• @[email protected]
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    498 months ago

    I’ve always wondered how many prophets, witches, and possessed people throughout history actually just had undiagnosed mental disorders.

    • @Maalus
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      278 months ago

      Most of them. The remaining ones were constantly getting high.

        • @[email protected]
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          128 months ago

          I think all of them were con-men. Just read about Joseph Smith and Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, people who created two modern religions. The former had dozens criminal charges including banking fraud and treason and the latter was forging bank checks.

    • @cynar
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      138 months ago

      Once you throw in either deliberate, or accidentally high, basically all of them. Though there are/were likely some charlatans mixed into that too.

      • Enkrod
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        38 months ago

        I can’t decide who’s more dangerous, the zealous madman or the power hungry charlatan. But the mix of both is just… yikes.

    • @iAvicenna
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      28 months ago

      or you know, covering up for stuff using supernatural mambo jambo