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    Lessons 1-12 for Instructor’s Guide to An Archaeology of the Fall and Related Scriptures
    Lessons 1-12 for Instructor’s Guide to An Archaeology of the Fall and Related Scriptures
    Lessons 1-12 for Instructor’s Guide to An Archaeology of the Fall and Related Scriptures
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    Lessons 1-12 for Instructor’s Guide to An Archaeology of the Fall and Related Scriptures

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    An Archaeology of the Fall addresses this question: Why is our current Lebenswelt not the same as “the Lebenswelt that we evolved in”. A hypothesis is presented in dramatic form. So are its fantastic implications.
    A discontinuity occurred in recent prehistory. The first singularity altered the way that humans represented their world in talk. Consequently, the evolution of talk differs from the evolution of language.
    The hypothesis comes to light in just about the same location where the first singularity occurred. The only difference is that the research platform floats meters above the ancient shoreline and lands occupied by the Ubaid culture in 5800 BC (or 0 Ubaid 0’).
    The hypothesis also comes to light in a family of academics. Ideas flow like wine. Ideas become intoxicating. Ideas produce hangovers. This explains why an instructor’s guide makes a good companion text. It serves as a designated driver.
    It points out that the characters can be wrong. It adds depth when the characters are correct. Plus, it introduces related scriptures, including Genesis, a letter by Paul to the Romans, and sura 5 of the Qur’an. Even though these scriptures are integrated into the storyline, they also speak for themselves. The instructor’s guide provides two ways to appreciate these scriptures.
    Finally, this instructor’s guide offers a structure for any literate adult interested in conducting a study group. An Archaeology of the Fall is a doorway to a new understanding of ourselves and our world. It forces each one of us to stand at the threshold and ask: Who am I?
    Welcome to Age of Semiotics.

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    PublisherRazie Mah
    Release dateMay 24, 2015
    ISBN9781942824084
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      Lessons 1-12 for Instructor’s Guide to An Archaeology of the Fall and Related Scriptures - Razie Mah

      0001 The goal of this course, as well as the aim of the e-book itself, is to bring the reader face to face with a novel mix of scientific ideas and textual criticism opens a space for a scholastic postmodernism; that is, a Fourth Age of Understanding.

      The e-book An Archaeology of the Fall, plus related scriptures, can be taught in 36 lessons. There are three instructor guides, one for every 12 lessons.

      Three materials are required: A Bible, a translation of sura 5 of the Quran, and the electronic book.

      0002 The literary analysis is formulaic. The formula derives from a particular application of Peirce's three categories.

      What are Peirce’s categories?

      The three categories are possibility1, actuality2 and normal context3; also called, firstness1, secondness2 and thirdness3. Let me briefly explain them:

      0003 Possibility1 is called firstness because there is only one item. Distinctions can be made but they cannot be separated. Here are some examples:

      The possibilities inherent in the restaurant's kitchen underlie a menu at a restaurant.

      The possibility of purchasing on credit underlies a credit card.

      The possibilities inherent in a broken pipe underlie water damage.

      The menu, credit card and water damage are actual. So are the ‘something’ that manifests possibilities. So an actual thing may be assigned to the realm of possibility in a nested form.

      0004 Actuality2 is called secondness because it contains at least two (or more) items. Here are some examples:

      An event is a transition from what went on before to what went on after.

      Brute force cause and effect entails two elements. One goes with cause. The other goes with effect.

      Often, complex systems operate as many pairs of brute force cause and effect.

      For example, in an old mechanical clock, a spring drives a gear that turns another gear that turns another gear, resulting in the hands on the clock moving at fixed speed.

      0005 Here is how I will state the relation between actuality and possibility:

      (Dyadic) actuality emerges from (monadic) possibility.

      (Dyadic) actuality situates (monadic) possibility.

      0006 Normal context3 is called thirdness because it requires three items in a very specific way:

      (Triadic) normal context3 brings (dyadic) actuality2 into relation with the possibilities inherent in ‘a (monadic) something’1.

      This necessitates the following:

      (Triadic) normal context3 contextualizes (dyadic) actuality2.

      0007 The four statements listed above constitute a nested form. This is discussed in (the first primer for How to Define the Word Religion) A Primer on the Nested Form.

      The Nested Form as Questions

      Allow me to write out the nested form:

      Normal context3( actuality2( potential of ‘something’1))

      When considering a text, 6 questions arise. Four concern the content itself. The fifth makes a transition to the situation. What is the situation? The reader situates the text. Finally, the sixth question addressses the reader into the situation (of reading the text).

      0008 Let me go through each question.

      A2 What is happening?

      Actuality2(3) is actuality2 in the service of mediation3. This describes the events in the text, simply and without interpretation. State the obvious.

      P1-3(2) What is the meaning?

      This is one of three questions that reflect the category of possibility1. Remember, possibility1 underlies actuality(2). The label 3 indicates that meaning is possibility1 in resonance with normal context3. Without meaning, a nested form would not come together. Meaning images or points to being. This may include literal meaning, but interpretation should be more. Perhaps the term interpretive meaning would do.

      P1-2(2) Who guarantees the meaning?

      Everyone intuitively feels that a person guarantees meaning. Either the speaker or some other authority guarantees meaning.

      One can hardly put the guarantee into words. But I will try my best. The guarantee tells me about the presence that holds forth about both being (meaning) and doing (message).

      P1-1(2) What is the message?

      Message tells me about what I should be doing. That includes thinking or believing.

      The prior four questions deal with the text as content. (I label the content level a.) Literal meaning joins with actuality2a. Interpretive meaning, guarantee and message go with possibility1a. A normal context3a brings an actuality told in the literal meaning2a into relation with the potential interpretive meaning, guarantee and message1a.

      The text-focused content-levela nested form is situated by the reader. The situation-levelb nested form must have something to do with a place1b. That place is both where the reader stands and where the reader is going to. So the fifth questions becomes:

      NC3 Where is the speaker taking me?

      The speaker is trying me to a place1b. What will happen in this place? I will recognize or realize actuality2b.

      This situational location1b is really hard to figure out. It is even more difficult to put into words. Why? This place1b is me entering into the text. Or rather, this is where the text enters into me. It is full of possibility.

      Texts will never tell you what this place1b is. You have to experience it for yourself.

      So, place1b is like entering into a dark room. I do not know whether my words really will fit. I know that the speaker (or text) is bringing me to this place. My words will depend on the normal context of the situation.

      So let me provide a normal context for this potential place (that I am bringing into me). The normal context is: my heart.

      Here is the formula that I will use: My heart3 brings my feelings about this place1b b into relation with "the possibilities inherent this place where the speaker

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