Mirror Cosmology, Dialogues

The idea is to turn the synopsis from Mirror Cosmology into something readable, a series of dialogues of Socrates with a bunch of characters:

• Bert, a scientist who helps bring Socrates up to date on scientific and philosophical developments since Socrate’s untimely death
• Christian, a Calvinist believer who is super well informed (compare The Resurrection of Jesus which is nuanced and fractal) but curious and intellectually open, but knows the material around the resurrection inside out, modeled on Dale Allison as well as questioning believers who could be influenced by nonbelievers. This character explains Paradise Lost, and the Revolt of the Angels to Socrates.
• Thomas, a catholic priest who is well informed, see the episode of Within Reason guest (ep #22) Bishop Robert Barron
• Al, a believer of the Baháʼí Faith and knowledgeable about Mormonism (dispensationalism, all truth idea), and a syncretist like Alan Watts who also learned about the Baháʼí Faith, can explain Lila (“divine play”), etc.
• Ed, an atheist who is steeped in the New Testament and an agnostic, a nonresistant nonbeliever, modeled on Alex O’Connor and on my own journey
• Pagana, a female pagan, who represents 6,372 (actual number!) belief systems that are not Calvinism. Pagana teaches Socrates about the proliferation and study of deities, and brings up Loki, which Socrates connects to Prometheus, early on.

Like a modern podcast run by Socrates, who asks insightful questions. He is super incisive and like a good host, takes no side per se (he is never dismissive, but doesn’t hold back picking things apart), but is always curious and open to learning, and because he has “been dead for longer than Jesus,” he has a lot to catch up on. (Only mention this once, or it will get annoying.) It’s like Gusteau in Ratatouille, he is dead and we know it, we just see these conversations, as if in a dream.

I guess we could have Socrates introduce the concepts of Uranus and Prometheus, because this stuff does sound pretty Greek and I checked and it is not anachronistic (both Uranus and Prometheus mentioned by Hesiod, who predates Socrates by centuries).