You speak of art's lack of ability to explore beyond beauty — Jack Cummins
but there is not simply visual art but literature and music in particular. There is the whole notion of the gothic fantasy and horror, which also gives scope for questions about metaphysics and an arts based approach to the concept of God. — Jack Cummins
To what extent is arts, a basis for understanding the symbolic aspects of the God question, rather than simply asking about the existence of God from a scientific approach. Is science and art completely divided here, or is it about juggling different models to understand the nature of reality? — Jack Cummins
For me this is vital to understanding the good and bad aspects of what the human storytelling tradition has brought us to. From the first moment, our ancient ancestors told the first story about the big shiny that moved across the sky and how they once saw it fight against the shadow which tried to eat it and how the shiny won the fight in the end and how it chases away the dark and warms us etc.So much is human construction and interpretation. — Jack Cummins
Perhaps our fascination with art (beauty), which is to a fault, is a sign that we yearn for a female deity — Agent Smith
Does that "we" include women? — Noble Dust
Perhaps our fascination with art (beauty), which is to a fault, is a sign that we yearn for a female deity, the Goddess who sits next to God. — Agent Smith
Your suggestion of Mary meaning a rebellious female is something which I was not aware of. That is because in the representation of the idea of Mary which I came across the concept of Mary is often of someone who is obedient to God, and pure in the sense of being a Virgin, or the idealised image of motherhood. — Jack Cummins
Human, si! — Agent Smith
Does that "we" include women? — Noble Dust
Anything goes, no-holds-barred, free-for-all, if there is a law, it's the law of the jungle — Agent Smith
Yeah but most of us now advocate for much more civilised behavior than was required under the Darwinian laws of the jungle. In fact, more and more people insist on it — universeness
I'll take your word for it. — Agent Smith
In what sense do you consider these men "greater thinkers"? IMHO as a lifelong reader of cognitive neuroscience (& cognitive psychology), both Freud & Jung had produced provocative, even insightful, works of pseudoscience and quasi-mystical mythopoetics (mostly derived from, or influenced by, German idealists & vitalism). :chin:Some of the greater thinkers have gone beyond the scope of rigid divisions. This applies to Freud and Jung ... — Jack Cummins
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