On Mental Slavery

Intelligent people generally don't submit to anyone's mental slavery. If followers of certain religious communities kept this simple fact in mind, they might earn respect even from intelligent people.
 
I won't say you can judge a guru by the quality of their disciples, but you can certainly judge the community! A tiger cannot live in a cowshed—if cows understood this simple truth, far from struggling to drag tigers into their shed, would they even stay in the cowshed themselves? Of course, in a cow's eyes, even a tiger looks like a cow!
 
Those who struggle just to get a passing grade of 33 in math don't need to score 99 (they hardly have the possibility or ability to achieve that much), but when they insist on forcibly teaching math to someone who feels dejected for losing just one mark despite scoring 99, then there's trouble!
 
Let everyone be as they are! If you don't like something, you can always ignore it, can't you? Aren't there enough worthwhile things to do!