{"id":5176,"date":"2022-01-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2022-04-13T22:35:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T22:35:15","slug":"mark-smith-interprets-genesis-without-awareness-of-the-first-singularity-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=5176","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Mark S. 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Speech-alone talk can fashion words for&nbsp;<em>things that cannot be pictured or pointed to in hand talk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider the word, &#8220;wheel&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;The wheel does not appear in nature.&nbsp;&nbsp;How can hand-speech talk picture or point to a wheel?&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead, the rotary motion that goes into making pottery gains a spoken name.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then, an artifact is built that validates the name.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Uruk period, following the Ubaid, invents the wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Different producers develop specialized languages, increasing their innovation and productivity.&nbsp;&nbsp;Different social circles find new ways to organize, increasing their capacities for regimentation and coordinated action.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Ubaid becomes rich and powerful.&nbsp;&nbsp;The subsequent Uruk period is more rich and more powerful.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Sumerian Dynastic is labeled, &#8220;civilization&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These sociological trends take place over thousands of years.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are difficult to fathom.&nbsp;&nbsp;No one really can figure out what is happening.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, whatever it is, it does not stop.&nbsp;&nbsp;Soon enough, the present erases the past.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then, the present erases the past, over and over and over.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is like a pustule that festers, then ruptures, festers, then ruptures, over and over.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each iteration is different.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each iteration is more uncanny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0046 The Epic of Gilgamesh recounts the adventures of a king, who lives (according to many intelligent guesses) around 4500 years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Ubaid coalesces around 7800 years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;Let me imagine that&nbsp;<em>a complete overturning of the established order<\/em>&nbsp;occurs&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>each time the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn move into a new element, around every 200 years<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the 3300 years between the start of the Ubaid and King Gilgamesh, sixteen complete turnovers occur.&nbsp;&nbsp;How can anyone comprehend the changes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, the fairy tales of Adam and Eve convey the nature of this social process.&nbsp;&nbsp;There is a definite beginning, in a idyllic garden.&nbsp;&nbsp;A threshold is crossed, the garden is lost.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then, another threshold is crossed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Cain kills Abel.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then, another threshold is crossed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Lamech, with two wives, murders a man with none.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then, the genealogies begin.&nbsp;&nbsp;One name follows another.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The lengths of the lives<\/em>&nbsp;call to mind&nbsp;<em>the slow grinding of the heavenly spheres<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;One overturning follows another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0047 Today, we are blessed with novel, otherwise invisible celestial timekeepers.&nbsp;&nbsp;Uranus, 84 year orbit, associates to revolutions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Neptune, 165 year orbit, links to dreamy oceanic spirits of the age.&nbsp;&nbsp;Dwarf Pluto, 248 year orbit, goes with the trees of life and death.&nbsp;&nbsp;The years of discovery oddly reinforce astrological associations.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are 1781, 1846 and 1930, respectively.&nbsp;&nbsp;Think French Revolution (1791), the Communist Manifesto (published 1848) and America\u2019s big stock market crash (1929).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stars and the planets are telling.&nbsp;&nbsp;Recall, Satan, the one who is defeated in the first half of the grand sweep of&nbsp;<em>Paradise Lost<\/em>, is a stellar angel, at first.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, he sells faithlessness, to us, just as he did to Eve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0048&nbsp;<em>The conditions that define the authors of Genesis 3<\/em>&nbsp;touch base with&nbsp;<em>the reactions of mothers, in the tradition of Seth, within the Ubaid, to ever increasing social complexity<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each story is like the completion of a spiraling development, like royalty (Jupiter) having to meet time (Saturn), like the cycle of peace and revolution (Uranus), like popular movements, rising like islands, then drowning in a sea of their own contradictions (Neptune) and like a long, treacherous trek between the tree of life and the tree of death (Pluto).&nbsp;&nbsp;The cycles spiral because labor and social specializations are always innovating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The fairy tales of Adam and Eve<\/em>&nbsp;point to&nbsp;<em>the start of our current Lebenswelt<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0044 What happens when the Ubaid begins? 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