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Coming out of the closet
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Yes I really am that contrarian (or open-minded, or ungrounded, or crazy; however you want to label it) when I choose to be. See, when I "entertain" beliefs or theories, I don't just pull their string and watch them dance. I invite them in, feed them, and play host. Really try my best to actually believe, and see where the evening goes. If they become annoying or disrespectful, I give them the boot. Please do not try this technique willy-nilly! It requires "child proofing" the house, locking up all your valuables, and years of self-auditing. And it is not for the unempathic. But it is worth it.

Not to make this about me. Three entries I would add to the list, though, that would probably make good threads:
  • Humanity has not evolved as much as it has devolved, in terms of spiritual and intellectual clarity.
  • We are in the age of the kali yuga.
  • History did not begin when science thinks it did.

Usually I find that the belief in "evolution" can quite easily map inside the belief "demonstrable evidence will be consistent with evolutionary theory", in some of the wilder belief-systems. For example, did God plant all those fossils 6000 years ago? Or is the matrix retconning everything as we attempt to rationally pin it down? Stuff like that.

I guess I asked to be called out, by deliberately using the term "mythology", because I wanted an opportunity to make the point, a la Joseph Campbell, that mythos is neither meaningfully "true" or "false", in a scientific sense, or at least that's irrelevant to it's larger truth in human culture.
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Coming out of the closet - by UltraBudgie - 10-20-2024, 10:28 AM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by DarkSpace - 10-20-2024, 10:46 AM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by UltraBudgie - 10-20-2024, 11:06 AM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by DarkSpace - 10-20-2024, 11:11 AM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by ANNEE - 10-20-2024, 12:58 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by UltraBudgie - 10-20-2024, 01:14 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by FlyersFan - 10-20-2024, 01:41 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by UltraBudgie - 10-20-2024, 02:18 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by Byrd - 10-20-2024, 02:05 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by putnam6 - 10-23-2024, 10:30 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by Maxmars - 10-20-2024, 06:50 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by UltraBudgie - 10-20-2024, 10:33 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by xpert11 - 10-20-2024, 07:55 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by FlyingClayDisk - 10-20-2024, 10:39 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by UltraBudgie - 10-20-2024, 10:43 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by FlyingClayDisk - 10-20-2024, 10:54 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by UltraBudgie - 10-23-2024, 10:41 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by Chiefsmom - 10-24-2024, 08:37 AM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by putnam6 - 10-24-2024, 09:55 AM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by Maxmars - 10-24-2024, 10:07 AM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by UltraBudgie - 10-24-2024, 10:32 AM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by UltraBudgie - 10-24-2024, 10:15 AM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by putnam6 - 10-24-2024, 04:22 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by Maxmars - 10-24-2024, 09:56 AM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by UltraBudgie - 10-24-2024, 04:56 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by putnam6 - 10-24-2024, 06:40 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by Maxmars - 10-24-2024, 07:06 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by UltraBudgie - 10-24-2024, 07:18 PM
RE: Coming out of the closet - by Maxmars - 10-24-2024, 07:36 PM


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