--- In [email protected], "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: <snip> > I read that intelligent people are more likely to join > cults. No-one knows why, my guess is that if you think > more about something you can build more elaborate memes > which will reinforce themselves so maybe the placebo or > weakness is psychologically derived rather than genetic.
I would guess that intelligent people are more likely to undertake any approach to self-improvement, cult-based or not, because they have a greater sense of possibilities, of their own potential and how much of it remains to be fulfilled. That same sense of possibilities may make them less resistant to cultish practices at the outset because they're curious to see where it's all going, so they stick around until they've become so enmeshed that it's difficult for them to make a decision to leave.
