Coming out of the closet

[putnam6]

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.

In your entertaining world, what color is the sky on a cloudless afternoon?