"Why do you think that being a quiet OPer in MO land is "fake"? Surely, your approach, to try and "create" some kind of OP theology, is even more fake, as you are creating a theology to fit your lifestyle, not adjusting your lifestyle to fit your theology. Just be confortable with your lifestyle, and more importantly your IDENTITY, which is as an OPer in LWMO land, and in truth is no different than 50% of the other people in shul. Why can't you just be comfortable with that?"
I don't have a fully coherent or cohesive answer, (as H probably noticed as I spluttered my response!). I suspect that much of this simply comes down to personality types, some people are more comfortable with fuzziness or fakery, some people less so. Right brain vs. Left Brain. INTP vs. EFPJ, Engineer v.s. (Bullshit) Artist.
However, there's also an important point here. I do believe that religious language and mythology has value, whether the myth is true or not. In fact that aspect of religion is "true". Also, I need something to tell my kids rather than just - yeah it's all a bunch of bs, sorry we sent you to fundi schools. Finally, and most importantly, I feel that Torah is valuable, even if rationally the DH is true.
I think that maybe a Conservative type Theology will do the trick.
Like this one:
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