Examples of Divinity | draft

This is meant to be a more tangible explanation of divinity. What it is, what it looks like. We divide it according to who we consider divine.

The Markedly Divine

These are individuals who represent the markedly divine, people who are considered pure in their knowledge and purpose, such that they were the closest to god in their time.

Annie R. Maunder & Edward W. Maunder

Annie and Edward Maunder were astronomers who were active in the late 19th, early 20th century. Annie Maunder is notable for discovering the patterned movement of sunspots by pioneering the butterfly chart, while Edward Maunder is noted for his co-discovery of it with his wife, as well as the period where there was a lack of sunspots between 1645 and 1715, which is called the Maunder minimum.

They weren’t famous, and it’s rare to see either of their names except as an aside in an astronomy textbook, however, they displayed a lifelong devotion towards divine pursuit, which involved research, organization, and educational publication. They lived a quiet life together, had children, and died.

Annie and Edward Maunder lived a pure and careful life in service to the divine, and for that, they are marked.

Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson developed the Unix operating system, UTF-8 encoding, and Plan 9. He made significant advancements in the use of regex, and JIT compilation. His work on the B programming language was a precursor to the C programming language.

He keeps himself well away from the publication of drivel, and interactions with perversion. He is simply devoted to the divine, and is thus marked.