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Re: How can highly intelligent people wind up believing foolish things?

From Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: How can highly intelligent people wind up believing foolish things?
Date 2023-09-03 08:11 +0200
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Am 31.08.2023 um 08:52 schrieb Maciej Wozniak:
> On Thursday, 31 August 2023 at 08:19:30 UTC+2, Thomas Heger wrote:
>> Am 29.08.2023 um 08:44 schrieb Thomas Heger:
>>>> Bullshit, sorry, that's not how a cult works.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How do you know?
>>>
>>> I thought, that system would be kind of 'fool-proof' and would use, what
>>> is common among people.
>>  From my own experience I would say:
>>
>> people just love to be accepted into a restricted club!
>
> The knights of The Shit are free of weeknesses of
> ordinary mortal worms.
>

All exclusive clubs share this habit of claiming superiority above the 
common people.

But such superiority needs no proof anymore, once people have been 
accepted by that club.

Add inheritence of membership and you can see such clubs drift away into 
obscurity, because the requirement of superiority cannot be inherited, 
but had to be earned.

In effect very ordinary people gather, do obscure things, which are 
meant to raise them above the common 'worms'.

But, as a matter of fact, the rituals don't do the trick and cannot 
really replace hard earned merits.

TH

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