Re: What Made My Day Today? :-)

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.