How do you know? If the door is closed, you can't see if the light is on or off.
So I've decided to start a religion based on faith in the door light being off when the door is closed, but on when the door is open.
In case that doesn't work out, I'm starting another religion based on belief the light stays on when the door is closed, and a third religion stating the condition of the light with the door closed is unknowable, and another religion based on....
I was about eight, and curious how things worked, so I looked.
I looked!
I found a switch that turns the light off when you close the door, a simple mechanical device. It was very easy for an eight year old to understand exactly what it does and how it works.
Boo! No mystery! No wild, weird fantasies needed here. No mystical philosophy fits in here. The light just goes off when you close the door, that's all. This is no fun. Where's the magic? Where's the mystery? Where are the dancing girls?
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Like looking at the first photons formed after the Big Bang, to see if we can catch a glimpse of God wiping the cosmic dust of creation off his hands. He's always just out of frame, off camera.
"If you do things right, no one will be sure you did anything at all."
Hence my need to make sense of this conundrum by making up several competing theories, and vigorously promoting all of them. I don't have cognitive dissonance. I have the mental equivalent of cultural diversity. It wouldn't be fair to accept some ideas and reject others, now would it?