Reply #64: Good point...msmcghee

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This follows with the idea of deeply held beliefs (DHB). Anything that doesn't jive with one's DHB is rejected out of hand.

But what is more intelligent.... a belief that the world is out to get you, or that the world is what you make of it? Maybe intelligence has nothing to do with it? I dunno... that's why I asked.

Surely the bad guys use the DHB that the world is out to get you as a power grabbing mechanism. But weren't we always taught that you can be anything you want to be? That goes against the world is out to get you idea. In fact, that idea has never been taught, as far as I know. So how did people get that DHB?