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What made my day today was going through the pictures of physics 
olympiad students doing various things :)


Today was theoretical tests in physics olympiad in Esfahan, which was 
conducted after two days of pure fun and doing nothing but sight seeing 
and good food and visiting industries and very old historical places and 
even learning some of the ancient crafts.

Temperatures in Iran happens to be unusually high this year, and ٰٰI bet 
is beating the crap out of those there who do not know how to counter 
it. The few Arabs among them are the lucky ones, simply wearing their 
Arab clothing which is perfected throughout ages to combat heat, and do 
not seem to even be feeling it :) But the rest of them, especially the 
girls who are not familiar with the right choice of dress code and how 
to make it work, are kind of miserable :) But in the pictures they're 
still chugging along and taking selfies with the sites of thousand year 
old buildings, etc.

Note that Esfahan's air is very dry. Imagine a super super Arizona air 
type. So you won't feel the heat the way you would in Texas or in 
Khorramshahr and southern shores of Iran. In very dry air, with proper 
clothing, you can tolerate temperatures much higher than that without 
any problems. People there work and conduct business even on days that 
temperatures reach 130+ F without difficulty. But you need to know what 
to do about it.

So even in this aspect of the experience, the students there will learn 
some stuff they never had to learn before. And it's physics too! Hehe :-)

Of course those notoriously money-lover and smart Esfahanis are taking 
advantage of their pockets too. Here are two of the team leaders falling 
for it:

https://i.postimg.cc/HxDTBfVQ/souvenirs.jpg

Right inside the Mosque while the event lasts... can you believe this 
shit? You think "Jews" are money lovers, don't you. You have no idea.

Students also showed off some of the ancient hand crafted items they 
made after a couple of hours of learning and practicing them. Here is 
the craft of calligraphy:

https://i.postimg.cc/Kcws4V92/caligraphy.jpg

The master has written their first names under poetic verses using such 
art (I don't think students themselves wrote that - they're simply too 
good and perfect for first timers). One's first name is "Erfan", So he 
must be Iranian; the other's first name is Rajendra, who must be from India.

The name of that form of calligraphy is "Nasta'ligh".

Other students are showing off what they printed on hand woven 
handkerchiefs, and some others doing other crafts.


Speaking of Nasta'ligh, the first 1.5 years of my elementary schooling 
was all in Nasta'ligh. All our books were written in nothing but 
Nasta'ligh. Including math. Then in the middle of the second grade, one 
day they came and took our books back and replaced them with the books 
with ugliest form of fonts and words you could imagine. I started school 
two years earlier than others, and was barely of school age, and yet I 
remember how sure I was that those behind the move were dumb and stupid 
and had made a gross mistake. We students were looking at each other and 
inside the books in disbelief. Schools of Iran never used Nasta'ligh 
writing anymore after that.

Most of the old buildings (and all government buildings) in Iran have 
Nasta'ligh writings on them. What you see written in Persian books today 
or in the internet, is not Persian writing. It is some funky meaningless 
form of writing that came only out of shortcomings of printing firms of 
those days. It is nonsensical garbage compared with Nasta'ligh.

Every millimeter of those lines there in the Nasta'ligh words has rules 
to it, and much beauty. You can fuck up and lose the beauty and get 
ridiculed - cause it _will_ look ridiculous - even if you follow the 
rules, because rules of it are just one part of writing in Nasta'ligh. 
The rest comes with practice and experience, and of course how much art 
there is in you. How much you can perceive beauty.

Why a super-fuckworthy woman's ass looks so good? Can you describe it? 
Whatever reasons that hide behind that _reality_, is of similar kind to 
the reasons that hide behind writing very well in Nasta'ligh. That's all 
the explanation I can give you about it. It has to do with something 
inside human brain, because even those who couldn't write jack in 
Nasta'ligh, can _see_ and recognize the beauty in a very well written 
phrase or even one word in Nasta'ligh. All they need is to know the 
rules, and have a bit of practice, a bit of struggle with it, in their 
pasts.

Old Iranians' hand writings were always more beautiful than newer 
Iranians, because they grew up with that form of writing. I could never 
write anything like my father. Mine looked like crap in comparison. Of 
course most of those people are now dead, and my own hand writing is 
only better than those who had no course in Nasta'ligh in their schooling.

I had 1.5 years of dealing with it at least. Much better than nothing.

The rules of Nasta'ligh are by the way very quantitative and measurable 
and use units that depends on the pen that's being used. Therefore 
anybody can learn them. The rest, then, is up to what the individual can do.

A similar technique is used in "decorating" walls of Mosques and places 
of importance. They've done that for more than a 1000 years. And if you 
ever wondered why such detail, when you look up in one of those Mosques, 
or even on their walls as you see in the above mini-fast selling corner 
some Esfahani sneaked and set up, I can help you understand it a bit.

They're the results of observing life very closely. The detail comes 
from there. If you right now step outside of your stupid cro-magnon 
abode and go sit somewhere in direct touch with nature, and spend time 
there with plants and insects and all forms of various and tiniest life, 
and wonder how the hell it came about, and note how much love exists 
between these creatures parents and their progeny, then aside from 
understanding how sacred every spot in nature is, you'd also make stuff 
like inside Iran's Mosques to display what you understood of that. The 
unbelievable complexity, order, and beauty, as well as love.

That's where those works in major Mosques of Iran come from. It's the 
closest that Modern Humans, in those days, could come to the concept of 
"God."

Neanderthals didn't experience that as much. It was too cold. No 
insects. No bugs. No flowers. Not much life around them. And you 
cro-magnons are half-Neanderthals, so you didn't have it in you 
something that forced Modern Human to depict inside those Mosques. All 
you've had are paintings of scenes involving this saint and that Jesus 
and this Mother Mary and that angel etc depicted inside your Churches on 
the walls and ceilings.

You're way behind Modern Human. You're backward. The best that you have, 
your own representatives, invite a mass murderer in their midst and clap 
hands for him. It's all connecting you to being cro-magnons: An earlier 
form of human.

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