Galen's Soul (SYTO's thread [Fine, "Philosophy Thread"])

My soul has already been taken, sorry. Not for sale.

 

I'd show you my soul, but then you'd all look confused while I fall about laughing.

#theologianjokes

 

I keep Galen's soul in a small box at the bottom of my sock draw for the time when it is needed most. I bought it for 10 European Merkelmarks, pretty extortionate for the shrivelled and dry product that I received.

 

The soul is that part of the composite related to the will and intellect, so by posting I demonstrate a soul and my ownership thereof.

(Yes, theologian jokes are generally terrible. And yes, like chemist jokes, it is perpetually the case that all the good ones argon.)

 

Bring your worst, sir. I'll wager you won't be able to make me go all culinarily Egyptian on you.

Haha.

Competing? What is this nonsense. If anything they're complimentary, my dear Watson!

Chemistry, as one of the sciences, deals with the temporal interacting with that with is also temporal; theology deals with the eternal interacting with that which is also eternal and/or temporal. Both are children of philosophy, the difference being merely that they are grown along differing branches.

 

Assuming you're posting that of your own free will and/or intellect, and there is a distinction between a material and an immaterial element within the composite, as opposed to a to a pure material/immaterial existence.

Also assuming we're not all imagined by Galen's solipsist self to create maximum self-loathing.

edit: for any response to this, I hereby refer you to @SAcptm

 

Wait a second, J-man, why would he say he despises it? The world we live in is physical, indisputably so from a theological perspective. Chemistry is studying said material world, and, on the whole, has no qualms about the state of the immortal soul; theology and chemistry don't generally overlap in a way that will a cause a reasoning religious person to outright despise it.

If anything, they can totally get on together, especially when you consider that a theologian does not need to be Christian, or, in fact, religious at all, in order to be a theologian. Theology is "the study of the nature of God and religious belief", and chemistry is "the branch of science concerned with the substances of which matter is composed, the investigation of their properties and reactions, and the use of such reactions to form new substances".

Sciences aren't necessarily contrary to religious beliefs, and they can, and definitely should, go hand in hand.