبگینه (glass, mirror, sky, diamond,) (سنگ آبگینه sange abgine='lgc'>: a rock to create mirrors with, abgine ze sang mizayad='lgc'>--khaghani آبگینه ز سنگ می زاید)
sange emtehan سنگ امتحان, az sang birun amadan از سنگ بیرون آمدن, bar sang zadan بر سنگ زدن (trial, test, valuate, messure, quality check,) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> related to mine and mineral that gave ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal and gold (in many parts of ="nms">iran sang is the unit of messurment for water ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Dehkhoda) (sang is just a mean to put other things in weight, due to its abundance and nonshiny surface in front of reflective ="trms">materials='lgc'>: diamond, water, etc.)
sang dar darya andakhtan سنگ در دریا انداختن (="trms">positive chance, relying on destiny, butterfly effect, ="trms">questions of ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility,)
sang andakhtan سنگ انداختن (="trms">causality, scale, benefiting from the ="trms">nature, lever, ="trms">questions of ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility,)
sang bendaz baghalet baz she سنگ بنداز بغلت باز شه (stupidity, uselessness, unrewarded hardship, ="trms">questions of ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility,)
sang az mum sakhtan سنگ از موم ساختن (impossibility, stupidity, wrongness,)
sang bar shishe zadan سنگ بر شیشه زدن='lgc'> = not drinking wine anymore (breaking the wine glass) (sometimes stone has come to mean the wine glass itself='lgc'>: sang ='lgc'>~= bade باده)
sange ghali سنگ قالی (to put a rock on an ="nms">iranian carpet so the wind doesn't take it away. the stone is invited into the culture. doesn't ="trms">matter why. it is there sitting with us.)
as a unit of ="trms">measurement, it apears that in ="trms">farsi stone as="trms">sociates with quantitative ="trms">nature, and in Ajayeb (therefore) fire with qualitative production of ="trms">nature(='qstn'>?)
atash is pure quality
sang has no quality, it has only quantity
='lgc'>='lgc'>---this is undermind='lgc'>:
a trip to the archive of stones, muze jawaherat ="nms">tehran (Treasury of National Jewels موزه جواهرات ملی ایران)
ahjare nafise احجار نفیسه (diamond, gold, etc.)
ahjare karime احجار کریمه (zomorod زمرد, yaghut یاقوت, la'l لعل, etc.)
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exposure to its antibodies
risks contamination
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(to address) unmarked territory and unmarked destiny
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stones tell destinies, they are old old old, they are carriers of ="trms">memory, witnesses of the ="trms">past, no to wipe out its rough-="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged remainders
another take on rock='lgc'>: Stromatolite (are the real telling stone, once bacteria) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fossilization (='lgc'>~= stone) ='lgc'>{structure, ="trms">morphology,
(gaining sale ='lgc'>[Stromatolite is bacteria preying='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> predation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Multicellularity)
="prgrph">-distinguish between biologically formed and abiotic stromatolites is (hopefuly) still open
="lsts lst1">•a stromatolite from 2000 million years ago made by a comunity of bacteria, the same bacterial who produced oxigen (that we have in the atmosphere today) (Lynn - https://www.youtube.com/watch='qstn'>?v=UlxqeSXyPd8)
="lsts lst1">•landscape made by bacteria='lgc'>: cyanobacteria became the first microbes to produce oxygen by photosynthesis. (although the ="trms">excess of free oxygen was toxic to anaerobic inhabitants, therefore ="trms">responsible for one of the most significant extinction events in Earth's ="trms">history.)
