• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

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

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      8 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.

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        8 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.