Dross, drossy

Dross is the impurity of man, and the natural tempest. It is also the oxidation of man, and what is left over after breathing, eating, drinking, sleeping, and thinking, for that is all you get.

These modulators of life effect the outcome. Dross is considered waste, worthless, trivial, commonplace, rubbish, scum, slag, ordinary, even dangerous, yet we spend our own lives trying to save it, an aversion disorder.

Dross is created when metals are transformed, and the ingredient desired is the purest form of that element, then the dross is removed through the transformation process. Dross has much to do with heat and the thermal metabolisms that occur in nature. We observe and mine these elements in nature mostly in the form of rocks that have gathered together, such as in lead, silver, copper, and zinc.

Zinc is enigmatic in the fact that if you are deficient of it, you loose your hair, which correlates with muscles [heart] and breathing, as hair never stops growing in humans, but only humans. Zinc is also considered capable of neuro-transmitting with its own modulation. Over 300 plant species accumulate metallic elements such as nickel, zinc, copper, cadmium, selenium or manganese, and use them as protection from prey, but other reasons are unknown.

If we are only a by-product, or twin of something, and we are waste, what is not waste that is part of that [us] factor?

Proverbs 25:4
Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.

Proverbs 26:23
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

Ezekiel 22:18
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. [See Temperance]

R. Mark Sink  2006/12/17
Review and update: 2007/1/31