Stromatolites (/stroʊˈmætəlaɪts, strə-/='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]='lgc'>[2='lgc'>]) or stromatoliths (from ="trms">Greek strōma, str='qstn'>?ma, mattress, bed, stratum, and ='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?, lithos, rock) are layered bio-chemical accretionary structures formed in shallow water by the ="trms">trapping, binding and cementation of sedimentary grains by biofilms (microbial mats) of microorganisms, especially cyanobacteria.='lgc'>[3='lgc'>] Fossilized stromatolites provide ancient records of life on Earth by these remains, some of which may date from 3.7 billion years ago.='lgc'>[4='lgc'>]='lgc'>[5='lgc'>] Lichen stromatolites are a proposed mechanism of formation of some kinds of layered rock structure that are formed above water, where rock meets air, by repeated colonization of the rock by endolithic lichens.='lgc'>[6='lgc'>]='lgc'>[7='lgc'>] (Wikipedia)
='strcls'>*oxygen
='lgc'>[img https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxygenation-atm-2.svg='lgc'>]
O2 build-up in the Earth's atmosphere. Red and green lines re="trms">present the range of the estimates while time is ="trms">measured in billions of years ago (Ga).
="trms">Stage 1 (3.85-2.45 Ga)='lgc'>: Practically no O2 in the atmosphere. The oceans were also largely anoxic with the possible exception of O2 gases in the shallow oceans.
="trms">Stage 2 (2.45-1.85 Ga)='lgc'>: O2 produced, and rose to values of 0.02 and 0.04 atm, but absorbed in oceans and seabed rock.
="trms">Stage 3 (1.85-0.85 Ga)='lgc'>: O2 starts to gas out of the oceans, but is absorbed by land surfaces. There was no significant change in terms of oxygen level.
="trms">Stages 4 and 5 (0.85-="trms">present)='lgc'>: O2 sinks filled and the gas accumulates.='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[1='lgc'>] Holland, Heinrich D. “The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal ="trms">Society='lgc'>: Biological ="trms">Sciences. Vol. 361. 2006. pp. 903-915.
="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metazoan phyla ='lgc'>: ="trms">animal
="trms">history of life is tight to hisory of oxygen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fire
Aerobic ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolism is more efficient than anaerobic pathways
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Abiogenesis='lgc'>: the ="trms">natural process of life arising from non-living ="trms">matter, how pre-life chemical reactions gave rise to life on Earth
="lsts lst1">•self-replicating molecules
="lsts lst1">•RNA ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> catalyze peptide ligation or amino acid polymerization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> protains, specialized biocatalysis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> RNA ='lgc'>+ iron ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> DNA ='lgc'>: ="trms">data storage
="lsts lst1">•synthesized from inorganic compounds
="lsts lst1">•catalysis in chemical ="trms">systems ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> molecules necessary for self-replication
="lsts lst1">•this is a protain ="trms">writing
='strcls'>*water
Study of zircons has found that liquid water must have existed as long ago as 4.4 Ga, very soon after the formation of Earth ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] water with similar deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio was al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready available at the time of Earth's formation, as evidenced in ancient “eucrites” meteorites o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginating from the asteroid Vesta. (wikipedia)
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(four elements temporal hierarchy)
earth > water > oxygen(air) > fire
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fire media theoretic
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‘image’ detached into a stream, percieved as generality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an inversion of life (“visible” negation of life - that has invented a visual form for itself)
(its ="trms">social practices)
fire, not subordinate, as ="trms">spectacle comes as means of unification, locus of illusion, ="trms">generalized apparition ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> seperation
(its general truth) fire untouched by evolution and form binding constrains, is a universal mater, the ="trms">spectacle of burning flame manifests itself as a ="trms">positivity out of reach and beyond. the case of fire is ="trms">different than Deobord ="trms">spectalcle who speaks='lgc'>: “Everything that appears is good; whatever is good will appear.”
therefore fire specatle is not image, rather ="trms">social ="trms">relationship between subjects that are mediated by it
thus the function and ="trms">phenomenon of separation mediated by fire becomes part and parcel of the unity of the ="trms">world, from now on
="prgrph">-a new form of the sacred emerged with the discovery of fire's image
="prgrph">-produced new wors[...]