Glad to hear it. It's a staple among my real life compatriots and professional colleagues, though here it's a hit and miss. Once people get a sense that you're capable of appreciating it you'll be surprised at the repartee to be had here.
Now here's the thing. That was almost a terrific way to invite a consideration. Far better than how you introduced your context earlier. Ideally you'd have asked, "Have you ever read anything about..." and gotten into the foundation of your philosophy, be it socio-anthorpological, linguistic or the ever expanding whatnot.
A small bit of additional back story. I was an atheist well into my second year of law with a wide ranging interest in religion and myth as an exploration of how man dealt with questions of meaning and being that took up a great deal of my reading for years. My contextual presuppositions are few, though I have come to some fairly strong ideas on any number of things. I'm aware of metamethodological conceits and I try to guard myself against the less rationally seated.
You should seriously consider starting a thread on the subject and setting out, with an eye to streamlining verbiage (the larger part of this community not being comprised of under or grad students) the particulars, from the foundation up. If you do I'd be happy to read through and consider it. I've learned a great deal wandering around in here and bumping into interesting characters who've been exposed to and/or put a great deal of thought and time into subjects/notions that others, myself included, haven't. It's part of the draw.
What doesn't draw is making assumptions/assertions about others that a) frame them in a defensive negative and b) frame yourself in a superior positive. It invites dogmatic rejections at worst and cynical inference at best... Or, as I've been prone to say lately, I never met a king who had to tell me what he was and when anyone does I tend to want to take a pocket knife to the crown to see what it's really made of... And I've never met a man with a better mousetrap who had to do more than show me how it works to convince me.
Else, well met and you should consider the thread (and a bit less assumption about the people you meet without knowing). You might find that many a soul can hold a contrary notion without straying from a rational straight line. Or, I suspect we're going to get along just fine, even if we ultimately worry about the blindness of the other to a point we're running about with.
Edit: fair warning, I'm more of a Monty than Edward Hall sort of fellow.
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