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sonofject Member
sonofject Aug 3 '14
Serious inquiry here: From a simple philosophical standpoint, is carnal human nature considered divine or forbidden? Can science prove this measure of divinity? Or do scientific minds simply ascribe a mythos or archetype (allegorical) to dumb down the understanding and complexity?
sonofject Member
sonofject Aug 3 '14
Do you believe carnal human nature to be divine? Or, say, profane and taboo enough to be misinterpreted in a political context?
sonofject Member
sonofject Aug 3 '14
Observe the current political climate with regards to satanism, or even the age old creationist junk science debate that has empowered the religious. It's all philosophical, is science at a juncture to be able to measure 'divinity'?
sonofject Member
sonofject Aug 3 '14
Divinity as in having the potency to progress knowledge, I suppose would be my interpretation of it. I'm not trying to discover a proto-satanic biological process :)
The Forum post is edited by sonofject Aug 3 '14
Khandnalie Member
Khandnalie Aug 3 '14
Science and divinity, by their definitions, can only but tertiarily intersect. 


Divinity is by it's nature subjective; What to some is divine, to others is profane. It is a byproduct of human culture. The answer to any question concerning divinity will vary from person to person, from time to time. 


Science is the process of understanding the universe on a purely objective level. Science will always give you the same answer if you ask the same question, no matter your personal opinion on the matter. 


The only way in which I can see science and divinity interacting would be either:

a) Science discovers some entity/being which could be considered divine, but then through studying it would learn of it, and thus render it mundane.

b) Science, to me and many others, can often invoke the feelings of the divine. To peer back the veil and learn the universal truths which underlay reality is the closest our kind will ever come to knowing any sort of truely objective divinity. 


That being said, in my personal worldview the carnal nature of the spirit is indeed divine. The feeling of revelry and visceral joy inherent in some of the more base and carnal aspects of existence - to me, it is an experience that, putting aside objectivity, can only be of "divine" origin. 


But, that also being said, I think that is a question that every person must answer for themselves. Decide whether you find divinity in your own carnality, and express that in your life in whatever way you see fit. 

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