Cults and totalitarian regimes require you to hold certain key beliefs that are manifestly absurd -- not because the belief itself matters, but because believing it serves as a litmus test. If you express belief in an absurdity, that makes you a faithful who can be relied upon.
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Importantly, it also serves as a litmus test in the other direction: if a person or system places great importance in your belief in something that makes clearly no sense, they don't have your best interest in mind. It's not about the content of these beliefs, it's about control.
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This is a subtweet of something, I'll let you figure it out... Try examining your nonsensical beliefs one by one, and asking yourself where they came from -- who wanted you to believe this and why?
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