River ,'The Message'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I don't understand how people trip and fall into such things, unable to get out.
I personally think it's that people just want to belive things. I think we're most of us hardwired that way. It doesn't seem to matter what the belief structure is. Though it seems to me that the more the belief structure takes away the burden of thinking for yourself and the more it blames a specific group of easily hated people for all the problems and evils in the world, the easier it is to believe.
I don't understand how people trip and fall into such things, unable to get out.
Perhaps they are just a cranky bunch. Or perhaps it was inevitable given that psychiatrists believe in the mind and Scientologists believe that past lives and aliens control our actions.
Bookbinding is extraordinarily confusing to me. FYI.
I don't understand how people trip and fall into such things, unable to get out.
Cults work by convincing people that they are smarter than the average person, and that by joining [insert cult here], they can become even moreso. They feed off of pride and paranoia, both of which are in ample supply.
Sounds like that competence study.
later all. hagwe.
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(It's easy to look neutral in this series.)
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I'm not neutral in this...
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Pizza or sushi?
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